Katherine

Abundance of Katherines by John Green, the main character, Colin Singleton, experiences heartbreak and mental changes that lead him to rediscover himself. The themes of the novel, individuality and finding happiness in your identity, are expressed through Colin’s changing ideas about love and self evaluation. One of Colin Singleton’s most prominent characteristics is that he only dates girls named Katherine. He has dated nineteen of them, and after his most recent break up with Katherine the…

discovered mathematical equations to use in space launch for NASA, is surprising today. In 1961 it was even more astonishing, almost to the point of impossibility. In Hidden Figures, Katherine Johnson calculates the math to properly and safely launch and land John Glen from his orbit around earth. In addition to Katherine, this movie focuses on two other women, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson, and their contributions to Friendship 7 and NASA. During this time it was rare for a woman to work at…

Katherine Johnson was just begining to start working with the white men in the flight reasearch devision when she had to use the bathroom. So she took her work and headed straight out the door and as she did she hoped that there was a bathroom near by. She looked everywhere for a colored bathroom and couldn’t find one. She then stopped in the middle of the hallway to catch her breath. As she did so she spotted two white woman laughing and giggling coming from a bathroom. Inside that bathroom was…

Katherine Dunham Katherine Mary Dunham (June 22, 1909- May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, author, educator, and social activist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in American and European theater and directed her own dance company for many years. She has been called the "matriarch and queen mother of black dance." Youth; Katherine was born on June 22, 1909. Her father, Albert Millard Dunham, was a descendant of slaves. Her mother, Fanny June Dunham, died…

2. Katherine Dunham was an extraordinary artist, an anthropologist, author, activist movie star, producer, manager, an educator as well as a motivating wife and mother. She was born on June 22, 1909 in the state of Chicago. Her father is African American and her mother is French Canadian. Even as a child Katherine Mary Dunham was always a rule breaker. She always took that one step out of the boundaries and changed everything for the better. When Katherine Dunham was young she used to sing…

Compare ways that the author John Green in An Abundance of Katherines and Graeme Simsion in The Rosie Project use techniques to show how similar ideas can be presented in different ways. John Green in his 2006 novel An Abundance of Katherines and Graeme Simsion in his 2013 novel The Rosie project establish that they can present similar ideas in different ways. Although Greens humorous and youthful setting and Simisons matured and significant settings and separate, the ideas and struggles which…

mountains that surround them. These valleys are an evident outlier in the environment around them. Katherine Johnson is another prime example of an outlier from West Virginia. Her endless intelligence and affinity for numbers made her stand out among her peers as future mathematician. This affinity for numbers and math led Johnson to NASA, where her future career as a human computer waited for her. Katherine Johnson was born in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia in 1918. Since Johnson was…

Reading Response/Analysis for Friendship by Katherine Philips As a reader, I really enjoyed Philips point of view when it came to the idea of friendship compared to love and marriage. Though this was written in the 1800s, her views on the topic are still widely agreed on today. Unlike many, Philips had a low opinion of marriage, claiming “For love, like earthly fires (which will decay if the material fuel be away), is with offensive smoke accompanied, and by resistance only is supplied” (250)…

Katherine is viewed as an outlier when compared to other woman characters in Shakespeare hence why the play centers around her shrewish nature. However Shakespeare wrote the play to prove a point that any girl that acts like this is a detriment to her family or any man in her life. In Natasha Korda’s, Shakespeare’s Domestic Economies, she describes Kate behavior before she was “domesticated” as “untamed, animal-like consumption, Tranio’s remark….. wears away at both her father’s resources and at…

In 1975, two sisters, Katherine Lyon aged 10 years old and Sheila Lyon aged 12 years old went missing after a trip to a shopping mall in Maryland of Washington, D.C. The girls’ bodies were never found until now. This was one of the longest unsolved cases in Washington D.C.. These sisters were known as The Lyon Sisters and were born in Kensington, Maryland. Their parents, John and Mary Lyon, and brother, Jay, who is a police officer. John Lyon used to work in a local radio station, WMAL, which is…