Short Biography of NAOTO MATSUMURA, OCEAN VUONG, ORVILLE WRIGHT, | 200 Words | in English
Biography of NAOTO MATSUMURA in Short
(BORN 1960)
In March 2011, a severe earthquake rocked Japan, causing huge tsunami waves to flood the land. When they hit the Fukushima power plant, its reactors exploded, and radiation spread around the surrounding area. Everyone who lived within thirty kilometers was evacuated. Exposure to the radiation could cause sickness, hair loss, cancer, and even death.
As people fled Fukushima, they left behind all kinds of animals tied up in barns, trapped in coops, and locked in houses. Naoto returned a few months after the disaster to find them either dying or dead from lack of food.
The government wanted all the surviving animals killed, though they’d been exposed to such high levels of radiation that they wouldn’t be eaten. Naoto wouldn’t let that happen. He decided that if no one else was going to do it, he’d have to move back and look after them all. It was thanks to him that the government agreed not to kill the remaining animals.
Now Naoto lives alone, with only the animals for company. There are fifty COWS, two ostriches, over a hundred cats, dogs, and various other pets and livestock who are reliant on him.
Naoto knows that living inside the evacuated zone is dangerous. He doesn’t care. He couldn’t just let the animals to fend for themselves. When his grown-up children called from Tokyo, Naoto told them, ‘Don’t worry, if the whole world dies from this nuclear disaster, I’m still not going to die. I’m not going to leave here.
Biography of OCEAN VUONG in Short
(BORN 1988)
During the Vietnam War, an American soldier fell in love with a Vietnamese woman who worked in the rice paddies Together, they had three children One of these children was Ocean’s mother.
Eventually, the American soldier returned to the US to visit his family. While he was gone, the city of Saigon fell, US troops evacuated, and life became tumultuous for thousands of people. Ocean’s mother and her siblings were separated and put into orphanages. Ocean was born on a rice farm.
After time in a refugee camp, seven members of the family made it to America with Ocean, where they lived together in a one-room apartment. None of them could read in any language. In the evenings, they would gather around his grandmother to hear stories that transported them back home.
Ocean studied as hard as he could, wanting to make his family proud. It was hard. He was picked on and his dyslexia meant he was slower with words than the other kids.
He made it to university but struggled So much that he dropped out after eight weeks. Afraid of telling his mother, he slept on friends’ sofas That was when Ocean discovered the thrill of the New York poetry scene and started writing himself.
Without high hopes, Ocean put together a collection of his poems and sent it off to a competition. Night Sky With Exit Wounds went on to win not just that competition, but various prizes in America and England.
The cover of his book was a photograph of Ocean, at two years old, in a refuge camp with his mother and aunt. That photo cost them three tins of rice at the time. Since his success, Ocean has been able to buy his mum a house with a garden.
Ocean knows that without the war, he would never have been born. It’s a hard thing to think about, but sometimes life is complicated that way.
Biography of ORVILLE WRIGHT & WILBUR WRIGHT in Short
(1871-1948)&(1867-1912)
The Wright brothers were born four years apart, with Wilbur being the eldest. Their father, a bishop, traveled a lot and often brought the boys back gifts. One day he returned with a model helicopter powered by an elastic band. The brothers immediately set about building replicas of it.
One day Wilbur lost his teeth while playing hockey. The injury made him shy, and he stopped going to school Their mother had fallen sick so he stayed at home, caring for her and reading books from his father’s library. When their mother died, Orville dropped out of school too.
Bicycling had swept the nation, and the Wrights went into business mending twisted wheels and punctured tires. The brothers were soon capable of building their own bikes. Wright Cycle Company was born and business boomed. But they had other ambitions.
Newspapers were filled with stories of people trying, and failing to build and fly aircraft. The problem wasn’t getting airborne, but controlling them once they were up. The Wright brothers focused on trying to build a working control system.
They headed to Kitty Hawk. North Carolina, to start tests. First, they added their control system to a glider Then began the long, hard task of constructing a suitable engine. Years later, after countless crashes, the brothers had built the first practical controllable airplane, the Wright 1905, without any formal training or education.
Wilbur died in 1912. Orville was deeply saddened by the destruction planes were made to carry out in subsequent wars. But he could be proud, too, of the unprecedented way in which they gone on to connect people.