'Hidden Figures' is an award-winning film directed by Theodore Melfi (IMDb, 2018). It is about three astonishing African American women, (Katherine G . Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, & Mary Jackson ) who broke through the glass ceiling, and rose the ranks of NACA/ NASA, and succored the launch of John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteed his safe return (IMDb, 2018). After the film, I have researched, and noted a few differences, and similarities corresponding to the film, and in reality. For example, some differences presented in the movie were that Glenn who died on December 8, at age 95 did not have the chance to see 'Hidden Figures', but he was on record for not liking the film. In a 1996 interview he stated that he didn't believe the film, "accurately reflected the people involved in the Mercury program, including me." In another interview starring Bill Barry, chief historians, of NASA, he said: "From a history [sic] perspective, it is cringing worthy." Yikes. For the audience watching 'Hidden Figures' they might have believed Katherine, …show more content…
In simple terms, these were just people that did calculations by hand, such as Katherine G. Johnson. Some other examples of accuracies were when Johnson requested to attend the space briefing, she was told that women didn't belong in there. This shows the sexism, and how women were treated in the 1960s. Speaking of Katherine, she did compute John Glenn's trajectory, and when it was time to lift off (launch), John Glenn asked Mrs. Katherine to double-check the electronic computer's calculation for his first orbit. Aside from that, some momentous moments were that Dorothy Vaughan, was in fact, NACA's first black women supervisor in 1948, and Mary Jackson was indeed the first African American engineer, (HistoryvsHollywood.com ,
“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.
There are a variety of areas in the science field that African Americans have participated. There were Chemists, Biochemists, Biologists, Physicists, and many others. There were people like Herman Branson who was an assistant professor of chemistry and physics at Howard University who help prepare many young students for the science field. Dr. Branson became a full professor of physics and was made chairman of the physics department of Howard University from 1941 to 1968. He had research interests in mathematical biology and protein structure.
In the book Women in the Civil War, by Mary Massey, the author tells about how American women had an impact on the Civil War. She mentioned quite a few famous and well-known women such as, Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton, who were nurses, and Pauline Cushman and Belle Boyd, who were spies. She also mentioned black abolitionists, Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, feminist Susan B. Anthony, and many more women. Massey talks about how the concept of women changed as a result of the war. She informed the readers about the many accomplishments made by those women. Because of the war, women were able to achieve things, which caused for them to be viewed differently in the end as a result.
Upon opening Ralph Waldo Ellison’s book The “Invisible Man”, one will discover the shocking story of an unnamed African American and his lifelong struggle to find a place in the world. Recognizing the truth within this fiction leads one to a fork in its reality; One road stating the narrators isolation is a product of his own actions, the other naming the discriminatory views of the society as the perpetrating force infringing upon his freedom. Constantly revolving around his own self-destruction, the narrator often settles in various locations that are less than strategic for a man of African-American background. To further address the question of the narrator’s invisibility, it is important not only to analyze what he sees in himself, but more importantly if the reflection (or lack of reflection for that matter) that he sees is equal to that of which society sees. The reality that exists is that the narrator exhibits problematic levels of naivety and gullibility. These flaws of ignorance however stems from a chivalrous attempt to be a colorblind man in a world founded in inequality. Unfortunately, in spite of the black and white line of warnings drawn by his Grandfather, the narrator continues to operate on a lost cause, leaving him just as lost as the cause itself. With this grade of functioning, the narrator continually finds himself running back and forth between situations of instability, ultimately leading him to the self-discovery of failure, and with this self-discovery his reasoning to claim invisibility.
Invisible Man is a book novel written by Ralph Ellison. The novel delves into various intellectual and social issues facing the African-Americans in the mid-twentieth century. Throughout the novel, the main character struggles a lot to find out who he is, and his place in the society. He undergoes various transformations, and notably is his transformation from blindness and lack of understanding in perceiving the society (Ellison 34).
