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Emma Watson

by Vanessa and Jasmine from Kaohsiung City

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"The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy."

-Emma Watson

Everyone needs a hero in their mind. A hero always have great spirits and positive cogitation, they could be a singer, a politician or an inventor. In our case, this hero is a movie star. Speaking of the famous movie, Harry Potter, what is the first character that crosses your mind? Harry, right? But no, we are going to introduce our hero Hermione. In the movie Harry Potter, she was clever, arrogant and brave. In the real world, she is an actress, model, and also an activist. She thinks that women should also have the same respect as men. Her real name is Emma Watson.

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She was born in Paris, France on April 15th 1990. She moved to the U.K. with her British mother after her parents divorced. Although she spent a lot of school life being an actress, she still got excellent grades on her tests. On 25 May 2014, she graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in English literature. In the same year, she was appointed as a UN female Goodwill Ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe which calls for men to advocate for gender equality. She also stands for those female students were kidnapped from a school in Nigeria.

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She shows us her concern for feminism, and her speech got the Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai to do something she's never done before: call herself a feminist. Her influence made her a hero in the eyes of a little girl.

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