Cracking Code Purple Analysis

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Women made a big impact on the world today. The articles “Cracking Code Purple” by Anna Ouchchy and “Who Is Katherine Johnson?” by NASA helps us understand how. In the mid 1900’s, women were not treated fairly. Katherine Johnson and Genevieve Grotjan proved to the world that this was a mistake. Both women showed everyone that they were capable of doing the same things that men did.

In the first article, “Cracking Code Purple” by Anna Ouchchy, Genevieve Grotjan changed the way people looked at science. She was a code breaker with the SIS. She had cracked the Purple Code. This was a code that the Japanese used to radio a secret message. This was a big accomplishment for not only Grotjan, but for the U.S as a whole. “At the time, Grotjan

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