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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Sharn's Story. Hour as a Reminder
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is a reading service intended for people who are blinder
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of other disabilities that make it difficult to read printed material.
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Today we will be reading from various books on famous women.
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Your reader today is Diane. Our first book is called
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The Fantastically Feminist and totally True Story of this downy
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actor and activist, Emma William. This was published by Wren
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and Rooke. It has a copyright ear of twenty twenty
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and the author of our story is Anna Daughtrey. Meet
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Emma's family and friends. Dan is the main character in
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the Harry Potter films alongside Emma. He gets the part
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after the producer meets him in the theater. Jacquin is
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always very portive of all Emma does both in her
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acting activism. One time they even fly all the way
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from England to Washington just to take part in a
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woman's march together. Rupert also starts in Harry Potter with Emma.
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For his very first audition for the film, he sends
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a video of himself rapping of course Emma. Chris Watson
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is an excellent book narrator. He does all the voices
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when he reads to Emma when she's little and then
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Alex are very close. He accompanies her to a few
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film premieres and even plays an extra a background character
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in Harry Potter.
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Speaker 2: And then there are.
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Speaker 1: Toby, and then Lucy and Nina twins. They both play
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the younger version of Emma's character in the film Ballet
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Shoes nineteen ninety Emma Charlotte Derrera Watson is born in
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Paris in France. She has a mom and a dad
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who are both super clever lawyers, and soon she also
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has a little brother called Alex. Nineteen ninety five, when
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her parents decide to separate, the whole family moves to England. Emma, Alex,
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and her mom live in Oxford, but her dad lives
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in London, so Emma and Alex spent a lot of
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time zooming across the country to visit him. They read
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to pass the time. Emma particular loves the Harry Potter
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books about a boy wizard and his adventures at his
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magical school. Nineteen ninety five, Emma starts school and throws
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herself into every activity she can, running around on the
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hockey field, tip tapping, through dance classes, performing in place,
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winning poetry prizes, as well as working hard to get
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the best grades. Nineteen ninety nine, one day at school,
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auditions are announced for the new Harry potter Field. Girls
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who want to be considered line up in the school
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gym and have their photo taken. Emma is desperate and
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determined to play her known one of Harry's best friends
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in the books. She's a fabulous character. She's enormously clever,
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works incredibly hard at school, and is extremely dedicated to
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all she puts her mind to. Just like Emma, Bright, eager, hardworking,
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Emma thinks they are so similar in personality that she
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has to get the part. She practices, sings for hours
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and hours each day until she is absolutely perfect. After
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eight long, nerve rocking auditions, Emma wins the row.
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Speaker 2: She is head over heels thrilled.
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Speaker 1: She is cast alongside two boys, Daniel Radcliffe as Harry
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and Rupert Grant as Ron, Harry's other best friends. Two
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thousand filming starts. Emma has to have her hair die
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darker and style to look bushy so she looks more
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like her care character is always Emma tries her absolute best.
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In fact, she works so hard that she even learns
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Stan in Rubert's lines too. Sometimes the director has to
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ask them to film a scene again because Emma is
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mouthing along to the boys. The trio hangout in between takes,
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playing cheeky pranks on each other and competing in table
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tennis matches. Emma thinks the boys are like extra brothers.
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She sneakily watches movies all night with Dan and guzzles
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chocolate with Rupert. It's not all fun and glamour. Shooting
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so many films eight and ten years the children away
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from home and miss a lot of school. They have
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lessons on set, sometimes for up to five hours a day.
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It's a jam packed time for Emma. One minute she
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will be waving a wand the next memorizing maths. Can
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you imagine Emma's delighted that she can learn in between
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filming scenes, because although she loves acting, she equally adores school.
