Wonder woman

Wonder woman

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman   http://www.comicvine.com/wonder-woman/4005-2048/ http://www.dccomics.com/characters/wonder-woman


A hero can be a person who has accomplished extraordinary actions or things. He or she can be a model or an example, he or she can have superpowers. He or she can be a person ready to risk his/her life for the others.

Wonder Woman is fictional superheroine. She is a warrior princess of Amazons. Her name is Diana Prince.

How has Wonder Woman permitted women to identify to a new icon?

 

1)    WHO IS SHE?

A)   Fictional Origins:

 She is an Amazon who was created in 1200 B.C when the Greek goddesses drew forth the souls of women who had been murdered by men. She spoke Themyscririan (combination of Greek and Turkish)

B)   Her powers:

She is an attractive female. She is rich, empathic and intellectual. She is telepath. She is immortal. She has got the Lasso of Truth. She has got the Sandals of Hermes. She is god and eternal. She has the Powers of Agility. She is endowed with many powers such as: Divine Powers. She can flight, healing, hypnosis. She is invulnerability. She has marksmanship, super hearing, super speed, super strength.. She tracks. She is weapon master and she is expert in unarmed combat and swordsmanship.

2)    WHY SHE IS AN ICON?

A) Principal actions:

She travelled to men's world for a mission of diplomacy and peace, she is an ambassador. She is part of Justice Society of America. She wants to arrest criminals and reform them.

B) Date of birth and impact:

 She was born in december 1941, in an American comic strip whose author is
 William Moulton Marston, a psychologist. 
The comic is DC Comics from New York. The cultural impact of the character, once sarcasm
 by psychologists and anti-comic book supporters as an anti-male lesbian, has steadily increased 
over the years, having served as an iconic exemplar of the feminist movement and a continuing 
symbol of female empowerment. Wonder Woman is the daughter of feminist movement, whose
 is creator William Moulton,who was influenced by the free-love, the adultery, the sex,
the suffragettes and the activists of the contraception.

  As such, she appears in numerous media, from cereal box covers and popular magazines to being referenced both directly and indirectly in film, animation and television programming. As a cultural icon, she is the subject of several homages and parodies in many forms of media.

Vocabulary: Flight(voler) Healing(guérison) Learn Ship (apprendre vite) Marksmanship( adresse du tir) Hearing(audition) Strength(force) Swordsmanship(escrime) Tracking(poursuite)
Unarmed combat ( combat à mains nues) Weapon Master (maîtres d'armes).Empowerment(autonomisation), several( plusieurs).