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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

One of the most famous women in physics back in the early 1900s was Marie Sklodowska. While she was in physics, Marie won two nobel prizes. Also, she discovered the elements Radium and Polonium. Marie had to conquer many hardships to get all these awards. Marie Sklodowska was born in Warshow, Portland on November 7, 1867. She was the youngest of five children, and that family was already very poor. Her mother was a poor schoolroom teacher that was named, Bronislawa Sklodowska. Her father was…

worked and studied radioactivity and nuclear fission. Meitner’s way of working and studying led to the “radiochemical discovery” of nuclear fission. Her achievement was rewarded with a Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1944. Meitner is often used as an example of a scientific women who was “overlooked by the Nobel committee”. Lise Meitner demonstrates the arduous work she had to do in order to discover her accomplishment which in this case is the discoverment of nuclear fusion. Lise Meitner is an…

Gertrude Stein was a poet, play writer, novelist and art collector. She was born in the United States of America on February 3rd 1874 and died in France on July 27 1946. She was much known for her novel writing skills and quotes such as, 'we are always the same age inside'. She contributed in the authoring of the famous Lost Generation. The lost generation according to Gertrude Stein are specifically the ex-patriot writers who moved out of home land to Europe so as to go and practice literature.…