NOCTILUCA March 2017

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Maya Angelou By Ahmad Abdel-Azim As an esteemed poet, activist, storyteller, Maya Angelou has received many acknowledgements throughout

As the first lady of the United States, a politician, an nor Roosevelt was an empathetic and admirable woma was the longest serving first lady of the United States served four terms in office. She believed in a great hu and was appointed as a delegate to the United Nations bly. In 1946, she became the first chairperson of the pre Nations Commission on Human Rights and stayed chai when the commission was officially established. She al ate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR lieved in these rights and thought that everyone every them. Eleanor Roosevelt also supported many organizat Encampment for Citizenship, which organizes summer youth of diverse backgrounds. Roosevelt really believe these types of organization and publicly defended them famed in any way. She advocated for women’s rights a husband’s death in 1945, she took his place as the chair Women. This commission protected working women in tation there. When she died in 1962, she was regarded was a model for a futur

her life for her influential nature. She has been awarded more than 50 honorary degrees as well as the medal of honor throughout her life for achievements and influence on civil rights. Her works were influenced by black au- thors such as Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Angelou’s most known work, written in 1969, I KnowWhy the Caged Bird Sings, is the first of six autobiographies dealing with her childhood on Long Beach, St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. This work is controversial as it displays some instances of racism, sexual abuse and violence. However, it is doubtless that her work was well-crafted and inspirational. Inspired by

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words from Martin Luther King Jr., Angelou decided to join the civil rights movement in the 1950’s. She worked for influential men such as Martin Luther King Jr. as well as Malcolm X during the struggle for civil rights. She wrote to inspire people to fight for their rights. Her poems usually address topics such as race and sex in the large society. Her works definitely portrayed her hardships, oppression, and loss. When she died in 2014, she left behind a legacy of inspiration to stand up against any hardships or oppression they face.

Susan B. Anthony By Sarah Fleming

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The story of Susan B. Anthony is one well known by most. President and founder of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892-1900, according to History. com. Susan B. Anthony was a key instrument to implementing the nine- teenth amendment, otherwise known as the amendment that gives women the right to vote. Anthony started her political career in the abolitionist movement, or the movement to end slavery according to Biography.com. Along with ending slavery, Anthony also wanted to stop the sale and production of alcohol. Anthony

Jake Zajkowski “Marie Curie because her scientific discoveries were revolutionary.”

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Madi Lewis “The most important wom- an to me is MalalaYousafzai because she works to make sure children get proper education and she’s really young which I think is re- ally inspiring that someone so young can make such a big difference.”

later met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at an anti-slavery conference. Stanton was a fellow women’s rights advocate and Anthony’s companion through most of her women’s rights endeavours. Together, this duo would later establish and lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association along with the New York State Woman’s Rights Committee, American Equal Rights Association, the Women’s New York State Temperance Society, and the Revolution, a weekly publication produced in 1866 about women’s rights. Once the Civil War had concluded, Susan B. Anthony started to focus almost exclusively on the rights of women. Anthony’s favorite target for women’s rights was the right to vote. Anthony was so passionate about the right for women to vote, she voted for a presidential election illegally in 1872; Anthony was ar- rested and fined $100 for it (Although, she never ended up paying for it). Susan B. Anthony died March 13, 1906. Perhaps the most tragic thing about her life was the fact that she never saw the right for women to vote. The 19th amendment was only added in 1920, 14 years after her death. According to Biography.com, on her deathbed Anthony told her friend Anna Shaw: “To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.”

Deciding at the age of 15 that she would be a world c Rosalind Elsie Franklin battled impediments, one aft fight to get her education and then in scientific com tending and graduating from Cambridge in 1941, Fran British Coal Utilization Research Association to study ite microstructures where she then earned her doctorat 1945. She then began to study DNA, in which she made and fundamental discoveries. Her lab partner Wilkins technical assistant at first because she was a female. Wh mistake he did not correct his actions and his treatme of her gender progressively got worse. The dining roo men-only and this was where her colleagues would go clude Franklin. This only made her more defiant and de the structure of DNA. In the end however, her partne crystallographic portrait of DNA and presented it to ano solved it and published his findings, making her resear The debate on who receives the credit on this research she worked on the Tobacco Mosaic Virus and the Poli genetic fields. Snapshots of infl and the legacy t March is women commemorate and c contributions wom world in all fields. W most influential Rosalind By Yasme Center Spread Designers: Salma

Logan Gruber “Amelia Earhart because she was very influential and determined but also didn’t let people get to her. She was the first lady pilot to fly across the Atlantic and was the first lady to at- tempt around the world.”

Marie Curie By Yasmeen Ashour

Nobel Prize winner twice over and nuclear physicist, Marie Curie unveiled the advantages of radiation, saving millions of lives and progressing studies in space. Born and raised in Poland, she was taught science by her father and upon the Rus- sian domination, she finished her education in Paris. Here she met Pierre Curie, her husband and also the head of the physics laboratory at Sorbonne and suc- ceeded him in an era where women scientists were extremely frowned upon. Earn- ing science, medical and law degrees, Marie Curie defied social expectations and made medicinal and celestial use of polonium possible. Polonium is a rare earth metal with radioactive properties. It is currently used on satellites, and x-ray and chemotherapy. Curie was nominated five times for a Nobel prize for her research in physics and chemistry. She assisted in the development of x-rays and discov- ered not only a new element on the periodic table, but proved that there were more than that were documented, inspiring scientists everywhere to set out for discovery.

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Marie Curie is remembered for her remarkable work in a setting where she faced many obstacles regarding and gender as the first person to get awarded two nobel Prizes and her ability to overcome these obstacles.