[Hidden Figures] # Prologure

 
 
 

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[Review previous expression]

 
호호 새롭게 시작하는 New Book! ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 

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[Summarize this chapter]

This chapter describes the motivation of this book, which is about "Black Women worked at NASA."
The author grew up in a town full of black engineers, and his father also worked for NASA. This environment has affected the author's interest in "Black Women worked at NASA."
 
[chatgpt]
This chapter describes the motivation behind this book, which is about "Black Women who worked at NASA."
The author grew up in a town full of Black engineers, and his father also worked for NASA. This environment influenced the author's interest in "Black Women who worked at NASA."
 
[friend]
"This chapter is about why the author was motivated to write this book. She was surrounded by people from NASA, including her father, as well as people from her church and town when she was a child. She noticed that there were many black female scientists who worked as computers at NASA, and all of them were historically underestimated in America."
 
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저자는 흑인 과학자가 많은 동네에서 자람. 정부는 흑인들에게 가장 안정적인 직업을 주었고, 그로 인해 그 자식들도 미국 사회에 안정적으로 발을 들일 수 있었음. 그 동네에는 NASA에서 일한 할머니들도 많음. 그래서 그들에 대해 조사하기 시작했고, 조사하면 할 수록 그들이 NASA 그리고 미국 항공업에 대단한 업적을 이루어냈는지 알게되었음. 그래서 흑인으로서, 여성으로서의 관점을 벗어나 그들 자체가 미국 사회에 기여한 엄청난 역사가 잊혀지지 않도록 그들의 삶에 대해 기록하기로 마음 먹게됨. 
 
The author has grown a town full of black scientists. American government provided them with secure jobs, affording their children to easily access to American society. In her hometown, many old women worked at NASA. The author started to explore their work and found how amazing they contributed to NASA and American astronautics. Therefore, she made up her mind to record their amazing work and life not to forget history, not just because they are black or women, but because they did great work for society.
 

The author grew up in a town full of black scientists. The American government provided them with secure jobs, allowing their children easy access to American society. In her hometown, many older women worked at NASA. The author began to explore their work and discovered the remarkable contributions they made to NASA and American astronautics. Consequently, she decided to document their incredible work and lives to ensure history does not forget them, not just because they are black or women, but because they made significant contributions to society.

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[Quotes that I liked ]

 

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[New Expression]

"무언가를 '해도 되는지' 먼저 고민하고 머리 싸맬 필요가 없다. 해도 되는지 안 되는지 먼저 따지지 말고, 하려는 행동이 어떤 가치를 가져다 줄 수 있다면 눈치 보지 말고 뚝심 있게 실천하라." 후츠파(chutzpah)정신은 히브리어로 뻔뻔함, 담대함, 저돌성, 무례함 등을 뜻합니다. 이말은 오늘날 어려서부터 형식과 권위에 얽매이지 않고, 끊임없이 질문하고 도전하며, 때로는 뻔뻔하면서도 자신의 주장을 당당히 밝히는 이스라엘인 특유의 도전정신을 말합니다.
 
(p. xi) They squired us around town in their twenty-year-old green minivan,
:에스코트해줬다 , 데이트 할때도 쓰는 표현
(p. xi) My father,/gregarious as always, /offered a stream of commentary /that shifted fluidly / (a) from updates on the friends and neighbors we’d bumped into around town/ (b) to the weather forecast to elaborate discourses on the physics underlying his latest research as a sixty-six-year-old doctoral student at Hampton University.
: 사교적인

(p. xi) through our neck of the woods
: 생활의 중심이란 의미?

