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10 Celebrities Who Are Real Life Heroes

We all love film heroes because they seem to be powerful & intelligent in the movies. Terminator, Predator & True Lies of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Indiana Jones & Witness of Harrison Ford, Mission Impossible of Tom Cruise, Troy & Oceans 11. 12, 13 of Brad Pitt and the most famous Titanic of Kate Winslet, all are the blockbuster Hollywood movies in which we have seen our heroes & heroines in action. However, many of these celebrities are not only the movie heroes, they have shown their dare in real life too which proves that these celebrities are real life heroes too. Below we are listing top 10 celebrities who are real life heroes. Let’s read below the real life stories of our favorite heroe.

10. Ryan Gosling

This Canadian actor, who is known for his acting and music and has made his mark in the dramas and independent movies, is Ryan Gosling. The Oscar winning actor for his role as a drug addicted teacher is a hero that broke up a street fight that was happening on a street of New York City. While strolling on the street, he noticed that there was a disagreement between a street vendor and an anonymous man. The actor stepped in and stopped the fight by preventing the man from physical attack by using his menacing muscle as spur. He later came to know that the dispute was over a $10 painting, so he ended the fight by giving $20 to the vendor and walked away as it never happened.

9. Vin Diesel

Vin diesel who is an American writer, actor, director and producer joined the race of being good for the people around him by saving the life of two children. The incident happened when the actor was riding his bike from Hollywood to CA, he saw that the car in front of him had lost control, whirled and burst into fire. He reacted spontaneously, stopped the ride and ran towards the car in order to pull the children outside who were sitting at the backseat. Vin Diesel then helped the driver to climb over the backseat and get out of the car. The driver and the kids had a narrow escape from burning alive by this real life hero as the car swallowed up in flames just after a few minutes.

8. Garth Brooks

Garth Brooks who is an American country music artist saved the life of two kids by his daring action. The artist and an unknown person rushed towards a house when they noticed that the dangerous grass fire was heading towards it. There were only two kids in the house who were spending their vacations there, they were taken to Garth Brooks truck who drove them far from the fire safely. It was identified by the authorities that the fire burnt 600 acres of land area in that accident.

7. Nomar Garciaparra

The former Major League Baseball player Nomar Garciaparra marked his presence in the list of real life heroes by rescuing two ladies from harbor. It was 2005 when the incident took place, Boston Red Sox player and his uncle was at their harbor-side condominium where Normar heard a scream and a sound of splash. They immediately ran outside to see what happened and they found that the second woman got injured by the pier and fell in the harbor. The star and his uncle jumped into the water straight from the height of 20 feet and rescued the women from drowning.

6. Kate Winslet

This time it is not a hero but a heroine that played an action of a stuntman, oh, I mean stuntwoman in the real life. In summer 2011, Kate was spending vacations with her children at British billionaire Richard Branson’s multi-million dollar Virgin Island estate; the home suddenly got smacked by lightening. She instantly made sure that her kids were outside of the house safely then she rushed towards the back of the house and picked up the 90 year old mother of Richard in her arms and ran outside of the house away from the flames that burned the whole estate to ashes. She expressed that the scene was like a set of an action film where you are waiting for the word “cut” but that just didn’t happen.

5. Tom Cruise

Tom cruise faced bad press many times but this celebrity has also done some heroic deeds that did not take much attention from media. It was far before the last decade when Tom Cruise witnessed an accident in which a car hit a woman and sped off without stopping in Los Angeles. Tom cruise called the ambulance for help and stayed with the woman until she was taken to the hospital by the ambulance. He later on found that the woman was not insured and cannot pay the bill of the hospital, the mission impossible hero made it possible for her by giving her $7000, the entire amount of the bill. He did not stop his good deeds here; he is also credited for saving two young boys from being crushed by crowds. He also saved a sinking ship by sending help during his vacation with his wife Nicole Kidman.

4. Arnold Schwarzenegger

The governor and the action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger never leave the trademark of his skill in his real life. Arnold saved the life of a man who was struggling in water and had a threat for his life, he noticed that the person was in need of help and jumped into the water to reach the man. The man told him that he was having trouble as he was struggling from cramp and was unable to reach the shoreline. He laid the man on to a boogie board, swam him back to shore and stayed with him until he got back his breath and tranquility.

