Mae Carol Jemison is on the lookout! She is wanted for being the FIRST African American female astronaut to be admitted into NASA space program. Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama on October 17, 1956. Her family included of her mother who was an elementary school teacher, her father who worked as a roofer and carpenter, her sister Ada who became a child psychiatrist, and finally her brother Charles who was a real estate broker. Mae has worked in the NASA Space Program in the USA but other careers she has pursued include a medical doctor, physician, chemical engineer, teacher, and a scientist . She had obtained her M.D in 1981 after graduating from Cornell University Medical College, but after that she had followed her dream of being an astronaut
One famous quote from Barbara Jordan is “If you’re going to play a game properly, you’d better know every rule .” Barbara Jordan was an amazing woman. She was the first African American Texas state senator. Jordan was also a debater, a public speaker, a lawyer, and a politician. Barbara Jordan was a woman who always wanted things to be better for African Americans and for all United States citizens. “When Barbara Jordan speaks,” said Congressman William L.Clay, “people hear a voice so powerful so, awesome...that it cannot be ignored and will not be silenced.”
Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz artist and artist musician with a vocation traversing almost thirty years. Nicknamed "Woman Day" by her companion and music accomplice Lester Young, Holiday affected jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, firmly propelled by jazz instrumentalists, spearheaded another method for controlling stating and rhythm. She was known for her vocal conveyance and improvisational aptitudes, which compensated for her restricted range and absence of formal music instruction. There were other jazz vocalists with equivalent ability, however Holiday had a voice that caught the consideration of her crowd.
The mentally ill was mistreated, beaten, thrown into unclean quarters, and even taken advantage of before the 1800's. They was viewed as helpless individuals. Society and the government viewed them as criminals and deemed them incurable. During the 1800's a pioneer named Dorothea Dix brought about a change dealing with the treatment of the mentally ill. She became the voice of them something they never had.
“All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary”, Sally Ride (http://www.brainyquote.com). This, of course, is true for the inspirational astronaut we know today. Sally Ride changed society’s views on women, and made it into American history books. She impacted modern day space exploration and young women by being the first American woman in space as shown by her work for NASA and her dedication toward young women and girls pursuing careers in science and math.
Jacqueline “Jackie” Cochran was born on May 11, 1906 in Defuniak Springs, Florida. Before she became a pilot she started her own hairdressing business and it wasn’t until she met Floyd Odlum, who suggested she learned to fly to gain an advantage in the beauty industry, that she considered becoming a pilot. Over the next four years Jacqueline learned how to fly a plane and earned her pilots licence. In 1939, when Adolf Hitler and Nazis marched across Europe, Jacqueline Cochran believed America would become involved in the war and she felt that women could play a major role in the war effort. With this in mind, Jacqueline proposed a women’s flying division but Army Air Force General Henry Arnold rejected her idea. Jacqueline then began to participate
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On a cold winter's night as snow begins to descend from the heavens a young woman walks out of a lodging house in the small town of Eastmore. The woman Mary Edwards steps out into the street and starts walking to the church located in the center of the town. As Mary is making her way to the church she hears the sound of someone crying. Mary stops dead in her tracks and looks at the surrounding area to see if she can find the source of the crying. Mary finds a little girl sitting down beside a pile of trash in an alleyway her eyes filled with tears and the dress she is wearing is torn and ripped. Mary walks over to the little girl and gains her attention by tapping her on her shoulder. “Little one are you ok,” Mary questions? The girl ignores
Known for her documentary style of photography, Dorothea Nutzhorn was born May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Nutzhorn grew up in a household that strongly supported her furthering her education and advocated for exposure to creative works. Her mother, Johanna, stayed at home to raise her and her brother, Martin, while her father, Heinrich, worked as a lawyer. At age seven, she fell sick with polio, which hampered the movement of her right leg and foot. A few short years later, her parents divorced. Blaming her father for the marriage falling apart, Nutzhorn dropped her father’s surname and switched to mother’s maiden name, Lange. Growing up academics were never her strong suit, and following high school decided to pursue photography at Colombia
At the end of nineteen century, the implication of home inner design had not yet stationary. However, Elise de Wolfe used her aesthetic sensibility and her family background to introduce aesthetics to the field of architecture. The professional term "interior design” now born in architect’s industrial. She subverted the prevailing Victorian design. Her work was considered as a break through from old design and a cornerstone of merging modern interior design. She was hailed as one of those pioneers who prevailed on the development of the career of interior design.
I. Colin Powell said, “A dream does not become a reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work”. This quote is the perfect one to describe Katherine Johnson because when she first got into NACA, they would not let women in the meetings they had to discuss the process of their projects or of their future projects. With her determination, Katherine was let into the meetings and thanks to that, she was able to do what she did. Because of all her hard work, Katherine Johnson has been recognized for doing the calculation that sent the first American to space, and overcoming the barriers of being an African American woman. (THESIS).
While the definition of what a city is up to the idea one’s mind, Anthropologist Jane Jacobs, philosopher Marshall Berman and Urban planner Robert Moses had polar opposite ideas of how a city should be portrayed. Jane Jacobs’s rather utopian ideal of sidewalk New York City was the true sense of a city but bulldozed by the modernization of Robert Moses.
During the end of my 8th grade, the students were assigned to write an essay about an important person. When it was my turn, everyone I wanted were gone, so I hurriedly picked someone. It was Mae Jemison. After researching about Jemison, I became inspired by her determination, her selfless personality and how we both share common interests. Jemison is the first African-American women to travel in space, and is the base of my space scientist passion. Also, Jemison was the reason, I meet a few of my good friends with the equal amusement for space
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to act in a movie? Judy Garland has acted in at least 21 movies. Judy’s life from the start to the end is unique. Judy Garland was born on June 10, 1922. She lived in Lancaster, Grand Rapids, and Chelsea. Her real name is Frances Ethel Gumm. She is the youngest child in her family. Judy Garland was an American singer. She sadly passed away on June 22, 1969.
Famed actress Judy Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, 1922 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to Vaudeville performers Ethel Marion and Francis Avent Gumm. According to Imdb.com (2016) “Her mother, an ambitious woman gifted in playing various musical instruments, saw the potential in her daughter at the tender age of just 2 years old. when Baby Frances repeatedly sang "Jingle Bells" until she was dragged from the stage kicking and screaming during one of their Christmas shows and immediately drafted her into a dance act, entitled "The Gumm Sisters", along with her older sisters Mary Jane Gumm and Virginia Gumm.” Often when they were on tour as ‘The Gumm Sisters, Judy’s mother would give the girls pep pills to keep up the punishing
When she was 10 she had already completed the eighth grade but in her town there was very limited education for an african american and here father and mother had to drive 120 miles so she could go to highschool. Her family had to live there while she attended high school and by the age of 18 she had already graduated from college and gotten a degree in mathematics and french. While she was working at nasa in the computing section at nasa and they need a “Human Computer” which is a person that can calculate the right math and she helped do the calculation for the 1961 journey to space. She was one of the biggest help to nasa and to keep the spaceman safe on his trip out and on his trip