(p. xi) refreshing my connection with local life and history in the process.
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(p. xi) We gorged on fried-fish sandwiches at hole-in-the-wall joints near Buckroe Beach,
:먹었다고 . 해석되는듯

(p. xii) As 미숙한callow eighteen-year-old leaving for college, I’d seen my hometown as a mere launching pad for a life in worldlier locales, a place to be from rather than a place to be. But years and miles away from home could never attenuate the city’s hold on my identity, and the more I explored places and people far from Hampton, the more my status as  one of its daughters came to mean to me.
: hold- 영향력 1 attenuate 약화시키다

(p. xii) catching up with the 무시무시 formidable Mrs. Land,
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(p. xii) clambered into the minivan, off to a family brunch.
: get in

(p. xii) ticking off a few more names.
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(p. xii) who calculated the launch windows for the first astronauts.”
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(p. xii) of spending a much-treasured day off from school at my father’s office
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(p. xii) I rode shotgun in our 1970s Pontiac,
: 조수석에 ft다

(p. xii) Daddy flashed his badge, and we sailed through to a campus
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(p. xii) offered visual evidence of the remarkable work occurring on an otherwise ordinary-looking campus.
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(p. xiii) conferred with  my father and other men
: discuss

(p. xiii) littered their desks.
: 쓰레기통

(p. xiii) struck me as simply a part of the natural order of things:
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(p. xiii) a coop student
: co-op

(p. xiii) sat on the board
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(p. xiii) a career civil servant and fierce advocate for the advancement of women and minorities;
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(p. xiii) NASA appointed her deputy assistant administrator,
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(p. xiii) black cobblers,
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(p. xiii) undertakers,
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(p. xiii) who was hell-bent on studying electrical engineering at historically black Norfolk State College.
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(p. xiv) college-educated African Americans with book smarts and common sense put their chips on teaching jobs or sought work at the post office.
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(p. xiv) my grandfather’s fears
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(p. xiv) weren’t unfounded.
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(p. xiv) a number that doubled to a whopping 2 percent by 1984.
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(p. xiv) their successes in turn afforded their children previously unimaginable access to American society.
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(p. xiv) I took much of the groundwork they’d laid for granted.
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(p. xiv) demanding the best from himself in order to give his best to the space program
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(p. xiv) I confided my Christmas wish list
: 털어놓다 secrete을

(p. xiv) sat in the bleachers
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(p. xiv) rooting for my dad
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(p. xiv) I was as much a product of NASA as the Moon landing.
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(p. xv) Even as a professional in an integrated world, I had been the only black woman in enough drawing rooms
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(p. xv) and boardrooms to have an inkling of the chutzpah it took for an African American woman in a segregated southern workplace to tell her bosses she was sure her calculations would put a man on the Moon.
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(p. xv) Just as islands—isolated places with unique, rich biodiversity—have relevance for the ecosystems everywhere, so does studying seemingly isolated or overlooked people and events from the past turn up unexpected connections and insights to modern life.
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(p. xv) To a person they encouraged what they viewed as a valuable addition to the body of knowledge, though some questioned the magnitude of the story.
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(p. xvi) These women showed up in photos and phone books, in sources both expected and unusual.
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(p. xvi) an engagement announcement
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(p. xvi) describing a beehive of mathematical activity
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(p. xvi) staffed by
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(p. xvi) coaxing numbers out of calculators
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(p. xvi) my intuition is that twenty more names can be shaken loose from the archives with more research.
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(p. xvi) Virginia Biggins worked the Langley beat for the Daily Press newspaper,
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(p. xvi) On the tail end of the research for Hidden Figures, I can now see how that number might top one thousand.
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(p. xvii) To a first-time author with no background as a historian, the stakes involved in writing about a topic that was virtually absent from the history books felt high. I’m sensitive to the cognitive dissonance conjured by the phrase “black female mathematicians at NASA.”
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(p. xvii) Because as exciting as it was to discover name after name, finding out who they were was just the first step.
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(p. xvii) setting the bar for them all with her first research report—
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(p. xviii) sweeping narrative that they deserved,
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(p. xviii) relegated to the local history museum
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(p. xviii) Mercury Boulevard no longer conjures images of the eponymous mission that shot the first Americans beyond the atmosphere, and each day the memory of Virgil Grissom fades away from the bridge that bears his name.
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(p. xviii) But before a computer became an inanimate object, and before Mission Control landed in Houston;
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(p. xviii) Sputnik
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