High school musical franchise
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Musa al-Gharbi
I’m from a military family going back generations. My maternal grandfather fought in WWII, Korea and Vietnam. My father helped coordinate NATO operations during operation Desert Storm. My mother and my stepdad were both in the army too — alongside many of my siblings and cousins. I was raised in the community surrounding the U.S. Army’s principal intelligence base.
Yet, rather than going into the family business, as I approached adulthood I aspired to be a Catholic priest and prepared for that vocation through rigorous studies of Christian theology, scriptural exegesis and “higher criticism” of the Bible.
However, following a crisis of faith, I abandoned this calling.
The next several years were spent wandering—managing enterprises in the private sector and attending community college off and on. Throughout this period, I continued to explore the questions that I had been consumed with as a theologian — albeit, without the religious underpinnings —through intensive private studies of philosophy and the classics.
At the time, I consi
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Biography
Sandra Day O'Connor made history in 1981 when she was sworn in by then Chief Justice Warren Burger as the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court in its 191-year history. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan, it was O'Connor's intelligence and grit that made her a transformational figure in the nation's highest court of law.
Beginnings
Sandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas on March 26, 1930. Her parents, Harry "D.A." and Ada Mae "M.O." Day, owned a cattle ranch in southeastern Arizona, the Lazy B, the largest and most successful ranch in the region. In the beginning, the remote ranch did not have electricity or running water. As a result, Sandra grew up becoming resourceful, including branding cattle and learning to fix whatever was broken, all the while enjoying life on the ranch.
Her experiences on the Lazy B unequivocally helped shaped her character as she developed her belief in hard work, yet her parents also wanted O'Connor to gain a good education. Living in such a remote area, the school options were limited, and she had
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High School Musical
2006 American musical TV movie
This article is about the 2006 Disney Channel television film. For the following franchise, see High School Musical (franchise). For the television series, see High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. For other uses, see High School Musical (disambiguation).
High School Musical is a 2006 American musicaltelevision film produced by and aired on Disney Channel as part of the network's slate of original television films. The first installment of the High School Musical series, the film was directed by choreographer and filmmaker Kenny Ortega from a screenplay by Peter Barsocchini. It stars Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Alyson Reed, Corbin Bleu, and Monique Coleman. High School Musical follows student Troy Bolton (Efron), the captain of his school basketball team, and Gabriella Montez (Hudgens), an academically gifted transfer student, who together audition for the lead roles in their school musical, causing division among the school's cliques.
Development for the film began after B
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