Margot Lee Shetterly was born in 1969 and grew up in Hampton, Virginia. She is an alumnus of the University of Virginia, where she studied business. After finishing college, she worked several years in investment banking, and ventured into other career moves. Her career paths included the media and tourism industry; she was a writer […]
The movie Hidden Figures highlights the life of three African-American women who held prominent positions within NASA during an era when America was racially segregated. These three women began their journey from the bottom, serving in menial administrative positions, inferior to both the Caucasian male and female alike. This movie was reviewed by many people […]
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Get startedHuman Nature is the general psychological traits, feelings, and behavioral characteristics of humanity, considered to be shared by all human beings. The novel ‘Hidden Figures’ explores the course inquiry of ‘What Makes Us Humans’ through the use these traits possessed by some of the characters (Katherine Johnson, John Glenn, and Dorothy Vaughan). These traits include […]
Three African-American women that were a crucial part of the success of the first moon landing have been overlooked for over fifty years until now. The movie “Hidden Figures” highlight the importance of mathematicians Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. The year is 1961 and segregation is very prominent but three intelligent African-American […]
The movie “The Hidden Figures” was talking about in the 1960s, there were some black women who work in the NASA. At the beginning of it, nobody likes them because they think black people cannot work for NASA or any of those scientific research fields, and they were women as well. People who work in […]
Known as the American Dream and boundless story of the black women who changed and helped win the space race, a book written by Margot Lee Shetterly. It was printed in the United States of America and published by HarperCollins, New York. At the same time, a hardcover edition was published in 2016 by William […]
While Katherine talks to Al Harisson and asks if she can go with him in the briefings and Al Harisson includes Katherine in his meetings. Katherine makes Al Harisson’s subordinates impressed as she explains how the capsule re-entry is possible. As the final arrangements for John Glenn’s launch, Katherine is informed that she is no […]
Introduction The movie industry has come a long way since its beginning in the 1890’s. New developments in equipments have emerged, genres have grown and expanded, and the industry makes billions each year with its films. Many things have been improved, including the portrayal of minority characters on screen. Equality with the actors themselves and […]
Based on the New York Times bestseller, Hidden Figures challenged the vision and interpretation of the audience through a forced raw reflection on our history; both as an individual and society as a whole. The book and the film depict visions of race, ethnicity, and gender issues and how they intersect throughout the times in […]
I chose to write about drama films. Drama films are productions or stories lines with settings or life situations that represent realistic characters in conflict with either themselves or others. Drama films are produced more than any genre. Drama films illustrate how society conforms to what the larger population requests. They also represent how society […]
The movie I selected to do my historical movie review on is “Hidden Figures”, directed by Theodore Melfi, and story was from Margot Lee Shetterly. The reason I chose this particular movie is because it is based on a team of women fighting for equal rights, while working for NASA, a U.S space program. This […]
“Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race” written by Margot Lee Shetterly was the book I had chosen for my first book review. This book illustrates a remarkable story about Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden. These unbelievably black […]
