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
and when she applied, she was one of the few 15 out of about 20,000 who applied. In 1992, she made her BIG debut as she was the first EVER African American female to fly into space in the Endeavour mission STS47. The next year, Jemison retired from the NASA program and she took up a teaching opportunity at Dartmouth College. One of her most famous quotes are “Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”
Faye Carey is a 16 year old girl that has managed to re-home more than 60 dogs. News Hub says that ¨She wants to have a career in animal control.¨ ¨She has made a Facebook page called Animal Re-Home Waikato.¨ Says News Hub. Her Facebook page has nearly 300 likes and a loyal following of new parents. (Of animals). News Hub also said that ¨With Faye being there, when an animal comes into the shelter or animal control, the animal goes right into a new loving home. ¨
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.
Ella was born in Newport News, Virginia on April 25, 1917. When alled “The First Lady of Song” by some fans. She was known for having beautiful tone, extended range, and great intonation, and famous for her improvisational scat singing. Ella sang during the her most famous song was “A-tiscket A-tasket”. Fitzgerald sang in the period of swing, ballads, and bebop; she made some great albums with other great jazz artists such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Louis Armstrong. She influenced countless American popular singers of the post-swing period and also international performers such as the singer Miriam Makeba. She didn’t really write any of her own songs. Instead she sang songs by other people in a new and great way. The main exception
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.
Philadelphia, PA: Davis University Press, Inc. Smith, J, & Phelps, S (1992). Notable Black American Women (1st Ed). Detroit, MI: Gale & Co. Webster, Raymond B. (1999). African American Firsts in Science & Technology (1st Ed.).
Belle Gunness killed thirteen people. Belle Gunness was a serial killer from Norway who moved and lived in La Porte, Indiana, between 1896 and 1908. Belle Gunness has killed many people, the baseline number being thirteen and the suspected number being forty. No one knows how many she killed in total or why she was killed. We do not know exactly how she killed them, but we have a pretty good idea.
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
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).
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
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