A woman of great courage, of heroics and most importantly a role model to many young females; a woman who went on to win over 22 honorary degrees such as the Order of Canada, the NASA Space Medal and an induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. A woman who still graces our life today with her diligent perseverance and immense strength, Roberta Lynn Bondar, was the first Canadian woman to go into space. Her passions cultivated since she was a child, whose journey was not easy and whose legacy will be remembered for years to come. For all these reasons and more, Roberta Bondar has positively influenced Canada’s identity to a large extent.…
As per the intake form, Danayah Jenkins resides in Jersey City, NJ and plans to commute to NJCU in the fall. Her anticipated major is Health Science, minoring in Art with a career goal as a physician assistant. Based on Danayah’s college entrance exam scores, she has been placed in Math 90 for summer 2017 and English Composition 1 with ALP for fall 2017.…
Catherine Jackson is a 67 year old women, who suffers from anemia and type 2 diabetes. Catherine uses alcohol as a coping mechanism for her consistent exhaustion. Her exhaustion can be contributed to her anemia and type 2 diabetes, however the use of alcoholic beverages to combat her fatigue can be considered detrimental to her health. This would be considered a safety issue based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Safety being the most dominant issue as her health is a clear priority.…
Mae Carol Jemison or better known as Mae C. Jemison was an American engineer, physician, and a NASA astronaut. She became known as the first African-American woman to travel in space. Mae was born on October 17 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. When she was around three years old, her parents, Charlie and Dorothy Jemison, move to Chicago in order to provide her and her siblings a better education.…
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Annie Johnson was successful in life. She was a successful mom. All though she became a single mom, she moved forward and she never gave up. She found a way too get a job. She was a successful worker. Annie knew that since she was not educated and did not go to school she could not work in a company. So Annie found a way to make them work for her. To make sure she was ready, on an early morning she carried two buckets filled with rocks to the mill. And so every morning she woke up made pies and switched from hot pies go to the mill first or second. Annie Johnson was successful in life. She was a successful worker and…
He was the commander of the expedition and he was the first person ever to set foot on the moon. He stayed in the space for eight and a half days.…
At the college she managed to find an equation that was able to foresee the growth of cancer in the body. With this amazing discovery she made at only the age of sixteen was one of the youngest people at the time to awarded with a Merit Award from Mademoiselle Magazine in…
Katherine G. Johnson is a mathematician who calculated the trajectories responsible for launching the first American into space. Katherine was born on August 26th, 1918 in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia. As a child, Katherine loved to count and had a strong interest in numbers which led to her profound knowledge of mathematics. Her passion for numbers showed through her interest in advancing her education, she graduated from the eighth grade by the age of ten; then graduated from high school at the age of fourteen. In the 1920’s, the South was heavily segregated due to unjust laws based on racism and at the time African Americans were not allowed to continue their education past the eighth grade. Katherine’s father drove one hundred and…
Mae Jemison is a very talented women that has many authentic occupations and has positively impacted our world. She was born on October 17, 1956, in Decatur, Alabama but grew up in Chicago, Illinois, where she attended Morgan Park High School. Not only is she the first African american to enroll in the astronaut training program but she was the first african american women to fly into space On September 12, 1992, in the Endeavour mission. Mae is also known for being the president of BioSentient Corporation and founded the Jemison Group, where new technological innovations are developed. Jemison is also a chemical engineer, scientist, physician, teacher and astronaut. She attended Stanford University where she obtained her Bachelor's degree…
C. Amelia Earhart had many accomplishments. On June 17th 1928 she was the first woman to fly the…
Harriet Tubman led over three hundred slaves to the north. The journey was more than ninety miles to Pennsylvania and took days. She once that ‘’I have two choices, liberty or death, if I cannot have one I will have the other.’’ Harriet Tubman was a figure for slaves to look up to.…
Throughout her years as the Girl Scout founder, she was able to grow the program to 90,000 member known as Girl Scouts. Much of her success to the organization was the large network of people she established throughout the year. With the network, she was able to find resources and attributes which developed into Girl Scouts. She became well known of her energy, willingness and appreciation for the girl scouts in the…
Hopper wanted to join the military as soon as the United States entered World War II. However at 34 she was too old to enlist, and as a mathematics professor, her job was considered essential to the war effort. She was determined to join the Navy and was commissioned a Lieutenant after attending Midshipman’s School. Because of her mathematical background, Hopper was assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project at the Cruft Laboratories at Harvard University, and upon her arrival at Cruft, she began working with Howard Aiken on the Mark I computer, America’s first programmable digital computer. She embraced the challenge of the Mark I, and could hardly wait to disassemble it and figure it out. She became the third person to program the Mark I. (thocp.net/biographies/hopper_grace.html)…
The TJX Companies continue to be leaders in off-price apparel and home fashions retailer inside U.S. and outside. This 2015 is another successful year for TJX as they achieved strong gains in net sales and big earnings per share growth. It is ranking No. 89 in the 2016 Fortune 500 listings, with $30.9 billion in revenues in 2015*, more than 3,600 stores in 9 countries, 3 e-commerce sites. (The TJX Companies, Inc., 2016) According to the Annual Report it has been increasing in both fiscal 2015 and fiscal 2014. They generated strong cash flows, allowing them to return value to their shareholders through cash dividends and share repurchases. Referring about net sales, TJX has got for fiscal 2015 an incoming increase of $2.2 billion.…
