The Life

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The Life Times of Nicholas Sparks

• By Hannah Hobbs
• PCHS

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My Learning Styles

• My top 3 learning styles are
• Aural
• Social
• Visual

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Aural Learning Style

• The aural learning style means the same as
  auditory, which means to listen. If you pay
  attention to sounds and have a good sense of
  rhythm, this learning style is right for you.

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Visual Learning Style

• The visual learning style refers to seeing visual
  examples. You function well by seeing and by
  watching demonstrations, often have a vivid
  imagination, need something to watch, and like
  visual stimuli such as pictures, slides and
  graphs.

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Social Learning Style

• The social learning style basically means that
  you like to work more in a group of people rather
  than alone.

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My Presentation Topic

• My presentation is about Nicholas Sparks. This
  presentation includes his childhood, education,
  family, fascinating facts, and the beginning of a
  fulfilling career.

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The Beginning

• Nicholas Charles Sparks was born on December 31,
  1965 in Omaha, Nebraska to Patrick and Jill
  Sparks. He has a brother, Michael, and a sister,
  Danielle. Nicholas moved to and from places very
  often due to his father trying to receive several
  graduate degrees. He has lived in Nebraska,
  Minnesota, and California. He and his siblings
  were raised Roman Catholics.

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Education

• Sparks graduated from high school as the
  valedictorian. After high school, sparks received
  a full track scholarship to the university of
  Notre dame. As a freshman, sparks broke a UND
  school record as a part of a relay team in 1985.
  Shortly after, he was injured and spent most of
  the track season recovering. Later, he graduated
  in 1988 from Notre Dame with a degree in Business
  Finance.

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Current Family

• In 1988, he met Catherine . Catherine was from
  New Hampshire and when they laid eyes on each
  other, they knew it was love at first sight. The
  next day, he said, One day, we will be married.
  Then, in July of 1989, they got married. Today,
  they reside in New Bern, North Carolina. They now
  have five children. There names are Miles, Ryan,
  Landon, Lexie, and Savannah.

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His Career

• Sparks writes romance novels with sad twists and
  Christian themes.
• Nicholas Sparks has written 15 books in all. Two
  are yet two be published. Some of his books are
• The Notebook.
• The Wedding.
• Nights in Rodanthe.
• A Walk to Remember.
• Three Weeks With My Brother.
• (The Notebook , A Walk to Remember, and Nights in
  Rodanthe have been made into major motion
  pictures.).

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• The Wedding was written by the 1 New York Times
  bestselling author and America's favorite
  chronicler of love stories comes the long-awaited
  follow-up to his classic The Notebook.
• After thirty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis,
  son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun, characters
  from The Notebook, forced to admit that the
  romance has gone out of his marriage. Desperate
  to win back his wife, Jane, he must figure out
  how to make her fall in love with him all over
  again.

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Did You Know

• being healthy and staying in shape is very
  important to Sparks? He lifts weights and runs
  when he gets the chance. He also has a black belt
  in Tae Kwon Do.
• that Sparks wrote his first novel when he was
  only twenty-eight years of age, but he has
  written two novels even earlier that are still to
  be published.
• Sparks got a track and field scholarship to the
  University of Notre Dame? In high school, Sparks
  won many trophies and awards in track and field.

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Careers

• I chose this topic mainly because I love the
  author and his work. Maybe, one day, I could work
  in this type of business. I could be a
• Publisher
• Editor
• Writer
• Illustrator

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Bibliography
http//nicholassparks.com/Novels/TheWedding/Review
s.html
http//thinkexist.com/quotes/nicholas_sparks/ http
//www.wcupa.edu/_Academics/sch_cas.psy/Career_Pat
hs/Educational/subfield3.htm http//nicholasspark
s.com/NicholasSparks.html
http//nicholassparks.com/ShortBio.html
http//nicholassparks.com/TheNovels.html
http//nicholassparks.com/Novels/TheWedding/Index
.html http//nicholassparks.com/TheNovels.html
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Thank You!Any Questions?