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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison This novel is a record of a Negro's journey through contemporary America in search of success, companionship, but most importantly himself. This so called Invisible Man gives voice to the feelings of many black Americans that they were not "seen" by American society. Blacks were not integrated into the American mainstream and therefore not "seen. "
The film Pan’s Labyrinth, has several common concepts with Joseph Campbell’s theory on heroes in Hero with a Thousand Faces. His theory emphasizes on tests that show their moral and basic instincts for the rite of passage to their threshold, in this case, the underworld. Campbell’s theory is a concept that surrounds an individual’s journey to heroism. This concept pertains to Ophelia due to her circumstances as a child who ventures out on thresholds, tests, and so forth. Campbell’s depiction relates to Ophelia as he describes the levels in which one must attain and accept as a female heroine. Furthermore, his theory exaggerates on the making of a hero to the resurrection in terms of physical and spiritual transformation. Ophelia’s character depicts a hero who has been resurrected as a human. Thus, she begins her journey to cross the threshold, “pass from the everyday world in the world of adventure,” (Campbell). There are many stages in the film that depicts Ophelia’s introduction to the stages of being a hero. More so, it focuses on tasks, which Ophelia must pass or fail in order to determine her role in the film; Princess of the Underworld or just a human soul. This is lead by the faun who simply reassures a place of ‘paradise’ for Ophelia only with her cooperation to listen and follow her morals.
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In an iconic quote from Hidden Figures, Al Harrison states, “Here at NASA, we all pee the same color.” While this quote is ridiculous and hilarious all at the same time, the quote also addresses the topic of racism and segregation that colored people face in the workplace. As Hidden Figures showcases throughout the movie, the struggle of African-American women and men for the fight for equal rights permeated throughout everyday life, in politics, and even at their jobs during the 1960’s. To convey this struggle and other controversial topics, Hidden Figures uses a plethora of scenes, pieces of footage, and more to create a feeling of engagement and tension that viewers feel and see. Therefore, Hidden Figures showcases controversial topics during
Moving and inspirational, Hidden Figures stars Taraji Henson as Katherine Goble, Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaughn, Janelle Monáe as Mary Jackson, and Kevin Costner as Al Harrison. A perfect modern piece of fiction, the film was expertly crafted by the director, Theodore Melfi who also directed St. Vincent (IMDb). Winning thirty one awards and nominated for seventy one more, Hidden Figures received awards from the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award, and many others. On the website Rotten Tomatoes, 229 critics commented with an overwhelming 212 supporting the movie in a four month time span while continuing to receive good reviews. Three talented, unique, and intelligent women, Katherine Goble, Dorothy Vaughan, and
The book of Confessions of a Mask is written by Yukio Mishima. This book is talked about Kochan, who is a homosexual, he always wears a mask and act like a normal man in front of his friends or women; he learns to mimic the inherent qualities of “normal” individuals by his peers, but he fails to do so at the end. He is able to appreciate the feminine beauty whole, but not being sexually aroused by that woman. There have some examples to prove that he is a homosexual and he has no lust with women.
The scientist and mathematicians used various methods as well as different types of math to solve one issue… the safe ascend and descend of the astronauts to and from space within a given time slot. The scientist and mathematicians work together and did not let the color of their skin or their gender defy their limits. Katherine is a African-American woman in the 1960’s who defies
Since a young age, she was proud to be dark skinned and to work for NASA as a woman. She worked in the west computing group, where twenty African-American women worked to calculate mathematical equations for NASA. Katherine stated: ”I will have you know, I was the first negro female student at West Virginia University graduate school. On any given day, I analyze the binomial levels air displacement, friction, and velocity. And compute over ten thousand calculations by cosine, square root and lately analytic geometry.
In many works of literature a character conquers great obstacles to achieve a worthy goal. Sometimes the obstacles are personal impediment, at other times it consists of the attitude and beliefs of others. In the book The Stranger by Albert Camus, shows the character Meursault who is an emotionless character that let’s other people show their opinions and emotions into him giving him a type of feeling even if Meursault doesn’t care. Meursault contains occasion of his emotional indifference between his friends and social indifference. This essay will be about the character’s struggle contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole.