The Turning Point In Gertrude Elion's Life

As a result, she lacked confidence in her education. She stated, “My early education did not partake of the abundant opportunities which the present day affords and which even our common schools now afford. I was never sent to any school; I was always sick.” Even though she did not attend a formal school it did not put her out of reach of a proper education (Peterson, 9).

For the first time in her life, Zora Neale Hurston found a sense of accomplishment. Not only did she get her high school diploma, but she also went to college. During a time of racial oppression and Americans returning from World War I she managed to maintain various jobs to pay for her education. Morgan Academy was just the beginning of her extensive education. Howard University and Barnard College are where she obtained her degrees.

Susan Eloise Hinton, one of the world's most respected authors was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on July 22, 1950. Also known as S.E Hinton, best known for her young adult novels, especially The Outsiders. Antoine Wilson’sbiography The Library of Author Biographies: S.E Hinton highlights some of the problems Hinton endured on her path to become one of the most influential authors in America.

During the 1800’s, there were not a lot of female scientists. Marie Curie became the first woman to receive a nobel prize, and also the first to receive two of them. She was a Polish-French physicist and chemist who discovered two elements and was famous for her work with radioactivity. She got her love of science from her father, a physics and mathematics teacher. She moved to Paris to further her education and there met her future husband, Pierre Curie, and took his place at Sorbonne when he passed away as the first women to hold that position. Those were not the only thing she accomplished as a female scientist in the 1800’s. Marie paved the way for many more female scientists in the future.

Marie Daly is a famous biochemist who had to overcome dual hurdles of racial and gender bias to peruse her lifelong love of chemistry. Marie had to undergo judgment from her being a woman and trying to become a scientist, which was a male dominated occupation and also had to endure racism because she was an African American. Marie made many scientific discoveries that we are lucky to have today.

The book Night opens in the town of Signet where Elie Wiesel, the author ,

Marie Maynard Daly was an African-American biochemist, and the first woman of her race to receive her doctorate in chemistry in the United States (“Marie Maynard Daly”). Marie's father enrolled at Cornell University to study chemistry in his youth, but was unable to due to financial constraints, and was a postal clerk throughout her youth (“Marie M. Daly”). Inspired by her father to accomplish her own academic goals, she attained her doctorate in only three years at Columbia University, an impressive feat,

To my personal point of view, I think Ellie is not a brute in the book Night due to the fact that he doesn’t talk much to the people around himself and he is not the kind of person that would go up in front of a stranger not knowing what they will do to him or his family.

Marie Maynard Daly was born on April 16,1921 she was the first black african american women to earn a PHD in chemistry.Marie Maynard was was raised and born in corona queens.she lived at a home to save money, majored in chemistry,and graduated from queens magna cum laude with her bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1942.

In Margaret Edson’s play, W;t, tells the story of Vivian’s experience with her cancer treatment. Through her treatment, Vivian recognizes her humanity and her lack of understanding life and death. By recognizing that being incredibly smart was not the answer to everything, Vivian looks back on her life and is able to reflect on her character. Edson’s use of aside, flashback, exposition, foreshadow, irony and foil allows Vivian to explore different themes. Through the use of these dramatic devices, Edson is able to convey themes of language, death and humanity.

Emily Howard Jennings was born in Norwich, Ontario on May 1st, 1831 to parents that were strong believers in the importance of receiving proper education: such strong believers, in fact, they actually home schooled their daughters. 1 At only 15, Stowe began her teaching career in a one-room schoolhouse in the neighboring town of Summerville, Ontario. However, she received only half of the salary that men did at the time. Six years later, she applied to Victoria College in Cobourg, Ontario but

Washington D.C. Daughter of Dr. William S. Lofton who was a well known black dentist and

Hunger is a feeling all humans have, and it is one of the feelings and emotions that makes us human. In the book Dawn by Elie Wiesel, the main character Elisha is part of a Zionist terrorist organization. He is given the task from the leader of their organization to execute a captured British soldier, John Dawson. Elisha doesn't want to give him food before the group executes him, because subconsciously it will humanize the captured soldier. When a fellow soldier said they should give him food before they kill him, but Elisha responded, "He listens to his stomach and it tells him he is going to die and he isn't hungry." (Dawn, Wiesel.) This shows the colder side of Elisha and how he doesn't want to humanize Dawson so he is easier to kill. Elisha has experienced hunger himself when he was in the nazi concentration camps.

Wit, a play written by Margaret Edson, has many themes incorporated into her text. The idea and control of power over herself and the influence over others is shown in this play, in the viewpoint of Vivian Bearing. It shifts in terms as the play continues on. At the beginning of the play we see Vivian as a witty, seventeenth-century poetry professor. She only knows things that are associated with her field of study. Yet, she holds a great deal of power over her students and the rest of the faculty. We can see this through the words of Jason Posner, who was once a student of hers, but is now one of her doctors. I believe that the scenes between Vivian and Kelekian and with Vivian and the technician showcase how one’s control over power, and

Wit is a one-act play written by American playwright Margaret Edson, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Edson used her work experience in a hospital as part of the inspiration for her play.