3. Brad Pitt

The Brad Pitt became a real life hero when he was busy in acting for a scene in his reel life. In august 2011, the actor was on the set of World War Z when he found that a lady who was working as an extra in his film was bashed down on the ground by almost 700 people during the recording of a zombie scene.

She fell down and nearly crushed before Pitt Grabbed and rescued her from dying. It was reported that many extras got hurt on the set and suffered broken bones, bruises and bumps. An insider gave a report that the incident happened in the mid scene and the girl could not even believe that Brad rescued her. This is not the first time when the actor did these heroic tasks, in 2008 at Venice Film Festival; he did the same deed by saving his fan from slipping down in water.

2. Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford is not only a good actor and a producer but also a great human being. He has a home in Wyoming and owns a private helicopter which he offers for rescue missions at a cost of $1000 to lend his hand in the divine operation. It is reported that in an incident when one of the women from hiking team of two fell ill and was not able to come down from the mountain on her own. The other member called for help and took her friend to the nearby meadow to wait for the rescue. They were completely unaware of the pilot of the helicopter that reached for their help. It was none other than the Harrison Ford himself in a cowboy hat and a simple tee shirt who helped the sick women by taking her to aid.

1. T.I

The rapper T.I who was due in Federal court after getting busted for drug possession in October 2010 got good karma too. The T.I’s good friend who is a Radio DJ Ryan Cameron was broadcasting from a 22 story building meanwhile he came to know that an Atlanta man was threatening to jump from the top floor for suicide.

The Cameron called his friend T.I and asked for favor from his friend who was on his way for a shooting. T.I reached the building beside his entire busy schedule and tried to approach the man but the authorities were not allowing him to do so, thanks to the new technology, he immediately recorded a short video message in which he urge the man and forbid him from committing suicide saying that he is here for him and telling the guy it is not that bad, and it will be OK …. The police officials showed the video to the guy. His message helped a lot and the guy back off the ledge where as the Rapper never took the credit of saving a life and said that it was God who put him in the position to help.

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Top Ten popular Genres Of Music

Music is something which brings together different kinds of people from all over the world. It doesn’t matter where you are or who you are, music has the power to bring down these walls and contributes in creating what can be aptly called a “melting pot” of cultures. It’s something that complete strangers become friends over and friends spend time discussing. The kind of music you listen to also becomes a part of your identity and the many sub cultures too have associated themselves with music as they often do with literature as well. But music too has undergone a huge transformation through the ages. It’s now possible for people to know about different cultures through the kind of music these cultures produce. It also has created a lot of questions over labels and independent music has now come into its own, courtesy of the internet and the other communication channels which make it possible for someone in one continent to listen to music being produced off the mainstream in another. In such an environment it’s really hard to pick the genres which have struck a chord with the contemporary generation but here’s a list of Top 10 genres that might give you an idea as to what people are listening to these days.

10.Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated at the beginning of the 20th century. Its roots lie in the adoption by Africa-Americans of European harmony and form, taking on those European elements and combinging them into their existing African-based music. Its African musical basiis is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythm, syncopation and the swung note

9.Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the “Deep South” of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

8.Latin

This category includes music from Latin America and other Caribbean countries, and shares the cultural elements of Africa, native America and Europe. The percussion instruments included in this type of genre music are Clave, maracas, cowbells, congas, bongos, timbales, tambora, bombo, guiro, cajones, cascara, shekere, tres, marimbula. Latin music is influenced from the Spanish, who introduced the string instruments. It is vocal as well as instrumental music, which earlier was played for religious purposes, but now is considered as dance music. With strong beats, it is naturally syncopated dance music and is highly rhythmic.

Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias, Ricky Martin, Selena, Belinda are some of the highlighted Latin artists.

7.Emd

Electronic Dance Music also known as club music is centered on dancing and club settings. It all started with the advent of the disco or the popcorn as it was known back then. This brought in many forms of synthetic electrical instruments and the purpose of producing music for orchestration in a club shifted to producing music with the intent of it being played by the DJs though drums etc. Eventually the DJs started experimenting with songs of other artists and extending these songs into Dance remixes. The emergence of popular festivals around the EDM genre too led its popular appeal amongst the masses.

