Valerie Jane Morris Goodall
She was born on 3rd April in 1934 in London. She grew in the South of England in a middle class family. She has loved animals since she was a little girl and she lived among animals. When she was a girl her favourite books were The Book of the jungle and Tarzan.
She got married with Hugo Van Lawick in 1964, he was a photograph of National Geographic and they had a son but ten years after they divorced. She got married again with Derek Bryceson in 1975; he was a member of the British Parliament but he died five years later.
She always dreamt of travelling to Africa, to live between wild animals and to write her books. She is a naturalistic, an activist and a British primatologist. She has studied the behavior of chimpanzees all her life. For the first time in 1958 she travelled to Tanzania to study the wild chimpanzees, with only her mother, a cook and a tent. She was observing the chimpanzees for fifty years and, one day, she discovered that the chimpanzees were able to use tools to feed themselves.
She has been award-winning with more than 100 international awards like Prince of Asturias, Lady del British Empire, Hubbard Medal, Gold Medal of Unesco,… Nowadays, she has more 100 investigation centres all over the world with more 8.000 voluntaries. She is a famous woman with more 26 books, a lot of scientific articles and 20 videos. She has published knowledge about chimpanzees and besides that, we look after nature.
Today her dairy routine can be speaking to a group of students, meeting with government, sitting in front of television cameras, doing/giving interviews,…
Mª José Sánchez 2ºA
JANE AUSTIN
Jane Austen was a famous novelist. She was born in Steventon in 1775.
She published six books and wrote much more. Her most famous book is Pride and Prejudice (1813).
Her books can be recognized for the ironic description of the rural life in England. Also, the critics emphasize her help to women´s education. She died in Winchester in 1817.
Anabel Rodríguez 2ºA
CLARA CAMPOAMOR
Clara Campoamor was born in Madrid in 1888 to a working-class family. Her father was an accounting in a newspaper, and her mother was a seamstress.
When her father died, Clara had to begin working as a seamstress at age 13, but continued to study to pass the test that would guarantee her entry into law school.
After entering the University of Madrid School of Law, Campoamor began to write political commentary and joined women’s organizations. When Clara graduated in 1924 at the age 36, she started participating in debating and intelectual societies in Madrid.
Campoamor bécame the first woman to address the constituent assembly of Spain in October of 1931, when a new Constitution was written. Her strong defence for women’s rights was opposed not only by political conservatives but also by men on the left an even one of the only two women in the assembly, Victoria Kent. When her own party decided to oppose women’s suffrage, she left it and continued to advócate for suffrage as an indepent member of the assembly.
In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War began, she escaped from the country in fear for her life. Settling in Lausanne, Switzerland an as an exile, she continued to write about feminism.
Clara Campoamor died in exile in 1972. Her ashes were repatriated and buried in San Sebastián.
Pilar Andrades 2ºA
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Adeline Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. She was a British novelist, essayist, editor and tales writer, and she’s considered as one of the leading figures of literary modernism of the twentieth century.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury group. The Bloomsbury group was composed of Virginia Woolf, her husband, Leonard Sidney Woolf, the philosophers Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, the art critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell, the economist John Maynard Keynes, the sinologist Arthur Waley, the writer Gerald Brenan biographer Lytton Strachey, the literary critic Desmond MacCarthy, the novelist and essayist Edward Morgan Forster, the writer Katherine Mansfield and the painters Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell.
Their works were deeply influenced by literature, aesthetics, criticism, and economics as well as modern attitudes towards feminism, pacifism, and sexuality.
Virginia Woolf's most famous works are the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando: A Biography (1928) and The Waves (1931), and her long essay A Room (1929), with its famous dictum: "A woman must have money and own room if you are writing fiction." This essay was rediscovered in the 1970s, thanks to this dictum, one of the most cited in the feminist movement, which exposes the difficulties of women to work as writers in a world dominated by men texts.
During her life, Virginia suffered a mental disease that today it's known as bipolar disorder. The outbreak of the Second World War, the destruction of her house in London during the Blitz and the cold reception given to her biography of her friend Roger Fry got worse her health until she was unable to work
On 28 March 1941, Woolf committed suicide. She put on her coat, filled its pockets with stones and plunged into the River Ouse near her home and drowned.
