Biography of an Inspiring Person

Demi Lovato

Demi Lovato (Demetria Devonne Lovato) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on the 20th of August 1992. Her hometown is in Dallas, Texas, USA, but now she lives in Los Angeles, California, USA. Her mother’s name is Dianna De La Garza and her real dad’s name is Patrick Martin Lovato. She has stepfather named Eddie De La Garza. She has older sister named Dallas, half little sister named Madison De La Garza, and half older sister named Amber.

Demi began her acting career on the children's television series Barney & Friends as Angela. She began to play piano at the age of seven and guitar at ten, when she also began to learn dancing and acting.

In 2007 and 2008, Demi played Charlotte Adams on the Disney Channel short series As the Bell Rings. She played the lead character, Mitchie Torres, in Camp Rock and Sonny Munroe in Sonny With a Chance.

In May 2013, she became a judge in the X Factor, joining Britney Spears, Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid. Then, in 2013, she was a guest in an American TV Comedy Show, called Glee as Dany.

Now, Demi Lovato already has six albums, those are Don’t Forget (2008), Here We Go Again (2009), Unbroken (2011), Demi (2013), Confident (2015), and Tell Me You  Love Me (2017).

Demi Lovato has won several awards, including an award at the MTV Video Music Awards, one award at the ALMA Awards, five People's Choice Awards, a Billboard Women in Music award, a Guinness World Record and fourteen Teen Choice Awards. Demi has received a Grammy Award nomination, a Billboard Music Awards nomination and a Brit Award nomination.

Demi Lovato’s life was not really as smooth as it seemed. She had a hard life during her earlier carrer. Demi had suffered from depression, an eating disorder, self-harm, and being bullied before she went into rehab at the age of 18. On the 1st of November 2010, Demi entering a treatment facility for "physical and emotional issues". It was reported that she decided to enter treatment after punching female dancer Alex Welch.

On the 28th of January 2011, Demi completed inpatient treatment at Timberline Knolls and returned home. She admitted that she had had bulimia, had harmed herself, and was drugs and alcohol addicted. She added that she "basically had a nervous breakdown" and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder during her treatment. Demi later said that she had used cocaine several times a day.

In her documentary on You Tube called Simply Complicated, she revealed that her treatment at Timberline Knolls was not entirely successful. She still struggled with alcoholism and a cocaine addiction.

She agreed to resume treatment and counseling for her addictions. She moved to a sober-living facility in Los Angeles with roommates and responsibilities to help her by her drug and alcohol struggles. She also did good activities, like Jiu-jitsu to distract her from her addiction. Now, she also try to recover from her eating disorder. She has not overcome her problems, but, she is getting better in time.

So Demi Lovato has inspired me in so many ways. I have learned that we always have to be strong and do everything to overcome our problems. Also as a teenager I always have to do right and useful activities with good people. Life is hard but we have to live it, face it and make the best of it.

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demi_Lovato

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demi_Lovato_discography

North American Beaver

North American Beaver

The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is one of two extant beaver species. It is native to North America and introduced to Patagonia in South America and some European countries, like Finland. The North American beaver is an official animal symbol of Canada and is the official state mammal of Oregon.

Kingdom        : Animalia

Phylum          : Chordata

Class             : Mammalia

Orde              : Rodentia

Family           : Castoridae

Genus           : Castor

Species         :C. canadensis

Like human marriage, the North American Beaver will have only one mate in its lifetime unless its mate dies. A Beaver begins mating at around the age of three. In the Northern regions, the mating season is from January to March. And in the Southern regions, it happens in November and December. The female North American Beaver is pregnant with its litter for about three months. Baby Beavers will live with their parents for two years.

A beaver has webbed hind feet and a large, flat, nearly hairless tail. It uses its tail to help maintain its balance when it is gnawing on trees. It will also slap its tail against the water to signal danger or to warn away predators. A beaver has short front legs with heavy claws. Their rear legs are longer, and it uses its rear webbed feet to help propel itself through the water. When a beaver is under water, its nose and ears close up and a special membrane named nictitating membrane  covers its eyes. A beaver has a thick layer of fat under its skin that helps keep it warm underwater. A beaver also has teeth that grow troughout the beaver’s life to cut into trees and woody vegetation.

Beavers live near rivers, streams, ponds, small lakes, and marshes. They build lodges of sticks and mud on islands, on pond banks, or on lake shores. Not all beavers build lodges, some beavers build burrows in the banks of rivers.

Most of the beaver's diet is made up of tree bark and cambium. They especially like the bark of willow, maple, birch, aspen, cottonwood, beech, poplar, and alder trees. Beavers also eat other vegetation like roots and buds and other water plants. A beaver has a specialized digestive system that helps it digest tree bark.

Beavers are still active throughout winter and still use their ponds even when they are covered with a layer of ice. Beaver may be submerged underwater for up to 15 minutes. Beaver can swim up to 5 miles per hour.

               One of the uniqueness of North American Beaver is it is a semiaquatic animal, that 

means it can live in both water and land. It also has transparent eyelids that will help them to 

see under water. It manipulates its predators by making an empty lodges.

Question from the text

1. Beavers usually live near this places, EXCEPT...

    a. Rivers

    b. Streams

    c. Hotel

    d. Lake

    e. Marshes

2. Baby beaver will live with its parents for ....

    a. 2 months

    b. 2 years

    c. 2 weeks

    d. 2 days

    e. 2 age

3. The function of nictitating membrane is to ...

    a. cover its eyes underwater

    b. close up its nose

    c. close up its ears

    d. cover its body

    e. cover its head

4. Most of beaver's diet is made up of ...

    a. meat

    b. eggs

    c. milk

    d. bark

    e. rice

5.  Beaver can swim up to ...

     a. 5 miles per minutes

     b. 5 miles per secon

     c. 5 miles per day

     d. 5 miles per week

     e. 5 miles per hour

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_beaver

https://sites.google.com/a/wiltonhs.com/the-north-american-beaver/home/life-cycle

http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/beaver.htm

https://onekindplanet.org/animal/beaver/

https://americanexpedition.us/learn-about-wildlife/north-american-beaver-facts-information-and-photos/