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         Although Gauss had accumulated wealth, he               could discover the engagement and the
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     lived a simple life. Gauss married at 28, gave              courage of this person. Even though the

     birth to three children, and his wife died four             directors had an option of a body double, he
     years later. He married a second time at the                still continued with all those dangerous

     age of 33 and gave birth to three children. On              scenes. He’s one of the most famous actors
     February 23, 1855, Gauss died peacefully. In his            in China, Jackie Chan, an actor who has

     later years, Gauss demanded that his                        brought us joy and excitement.
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     achievement - the heptagon - be engraved on                     Jackie Chan is a person who has received
     the tombstone, and this wish was indeed                     over 60 awards. For example, the Golden

     fulfilled. I believe it’s because heptagon was              Horse Award for Best Action Choreography,

     the first and also a very important discovery he            an Oscar, and an MTV Movie Award for Best
     has made. I chose him as the character of my                Fight. The Oscar had to be the most

     biography because he is not only an excellent               important one out of all of the awards. After
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     mathematician, but also a person who has                    56 years in the film industry, making more
     made a great contribution to astronomy. He                  than 200 films, after so many broken bones,

     deserves to be remembered.                                  finally, he won an oscar in 2016. He praised
                                                                 his hometown of Hong Kong for making him
                 An Icon that                                    “proud to be Chinese,” and thanked his fans.

            Brought Chinese                                      “I’d like to say a heartfelt thank you to the

          Films to the World                                     Oscars for giving me this award of

                                                                 encouragement and recognizing my
                     B Y   F E L I M   W .   G R 7
                                                                 achievements while I’m still ‘young’” -- Jackie
         He is one of the most well-known actors in              Chan. This is a quote when he was giving a

     China. An actor that has found himself in                   speech during the Oscar ceremony to show
     danger many times, which has almost led to                  his gratitude.

     death. His engagement and courage brought                       Jackie Chan had participated in more than

     Kung Fu movies into the mainstream of                       200 films and had been awarded around 60
     American cinema. A lot of movies he attended                awards. His original name was Chan Kong-

     almost killed him in accidents such as                      sang. He was born in Hong Kong. His family
     “SkyScraper Slide” from Who Am I, “Alley Leap”              had moved to Canberra, Australia, when

     from Rumble in the Bronx, and “Clock Tower                  Chan was six, but the following year his

     Fell” from Project A. From those examples, we               parents sent him back to Hong Kong to

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