CLARA CAMPOAMOR
Clara Campoamor was a Spanish politician during the Second Republic in Spain. Clara was born in Madrid in 1888 and she was died in Laussana in 1972. Her father Manuel Campoamor was a book-keeper in a newspaper and her mother Maria Rodriguez was a seamstrees. She started by working as a designer when she was ten years old. Some years later she worked as typing teacher
In 1923 she started her studies of Law and two years later she had finished her studies. She was then a lawyer when it was not usual for a woman to be one. While she worked as a lawyer, she began to meet some people who influenced her political ideals.
In 1931 Clara Campoamor was elected a member of parliament of Spain. In These years one women could be elected but couldn’t be an elector. Clara fought for women to be allowed to vote.
Rafael Guerrero 2ºA
ANGELA MERKEL
THE MOST POWERFUL POLOITICIAN WOMAN NOWADAYS.
As all you know Ángela Merkes is the first female chancellor in Germany, and one of the most powerful politicians (including men and women) in the world.
She was born in Hambourg, West Germany, on July 17th, 1954.
Daughter of a Lutheran pastor and a teacher, her original name was Ángela Dorothea Kasner.
She grew up in a rural area in the north of Berlin, she studied Physics at the University of Leipizg, and she worked as a Chemist for 12 years after earnig a doctorate in 1978.
In 1990 she joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Soon after, she was appointed as a Minister for Women and Youth. She was named Secretary-General of the CDU in 1998, and she was chosen party leader in 2000 and 2 years after that she lost her first battle for chancellor in 2002 against Edmund Stoiber.
Being the winner of the election in 2005 she was declared Germany's first female chancellor.
Nowadays, she is still/continues being the chancellor of Germany and one of the most powerful politicians in the world, nobody can discuss a word with her in the European Union and perhaps in the entire world either.
In Spain, she is like "a pain in the ass" for our presidents because she always said to them (Zapatero and Rajoy) what to do and how to do it, and because of this she had a very bad press in our country but it is one more way to show the world the power she has.
Two days ago I've read an article which says that Angela Merkel could be the only person who can mediate in the Ukrainian crisis, between Russia and Ukraine because both countries have more respect for her than for all the war ships which Obama can send to intimidate the Russian leader, perhaps it is not true but for me is not difficult to believe.
Ángela Tilve 2ºA
THE MONA LISA
The Mona Lisa is a portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci
The painting is thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini. It's the most visited painting , and I think the woman is the best Known woman in the world.
Her enigmatic smile and not knowing for sure who is represented on the picture, has made this picture of this woman the most visited painting in the museum of Louvre.
Many people can recognize Madame Curie, or Mother Teresa de Calcuta , and even Angela Merkel in her, but I'm sure they all know who the Mona Lisa is.
Although sometimes it's much better to see the painting through TV or the Internet , and not at the museum, because the crowd makes it impossible for you to have a look at it carefully.
Tomás Quero 2ºB
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTA
She is a religious woman, who was born in India in 1910. Her family was catholic, so, from 12 years old,
her great dream was to be a missionary. Being a girl, she joined the congregation Mariana de las Hijas de María where she started to help the poor.
At the 18, she went to Berlin and she studied to become to a teacher in Bengala. After that,
she founded the Charity Congregation MIssionaries . She also got the Kennedy Foundation Prize and she gave it to the much poorer people.
She was visited by Juan Pablo II in La Nirmal Hidray.
She died on 5th September in 1997.
Manuela Díaz 2ºA
ANGELA MERKEL
Angela Dorothea Kasner was born in 1954 in Hamburg, Germany. She is the oldest of Horts and Herlind Kasner’s three children and has a brother, Marcus, and a sister, Irene.
She was raised in the small countryside town of Templin, in the German Democratic Republic (also known as East Germany).
Her family lived quite well, because her father who was a Lutheran pastor, had a good relationship with the communist regime of GDR, so they had some rights denied to Christian pastors, such as easily crossing from West Germany to East Germany, and owning two cars.
After studying in Templin, Merkel went to the University of Leipzig, where she studied Physics from 1973 to 1978. She then worked at the “Central Institute for Physical Chemistry in Berlin from 1978 to 1990.
In 1977, Angela Kasner married physicist Ulrich Merkel, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1982. Merkel remarried in 1998 to Joachim Sauer, a Chemistry professor from Berlin who she has been married to since.
Merkel first entered the political world in 1989, after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Today she is the first Chancellor of Germany, main industrial country of the European Union.
Luis Sánchez 2º B
