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Final Analysis: Hidden Figures

By: Alexia Garrigus

1st hour History V. Hollywood

Setting

May- July 1961

Hampton, Virginia

Setting

Characters

-Katherine Johnson

-Al Harrison

- Mary Jackson

-Dorothy Vaughan

Characters

Dorothy Vaughan

Lived from 1910 to 2003

First african american female supervisor for NASA

Was originally a teacher but then transfered over to NASA in the first aerospace program.

She then worked her way to head of the african american women's computer area.

Mary Jackson

-Lived from 1921 til 2005

-The first African American female to get a job and work for NASA

-Was suggested for a school that was not segregated so she had to recieve special clearance to get her education

-in her final years with NASA she became the manager of the women's department.

- A higher up authority of NASA

Al Harrison

-Born August 26, 1918

-Switched to work for NASA in 1958 after many years of teaching elementary.

-Verified calucations for the big landing of John Glenn's orbit.

-Has wone over 10 awards for her work with Nasa and in mathematics in general.

- Is still alive at the great age of 100!

Kathrine Johnson

Summary and plot events

Summary and plot

This story is focused on three women that work for NASA is their race against Russia to get to the moon. During the progression of the story all of the women progress in the company and break racial profiling by working twice as hard to move up in the world. This is the story of their struggle to triumph.

Exposition

In the beginning of the story it starts out by showing the original conditions of an african american woman in the work force.

Exposition

Rising Action

In the Rising Action The problem is presented in the fact that Kathrine has been moved to a new department with all white males. While the other ladies are trying to fight their way into the business.

Climax

The climax is the point when the rocket is shot into space and Katherine is no longer needed in her department because a machine replaced her. But then she needed to configure the number for the landing pattern.

Falling Action

In the falling action the space ship lands and th man inside is safe making Katherine the hero of NASA's mathmatics departments.

falling action

Resolution

For the Resolution Katherine is put back in her department, one of the girls is promoted, and finally the last one became the first female african american engineer for NASA.

What was left out and or exagerated?

What was left out

Event 3;

The movie focused mostly on Racism while historically the real problem was sexism. The way that black females were protrayed is actually the way all females were treated during this time.

Event 2

Event 2;

NASA was actually called the NACA during the time that the three females worked under their control. The name was not changed to later on.

Event 1;

The first event that was exagerated was the amount of people that were involved in the launching. There was far more people involved than portrayed in the movie.

Event 1;

Historical rating

Historical Rating

Reason

I gave this a 3 out of 5 because there was a good story and morale lesson but I wasn't fully impressed by how accurate they showed the treatment of the women.

Reason

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