Did you know that Joan of Arc, Harriet Tubman, Malala Yousafzai, and Walt Disney have many things in common?
During the thousand year war, the French were being defeated by the English. Joan of Arc was an ordinary female peasant who believed she had been called by God to aid the military. In her era, usually women were not treated as equals to men and let alone she was a peasant. She became one of the many French leaders and lead the army to many victories. Maybe add something to tie this in “No doubt the character of her trial and execution have much to do with her celebrity. But Joan 's renown stems from her military ability, her skill at leading men in battle against great odds and at the risk of death. Not long after Joan 's death, French military leaders began to adopt tactics similar to hers” (DeVries).
Harriet Tubman, who stood about five feet tall, was a conductor for the Underground Railroad. Explain Underground railroad "I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger" (Wyels). She was also able to serve in the Civil War, for the Union, as a spy and a
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"I was free," she said, "but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all was down in the old cabin quarter, with the old folks, and my brothers and sisters . . . I was free, and they should be free also . . . 1 would bring them all here ..." Harriet shows her confidence and determination to bring her family to freedom. She knew the stakes were stacked high against her, if she was caught she would be severely punished or even killed. She was best suited for this job because she had the ability to act. She could disguise herself, and blend into a crowd. "We have documentation for eleven of her trips," says William Jarmon of the Harriet Tubman Museum, "but she may have returned as many as seventeen times." Once her family was free, she made several trips to free even more people. She became known as the Moses of her