Influential women through history by Luka Krvarić

Anne Frank

2018-03-08 16:08:45 UTC

Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl that died in the Holocaust. During the Second World War she and her family were forced to hide from Gestapo. During that time she kept a diary of her experiences and thoughts. After the war, her father published it. The original name was " Diary of a young girl"- later as "Diary of Anne Frank". The diary has become one of the most famous records of Holocaust.
-Ana Marija Hanžek

Frida Kahlo

luka_krvaric — 2018-03-08 16:16:01 UTC

Frida Kahlo was a mexican painter. She employed a naive folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. She lived a telenovela life, full of heartbreak and pain but she menaged to rise above it.
-Luka Krvarić

Mother Teresa

2018-03-08 20:33:22 UTC

Mother Teresa was a humanitarian. This means she did things to help out other people. Her entire life was fully devoted to helping the poor, the sick, the needy, and the helpless. Mother Teresa was born in Uskub, Ottoman Empire on August 26, 1910. This city is now called Skopje and is the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Her birth name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.When she was 36 years old, Mother Teresa felt the call from God to help the poor of India. She received some basic medical training and then set out to help the sick and needy. This wasn't an easy task in 1948 India. She had very little support and, while trying to feed and help the poorest of the poor, she herself was constantly hungry and even had to beg for food. In 1950, Mother Teresa formed a group within the Catholic Church called the Missionaries of Charity. She described the purpose of the Missionaries of Charity as an organization that would take care of "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone".
Sara Zelić

Florence Nightingale

daniela_paskov — 2018-03-09 16:05:10 UTC

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) By serving in the Crimean war, Florence Nightingale was instrumental in changing the role and perception of the nursing profession. Her dedicated service won widespread admiration and led to a significant improvement in the treatment of wounded soldiers.

Helen Keller

daniela_paskov — 2018-03-09 16:08:21 UTC

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American social activist. At the age of 19 months, Helen became deaf and blind. Overcoming the frustration of losing both sight and hearing she campaigned tirelessly on behalf of deaf and blind people.

Marie Curie

v_zup1110 — 2018-03-09 21:34:24 UTC

Marie Curie is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to the fight against cancer. This work continues to inspire our charity’s mission to support people living with terminal illness, including cancer.

In 1903 Marie and Pierre (her husband) were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics

Some of her quotes:

•”Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it."

•"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale."

- Valerija Županac

Merly Streep

2018-03-11 11:49:42 UTC

The most prized actress of today is definitely Merly Streep. She was nominated for the Golden Globe 26 times and 17 times for Oscar Prize. She is considered to be one of the most talented actress ever, imitating foreing and domestic accents, singing, dancing and improvising both in theatrical and film roles. She is one of the few actresses in her 60's who are packed with job offers and she also proved that not only beautiful and dumb woman succeed in life.
-Karla Sarajlija

Hillary Clinton

2018-03-11 12:58:30 UTC

As First Lady of the United States, a US Senator, and a hugely popular candidate for President of the US, Hillary Clinton has been a trail blazer for women in politics. Having come closer to being nominated for President by a major party than any woman before her, Senator Clinton has encouraged women to join the political process and pursue their dreams.
Hillary Clinton is probably the most recognized woman in American politics (though perhaps lately eclipsed by Sarah Palin). As her husband’s second term as President drew to a close, Hillary succeeded in being elected US Senator from the state of New York, making her the first First Lady in US history to run for (and win) an elected office.

During her second term as Senator, Hillary announced her candidacy for President. This made her not only a well-known woman politician, but the first woman in the US with a legitimate chance at winning the Oval Office. Though she failed to win the Democratic party’s nomination, she came closer than any woman had before her.

It is evident from the support she received from women across the country that her candidacy was an inspiration to women everywhere. It has even been speculated (and refuted) that the Republican party nominated a woman for the VP slot in response to Hillary’s candidacy. Love her or hate her, there’s no doubt that Hillary Clinton has been influential both in the political arena and in encouraging women to pursue elected offices.
By Natalija Žilić

Virginia Henderson

2018-03-11 14:09:43 UTC

Virginia Henderson was a nurse, theorist, and author known for her Need Theory and defining nursing as: “The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge.”

Need Theory is:

1. Breathe normally, 2. Eat and drink adequately, 3. Eliminate body wastes, 4. Move and maintain desirable postures, 5. Sleep and rest, 6. Select suitable clothes – dress and undress, 7. Maintain body temperature within normal range by adjusting clothing and modifying environment, 8. Keep the body clean and well groomed and protect the integument, 9. Avoid dangers in the environment and avoid injuring others, 10. Communicate with others in expressing emotions, needs, fears, or opinions, 11. Worship according to one’s faith, 12. Work in such a way that there is sense of accomplishment, 13. Play or participate in various forms of recreation and 14. Learn, discover, or satisfy the curiosity that leads to normal development and health and use the available health facilities.

Maja Medenjak

Esma Redžepova Teodosijevska(1943.-2016.)

lidijamandzo — 2018-03-11 17:25:44 UTC

Esma was Macedonian singer of roma music. She was named the queen of roman music(Queen of the Gypsies) and by the performance of this music was famous in the world. She was popular throughout the Balkans, raised 47 children during her lifetime and participated in numerous humanitarian actions. The singer, who was popular throughout the Balkans, raised 47 children during her lifetime and participated in numerous humanitarian actions. During his career for 55 years, she has participated in top world music festivals and maneuvers. She performed at Eurovision 2013,Sweden.
-Lidija Karamatić

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

2018-03-11 20:47:52 UTC

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of former US President Franklin Delana Roosevelt. Since 1946, he was the president of the UN Human Rights Committee. The US and many countries (including the territory of former Yugoslavia) traveled, putting their word and pen in the service of humanistic tasks.