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She is determined to get the best grades she can
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so she can apply to a brilliant university. Two thousand
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and nine, Bookworm, Emma starts studying English literaure at Brown
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University in the US, which means she gets to read
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lots and lots. She keeps juggling working as an actor
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and learning because she believes education is incredibly important. Sometimes
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she'll be on TV late one evening and in class
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early the next morning. Although she's craaming as much acting
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and studying into her days as she can, she still
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leaves time to have fun, performing in student plays and
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throwing parties for friends. What a busy bee. In some
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places around the globe, it's not common for girls to
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go to school, but Emma passionately believes that girls and
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boys should have an equal chance.
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Speaker 2: To be educated.
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Speaker 1: Often boys are given better opportunities, better education, and better
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pay jobs just because they are boys. That's not fair.
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Girls miss out on those chances for many reasons. They
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may have to stay at home to do housework, they
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may not be expected to have a job when they
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grow up and have their own family, or in some places,
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even traveling to school may be too dangerous. If girls
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can go to school, they can get a job, earn
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their own money, and do whatever they want when they
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grow up. Just going to school is a step towards
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a more equal world. Determined to make a change, Emma
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visits Zombia with a charity that works in rural parts
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of Africa, teaching people about how important it is that
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girls get to learn. Twenty fourteen Mm's Made You and
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Women Goodwill Ambassador. Her job is to work for gender equality.
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This means making everything equally fair for everyone, whether they
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are a man or a woman, boy or a girl,
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and the empowerment of women, helping girls and women to
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stand up for themselves and to enjoy the same writes
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his Men. One of the first things Emma does in
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this job is to make a speech for the campaign
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he For, She he For. She encourages everyone to fight
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for a fair world, and especially encourages men and boys
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to join in. After her brilliant speech, some people on
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the internet and in the news are really mean, but
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this also makes her more determined to work hard. These
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are the kinds of attitudes that she wants to change.
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Twenty fifteen. Cast is Belle in Beauty and the Beast.
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Emma enthusiastically works to make Bell a positive character that
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girls can look up to. Bell is a kind, determined, daydreaming,
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unconventional bookworm, but Emma thinks she can have even more
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girl power. She thinks Belle should have a job, so
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convinces the film director to add in the backstory that
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Bell is an inventor. She encourages the costume designers to
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make Bill's close practical, for example, wearing shoes that she
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can run in, having pockets in her dress, and wearing
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bloomers so Belle doesn't have to worry about pulling up
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her skirt as she scampers around the film set. She
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wants Bell to be fantastically feminist role model. Emma also
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persuades desires to make the costumes in ways that are
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as environmentally friendly as possible. They even color some of
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them with vegetable dye. The film premiers and cinemas in
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twenty seventeen and is a huge success. Twenty sixteen. Mixing
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together two of her passions, Emma starts Our Shared Shelf,
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a feminist book group. It's an online space for people
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to share thoughts about feminism, ideas about what changes need
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to be made so that men, women and everyone are
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treated equally and have equal chances in life. People from
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all over the world can talk about anything such as
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feminism in different countries, why they are angry that things
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aren't equal.
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Speaker 2: Equal, or just whether they liked the book or not.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes people don't get involved in talking about feminism because
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they don't have anyone to talk about it with, or
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they don't feel like they know enough, or they don't
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think it is their problem to fix. The great thing
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about our shared shelf is anyone can join, so it's fun,
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a unique and easy way to get more people involved
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in talking about feminism. Twenty eighteen, Emma becomes a very
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active member of times Up. Times Up is about making
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work safe and fair place for women, and it supports
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women who have been treated very badly in the past
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just because they are female. It does all sorts of
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things like teaching people about treating each other better and
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respecting everyone the same, raising awareness and helping women who
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have been treated badly at work. They've only been going
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for a short time, but they have achieved lots already.
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Emma she loves painting. She loves animals. She used to
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visit the creatures on the Harry Potter set between takes
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and even had her own cats, Bubbles and Domino by home.
