This document provides biographical information on several American political and historical figures from 2000-2010. It discusses George W. Bush and Barack Obama's presidencies. It also summarizes major disasters like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. Finally, it briefly outlines the rise of social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter during this period.

1. American
History 2000-
2010

2. Chapter 1:Politics

3. George Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946)
is an American politician and
businessman who served as the 43rd
President of the United States from
2001 to 2009, and the 46th Governor of
Texas from 1995 to 2000. After
graduating from Yale University in 1968
and Harvard Business School in 1975,
Bush worked in oil businesses. He
married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran
unsuccessfully for the House of
Representatives shortly thereafter.

4. • Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th
and current President of the United
States, and the first African American
to hold the office. Born in Honolulu,
Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of
Columbia University and Harvard Law
School, where he served as president
of the Harvard Law Review. He was a
community organizer in Chicago
before earning his law degree. He
worked as a civil rights attorney and
taught constitutional law at the
University of Chicago Law School from
1992 to 2004. He served three terms
representing the 13th District in the
Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004,
running unsuccessfully for the United
States House of Representatives in
2000.
Barack Obama

5. Chapter 2:Great
Disasters

6. September 9/11
The September 11 attacks were a series of
four coordinated terrorist attacks launched
by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon
the United States in New York City and the
Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on
Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Four
passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-
Qaeda terrorists so they could be flown into
buildings in suicide attacks. Two of those
planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and
United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into
the North and South towers, respectively, of
the World Trade Center complex in New York
City. Within two hours, both towers
collapsed with debris and the resulting fires
causing partial or complete collapse of all
other buildings in the WTC complex, as well
as significant damage to ten other large
surrounding structures. In total, almost
3,000 people died in the attacks

7. Space Shuttle Columbia
The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
occurred on February 1, 2003, when
Columbia disintegrated over Texas and
Louisiana as it reentered Earth's
atmosphere, killing all seven crew members.
During the launch of STS-107, Columbia's
28th mission, a piece of foam insulation
broke off from the Space Shuttle external
tank and struck the left wing. Most
previous shuttle launches had seen minor
damage from foam shedding,but some
engineers suspected that the damage to
Columbia was more serious. NASA
managers limited the investigation,
reasoning that the crew could not have
fixed the problem if it were confirmed.
When the Shuttle reentered the
atmosphere, the damage allowed hot
atmospheric gases to penetrate and
destroy the internal wing structure, which
caused the spacecraft to become unstable
and slowly break apart.

8. Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest
and most destructive Atlantic tropical
cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane
season. It was the costliest natural
disaster, as well as one of the five
deadliest hurricanes, in the history of
the United States. Katrina was the sixth
most intense Atlantic hurricane ever,
part of the 2005 season that included
three of the six most intense Atlantic
hurricanes ever .At least 1,833 people
died in the hurricane and subsequent
floods, making it the deadliest U.S.
hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee
hurricane; total property damage was
estimated at $81 billion , nearly triple
the damage brought by Hurricane
Andrew in 1992.

9. Chapter 3:Social
Media

10. Facebook
Facebook is an online social
networking service.Facebook was
founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark
Zuckerberg with his college roommates
and fellow Harvard University
students.The founders had initially
limited the website's membership to
Harvard students, but later expanded it
to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy
League, and Stanford University. It
gradually added support for students at
various other universities before it
opened to high-school students, and
eventually to anyone aged 13 and over.
Facebook now allows anyone who
claims to be at least 13 years old to
become a registered user of the
website.

11. Youtube
YouTube is a video-sharing website,
created by three former PayPal
employees in February 2005 and owned
by Google since late 2006, on which
users can upload, view and share
videos. The company is based in San
Bruno, California.
Most of the content on YouTube has
been uploaded by individuals, but
media corporations including CBS, the
BBC, Vevo, Hulu, and other
organizations offer some of their
material via YouTube, as part of the
YouTube partnership program.
YouTube, LLC was bought by Google
for US$1.65 billion in November 2006
and now operates as a Google
subsidiary.

