Friday, March 1, 2013

Evaluating sources

I actually got three names but i'm going to pick two of them. My two picks were Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Van Buren. Alfred Hitchcock is know as the "master of suspense." He was born August 13,1899 in England and died April 29, 1980 in Los Angeles, California from renal failure. In around 1920, Hitchcock started dabbling in the film industry. In the beginning, he worked on the set doing such things as drawing. He got his lucky break when one of the directors fell ill and they chose him to complete the film. His first film that he was hired to direct start to finish was Number 13, but due to the studio closing, the film was never completed. So that is just a little bit on Alfred Hitchcock.
Martin Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782 in New York and died on July 24, 1862. Van Buren had a nickname, Old Kinderhook and was the eighth President of the United States. He was the third of five children and was the son of a farmer and popular tavern owner. Van Buren went to school at Kinderhook Academy and started his legal career at the young age of 14. At the age of 17, Van Buren married a distant relative, Hannah Hoes, and had five children. Martin Van Buren passed away after being sick with pneumonia for more than half a year with complications from bronchial asthma and heart failure. He was buried in the Kinderhook cemetary.
I initially thought I was going to do my biography on Martin Van Buren because I didn't think I could find enough information about Alfred Hitchcock, but Hitchcock had a very interesting life. It is a tough decision because both of them are very interesting, but I think I may do it over Alfred Hitchcock, because I think I would enjoy him more.

1 comment:

  1. Hitchcock would be wonderful, he lead a very interesting life. Of course everyone knows who he is so there should be an abundance of infermation to find. I was initailly was going to write about Uri Geller, but information is limited on him although he is very interesting to me. Good Luck on your paper.

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