All three of the clients are powerful in different ways, whether it is because they are influential to the public because of their work or their situation, or whether they are in a position considered powerful because of their career choice. Miranda Kerr is certainly famous for her work as a model, and now has developed a “unisex skincare line, Kora, ...[which] is Kerr’s first venture as an independent businesswoman”[1] and she says that she is “passionate about health and wellness”[1]. Clearly she is integrating her personal interests into her work and influencing the public by creating a business from her passion about health and relating it to the skin, not only for other women, but for men also, which also shows that she has taken sexual equality into account. Helen Keller “was a tireless activist for racial and sexual equality”[2], but is mostly known for proving “how language could liberate the blind and the deaf”[2]. She struggled to master language, but later she wrote, “Literature is my utopia”[2], and she represented and will always represent those in the world with disabilities such as her own. “Her main message was and is, ‘We’re like everybody else. We’re here to be able to live a life as full as any sighted person’s. And it’s O.K. to be ourselves'”[2], so Keller was and still is a powerful person, not because of her interests as such, but because of her sheer determination to communicate and understand the world she lived in, which encourages and influences the public and make them see that they “have the freedom to be as extraordinary as the sighted”[2]. Angela Merkel is powerful because of her job in the government, as Germany’s Chancellor, and “in the spring of 2009, her government became the most vocal of a group of Europe’s better-off nations who were resisting calls for large-scale spending or deep interest rate cuts to help buoy not only their own economies, but those of their weaker neighbours to the east and south”[3]. This means that Merkel (and her government) is influential not to the public, but to other governments because of her actions as Chancellor, and this helped other countries in the financial crisis.
[1] Herald and Weekly Times, Herald Sun, by Emily Power, added to site 12th February 2010 at 12:00am. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/miranda-kerr-joins-elite-league-of-models-turned-entrepeneurs/story-e6frf7jo-1225829450121. Page accessed 9 May 2010.
[2] Time Inc. by Diane Schuur on 14 June 1999. http://205.188.238.181/time/time100/heroes/profile/keller01.html. Page accessed 9 May 2010.
[3] The New York Times Company, updated 29th April 2010. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/angela_merkel/index.html. Page accessed 9 May 2010.
Miranda Kerr:
'The David Jones fashion ambassador flies into Melbourne on Sunday with time to launch her signature skincare range during a packed schedule...
Kerr will promote her unisex organic skincare line, Kora, which has been developed and made in a Melbourne laboratory, next Saturday at David Jones' Bourke St store.
Kora is Kerr's first venture as an independent businesswoman. She plans to expand the line to include makeup, but said there are no aspirations at the moment to increase her brand portfolio.
"With my hectic schedule at the moment ... I have written a book and started a skincare line. I am quite happy at the moment," Kerr said. "There is so much I really want to do, and I am passionate about health and wellness."
Kerr was coy when asked if she expected something special for Valentine's Day from her long-time partner.
"For me Valentine's Day is a bit of Hallmark card thing, and I believe you should make every day special in your relationship," she said.'
Referenced(quoted) from Herald and Weekly Times, Herald Sun, by Emily Power, added to site 12th February 2010 at 12:00am. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/miranda-kerr-joins-elite-league-of-models-turned-entrepeneurs/story-e6frf7jo-1225829450121. Page accessed 9 May 2010.
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Helen Keller:
'Helen Keller was less than two years old when she came down with a fever. It struck dramatically and left her unconscious. The fever went just as suddenly. But she was blinded and, very soon after, deaf. As she grew up, she managed to learn to do tiny errands, but she also realized that she was missing something. "Sometimes," she later wrote, "I stood between two persons who were conversing and touched their lips. I could not understand, and was vexed. I moved my lips and gesticulated frantically without result. This made me so angry at times that I kicked and screamed until I was exhausted." She was a wild child... She proved how language could liberate the blind and the deaf. She wrote, "Literature is my utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised." But how she struggled to master language. In her book "Midstream," she wrote about how she was frustrated by the alphabet, by the language of the deaf, even with the speed with which her teacher spelled things out for her on her palm. She was impatient and hungry for words, and her teacher's scribbling on her hand would never be as fast, she thought, as the people who could read the words with their eyes...
With language, Keller, who could not hear and could not see, proved she could communicate in the world of sight and sound — and was able to speak to it and live in it...
As miraculous as learning language may seem, that achievement of Keller's belongs to the 19th century. It was also a co-production with her patient and persevering teacher, Anne Sullivan. Helen Keller's greater achievement came after Sullivan, her companion and protector, died in 1936. Keller would live 32 more years and in that time would prove that the disabled can be independent. I hate the word handicapped. Keller would too. We are people with inconveniences. We're not charity cases. She was once asked how disabled veterans of World War II should be treated and said that they do "not want to be treated as heroes. They want to be able to live naturally and to be treated as human beings."
Those people whose only experience of her is "The Miracle Worker" will be surprised to discover her many dimensions. "My work for the blind," she wrote, "has never occupied a center in my personality. My sympathies are with all who struggle for justice." She was a tireless activist for racial and sexual equality. She once said, "I think God made woman foolish so that she might be a suitable companion to man." She was complex. Her main message was and is, "We're like everybody else. We're here to be able to live a life as full as any sighted person's. And it's O.K. to be ourselves."
That means we have the freedom to be as extraordinary as the sighted. Keller loved an audience and wrote that she adored "the warm tide of human life pulsing round and round me." That's why the stage appealed to her, why she learned to speak and to deliver speeches. And to feel the vibrations of music, of the radio, of the movement of lips.'
Referenced from Time Inc. by Diane Schuur on 14 June 1999. http://205.188.238.181/time/time100/heroes/profile/keller01.html. Page accessed 9 May 2010.
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Angela Merkel:
'Mrs. Merkel was settling into a career at the Academy of Sciences in East Berlin in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell. A month later, she joined a coalition of pro-democracy parties.
When she first took office as Germany's chancellor, Mrs. Merkel seemed less a phenomenon than a fluke -- squeaking into office amid predictions that her government would be hobbled by internal problems and might soon collapse. But she later emerged as a leading political actor in Europe, and, having forged a surprisingly warm relationship with President George W. Bush, the go-to person in Europe for Washington. Reinvigorating the Atlantic alliance was at the top of her agenda.
Mrs. Merkel has professed to want to work closely with American President Barack Obama. But in the spring of 2009, her government became the most vocal of a group of Europe's better-off nations who were resisting calls for large-scale spending or deep interest rate cuts to help buoy not only their own economies, but those of their weaker neighbors to the east and south.'
Referenced from The New York Times Company, updated 29th April 2010. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/angela_merkel/index.html. Page accessed 9 May 2010.
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