12. Twitter
Twitter was created in March
2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan
Williams, Biz Stone and Noah
Glass and by July 2006, the site
was launched. The service
rapidly gained worldwide
popularity, with 500 million
registered users in 2012, who
posted 340 million tweets per
day. The service also handled
1.6 billion search queries per
day

13. Chapter 4:Books
and Movies

14. LORD OF THE RINGS
• The Lord of the Rings is a film series
consisting of three epic fantasy adventure
films directed by Peter Jackson. They are
based on the novel The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien. The films are subtitled
The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two
Towers (2002) and The Return of the King
(2003). They were distributed by New Line
Cinema.
The series was a major financial success,
with the films collectively being among the
highest-grossing film series of all time. The
films were critically acclaimed and heavily
awarded, winning 17 out of 30 total
Academy Award nominations. The final film
in the series, The Return of the King, won
all of its 11 Academy Awards nominations,
tying it with Ben-Hur and Titanic for most
Academy Awards received for a film. The
series received wide praise for its innovative
special and visual effects.

15. Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery-
detective novel written by Dan Brown
.The book has provoked a popular
interest in speculation concerning the
Holy Grail legend and Magdalene's role
in the history of Christianity. The book
has been extensively denounced by
many Christian denominations as an
attack on the Roman Catholic Church.
It has also been consistently criticized
for its historical and scientific
inaccuracies. The novel nonetheless
became a worldwide bestseller that
sold 80 million copies as of 2009 and
has been translated into 44 languages.
Combining the detective, thriller and
conspiracy fiction genres.

16. Chapter 5:Music

17. Justin Bieber•
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• Bieber released his debut EP, My World, in
November 2009. It was certified platinum in
the United States. He became the first artist
to have seven songs from a debut record to
chart on the Billboard Hot 100.[9] Bieber
released his first full-length studio album,
My World 2.0, in March 2010. It debuted at
or near number one in several countries
and was certified platinum in the United
States. It was preceded by the single
"Baby". He followed up the release of his
debut album with his first headlining tour,
the My World Tour, the remix albums My
Worlds Acoustic and Never Say Never –
The Remixes, and the 3D biopic-concert
film Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. Bieber
released his second studio album Under the
Mistletoe in November 2011, when it
debuted at number one on the Billboard
200. Bieber released his third studio album
Believe in June 2012. It became his fourth
chart topper in the United States, debuting
at number-one on the Billboard 200

18. Lady Gaga
• Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, better
known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an
American singer-songwriter, LGBT activist,
record producer, businesswoman, fashion
designer, philanthropist, and actress. She
was born, raised, and lives in New York
City.Gaga studied at the Convent of the
Sacred Heart before briefly attending
Collaborative Arts Project 21 (CAP21). She
withdrew from CAP21 to focus on her
musical career. She soon began performing
in the rock music scene of Manhattan's
Lower East Side. By the end of 2007,
record executive and producer Vincent
Herbert signed her to his label Streamline
Records, an imprint of Interscope Records.
Initially working as a songwriter at
Interscope Records, her vocal abilities
captured the attention of recording artist
Akon, who also signed her to Kon Live
Distribution, his own label under
Interscope.Gaga rose to prominence with
her August 2008 debut album, The Fame.
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19. Beyonce
• Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is an
American singer and actress. Born
and raised in Houston, Texas, she
performed in various singing and
dancing competitions as a child, and
rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead
singer of R&B girl-group Destiny's
Child. Managed by her father Mathew
Knowles, the group became one of the
world's best-selling girl groups of all
time. Their hiatus saw the release of
Beyoncé's debut album, Dangerously
in Love (2003), which established her
as a solo artist worldwide; it sold 11
million copies, earned five Grammy
Awards and featured the Billboard
number-one singles "Crazy in Love"
and "Baby Boy".

20. Chapter 6: Art

21. • Joe Bradley is an artist based in New
York.Bradley was born in Kittery,
Maine. He makes paintings
resembling human figures from
assembled canvases which reference
Color Field painting and Minimalism.
Bradley has said his work is
“intentionally shoddy” and “pathetic”
thanks in part to his use of flimsy
shop-bought canvases, but he selects
his colours and surface textures with
care.He received his BFA in painting
from Rhode Island School of Design in
1999.In 2006 Bradley overcame his
self and created the masterpiece you
see here.
Joe Bradley

22. Chapter 7: Fashion

23. Ed Hardy Clothing
• Ed Hardy was a clothing line
founded by Sarah Larson,
based upon the integration of
the tattoo imagery of artist Ed
Hardy into a fashion line. The
company was owned by
Christian Audigier and the
Australian branch of Ed Hardy
was owned and operated by
Gary Berman until it closed in
2010. The clothing line also
sold other forms of
paraphernalia to its customer
base, branded with the tattoo
imagery.

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