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She's even a fashion designer, creating a fair trade collection
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for People Tree that launched in twenty ten. Emma loves
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journaling and keeps a diary of all sorts of things yoga, dreams,
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acting people she's met, and advice she's been given. Her
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absolute favorite Harry Potter book is The Prisoner of Azkabon.
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Emma missed the after party for the Oscars in twenty
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fourteen because she accidentally fell asleep nibbling.
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Speaker 2: On pieza in her hotel room.
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Speaker 1: Amazing, Emma has won a whole bunch of awards, including
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the first Acting Award that includes everyone and doesn't divide
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winners into male and female in twenty seventeen. Since twenty fifteen,
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she has tried to wear only sustainable fashion on the
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red carpet. Apart from Harry Potter and Beauty and the Beast,
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Emma has acted in lots of other films, such as
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Little Women in twenty nineteen. Not only is that she's
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super fashionable, Emma has also been a model. When she
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was growing up, Emma adored Rhodes Doll's books The Fantastically
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Feminist Emma Watson. She gives one hundred percent to cause
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as she believes in She is determined to achieve equality
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and dedicate so much of her time to making the
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world a better place for everyone, especially girls and women.
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Emma No, she's got a fabulous and lucky life as
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an actor, and she uses her fame as a way
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to spread her message. As well as traveling around the
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world educating and talking to people about her ideas. Emma
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tries to make her film characters be the best role
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models they can be for girls and women. From making
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practical adaptations to characters. For example, Emma insist on Bille
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having sensible dresses and shoes so she can do all
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sorts of things without having to worry about her clothes,
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to choosing to play characters who have a positive girl
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power of personality. Belle is curious, kind, creative, and open minded.
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Her other character was stubborn, determined, loyal, and academic, and
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all these are equalities Emma has too. Another trait she
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shares is that she devours books. She especially especially likes
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books she can learn from, particularly about gender and feminism.
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She even took time off acting to read more studying
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gender and feminism, teaching herself as much as she could
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through our shared shelf. She spends time talking to people
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she can learn from. She's brilliant because she'll not rest
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until she knows as much about the subject as she can,
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so she can have the best chance of educating others
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about it.
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Speaker 2: She's always trying.
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Speaker 1: To find new and unusual to make people talk to
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each other about feminism, and she involves anyone and everyone.
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Her book club is free and open to all, because
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Emma believes everyone should have equal opportunities. Emma wants to
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help spread her dream of gender equality because growing up,
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she was aware that people treat her differently because she's
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a girl. She was called bossy, whereas boys were not.
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Teenage girls around her gave sports, gave up sports so
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they didn't look muscily, and teenage boys stopped talking about
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their feelings. When she was older, she knows that the
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media talked a lot about her looks rather than all
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the great things she was doing. Emma knows that a
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lot of people don't really understand feminism really is just
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campaigning for men and women to be treated equally, and
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Emma wants equal opportunities and equal chances for men and women.
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And everything from schooling to talking about feelings, to how
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much they get paid to what words are used to
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describe them, all's attention to her favorite causes and unusual
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and surprising ways. For example, she appeared in an award
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ceremony with black feminist activists Maria Lazarie as her guest,
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and she gave advice to strangers through an iPad in
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a busy New York train station in exchange for donation
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to charity. In this enthusiasm, passion and friendliness make people
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want to listen and want to take part in her campaigns.
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Her creativity, open mindedness, determination, and eagerness to keep learning
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and educating others or what make her so brilliant and amazing.
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Her approach to feminism is fresh and inspiring. Who knows
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what fantastically feminist Emma will dream up and achieve next.
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Her next book is titled in me othor The Most
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Important Mathematician You've Never Heard Of? And this book was
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published by Kids Hand Press. It's a copyright yer of
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twenty twenty and the author of the book is Helene Becker.
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Meet Emmy Northur, the mathematician who saw the mystery of life.
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Some laws of physics, such as the law of gravity
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never changed.
