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    The ability to overcome tough obstacles in an individual's life is known as human resilience. The book “Boys in the boat”, written by Daniel James Brown, is about a young man named Joe Rantz, who is on the rowing team for the University of Washington. He had to overcome many challenges regarding his past, but it didn’t stop him from gaining a spot on the United States Olympic crew team. He helped lead his team to victory, despite the hardships of living alone as a teenager. The second story…

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    as well as all the killings and the misuse of the Islamic name. This is a reliable source because the author, Malala Yousafzai, is a primary source, seeing as she experienced mistreatment and injustice, as she states in her speech after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Just like Nasima, in document 1, Malala spoke up for herself and decided to let the world know the injustices she was going through as a girl living in the Middle East. Despite the support that women had in the fight for their…

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    “Well-behaved women seldom make history” are you agree or disagree? Throughout the recorded history the condition of women has been a constant fee. Whether it a social status, economic state, political position, or intellectual freedom. Women have always tipped-off to address this issues to find the solution and change the history. But there are women who risk their own lives and fought for the ideas that today most of us recognized as universal and whether we realize or not and one way or…

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    If I was stranded on a deserted island and a lifeboat came and I had to choose between a healthy three-year-old, an elderly Nobel Prize winner, a single father of two young children, a thirty-year-old decorated combat veteran, and a middle-aged doctor who has performed life-saving surgery to save, I would choose to save the single father with two kids. It would be a hard decision to make but having two kids I would want them to have a father. I would choose to save the father of two because…

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    Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer and physicist who was born on December 11, 1863, in Dover, Delaware. Although she became deaf early on in life, her mother encouraged Cannon to pursue her passion for astronomy. Cannon attended Wellesley College and eventually graduated as a valedictorian during a time when there were limited opportunities for women in the field of academics, mainly science. She continued her post-graduate studies at Radcliffe College, which allowed her to gain access…

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    Grace Hopper is one of the lesser known female pioneers in the computer science field. Not only did she become the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale, but she was also a military leader. Hopper is someone who should be a role model to all women wishing to work in a STEM field. Hopper was born Grace Brewster Murray in New York City, New York on December 9, 1906, meaning she lived through many of America’s most impactful events such as World War I, The Great Depression, World…

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    A woman that I admire the most is Malala Yousafzai. I admire Malala because even though she's young she is very awake about society. She is a Children’s Activist and Women’s Rights Activist.Yousafzai understands how important education is and she makes sure to do everything in her will to get education to everybody, especially to girls. She is very inspiring to many young people. She show that you are never too young to fight for things that you believe. She was born in Pakistan and she has…

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    Women have always played significant roles in science for all of history and contributed to advancing the world to how we know it today. Women have various roles in science and have participated in making groundbreaking discoveries. However, throughout history many women have been seen as only assistants to their male colleagues and have not been given full credit for their achievements. This situation is one that is seen in the film “Contact”, where the main character, Dr. Ellie Arroway, is an…

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    Do you know what it would be like to be courageous. Teen activists have to be courageous every day. Even though some teen activists are physically or mentally abused, they still speak out, for example, Alex Lin, Iqbal, and Malala. Teen activism is people fighting for a cause that could help people and the world. Iqbal is an example of a teen activist, he was a young boy who was sold to a carpet company. Iqbal Masih, a 12-year old former child slave in Pakistan. His family sold him to the…

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    Ethos In A Beautiful Mind

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    A powerful yet very emotional speech in the movie, A Beautiful Mind. The main character in this movie is John Nash. Nash is at the Nobel prize awards, giving a speech. The lady he stares at towards the end of his speech is his wife, Alicia Nash. The award was for one of his theory’s he had done about math. Even though he have won the award for his intelligence, he gave credit to his wife. First, the audience in the speech from the movie are all sitting in front of him. Everyone in the…

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