Emma Watson is not only a movie icon, but she also is a worldwide role model for creating positive change. She has claimed multiple awards and is acclaimed globally for her many campaigns. In 2014 Emma Watson became a UN women goodwill ambassador, and launched the HeForShe campaign. She continues to inspire the world and make an impact on our everyday lives through the screen and through our communities. Numerous people admire Emma Watson not only for her various roles in movies, like Hermione Granger from Harry Potter, but also the fact that she went to college while in the height of her acting career. She took initiative for her education, and also stands on the front lines for advocating for gender equality, a cause that many women
Kate Bosworth stepped out in Los Angeles as she attended the SAG Foundation's Conversation on her TV series, "The Art of More" on Tuesday, October 27. She styled her tresses into a braided hairstyle so effortless.
How is anyone considered to be a successful person? The ideal meaning of success is the accomplishment of an goal. The topics of Elizabeth Holmes and success should be front and center in everyone's day to day conversations. These topics matter because Elizabeth Holmes is a female billionaire who made it onto the Forbes List and received a Glamour Award for Entrepreneurs. A prestigious person such as Elizabeth Holmes should also be considered a successful person. In order to be successful one has to be more than stable, achieve their life goals, and have made a difference anywhere or to anyone.
We choose to follow the crowd, rarely does anyone dare to be different. Feminism has been a problem not just within one country but within the whole orbiting globe. Emma Watson believes that the world can change; men and women can become united and treated as equals.
Emma began her acting career when she was six years old, and by age ten, she was cast as Hermione Granger in the highly successful movie franchise, Harry Potter (“Emma Watson (II)”). Emma has always been involved in charitable organizations and assisted in any way she could. Growing up, she asked fans not to send her
"There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear; it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith." Words spoken so truthfully by none other than British actress, Emma Watson. Born in Paris and brought up in Oxfordshire, Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was always bursting with talent. She studied at Dragon School and trained extensively on becoming an actress. At age ten she was acting in Stagecoach performances, and in 1999, she made her big break, landing the role Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movie franchise. Emma Watson definitely deserves a spot in House 8-1 Hall of Fame. She has a very successful acting career at only age twenty-six. Emma is also a very well-known Goodwill ambassador,
“It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets opposing ideals. We should stop defining each other by what we are not, and start defining ourselves by who we are.” States British Actress and Ambassador for UN Women Goodwill, Emma Watson, in her persuasive speech, “HeForShe.” Watson speaks to “galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for gender equality” (Watson). For centuries women’s rights have been fought for as well as debated for, paying little to no attention to the inequality of men.
J.K Rowling is an incredibly talented author who has broken barriers for children’s books, and is an inspiration to all authors who come after her. She didn’t learn it on her own though, she has many other literary and cultural influences who helped her story along. We see many literary comparisons to authors like J.R.R Tolkien and C.S Lewis, and then we see the cultural influence such as Arthurian legend. In my research, I have found that a lot of her writing has been influenced by mythology. J.K Rowling herself has a passion for Greek, Roman, and classical mythology, and has been successful in sneaking it into the Harry Potter series through characters, spells, and even her magical creatures.
At age 15, Rowling was confounded when given the news that her mother had become shoddily ill with numerous scleroses, an autoimmune disease. Stressed by her parents to become a secretary, Rowling attended the University of Exeter beginning at age 18 1983 and studied French. She lived in Paris for a year. After she ended college, Rowling stayed in London and worked at a number of jobs. Her mother died on December 30, 1990. Her mother's death was truly hard for her to take in. In an attempt to leave the sorrowfulness, Rowling began a job teaching English in Portugal. Her mother's death was sensible and difficult feelings for Harry Potter about his parents' deaths. JK. Rowling is the author of the Harry Potter series. She has won a lot of awards,
Although Joanne Rowling is considered to be one of the most successful authors in the industry, she had many obstacles to go through in order to achieve success. Joanne Rowling was born on July, 31st, 1965 in Yate England. During her elementary school years, Joanne Rowling was always interested in reading and writing stories and got influenced from her family to start reading. After graduating Exeter University, she married Jorge Arantes, a Portuguese journalist, and had a daughter named Jessica. Joanne Rowling shortly divorced and lived as a poor single mother and started writing what will be Harry Potter The Sorcerers Stone. Despite her troubles, Joanna Rowling was able to publish the Harry Potter series under the pen name J.K. Rowling
For my response photoshoot, I decided to use already existing celebrity portraits as the cut out beauty standard because I felt that this was a simple way I could show what society deems as the 'ideal woman.'
Emma Watson is a 27 year old British actress who has starred in movies like the Harry Potter series, The Perks of Being a Wallflower and most recently Beauty and the Beast. Not only is an amazing actress but she is a strong supporter of women's rights and equality. She spends most of her time, when she wasn’t being Hermione Granger, being a U.N. Women’s ambassador. She was appointed this position in the July of 2014. Emma started the #HeforShe campaign which was a gender equality movement that ended up becoming very popular. She has encouraged men to join in of the fight because this is not only a female problem. Emma is a voice for the younger generation in the Women’s Rights movement. She began her career as a humanitarian by focusing on girls’ education in
Bedtime was an enjoyable and engaging period where young children listened intently to elders reading endless amounts of stories and fairytales until these children reached a certain age of maturity and decided on reading the “big boy and girl” chapter books without any assistance. Therefore, many boys and girls had acquired enough courage to crack open and read the popular and major book series Harry Potter. From there on, children and adults alike were mesmerized and hooked on the magical and enchanting world filled with wizards, witches, and spells. However, as much as people can distinguish Harry Potter, very few are aware of the brain of it all, J.K. Rowling, who went through numerous hardships, setbacks, and
The fire that sparks inside of me whenever I see injustice or encounter something that I am passionate about, keeps me thinking and wondering. This curiosity leads me to constantly look for answers, and throughout my life, I have been faced with difficult questions. I believe that my purpose in life is to look for these answers, and through the opportunities I have been given, share these answers and create works that leave lasting impacts. Throughout my childhood and throughout my life I have always looked up to Emma Watson as a role model. When I look at her, I do not simply see the overwhelming successes she has had as an actor, but the good she has down outside of her career. At 24 she was appointed as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and
Emma Watson is an actress and created a fashion collection. She, as an actress, is best known for her role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies which has won her the Young Artist Award, National Movie Award, People’s Choice Award, and the Teen Choice Award. After finishing the Harry Potter series of movies, she set a career path separate from the Harry Potter movies, starring in films such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Bling
Emma Watson, best known as a leading actress in the Harry Potter series, gave a speech titled “Gender equality is your issue too” during a HeForShe campaign at the United Nations headquarters in New York City during on September 20, 2014, in attempt to raise awareness about gender inequality. Throughout the speech, Watson attempted to persuade the audience in joining the HeForShe campaign by providing examples of those who have been subject to the burdens of gender inequality – however, this speech could be considered problematic due to Watson’s lack of credibility and failure to include all types of people in our society.