Maria Mitchell: The Factors That Led Her to Become the First Woman Astronomer. Maria Mitchell was a very intelligent lady who took an interest in astronomy from watching her father when she was a little girl. Every night when there were no clouds in the sky, she would look out at the stars with her father; she would continue to do this throughout her life. She eventually became famous for her work in astronomy. Maria Mitchell’s father had a huge effect on her life and influenced her becoming the first American woman astronomer. Maria Mitchell was born on an island off the coast of Massachusetts called Nantucket Island. She was the third of nine siblings in her family. When she got older, she and her astronomer father would go out on the roof of their house at night to stargaze. Maria would help her father with his observations of the sky. She would call out seconds from the chronometer to her father. When they were done with the …show more content…
Maria and her father then moved to Lynn, Massachusetts. She retired from Vassar College in 1888 and died on June 28, 1889. She was buried with her family in the cemetery on Nantucket Island. Maria’s cousin Lydia Swain Mitchell founded a memorial for Maria Mitchell: The Maria Mitchell Association. The Association is located at Maria’s birthplace on Vestal street on Nantucket Island. The Association was founded in 1906, thirteen years after Maria’s death. The Maria Mitchell Association is still in operation today. It is open every summer, and every year the place she was born in is packed. In 1912 Harvard College got a $1,000 astronomical fellowship to send a student to the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association. Many people still remember her life because of her cousin who started a place for people to remember the great things Maria Mitchell had done. Maria was also inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1994 for her
"I am a positive person, I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward" Rosie Perez the proud woman who declared this quote is a person who overcame many obstacles and difficulties to bring success in her life, despite her many hardships and traumatizing past.
Celeste Mannerud (lighting designer) is co-founder of Flip Flop Productions, specializing in event design for performing arts and private celebrations. She received her B. A. in Theater Design from the University of South Florida and her M.F.A in Media Design Management for the International Academy of Design and Technology. Her credits include technical/artistic design in Germany for the prestigious ArtLab Studios and the groundbreaking Tap Dogs; multimedia support for the Doobie Brothers, Wynonna, and Michael Bolton; stage managing for Frankie Avalon and Bobby Rydell; and lighting design for such local favorites as CoMotion Dance Theater, Moving Current and American Stage. Celeste also has rediscovered her love of photography and is exploring the art of dance imagery through the camera lens. As a Tampa native, she, her husband Andreas, and their son, Cobyn, are happy to be
Johanna Selhorst Maran AKA Josie Maran was born on 8th May 1978 in Menlo Park, California, the United States of America. Her father is of Russian-Jewish ancestry. She is of American nationality and belongs to white ethnicity. According to Josie Maran bio, she studied at Castilleja School, an all-girls school in Palo Alto, California, from grades 6 to 12. While she was studying in high school, she was approached by a woman who asked her for a modeling performance in San Francisco and a scout agent encouraged her to pursue modeling career professionally.
At the age of sixteen Maria she was a teacher of mathematics at Cyrus Pierce's school for young ladies. After that she opened a grammar school of her own. After all these job titles, at the age of eighteen she was offered a job as a librarian at
Bianca Santos was born Bianca Alexa Santos on 26th July 1990 in Santa Monica, California under the birth sign Leo. Santos is American as per nationality, and as far as her ethnicity is concerned, she is of Cuban and Brazilian descent.
Alice Neel’s painting Suzanne Moss was created in 1962 using oil paint on canvas. As the title suggests, the painting depicts a woman’s portrait. Now resigning in the Chazen Museum in Madison, WI, this portrait of a woman lunging is notable for the emotional intensity it provokes as well as her expressionistic use of brush strokes and color. The scene is set by a woman, presumably Suzanne Moss, dressed in dull back and blues lounging across a seat, staring off to the side, avoiding eye contact with the viewer. The unique style and technique of portraiture captures the woman’s piercing gaze and alludes to the interior emotions of the subject. In Suzanne Moss, Alice Neel uses desultory brush strokes combined with contrast of warm and cool shadows
Brenda was born in England, Manchester in July 1918. She was the only child of her parent Samuel Longford and Leslie Doig. Her early years were filled with music and language arts. Her father, who was a music critic and piano teacher decided to homeschool her in German, mathematics, and in the arts.
Katie Mitchell is a British theatre director whose work has received various different opinions and reviews. According to The Guardian, Mitchell “has been hailed as the closest thing British theatre has to a genuine auteur: a director with a strong, uncompromising vision of how theatre should be” (Oltermann). Her exceptional directing style and methods have attracted both positive and negative feedback from her audiences and critics, reaching past the unknown and creating a new artistic style for the theatre. Whether watching a performance of one of her shows, or reading her directing book entitled “The Director’s Craft: A Handbook for the Theatre”, new and seasoned directors have much to learn from Katie Mitchell’s distinctive directing style.
Stewart’’s speeches is what really made her so important in history especially with her being the first American woman taking a stand to stand up for anything in that matter during this time period. WHERE :Maria Stewart was born in Hartford, Connecticut, She moved around a few times. In 1852 or 1853 because the specific date was not sure. Stewart moved to Baltimore after losing a teaching position in New York.
Music icons that speak to my soul and still continuing to inspire me; are Jenni Rivera Mexican-American singer, American singer-songwriter and dancer Michael Jackson. The qualities of these singers which make them appealing to me include; their unique voices, powerful lyrics, and music. These are artist to me are consider legendary for their hard ethic music work.
In the novel Maise Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear, the main character, Maisie Dobbs, at the age of 13 becomes a domestic servant that works for Lord Julian and Lady Rowan where she blackened the fireplace, swept the floor, polished the furniture and ran errands for Lady Rowan. With Maisie only having one job she was able to move in with Lady Rowan and Lord Julian, other known as the Compton’s. In Maisie’s free time she took it upon herself to read some of the books that she had gotten from the library to further her knowledge. I have done my research and none of the domestic servants have said that they have once had free time to do other thing. In the novel Maisie Dobbs it fails to tell the true reality of domestic servants instead it shows
Thesis Statement: The birth of the United States Air Force with air supremacy in World War II and beyond would not have been possible had it not been for William “Billy” Mitchell. Introduction: During the early part of World War I a small group of Army leaders believed the use of airplanes in battle, for both reconnaissance and strategic bombing was vital to victory. There were two major players in advocating for a separate branch, each with differing strategies for achieving this goal.
One might think that starting a soccer career at fifteen is crazy. Mia Hamm made this dream that most young soccer player have a reality. Hamm was very successful in her life and made a large impact on women’s soccer. Mia Hamm was an American athlete, star of the international women’s league, and showed the twenty-first century her talent.
Three women that have made an impact include Mary Fairfax Somerville, Maria Gaetana Agnesi and Charlotte Angas Scott. Mary Fairfax Somerville was born on December 26, 1780 into a wealthy family of a vice admiral in the British Navy. While growing up she recieved little formal education. The one year that she spent in a boarding school for girls in Musselburgh, she endured a life full of rules and because unhappy.
When I think of powerful women from the past, Anne Sullivan is one of the first women to pop into my mind. Anne Sullivan was born on April 14, 1866 in Massachusetts. Her real name is Joanna, but she was called Anne throughout her life. When Anne was still young she suffered from a serious illness that left her nearly blind. Anne’s mother died when Anne was only eight and her father left Anne and her two siblings two years later. The children were then placed into an almshouse to be cared for.