The Importance Of Hard Work In Hidden Figures

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I believe that hard work is an attribute that everyone should have. The people described in Hidden Figures, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, all showed this attribute, as well as dedication, skill, and courage. As the book follows their stories throughout their careers at Langley Laboratory we see them working with a determination and skill that sent man into space. Without the hard work of these, and many others, America may have never reached the moon. The book Hidden Figures gives the stories of dedicated individuals who used hard work to achieve the goals they had set for themselves. I believe this is the most important lesson gathered from the book in this stage of education; hard work and dedication can take you anywhere you want to go. Even before reaching the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, the women in Hidden Figures had to work harder than most to provide for their families. Many of them working as teachers and barely making Dorothy Vaughan worked 28 years as a mathematician, dedication much of her working career to the NACA and NASA. Katherine Johnson spent 33 years working at Langley, always with the same dedication she had on the first day. Mary Jackson also worked for 28 years as a mathematician and engineer, and towards the end of her career worked as the Federal Women’s Program Manager. Her dedication to equality led her to this position. These women all showed dedication to throughout their entire careers. They did not become complacent when they achieve a goal, they started working towards the next one. We will have to do the same thing. We cannot wavier in our dedication once we have accomplished something we must build on it. We should continue to the next goal, and be just as dedicated to it, just as the women at Langley

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