Women of Power

By Arthur G. Kleven

WOMEN OF POWER Great women have done great things, Since the beginning of history, women have used their power to shape the events in a changing world. Some have been influential in great social advances and some have contributed to great disasters. Each of these women has an interesting story of their love, ambition and their goals. These stories are about Cleopatra, Queen Victoria, Maggie Thatcher, Elinor Rooseelt, Golda Mier, Helen Keller, Barbara Jordon, Eva Peron, Oprah Winfry, Imelda Marcos, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Ginger Rogers, Nancy Poloske, & Hillary Clinton, and many more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 14, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452071367

Arthur G. Kleven

WOMEN OF POWER Great women have done great things, Since the beginning of history, women have used their power to shape the events in a changing world. Some have been influential in great social advances and some have contributed to great disasters. Each of these women has an interesting story of their love, ambition and their goals. These stories are about Cleopatra, Queen Victoria, Maggie Thatcher, Elinor Rooseelt, Golda Mier, Helen Keller, Barbara Jordon, Eva Peron, Oprah Winfry, Imelda Marcos, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Ginger Rogers, Nancy Poloske, & Hillary Clinton, and many more.

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First published by AuthorHouse 9/7/2010

ISBN: 978-1-4520-7136-7 (e)

ISBN: 978-1-4520-7135-0 (sc)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010913202

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Contents

69 to 30 B.C. CLEOPATRA

St. Joan de Arc

Elizabeth the Great

Queen Victoria

Ginger Rogers

Grace Kelly

Maggie Thatcher

Tsarevna Alexandra

Bertha Palmer

Jane Addams

Alice Roosevelt

Elinor Roosevelt

Gertrude Stein

Golda Mier

Helen Keller

Eliner Smith Sullivan

Amelia Earhart

Gertrude Ederle

Babe Zaharias

Gloria Vanderbilt

Barbara Jordon

Eva Peron

Ann Richards

Sally Ride

Gloria Steinem

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

Imelda Marcos

Rosa Parks

Madeleine Albright

Sandra Day O’Connor

Condoleezza Rice

Audrey Hepburn

06 - Whoopi Goldberg

Barbra Streisand

Oprah Winfrey

Barbara Walters

Beverly Sills

Hillary Clinton

Nancy Pelosi

Benazir Bhutto

Martha Stewart

69 to 30 B.C. CLEOPATRA

For Cleopatra was not only the Queen of Egypt, but also the Goddess Mother Earth.

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Cleopatra was BORN IN 69 B.C., the daughter of Ptolemy Auletes, of the Ptolemy dynasty. Her father had been a Macedonia general of the army of Alexander the Great and took Egypy, as his share of the division of Alexander’s empire.

The Polemies accepted the Egyptian custom of marriage between brother and sister So when Polemy Auletes died in July, 51 B.C., in his will he provided that Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy XII become joint rulers of the country. But also, that the sister and her brother be joined in marriage, and further, that the Roman Empire be the sole guardian of the state of Egypt.

During the next decades, there was a rampage of war among thr Mediterrain empires. Now Antony had left his wife, and was living with Cleopatra, but war called him into battle,again. Antony was defeated in battle, and dying, when Cleopatra’s fleet rescued him, and brought him back Alexandria. He died in Queen Cleopatra’s arms. Cleopatra refused food, hoping to die. Friends tried to convence her to live for her children. But when hearing she was to be imprisoned in Rome, she committed suicide. By according to the story, by allowing a poisonous snake to bite her. She cremated and buried Marc Antony.

St. Joan de Arc

Of the six children, Joan was the most serious, and very interested in her religious studies. In 1425, when she was 13, Joan began to hear voices, which identified as voices of St Michael and St Catherine. The English had began the seige of Orleans. The voices had told Joan to go to the King and insist on leading the forces against the enemy.

With the aid of local royality, Joan met the King at the royal castle in Cahinon. There she persuaded the king ,and his court, to let her lead the army into battle. Led by Joan, the French army drove the English out of Orleans, and Joan trimuphantly escorted the pleased king to his coronation at the castle in Reims.

As Joan led the army into more victories, there were reactions. As in any great event, there are protagonists and antagonists. Many French citizens cheered her, but jealous generals, and lazy ladies of the court, spread rumors that Joan was a witch.

In April 1430, Joan led the army in the Burgund campaign, and was captured. She was in prison for months, in English–occupied Normandy. She was tried as a heretic by the Church court. She was taken to the cemetery of the Abbey of St Queen,in Rouen. Four days later, on May 30,1431, Joan de Arc was burned at the stake,as a heretic.

Introduction

In the beginning, as well as in

the end, it appears that both men

and woman have similar ambitions.

Both have great goals in achievement

in their given fields of endeavor.

The incentive for success may be glory,

attention, or financial rewards.

Sometimes there is a great price

for the prize.

1558 - 1603

Elizabeth the Great

Elizabeth1 was born September 7, 1533, in Greenwich Palace. She was the daughter of Henry V111 and Anne Boleyn. She was born a princess, But her mother was excecuted, when Elizabeth was three, and the the little girl was declared illegitimate. For that reason, her brother Edward was cut of the succession. Her older sister Mary,had lost her postion in line for the throne, when King Henry annuled his marriage to her mother, Catherine of Aragon.

The royal children were very intelligent. Their govnorness Kat Ashley gave them a good start. Their tutor, Willaim Grinbdal taught them to read and write English, Latin and Italian. After he died, Roger Ascham, an excellent teacher expanded their knowlege of the languages and world affairs. In 1550, when her education ended Elizabeth was considered the best erducated women in her country.

In 1543, the new Success Act, both pincess’s were restored to their line to the throne. In 1547, King Henry V111 died. His three children were very bright,because great scholars had guided their education. Mary became the Queen. Her reign was short, because she was sent to prision for a year, for supporting the Protestant rebels. In 1558, Elizabeth, succeeded her sister, to become