Percitience In The Film Hidden Figures

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Percitience is the key to succsses. The movie Hidden Figures is about Three brilliant African-American women at NASA -- Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. These women serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation's confidence, turned around the Space Race and galvanized the world.

Dorothy wants to be the supervisor of the computers. She keeps pushing through the work of a supervisor evan know she is not the supervisor cause shes been declined the position. The position is declined because the higher ups dont think it is necessary. Dorothy kept trying and she did something no one else could do which was work

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