Most Influential!
Research your selected leader (from the professions and sports listed below, if you do NOT find one you want,
suggest one to Mr. Maasz)
Your paper is to be 350-500 words long, MLA style. You should first OUTLINE your information and using Word’s
References tab, keep track of Sources for Citations and your Bibliography. Summarize the individual’s life and tell
what were his/her two or three most important contributions to their profession (sport). Be sure to include
details of the individual’s full name, date of birth, birthplace, and (if applicable) date of death Include at least 3-4
different references (also in MLA Style). ORIGINAL WORK, later to be made into a PowerPoint project.
1. Authors
a. American – pre-Twentieth Century
i. Mark Twain
ii. William Faulkner
iii. Edgar Allen Poe
iv. Ernest Hemingway (20th Century)
v. John Steinbeck (20th Century)
vi. Tennessee Williams (20th Century)
vii. Harlan Ellison (20th Century))
viii. Walt Whitman
(Greatest American Writers - best, most ranked User Contributed Rankings ShareRanks.com)
b. English (UK) (The Times' 50 Greatest British Writers)
i. Philip Larkin
ii. George Orwell
iii. William Golding
iv. Ted Hughes
v. Doris Lessing
vi. J.R.R. Tolkien
vii. C. S. Lewis (actually number 11)
c. World Lit
(Wikipedia)
i. I Ching (Chinese classic texts)
ii. Hebrew Bible
iii. Homer (Illiad and Odyssey)
iv. Lao Tsu (Tao Te Ching)
v. Confucius (Analects)
vi. Aristotle (actually 10th) Works
DRAFT 1
2. Baseball: (The Sporting News)
a. Babe Ruth
b. Willie Mays
c. Ty Cobb
d. Walter Johnson
e. Hank Aaron
f. Lou Gehrig
g. Your Own Favorite?
3. Business:
(LeadersIn)
a. Steve Jobs
b. Richard Branson (Virgin Records and Airline)
c. Bill Gates
d. Howard Schultz
e. Mark Zuckerberg
f. Steve Ballmer
g. Rupert Murdock
4. Computer scientists:
(30 Most Influential People In Programming)
a. Tim Berners-Lee (Internet, Web browsers HTML)
b. Larry Page (co-founder of Google)
c. Sergey Brin(co-founder of Google)
d. Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux open source operating system)
e. Dennis Ritchie (creator of C and UNIX)
5. Engineers:
6. Football players: (Chicago Tribune)
a. Jerry Rice
b. Jim Brown
c. Lawrence Taylor
d. Joe Montana
e. Walter Payton
7. Inventors:
a. Bill Gates
b. Henry Ford
c. John Logie Baird (Scot in England, inventor of TV) (Ask.com)
8. Movie Stars (Female): (Moviefone.com)
a. Kristen Stewart
b. Jennifer Lawrence
9. Movie Stars (Male):
a. Daniel Radcliffe
b. Robert Pattinson
10. Olympic Athletes:
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11. Presidents:
(Wikipedia)
a. George Washington
b. Abraham Lincoln
c. Franklin D. Roosevelt
d. Thomas Jefferson
e. Theodore Roosevelt
f. Ronald Reagan
12. Scientists:
13. Theologians
14. Trust Busters:
DRAFT 3