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BIOGRAPHIES

Nikkie de Jager

Marie Curie

Virginia Woolf

NIKKIE DE JAGGER

Nikkie was born 2 March 1994, better known by her YouTube channel name NikkieTutorials, is a Dutch makeup artist and beauty vlogger. She gained online popularity in 2015 after her YouTube video "The Power of Makeup" became popular and inspired many other videos of people showing their faces with and without makeup. Forbes magazine named De Jager one of the top ten beauty "influencers" in 2017. De Jager uploaded a video spoke about the company using her image to sell their products on social media without her permission. In 2020 she revealed that she is trangender and she had been blackmailed by someone. After her last video some of her followers supported her meanwhile, others kept threating her and she lost her some followers. She keeps recording videos and shares those with her followers who support and love her.

"Filming this video is scray but it feels so liberating"

"It is time to let go and be truly free"

"Filming this video is scray but it feels so liberating"

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Adeline Virginia Woolf was born 25 January in 1882. She was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. She could not go to the school because women were in the backgrounds at those years. However, she improved herself in his father's library. Her short stories were published in 1985 in a newspaper. Bloomsburry group was consisted of very succesfull famous writers and It was a famous liberal group which talks about sexualism freely. One of the group members were bisexual or homosexual. Woolf would go on to publish novels and essays as a public intellectual to both critical and popular acclaim. Much of her work was self-published through the Hogarth Press. She died on 28 March in1941 because of depression.

Marie Curie

Marie Salomea Skłodowska Curie was born on 7 November in1867. She was a Polish and naturalized French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner on her first Nobel Prize. She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. Although these accomplishments, she was exposed to personal violations. Firstly French Science Academy whose members are only men rejected her membership. Then, rumors about her personal relationship with a men were spread. Even their accomplishment of winning the second Nobel Prize remained in the background. She died in 1934 in French due to leukemia.

Questions

1) What are the common problems about these famous people?

4) How would you feel if your accomplishments were shadowed by rumours?

2) Which famous women impressed you most? And Why?

5) If you were Virginia and your right of education was taken away from you, what would you do?

3) Imagine you are Nikkie, Would you express yourself or hide your identitty becacuse of the public pressure? Would you do that sooner?

6) Do you think that you are under pressure because of your gender?

4) How would you feel if your accomplishments were shadowed by rumours?

5) If you were Virginia and your right of education was taken away from you, what would you do?

6) Do you think that you are under pressure because of your gender?