Phona Mutesi: A Brief Analysis
We are told that what has been established should remain the same, and if you don’t see eye to eye with this perspective it is regarded as completely wrong, utterly wrong, and for some reason you are completely wrong. Wrong for going against what was already seen as right, but sometimes change is what we need to grow as a society. Two impactful stories gave me the clear vision I needed to establish that disobedience is key for filling in spots in our history books. Stories that impact the past, the present and can even impact the people of tomorrow.
Phiona Mutesi, a young ugandan girl who today is most acclaimed for her appearance in the best selling novel ‘Queen of Katwe’, and her own movie. She had one of the biggest leaps of faith in …show more content…
She was a smart little girl, one who saw beyond numbers and didn’t shy away from a problem she knew she could complete. Katherine Johnson grew up small but went farther than she could imagine; attending high school when she was barely in middle school, and finally attending the NASA program when she was fully an adult. Johnson found it hard being the first colored women to attend an all male flight calculations team, not just because she was a women but because of her skin color. Johnson did her best to cooperate each day running more than half a mile across NASA to use a colored restroom, dealing with the men that didn’t even want her drinking from the same coffee pot, and being able to keep up with calculations that were confidential to the rockets. Katherine had enough; she told her boss she needed to be in the editorial meeting because every time she got close to the finish line they moved just a little bit further. No women had ever entered an editorial meeting and the first meeting that she attended she solved the question nobody else could, which led to John Glenn being the first american to orbit earth three times. After her success she was a major part of helping Apollo 11 finally land on the moon; she retired shortly after, but her story lives on today in books and in a newly released movie, “Hidden Figures.”
Potential to do something never done before lives among us. It doesn’t hurt us
Phiona Mutesi, a young ugandan girl who today is most acclaimed for her appearance in the best selling novel ‘Queen of Katwe’, and her own movie. She had one of the biggest leaps of faith in …show more content…
She was a smart little girl, one who saw beyond numbers and didn’t shy away from a problem she knew she could complete. Katherine Johnson grew up small but went farther than she could imagine; attending high school when she was barely in middle school, and finally attending the NASA program when she was fully an adult. Johnson found it hard being the first colored women to attend an all male flight calculations team, not just because she was a women but because of her skin color. Johnson did her best to cooperate each day running more than half a mile across NASA to use a colored restroom, dealing with the men that didn’t even want her drinking from the same coffee pot, and being able to keep up with calculations that were confidential to the rockets. Katherine had enough; she told her boss she needed to be in the editorial meeting because every time she got close to the finish line they moved just a little bit further. No women had ever entered an editorial meeting and the first meeting that she attended she solved the question nobody else could, which led to John Glenn being the first american to orbit earth three times. After her success she was a major part of helping Apollo 11 finally land on the moon; she retired shortly after, but her story lives on today in books and in a newly released movie, “Hidden Figures.”
Potential to do something never done before lives among us. It doesn’t hurt us