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Born in Hamburg, Angela Merkel was only a couple of months old when her father, a Lutheran pastor, was given a parish in a small town in East Germany.
She grew up in a rural area outside Berlin in the communist east, and showed a great talent for maths, science and languages. Her power was not limited here. She earned a doctorate in physics but later worked as a chemist at a scientific academy in East Berlin. While her power in science field had shown up, she started to discover her potential in politics. She had never been involved in politics but, at the age of 36, she became involved in the burgeoning democracy movement in 1989 and, after the Berlin Wall came down, she got a job as government spokeswoman following the first democratic elections.
Over the past four years she has had to steer Germany through some difficult times, but remains very popular. But power always makes her image to be unapproachable.
Unlike Merkel, Kerr has had a rapid ascent from lingerie model to celebrity supermodel and is now among the fashion world's elite. She represents that power can be possessed as a beautiful image but stand in a high social level.
And Helen, a leader in showing power from spirit and inside, born on June 27, 1880, in the small farming town of Tuscumbia, Ala., was the oldest of three children of Arthur and Kate Keller. Helen also had two older half-brothers, born to her father before his first wife died. Her father was the editor of the town newspaper. They lived on a farm where they raised pigs, turkeys, chickens and sheep. But this did not stop her from being a powerful woman. Through touching, tasting and smelling, Helen learned a great deal about the world she could no longer see or hear. She could recognize people and their ages just by the vibrations from their footsteps on a bare floor. When she walked around, she knew where she was by the different smells from the shops in town or from the flowers on the farm.¬¬



1. “Angela Merkel has been re-elected to a second term as German chancellor, exit polls suggest”, BBC NEWS. 27 September 2009.
2. “Miranda Kerr scores top modelling campaigns with Prada and Jill Saunder”, http://www.couriermail.com.au/.
3. Sherrill Kushner, “Meet Helen Keller”, http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2005/06/meet_helen_kell.html