How did samantas gain powers?
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Answer:
mark me as brainliest
Explanation:
Power spent her early childhood in the Dublin suburb of Castleknock and moved to the United States with her family at the age of nine (1979), first to Pittsburgh and then to Atlanta. In her youth Power had envisioned becoming a sports journalist, but her plans changed when she watched unedited televised footage of the Tiananmen Square incident (1989) during an internship at an Atlanta affiliate of CBS Sports. After Power graduated with a B.A. in history from Yale University in 1992, she became a foreign correspondent and covered the Bosnian conflict (1992–95), first for U.S. News & World Report and then for various other media outlets, including The Boston Globe, The Economist, and The New Republic. After she returned to the United States, she obtained a J.D. from Harvard University in 1999. In 1998 she had joined the Harvard Kennedy School as the founder and executive director (1998–2002) of a human rights initiative that would become in 1999 the Carr Center for Human Rights. In 2006 Power became the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy and taught at Harvard until 2009.
Power’s experience in the war-torn former Yugoslavia convinced her of the need for the great powers—the United States in particular—to intervene militarily in other countries to prevent genocides. Her 2002 book on the subject, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and became a reference source for discussions of genocide and humanitarian intervention within both academia and government. Power, who was often characterized as a pragmatic idealist, argued that state power should be used to protect individual human rights in extreme circumstances. In her eyes, the lesson of the Holocaust and other genocides was that military intervention on humanitarian grounds was legitimate and necessary when a state committed atrocities against its own people and thereby lost its right to sovereignty. Power did not support all demands for humanitarian intervention but regarded the “immediate threat of a large-scale loss of life” as a criterion for discriminating between such demands. She also stressed the limits of unilateralism and the importance for the United States of acting in concert with others through international institutions. Such standards, Power argued, had been met in the Persian Gulf War (1990–91) but not in the subsequent Iraq War (2003–11). In 2008 she published Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World, a biography of the Brazilian diplomat who, like her, sought to enlist governmental power in advancing human rights.