- Mario Mandić

Malala Yousafzai

2018-03-11 21:04:30 UTC

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education advocate who, at the age of 17, became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban. Born on July 12, 1997, Yousafzai became an advocate for girls' education when she herself was still a child, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she was traveling home from school. She survived and has continued to speak out on the importance of education. In 2013, she gave a speech to the United Nations and published her first book, I Am Malala. In 2014, she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
~Anamaria Tomasic

Indira Gandhi

2018-03-11 21:15:57 UTC

Indira Gandhi was one of the most powerful political figures in India and did much to make her country a powerful. She became prime minister in 1966 for the first time that India got a female person in the post of head of government. She was the premier of India for almost 20 years until the assassination of 1984. She was one of the three prime ministers overseeing the military conflict while in power.
- Ivona Čolić

2018-03-12 19:46:27 UTC

Jelena Aurer Kožulj

2018-03-12 19:52:52 UTC

Jelena was born in Tomislavgrad in 1934. - died in Zagreb, in 2017. She finished Medical college and specialized for Dental and oral pathology, and subspecialized for periodontics. Jelena was a teacher on Dental college. She introducted periodontics in teaching lessons and she estoblished on Institute for periodontics on Dental collage and also clinical department for the treatment of periodontal disease on Clinical hospital center Zagreb. Her research of oral disease was first of its kind in Croatia.

- Anamarija Vučković

Anna Pavlova

daniela_paskov — 2018-03-13 13:18:04 UTC

Anna Pavlova was born on February 12, 1881, in St. Petersburg, Russia. After attending the Imperial Ballet School, she made her company debut in 1899 and quickly became prima ballerina. Her breakthrough performance was in The Dying Swan in 1905, which became her signature role. She joined the Ballet Russe in 1909 and formed her own company in 1911. Contracting double pneumonia while on tour, Pavlova died in 1931.
She was one of the most celebrated and influential ballet dancers of her time. Her passion and grace are captured in striking photographic portraits. Her legacy lives on through dance schools, societies and companies established in her honor, and perhaps most powerfully, in the future generations of dancers she inspired.

Jane Addams

lana_greguric11 — 2018-03-13 18:31:44 UTC

Jane Addams was the second woman to receive the Peace Prize. She founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919, and worked for many years to get the great powers to disarm and conclude peace agreements.
In the USA, Jane Addams worked to help the poor and to stop the use of children as industrial laborers. She ran Hull House in Chicago, a center which helped immigrants in particular.
During World War I, she chaired a women's conference for peace held in the Hague in the Netherlands, and tried in vain to get President Woodrow Wilson of the USA to mediate peace between the warring countries. When the USA entered the war instead, Jane Addams spoke out loudly against this. She was consequently stamped a dangerous radical and a danger to US security.
Addams was critical of the peace treaty that was forced on Germany in 1919, maintaining that it was so humiliating that it would lead to a German war of revenge. At the end of her life, Jane Addams was honored by the American government for her efforts for peace.
- Lana Gregurić

Marie Curie

2018-03-21 07:41:13 UTC

Marie Skłodowska Curie(7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéonin Paris.

Gerty Cori

2018-03-21 07:44:59 UTC

Another Nobel Prize winner, Gerty Cori, earned

the prestigious award for her work in medicine/physiology in 1947. Cori was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in this category. She worked with her husband, Carl Ferdinand Cori, with whom she shared an interest in preclinical science, to prove vital concepts in genetics. Their work led to the discovery that an enzyme deficiency could be responsible for metabolism disorders. They also carried out multiple studies on the action of hormones, focusing on the pituitary gland. Over her lifetime, Gerty won several other awards in recognition for her contributions to science and earned honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Boston University, Smith College, Yale, Columbia and Rochester between 1948 and 1955.
Marta Strejček

Marilyn Monroe

luka_sremec — 2018-03-23 21:33:46 UTC

Marilyn Monroe was american film star, a singer, model and pop icon. She got award Gold globe for the best main movie actor. Her real name was Jeane Norma but everybody knows her by name Marilyn Monroe. She became famous because of her lovely voice, beauty and acting skills.

-Luka Sremec-

2018-03-24 18:14:42 UTC

Barbara McClintock

2018-03-26 13:46:50 UTC

While studying botany at Cornell University in the 1920s, Barbara McClintock got her first taste of genetics and was hooked. As she earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees and moved into postdoctoral work, she pioneered the study of genetics of maize (corn) cells. She pursued her research at universities in California, Missouri and Germany before finding a permanent home at Cold Spring Harbor in New York. It was there that, after observing the patterns of coloration of maize kernels over generations of plants, she determined that genes could move within and between chromosomes. The finding didn’t fit in with conventional thinking on genetics, however, and was largely ignored; McClintock began studying the origins of maize in South America. But after improved molecular techniques that became
available in the 1970s and early 1980s confirmed her theory and these “jumping genes” were found in microorganisms, insects and even humans, McClintock was awarded a Lasker Prize in 1981 and Nobel Prize in 1983.

Ivana Zelić

daniela_paskov — 2018-04-26 18:57:53 UTC

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v_zup1110 — 2018-05-27 18:06:22 UTC

The most prized actress of today is