She continued to make many changes that incredibly benefitted the country. It was when she was appointed Secretary of Education that she became apparent and influential to the public. It was from then where she begun to make some major changes. She revived the economy, improved outdated institutions and strengthened the nation’s foreign policy. However in doing so she was not always very popular. She also became one of the founders of a school of conservative conviction politics. This raised her status considerably as it had a strong and beneficial impact on politics. She was one of the most…
She also went through the struggles of having to explain to her children about Muslim extremists. Ranya got tired of hearing that no one is stepping up for the Muslim community. So she took the stand for all Muslim communities and started going to interviews. To let people find out more about her…
Barkley was born in Laredo in Webb County in south Texas, to Josef and the former Antonia Cantú. He grew up with his Mexican-American mother. He enlisted in the Army when the United States entered what was then known as the Great War. He used his Anglo father's name to avoid being segregated into a non-combat unit.[1]…
After coming out of high school, she became involved with the Black Panther and thrown in the mix of black power and revolutionary Politics. After leaving the Black Panther, she became a leader for the Black Liberation Army.…
Nur Jahan-Jahangir’s wife who was a shrewd political leader and was the most powerful woman in Indian history until the twentieth century…
She started her work career as a Director of a day nursery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. This experience gave her an acute awareness of her social surroundings. She saw first-hand how minorities were in substandard housing, inadequate schools, subjected to drugs and police brutality and no basic civil rights. This was when she determined that bad government had a connection to the fate of these minorities. She joined the Bedford-Stuyvesant Political League and gained lots of experience and political insight. She helped her neighbors to register to vote, unemployed to get jobs, students to get scholarships and fought with the league for 10 years and gained lots of respect and connections.…
and researchers too. She was the first ever female news anchor, and also the first of her kind to…
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is a story of how Janie, the protagonist, achieves a strong sense of self along with her independence. In order for Janie to be where she is by the end of the novel she embarks on a long journey to find what she really wants in life. That journey is both literal and figurative. Janie literally travels and sees different parts of the world but at the same time going on within her is a journey to find herself.…
Throughout her years as the Girl Scout founder, she was able to grow the program to 90,000 member known as Girl Scouts. Much of her success to the organization was the large network of people she established throughout the year. With the network, she was able to find resources and attributes which developed into Girl Scouts. She became well known of her energy, willingness and appreciation for the girl scouts in the…
allow to form part of the community in which she lived and wanted to help by voting and making…
His credibility reach points never saw before at India, he concentrated his speech on the poor, which were (and are) a vast majority in India and kept himself distanced from the politics, this helped him to become an icon for the country and ultimate to the world.…
Under the circumstances that she dealt with everyday, she still spoke out about her belief of being given the right to have an education, a place where the Taliban basically has complete control under a corrupt government and raids the villages almost every week. That is why I respect her so much, she is a young women who already has the determination of a leader and isn’t afraid of putting herself at risk in order for her voice to be heard.…
He is known worldwide for his nonviolent protests. During his great times, he made protests and began hunger strikes for peace (Williams, online). He fasted, began campaigning, and went to prison for 6 years all for peace. He would give up his life or peace and equality (Williams, online). He made the life-threatening act for peace among all. He began a revolution and saved the world 3 times (Nanda, online). He is a hero among all. One thing he fought for was the Salt March. He walked with thousands of people on March 12, 1930 (Williams, online). The destination of the trip was Ahmedabad from Dandi (Rau,1). It was a 390 km protest (Biography, online). This event was a protest that Gandhi managed for no salt tax on the Indians (Student Discovery, 23). At the end of the march, Gandhi had an exchange with Lord Irwin to end the salt tax forever (Biography, online). Gandhi has also worked in politics. He retired his title of leader of Indian National Congress to work at a rural community (Rau,69). After his retirement, he kept helping others with their lives that were in a struggle (Williams, online). He negotiated with the 1914 African government to remove restrictions on all the deserving Indians (Nagel,35). He also made law practices in his career. He set up laws in Bombay with no success but got an offer to work in South Africa (Williams, online). He accepted the position and went down to South Africa…
the highest-ranking talk show in television history. She is one of the world’s top African-…
Malala is a Aisan girl that is from Pakistan. She first started her fight for girls being able to get an education at the age of 15. The Taliban shut down her school because they didn´t want girls to overpower the men and thought that taking away female education would make that possible. So she fought for women's education rights. Her fight came with risk. The Taliban shot her for speaking out about girls education. She was standing up to them and others were joining her fight.She was inspired by her dad to stick up for women's right for information.…