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Speaker 2: Never heard of her?
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Speaker 1: That's probably because not many people have. It's Nerure, not Norther.
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By the way, Emmy was born into a Jewish family
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in Erlangen, Germany. In eighteen eighty two, and back in
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her day, girls were supposed to be pretty gentle and quiet,
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cook and sew, get married, and have kids, play the
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piano if their families were fancy, not be geniuses. But
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Emmy was considered playing, not interested in cooking, sewing or
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other homemaking skills, not interested in getting married or having kids.
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A lousy piano player, superterrific at puzzles math, which no
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one took much notice because she.
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Speaker 2: Was a girl.
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Speaker 1: When Emmy was eighteen years old, she was supposed to
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start teaching French at a girls school. This was considered
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an acceptable occupation for an unmarried young lady, but Emmy
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decided she'd rather study mathematics at the university instead. This
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was not considered an acceptable occupation for a young lady
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in those days. Women weren't even allowed to attend university.
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Her proud and doting father, who was a professor at
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the local university, pulled some strings so that Emmy could
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sit in on classes. She could go to the lectures,
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but couldn't take tests or get a degree. Emmy was
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much smarter than everyone else in her classes. The other
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students knew it and didn't much like it, after all,
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girls were not supposed to be smarter than boys. They
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also didn't like her messy hair, her booming voice, or
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her habit of talking enthusiastically while she ate. But her
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fellow students did like that she helped them with their
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homework and that they got to take credit for all
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our nifty ideas. Since she wasn't officially a student. When
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the university finally changed it's no women students rule three
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years later, Emmy was allowed to earn her degree. Then
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she ran into another problem. Women were not allowed to
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be professors or teach men anywhere in Germany, and he
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loved math so much she found a way to teach anyway.
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Speaker 2: She did it for free.
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Speaker 1: That let her keep doing the research she loved and
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come up with new ways to think about and do math.
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But just like when she was a student, other mathematicians
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took credit for her work or forgot to credit her.
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They knew they could get away with it. If Emmy
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spoke up, she could get kicked out of the university
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since she wasn't.
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Speaker 2: Supposed to be there.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, another super brilliant, messy haired person had come up
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with a thrilling idea. Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity
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describes how time, space, mass, and gravity are all connected,
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and it was a thing of unparallel beauty. Almost you
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see the thrilling ideas seem to have a hole in it.
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Einstein's theory depends on some well known laws of physics
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that explain the physical world. They are lost because as
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far as we know, they can never be changed or broken.
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For example, when you drop a bowing ball, you can
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be sure it will fall down, not up. That's because
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its behavior is ruled by the law of gravity. And
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when you roll a bowing ball, you know it will
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move in a nice predictable line rather than wandering off
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to do a loop to loops all by itself. Its
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behavior is ruled by the first law of motion, which
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says objects and motions stay on.
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Speaker 2: A predictable path.
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Speaker 1: Einstein's general theory of relativity involves the conservation of energy principle,
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which says the amount of energy in a system must
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be conserved or kept exactly the same, no matter what.
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For example, a boning ball can't magically be creative of nothing,
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and neither can energy. Nor can energy be destroyed. It
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can move from here to there or even change form,
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but the original amount always exists somewhere. Last, but not least,
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it can't turn into something else completely. A boning ball
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could never become a donkey. But the general theory of
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relativity appeared to be breaking the principle. When real numbers
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were used to prove the theory, it looked as if
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energy was disappearing. That was the whole Many of the
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great greatest scientists of the day tried to solve the problem.
