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PEOPLE WHO NEVER

HAVE UP DESPITE
FATAL CHALLENGES
CLASS 12D
Group Members-
 Raj Aryan Verma
 Samarvir Singh Arora
 Saumitra Bhargava
 Shivika Mittal
 Tanush Saxena SHIVIKA MITTAL 12D
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

William Douglas
William Orville Douglas (16 October 1898 – 19 January
1980) was born in Maine, Minnesota and was raised in
Yakima, Washington. He was an American jurist and
politician. He served as an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated at
the age of 40 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was
the youngest justice appointed to the court and served for
the longest term in the history of the Supreme Court.

SAMARVIR ARORA
“
”
I HAVE NOT FAILED. I'VE JUST FOUND
10,000 WAYS THAT WON'T WORK.
-Thomas Alva Edison
SAMARVIR ARORA
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)
was an American inventor and businessman. He developed
many devices that greatly influenced life around the world,
including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a
long-lasting, practical electric light bulb Dubbed “The Wizard
of Menlo Park”, he was one of the first inventors to apply the
principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the
process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited
with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.
Edison was a prolific inventor, holding 1093 US patents in his
name as well as many patents in the United Kingdom,
France, and Germany.

ABOUT THOMAS
EDISON
SAMARVIR ARORA
 OPRAH WINFREY-
First black female billionaire
Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954, to an unwed teenage mother in
rural poverty. She spent her initial years on her grandmother's farm in
Kosciusko, Mississippi, while her mother wandered in search of work.
Despite the hardships of her physical environment, Winfrey enjoyed the
loving support of her grandmother and the church community, who
nurtured her as a gifted child. At the age of three she voraciously recited
poems and Bible verses in local churches.
As a child, Oprah Winfrey wore potato sacks because clothing did not
always fit into the budget of her poverty-stricken family.
Her world changed for the worse at the age of six and she became
a victim of child abuse which lasted from the ages of nine to 13.
Emotionally devastated, she went to Nashville,
Tennessee to live with a man whom she called her father. 

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Winfrey Was Fired From Her First Job As An Anchor.
 Shortly after studying speech communications and performing arts at Tennessee State
University, Winfrey was offered a job as a co anchor on Baltimore’s WJZ-TV. Seven
and a half months in, Winfrey was given the boot and reportedly told by a producer she
was “unfit for television news.” It shook me to her very core.
 In 1984, she moved on to be the host of A.M. Chicago, which later became ‘The Oprah
Winfrey Show’. It was syndicated in 1986 and soon toppled Donahue as the nation's
top-rated talk show. Winfrey was 32 when she launched the show. With its placement on
120 channels and an audience of 10 million people, the show grossed USD 125 million
by the end of its first year, of which Winfrey garnered USD 30 million, making her a
millionaire.
 She soon gained ownership of the program from ABC, drawing it under the control of
her new production company, Harpo Productions ('Oprah' spelled backwards) spinning
more money from syndication. Today, Harpo is a formidable force in
film and television production, as well as magazine publishing and the
Internet.
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SHE'S COME A LONG WAY FROM THE GIRL WHO WORE
POTATO-SACK OVERALLS, NOW DONNING PRADA.
 Now 61, Winfrey has a lifestyle that she could only have
dreamed of during her traumatic childhood.
 She flies in her own $42 million, custom-designed
Global Express XRS jet.
 Her impressive real-estate portfolio includes a $52
million estate in Montecito, California, which she
nicknamed "The Promised Land;" a 15,000-square-foot
duplex in Chicago.
 She even has her own street: Chicago Mayor Richard
Daley renamed the blocks in front of
Harpo Studios "Oprah Winfrey Way.“
 Winfrey also has given millions of dollars to charity,
mostly directed towards three
foundations: The Angel Network, The Oprah Winfrey
Foundation, and The Oprah Winfrey Operating
Foundation.

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WALT DISNEY
Walter Elias Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois, on
December 5, 1901,the fourth of Elias and Flora Call
Disney’s five children.

He founded Disney Bros. Studio in Hollywood

along with his brother.

He won 22 Academy Awards in his lifetime.

