Steven Spielberg
In today's society, there are many people that have made many contributions to the world. The person I feel who has a major impact on today's society is Steven Speilberg. I chose him because he is a famous Jewish American film director and because I am related to him. I am a Jewish, white male who was born and raised in America. My family's heritage originates from all over Europe. They moved to America during the early 1900's. My great-grandparents were the first to come to America. They started a family in the Bronx. My parents were the first to move out of the Bronx and bought a house in Orange County. And, I have been living there all my life. The Jewish people's homeland is Israel. They have been fighting to keep Israel as their homeland for thousands of years. Israel is a very small country that you can find in the Middle East, in Europe. Israel was established in 1948, which is located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Israel is bounded on the north by Lebanon, on the northeast by Syria, on the east by Jordan, and on the southwest by Egypt. Israel covers 21,946 sq. km (8473 sq. miles). Jerusalem is Israel's capital and largest city. Inside of Israel, there are many different ethnic grou
Many people believe that the years he spent in Scottsdale, from the ages 9 to 17, left some of the most lasting impressions on him. (Ferber) Steven Spielberg graduated from Saratoga High School, in California in the spring of 1965. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, charmed audiences, but critics had mixed feelings about the film. He was the first director selected by Panavision to test the newly developed Panaflex 35-millimeter camera on film. (Ferber) The 27-year-old director's career and life changed forever when Jaws became the first movie to break the $100 million mark in rentals. He soon discovered, he later said, that he "could do anything or live anywhere via [his] imagination, through film. Arnold Spielberg was part of a team of scientists who designed some of the first computers. Sheinberg, head of Universal's television production. A few decades later this scene from his childhood appeared in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind almost exactly as Steven remembered it. Jurassic Park was based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel of the same name. His parent's names were Arnold and Leah (Posner) Spielberg. In high school Steven had no less than 15 short films to his credit, and a local newspaper, the Phoenix Gazette, published a story about the aspiring filmmaker. With Duel a smash in Europe, Spielberg was even more anxious to make a movie for American theaters. " His accomplishments will go on until the day he unfortunately passes on, which will make me extremely upset because he is my cousin by marriage. (Encarta 95) In February 1973 the film won the Grand Prix de Festival award in Avoriaz, France, and Spielberg received the Cariddi D'Oro for his direction at the Taormina Film Festival in Rome, Italy, in mid-July.
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