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fruitismyfriend:
Helen Keller
Her life and words have profoundly impacted my life and many others. I centered my high school graduation speech and my life around her assertion, "I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life."
Cameron:
Here's another one not mentioned yet.
Meryl Streep, a great actress who never allowed herself to be dumbed down for Hollywood, or anyone else either.
Cameron:
And another,
Joan Jett
I don't think Joan ever took any bs from anyone.
dot-matrix:
Eva Peron....Maria Eva Duarte was born on May 7, 1919, in Los Toldos, Province of Buenos Aires in Argentina. She was the youngest of five children. Her father, Juan Duarte, died on January 8, 1926, after a car accident. Life was hard for Eva and her family; they had become poor after their father die. Eva's mother, Doña Juana, worked long hours sewing to support the family. Eva loved to entertain her family and she decided she would to be an actress. Her first acting job came when she was a teenager. She moved to Buenos Aires and became a radio actress. On October 22, 1945, Eva married Colonel Juan Perón. He was a dictator and became president of Argentina in 1946. Juan Perón won the election because people liked Eva Perón; she was very pretty and popular. Although Eva was the wife of Juan Perón she was considered by many to be the real politician, even though she never officially held any government posts. She did make many enemies during her life. She did everything in her power to get rich. Some people say Eva was using Juan to get famous and Juan was using Eva to be president. She founded the women's branch of the Perónist Party and created the Eva Peron Foundation to help the poor of Argentina. We think she was 32 when she died of cancer on July 26, 1952 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. All of Argentina loved Eva and were very sad when she died.
dot-matrix:
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955), an African American teacher, was one of the great educators of the United States. She was a leader of women, a distinguished adviser to several American presidents, and a powerful champion of racial equality.
Mary McLeod was born in Mayesville, S.C. Her parents, Samuel and Patsy McLeod, were former slaves; Mary was the fifteenth of 17 children. She helped her parents on the family farm and first entered a Presbyterian mission school when she was 11 years old. Later she attended Scotia Seminary, a school for African American girls in Concord, N.C., on a scholarship. She graduated in 1893; there she had met some of the people with whom she would work closely.
Though she had a serious turn of mind, it did not prevent her from being a lively dancer and developing a lasting fondness for music. Dynamic and alert, she was very popular and the acknowledged leader of her classmates. After graduating from Scotia Seminary, she attended the Moody Bible Institute.
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