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They couldn't. Several of the greatest mathematicians of the day
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were called in. They were stumped too. In desperation they
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call an enemy nurture. You see, as a Jewish female mathematician,
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Annie had always been an outsider, and outsiders often come
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up with their own ways of doing things. That, it
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turns out, was one of Emmy's secret super powers. When
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most of Emmy's fellow mathematicians developed their ideas, they would
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start with known equations and formulas, but Amy's method was
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to look first for any larger patterns. For example, if
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Emmy were to study socks, she wouldn't worry about tea
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tails such as what kind of thread was used to
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sew them. She was more interested in figuring out sockness,
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or what makes a sock a sock, And it was
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this outside in approach that helped Emmy pinpoint the reason
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for the problem and the general theory of relativity. She
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discovered that everyone had been looking at an area of
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space that was simply too small. When she widened the
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view to show the big picture in a big enough
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area of space, it became clear that energy was not disappearing.
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It still existed, but had moved to a place outside
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of where people expected it to be.
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Speaker 2: Energy had been conserved all along.
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Speaker 1: Super Emmy had sewn up the hole in Einstein's gram
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theory by proving the part of it that no one
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else could. Everyone, including Einstein, was impressed and grateful. The
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General theory of relativity became super famous, and so did
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Albert Einstein. Emmy, however, did not. She didn't mind, though
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she was still doing work she loved. Besides, it led
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her to all kinds of exciting new ideas. While working
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on the General theory of relativity, Emmy had noticed intriguing
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mathematical patterns in the data, patterns that led her to
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an important discovery. The mathematical laws of symmetry and the
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physical laws of conservation are connected. This discovery proved that
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each conservation laws paired with the symmetry law and matt
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let in each other, and why the laws of physics
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are laws and can't be broken. It also proved that
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certain kinds of physical events will always occur in exactly
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the same way symmetry, whether they happen now or later
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here or there while standing still are in motion. As
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obvious that this might as this might seem, no one
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has ever proven it, and that made a very big deal.
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In fact, norture theorem at the discovery is still called
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today as a revolutionary in earthshaking as the general theory
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of relativity. It completely changed our understanding of the universe.
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And Emmy wasn't done yet. She went on to figure
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out new math concepts that would be used by scientists
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to help them understand atoms and by future mathematicians develop
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computer software. So why in the world don't we know
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as much about Emmy nurture as we do about our
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other important scientists. You might already have guessed part of
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the reason. She worked in the field of study that
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didn't welcome women, and her male colleagues didn't even think
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to give her credit when they used her work or
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included it in their own. The rest has to do
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with a terrible twist of fate. Things has started to
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go pretty well for Emmy. By the early nineteen thirties.
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She was finally getting international attention for achievements, and even
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though not everyone was happy about it, she was earning
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a small salary as an assistant professor. But then in
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nineteen thirty three, the Nazis came to power in Germany.
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They promoted the hatred of the discrimination against certain groups,
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including Jewish people like Emmy. Life became increasingly difficult and
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Emmy lost her hard won university position. Still, Emmy kept
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teaching in her home and in secret everyone was welcome
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as long as they loved math. Emmy's friends were scared
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for her. The Nazis were arresting Jews and sending them
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to labor camps. Were never seen again. How long before
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the brown shirt superior to Emmy's store not for math lessons,
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but for her. With her life and danger, Emmy had
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to flee the country. In the United States, many people,
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including Albert Einstein, worked to help Emmy. They found her
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a job at a woman's college, where she was welcomed
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with open arms. Now for the first time in her life,
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Emmy was surrounded by female colleagues and students. It was
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to be the beginning of the spectacular new career. Tragically, though,
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Emmy got very sick and died soon after her arrival.
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Her ideas, however, live on. Nurture's theorem is still fundamental
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to the study of physics, even though most people who
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use it have no idea about the woman who invented
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it and later her work plays an important role in
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the fields of quantum mechanics, the area of physics, the
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studies and inner workings of atoms, and computer science, a
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field of study that didn't even.
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Speaker 2: Exist in our day.
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Speaker 1: So just too was Emmy Nurture a loud lady, a
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great friend, super brainy inventor, if not one but two
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major ideas that change how we understand the universe, a
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very important thinker. This concludes the children's story ire for today.
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