Hidden Figure Essay

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Hidden figures is a very good movie which shows a lot of good things and also bad things that show people that are wrong. one of the good things in the movie that shows something that shows the audience the good of the movie is that there is good gender equality towards the end where it shows that the men need the women to help them further and not use them as tools. The bad thing about the movie that it show is people then in that time we're very rude to women they thought of them as nothing and treated them like garbage but how they use that in context shows the Watchers of the movie that what they're doing in the movie is wrong it later shows that when the commander-in-chief of NASA need the women as much as they need them and they're not simply as much as tools this shows that in the movie …show more content…

later on in the movie it progresses in such ways where NASA comes to the point where they need a women to help them send the first person into space then they realize that they cannot treat women in this way because they need all of them to work together not just have one group of people but to have many other people like women to come together to help them in their space travels.
Another way they show gender equality is when they see the difference between what the men have and the women have they see that they treat the women worse than the men this is brought up when a woman is requested to join a special unit to help send the first person to space the commander-in-chief of NASA sees that how they treat the man is very different than how they treat the woman. when the workers of NASA finally realize gender equality they were able to successfully send a astronaut safely into space and travel around the Earth and come down safely being able to explore space for the first

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