The Life of Lizzie Johnson Elizabeth E. Johnson Williams was born on May 9 ,1840 and lived in Cole County, Missouri. Lizzie was just six years old when her family moved to Texas, they first settled in Huntsville, but but later moved to Bear Creek in Hays County. Lizzie earned a degree in 1859 at the Chappell Hill Female College in Washington County. She began her career as a schoolteacher at the Johnson Institute. The school was a co educational school, it was founded in 1852 in Hays County by her parents.
Bethany Hamilton, a professional surfer, became known to millions when she was attacked by a shark. Although she was now faced with a lot of challenges, she was determined to return to suffering. She took this horrific experience and turned it into a positive. She has taught many, that no matter what obstacles you are faced with, somehow you can overcome them. She has amazed many and continues to amaze many with her story and how quickly she overcame tragedy.
Deborah Sampson was the first known American woman soldier who disguised herself under her deceased brother’s name in order to fight in the American Revolutionary War. During this time women were not given rights to infantry, but were often nurses in the military. Like many other people who contributed to the society, Deborah Sampson had many failures along the way of her accomplishments. Deborah Sampson came from “ancestors who led the Massachusetts colony” (Furbee 1999: 56). She grew up in a broken home where both her father and mother deserted her to be raised by other relatives.
Dorothy J. Vaughan was so smart she was called a human computer. Dorothy Vaughan was born on September 20th, 1910 in Kansas City Missouri, her parents were Annie and Leonard Johnson. Dorothy Vaughan was a very successful mathematician, she was a math teacher that then became a part of a group of black mathematicians who helped NASA send the first man to the moon. She also helped increase diversity and less discrimination in the workplace by fighting for equal rights and becoming the first black woman supervisor at NACA. To begin, Dorothy Vaughn faced a lot of racism and was mistreated due to her skin color and gender, such as a segregated workplace which not only affected her day-to-day life but she and her coworkers were always given everything that was in poor condition.
She was known as the first computer programmer. Many of her notes were published several years after she died, in 1852. She also received many honors and was remember as the first programmer. Today many women have followed in her footsteps in the science of
Her groundbreaking work at Nasa. Katherine Johnson made Apollo 11 land safely on the moon (Katherine Johnson). It supports the claim because in order to land safely you need to calculate precisely so the shuttle doesn’t mess up its
"Soul Surfer” is a book written by Bethany Hamilton, Rick Bundschuh, and Sheryl Berk. The book shows the struggles of Bethany Hamilton, a 14-year-old Surfer from Kauai. Hamilton is inspiring Surfer, but when a shark it off her arm in a brutal attack, she had to rely on faith, strength, and sheer persistence to get back in the water. The trials that Bethany Hamilton had to go through has inspired me in many ways, it has shown me that no matter what happens to you, you have to keep moving forward, no matter what happens. Hamilton showed me that setbacks in life are going to come, and those setbacks might be large or small.
Katherine Johnson devoted her work to helping America get its first citizen on the moon. Her abilities were not short-lived, she continued to help NASA until her retirement, and her hard work secured her spot as an important NASA team member throughout her years working there (Page). John Glenn, an astronaut, was so intrigued by Johnson’s work that he would not enter his aircraft unless she completed the calculations and measurements needed. This only confirmed her incredible intelligence further and proved to other people how important she was to NASA’s team (“Katherine Johnson”). Katherine Johnson’s enthusiasm to help the first American land on the moon was a substantial influence on her life and career as a NASA employee and mathematician.
Harriet Wilson most likely chose to open Our Nig with her mother’s history instead of Frado’s birth because the former’s past allows for a better understanding of why things ended up the way they did for Frado. Mag’s life was also comparable to that of Frado’s, in a way, because they are both considered outcasts. Mag was a white woman who had sex outside of wedlock and then married and had children with a black man, both of which shunned her from white society and made her “less of a woman” according to white feminine ideals; she is a woman, but she also isn’t because she’s lost the values or broken the rules “respectable” white women must uphold. Frado, born to a white mother and black father, is interracial; therefore, she’s black, but not
Katherine Johnson helped NASA put an astronaut in orbit around the earth. She also put a man on the moon (may). Katherine Johnson sent astronaut John Glenn in the first orbital flight on Friendship 7 (steelhammer). Through working as a human computer when she helped work on sending people to the moon she was the main person who did the math. She found the space paths that lead to someone to land on the moon.
Have you ever been passionate about something, but scared of the unknown that is awaiting in the future? Bonnie Blair was a persistent speed skater who did not let the thought of being the youngest child of a recreational family get in the way of her achievements. With the help of her impressive skills and strong-willed personality, Blair was able to attain six Olympic medals in total. Bonnie Blair was born on March 18, 1964 in Cornwall, New York however, grew up in Champaign, Illinois. She was the youngest of six kids.
Caitlin Etheridge Ms. Weeks Earth Space and Science 02/15/2018 Sally Ride Sally Ride was an amazing human being, and she was an amazing astronaut! She was born on May 26, 1951, she grew up in Los Angeles and went to Stanford University, where she was a double major in physics and English. (Space.com, 2018). Ride received bachelor's degrees in both subjects in 1973.
She experienced her fair share of discrimination and challenges while pursuing her lifelong dream of being an astronaut. While some of her professors and teachers encouraged her to pursue her dreams, others failed to do
The book, How To Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster, was written to help people of all ages better their understanding of works of literature by teaching them to relate multiple works of literature together, as well as being able to find common traits in literature ex. A meal isn’t normally just a meal. How To Read Literature Like a Professor is written in second person perspective, which means that the author is including you in the story, an example of this would be a dialogue between the author and yourself, or it says “you” a lot, ex. “You wake up and…”. After reading this novel the author, Thomas C. Foster, wants you to be a better overall reader and be able to identify certain parts in a book that are commonly found.
“I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful--is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us” (Betty Smith). Betty Smith, born as Elizabeth Lillian Wehner, grew up in Brooklyn, New York as the daughter of poor German immigrants. At the time, child labor was legal and Smith began work at the young age of fourteen to help support her family. Smith’s life in the slums and her experiences during the Great Depression greatly influenced her writing.