6.Sufi

sufi music is the devotional music of Sufis, inspired by the works of sufi poets, like Rumi Hafiz, Bulleh Shah and Khawaja Ghulam Farid. Qawwali is the most well known form of sufi music and is mostly common in parts of Paskistan an India.Sufi love song are often performed as Ghazals and Kafi, a solo genre accompai\nied by percussion and harmonium, using a repertoire of song by sufi poets.

5.Country

Country music is a genre of American popular music that originated in the rural regions of the southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the south-eastern of American folk music and Western music.Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instrument such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, fiddles, and harmonicas.

4.Hip-hop

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music, or hip-hop music is a music, is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.

3.Pop

Pop music (a term that originally derives form an abbreviation of “popular”) is a genre of popular music which originated in its modern form in the 1950s, deriving form rock and roll. The terms popular musics and pop musics are often used interchangeably, even though the former is a description of musics which is popular. It borrows elements from other styles including urban, dance, rock, latin and country.

2.Heavy Metal

Heavy metal is a genre of rock musics that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, originally in the United Kingdom and later in the United States. The bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are often associated with aggression.

1.Rock

Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as “Rock and Roll” in the United States in the 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s’ and 1950s’ rock and roll. itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music. Musically, rock has centred around the electric guitar, usually as part of rock group with bass guitar and drums.

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Top 10 Most Powerful Womens of 2015

1. Angela Merkel

The most influential female politician in the world, Merkel earned a doctorate in physics in East Germany before turning her eye to politics. She won a seat in the Bundestag during the first post-reunification general election, in December 1990, and Chancellor Helmut Kohl appointed her as a Cabinet minister just one year later. Childless and twice married, the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union often comes off as reserved and self-effacing. But as she told TIME in a 2010 interview, she has plenty of confidence: “You could certainly say that I’ve never underestimated myself. There’s nothing wrong with being ambitious.”

She has held this spot for 10 years – having landed a historic third term in December 2014. She is the longest serving elected EU head of state.

2.Hillary Clinton

Hilary Clinton, former secretary of State and US presidential candidate. She is the first and only lady to become a US Senator. As part of her campaign she is putting women’s equality at the heart – including equal pay and pay transparency.

3.Melinda Gates

she co-founded the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation with her husband back in 2000. In 2010 the foundation teamed up with Warren Buffett and launched the Giving Pledge. This is a campaign to encourage billionaires to give away at least half of their fortune.

4.Janet Yellen

the Chair of the Federal Reserve in Washington. Similar to Christine, Janet made the headlines back in 2014 when she became the first woman to hold the role. Interestingly she is very experienced – aged 68 – and despite her role, there are 113 other employees paid more than her!

5. Mary Barra

CEO of General Motors. She is the first female CEO of a major global car maker. She began her career with GM back in 1980 and has earned a MBA from Stanford. What an amazing achievement to have worked her way up to the top over all those years and to be the first female. She is also recognised as the second most powerful business woman in the world.

6. Christine Lagarde

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. She has held this role since March 2011 and was the first female to hold this role. Prior to this role she served as an antitrust and labour lawyer and was elected Chair of the international law firm – Baker and McKenzie.

7. Dilma Rousseff

The President of Brazil. She is the first woman to serve as President and was previously chief of staff. She has been nicknamed The Iron Lady and has a very interesting history, including being tortured back in the 1970s.

8. Sheryl Sandberg

COO of Facebook. We all know of Sheryl Sandberg – having written the excellent book Lean In. Sheryl is a huge advocate of women in the boardroom and how we need to change attitudes. We also heard recently about the sad passing of her husband.

9.Susan Wojcicki

The CEO of YouTube – Susan Wojcicki. YouTube is the world’s largest video platform. Susan took on her new role (having previously worked as a consigiliere for Google) in February 2014.

10.Michelle Obama

The first lady of America – Michelle Obama.Michelle has travelled to South East Asia to push an initiative for improving the wellbeing and financial stability of younger women. She also hit the headlines for not covering her head on a recent trip to Saudi Arabia.