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When Owens returned back to the United States, he wasn’t congratulated properly. The President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, didn’t even congratulate him or even meet with him after his success at the 1936 Olympic Games. Jesse Owens didn’t get recognized for his success until 1976, when President General Ford awarded him with the Medal of Freedom. Even when Owens returned to his native country, he still couldn’t sit in the front of the bus and he had to enter the bus in the back door. He also couldn’t live where he wanted, he wasn’t invited to shake hands with Adolf Hitler, and he didn’t get invited to the white house either. Jesse Owens smoked up to a pack of cigarettes a day for most of his life and he eventually died of lung cancer on March 31, 1980. (Jesse) …show more content…

He was the first African American to win the U.S. Masters and he was also the youngest to win the U.S. Masters, at the age of 21. Tiger’s real name was Eldrick Tont Woods but his dad started to call him ‘Tiger’ at a young age and it just stuck. Woods was born on December 30, 1975. He attended the University of Stanford and won numerous golf titles, before turning professional in 1996. Woods attended the U.S. Masters in Augusta at the age of 21. After that, Tiger Woods went on to win 13 majors and was named PGA player of the year 10 times. Woods then went on to win many more tours and championships, but it all eventually started to go downhill for him after

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Nicknamed the “Buckeye Bullet,” Jesse Owens is notable the most famous athlete in track & field history and was a four-time Olympic gold medalist. Owens family moved up north from Alabama as part of the ‘Great Migration,’ and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a graduate of East Tech High School & THE Ohio State University. The significance of Owen’s first Olympic experience is that it was in 1936 in Berlin, Germany during the Holocaust. Many speculated that Hitler was upset that Owens had won, but in fact it was President Roosevelt who never acknowledged Jesse’s accomplishments.

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On February 19, 2010 Tiger woods, a well-known golfer, took to the stand in front of a small group of family members, cameras, and media personalities. The subject of the press conference was to apologize for the cheating spree that he went on while married to Elin Nordegren. Woods took to the stand bearing multiple pieces of paper which he read directly from. During the speech he carried no pity for himself but at the same time asked the media to respect his privacy and allow him to make the changes needed in his life. From that moment on, the criticism, mockery, and foolish jokes began to surround Woods and his family.

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I can't call myself Tiger Woods, I can't say that we are the exact same, nor can I say we are completely different. Everyone has a number of similarities and differences. Between Tiger, and myself I can see mostly differences. He plays golf as a job while I golf for fun, he plays golf to fulfil his father's dreams and make his family proud and I play golf as a socializing opportunity, Tiger Woods plays golf because he is looked up to by many golfers and I look up to him.

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