With Disneyland and Disney Brothers’ Studio he

managed to brighten up the lives of children and
adults alike.
TANUSH SAXENA 12D
MAJOR HARDSHIPS FACED BY
DISNEY
 Hoping to join the Army, he dropped out of school at 16. He was
rejected, so instead he lied about his age in order to join the
American Ambulance Corps. But after falling ill for weeks during the
Great Flu epidemic, he didn’t land in France until after World War I
had ended.
 While in France he earned money drawing cartoons and caricatures
for the men he served with, and drew and submitted cartoons to
humour magazines, though all were rejected.
 Walt Disney returned home when he was seventeen and told his
parents that he was going to be an artist. His father didn't tolerate
Walt’s decision and discouraged him greatly from becoming an
artist. His father wanted him to join the family business of
making jelly.
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 The opening of Disneyland was called
‘Black Sunday’
Adding to a line that trailed seven miles long. With
temps soaring up to 100 degrees, drinking fountains
were defunct (thanks to a plumber's strike) and
some of the rides malfunctioned. Critics blasted the
opening of Disneyland, calling it "Black Sunday.“
Commenting on the benefits of failure, Disney once
said:
“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all the troubles
and obstacles, have strengthened me. You may not
realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth
may be the best thing in world for you”
TANUSH SAXENA 12D
 THE BEATLES

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

The group, whose best-known line-up comprised John Lennon, 
Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, are regarded as the
most influential band of all time.
Troubled upbringings-
 John Lennon was forced to choose between his father Alfred and his mother Julia. His mother and his aunt Mimi
vied for control of the young John for most of his life.
 Starr, born Richard Starkey, had his father walk out on him when he was four. He also fell victim to a
host of multiple diseases throughout his childhood.
Hamburg-
 In the very early days of the 1960s, the Beatles — who were, at the time, practically unknown — scored a gig
playing a residency slot at the Indra Club in Hamburg.
 They slept on bunk beds in a theater storeroom and made £2.50 for four shows every weeknight, five on Saturdays
and six on Sundays. On top of this, they were using the stimulant Preludin to keep themselves going .
Raj Aryan Verma
The Beatles
• This is what their lives were like, until mid-November, when George Harrison was deported
for being underage. This brought the Beatles’ stay in Hamburg to an end.
• The Beatles had worked for around 600 hours, under terrible conditions for three
months, between 6 and 8 hours a day and not a single day off.
• Hamburg was critical to the Beatles’ success, but their slow rise to stardom had just begun.
Starting in 1961, the Beatles still had a lot of hard work and disappointments ahead of them.
• Their popularity in the UK grew in 1961 and 1962. In January 1963, they were rejected by
Decca with the criticism “Guitar groups are on the way out.
Finally, Success!
• In August 1963, “She Loves You” became their first hit song. They left Heathrow Airport on
February 7, 1964, to fly to New York City. Two days later, their appearance on the Ed Sullivan
Show was watched by approximately 40 percent of the US population.
• Their songs took the top five slots of the Billboard top-songs chart in April 1964, the Beatles
suddenly became a worldwide sensation.
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 J.K. Rowling is a world-renowned author. The
Harry Potter series is one of her many best-selling
creations.

Joanne Rowling was born on 31st July 1965.

Joanne grew up surrounded by books as her mom
and dad loved reading – she says, ‘I lived for
books, I was your basic common-or-garden
bookworm, complete with freckles and National
Health spectacles.’

J.K. Rowling first had the idea for Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling
Saumitra Bhargava (XII-D)
while delayed on a train travelling from
Manchester to London King’s Cross in 1990. Over
the next five years, she began to plan out the
seven books of the series. She wrote mostly in
longhand and amassed a mountain of notes,
many of which were on scraps of paper.
 The whole world now knows the story of Harry Potter, the Boy Who
Lived, but not many people know the struggle behind his creation.

Before creating the Harry Potter series, JK Rowling was clinically

Hardships depressed.

faced by During this period, her depression took a dark turn, and she considered
herself a failure. She had fallen and felt stuck. She even contemplated

J.K suicide. Luckily, she found it in her to seek help, and writing became an
outlet. 

Rowling According to some sources, she was rejected by 12 major publishing

houses in the UK. It wasn’t until a year after her first attempt Harry
Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone.

Today, the first book alone has sold more than 100 million copies, and
the combined series is estimated to have sold close to 400 million. It’s
the best-selling book series in the world.

Saumitra Bhargava (XII-D)

“As night-fall does not come at once, neither does
oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be
aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we
become victims of the darkness.”

~William O. Douglas

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