3rd annotation

Parekh, Nilesh. "Muhammad Ali Biography." Muhammad Ali Biography. 1/27/2005. 21 Oct 2008 http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/.

This website was so awesome. It gave me so much imformation on who Muhammad Ali was, when he was born, he dreams for the future and much more. Muhammad Ali is a three time World heavyweight Champion. His real name is Cassius Clay, this man is a very powerful man in history and he has done a lot for african american over the years. Muhammad Ali has wrote his name in the history of boxing.

1st annotation summary

This website that I had visited was the official website of Muhammad Ali. It talked about everything from being The Legend to The Boxer. Back in the day Muhammad Ali was know for one of the best boxers of all times. He was very light on his feet but his punches(left jab) stung like a bee. This website also has a timeline from 1942-present and it gives you very important and specific details about what he has done throughout his lifetime. This website also gave me a variety of photos and viedos of Muhammad Ali and this boxing career. The website is an awesome site and I will be using it a lot for NHD!!

2nd annotation

2. Myers, Walter. The Greatest. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1996.

This annotaion is one from the book by Walter Dean Myers who is a two-time newberry- honor award winner. Walter is nominated for this book that he has written, which is about Muhammad Ali. This book is called "The Greatest". This book has really helped me on some of the research I have got done for my National History Day project. So far, this book talks about how he became a symbol of the antiwar movement-and a defender of civil rights. As "The Greatest", he was a boxer of undeniable talent and courage. This book also talks about his childhood in the segregated South to his current fight with Parkinson's disease. One quote from the book is "float like a butterfly sting like a bee!" This quotes means that he whould dance on the ring on his toes(float a butterfly). And his punches would (sting like a bee), the came and hit you so quick and powerfully especially his left handed jab.

Analyzing!!

The article was helpful to my research because it gave me a lot of information and who he was as an individual and what he had gone through to get this far in life. It is secondary because they was not there at the time of the event.

annotation

1. Muhammad Ali Enterprises LLC.. "The Legend." ali.com. 17 Oct 2008 .

Topic selection post

I choose Muhammad Ali for my NHD project because I am interesting in what he has done and all that he has gone through throughout his life. He is important to history because without his efforts, some people would give up on life but because on him they did not. Muhammad Ali is still the most recognizable man on earth. Over forty years after he burst onto the scene as a gold- medal winner at the 1960 Rome Olympics, muhammad Ali remains a magical figure, known and loved throughout the world. For this week's research, I found an article at his official website. And I also found a book that tells a lot about his life and what he has gone through. I will read and summarize it for next week.