Ada Lovelace Research Paper

Eliza moved to Richmond to live with mother, after her mother died (she was 10).

Musical prodigy Mary Lou Williams, also known as Mary Elfrieda Scruggs, was born on May 8, 1910 in Atlanta, Georgia. She was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania along with her 10 half brothers and sisters. The start of Mary Lou’s piano career began when she was able to replay almost perfectly the song her mother played on the family’s pump organ. Her exceptional gift of perfect pitch and teaching from her mom enabled her to play piano on a professional level at the age of four years old. Mary Lou’s birth name was Mary Elfrieda Scruggs but she changed her name to Mary Lou Burly to take her step father’s last name. She later changed her last name to Williams after her first husband. At a young age Mary Lou performed small gigs around Pittsburgh and at the age of 10, she was known everywhere

Have you ever put much thought into how an uneducated woman with a disability in reading and writing, could still find a way to work and fight for not only her rights but others too? Isabella Baumfree was a phenomenal woman . She took a stand for women’s rights, blacks rights, and anti-slavery. She was a well-known abolitionist and orator.Isabella Baumfree, was born in 1797, to parents who were enslaved; she was one of twelve children. She had a rough childhood. She was sold at the age of eleven, along with a flock of sheep for the price of one hundred dollars. She experienced countless beatings and sexual abuse from her master (slave owner). Later, she married a man named Thomas and had children of her own. Her children were eventually sold to different plantations. She was only left with her infant daughter . Isabella Baumfree was a runaway slave. As the result of her children being sold, she was only able to escape to freedom with her infant daughter. After she obtained her freedom ,she went to court and challenged the validity of her son being sold into slavery. She was successful against so many odds in the court case. She won. Isabella Baumfree continued down her religious

As I’m sure you know it’s important that every citizen undertake in their civic duty. From students attending school, to people voting, to those serving in the military. Without people voting and following the laws of the land, the country would devolve into anarchy.

“The “Ladies’ Department,” in the periodicals of the day, had no attraction for me” (cite this from memoranda)

In the 2011 WNBA Finals, the Minnesota Lynx swept the Atlanta Dream, 3-0. It was Maya Moore’s first year of playing in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). In her five year WNBA career she has already won 3 championships, played in two summer olympics', played in a women's basketball league overseas, and won many different awards. Today she is recognized as one of the best women´s basketball players in the world.

The Catholic church is one of the best known religions today. Yet it was not like this before in the olden times. The Church was not reaching out into the outer peripheries. Many people in general did not know what Catholicism was. They were misguided by the pagan priests who taught them false teachings of tree-rock-sun worship. Every time the Church would attempt to evangalize these countries they would be thrown out or the evangalizers would be killed in barbaric ways. Yet 1 man stood out and managed to succesfully evangalize most of Prague and Poland. That mans name was St. Adalbert.

On November 15, 1887, in Sun Prairie Wisconsin, Ida O’Keeffe and Francis Calyxtus O’Keeffe became parents to a baby girl. They named her Georgia Totto after her grandfather George Victor Totto. Her mother, Ida O’Keeffe, was Dutch and Hungarian and her father, Francis Calyxtus O’Keeffe, was Irish. Francis and Ida grew up as neighbors and when they got older, both of their families wanted a marriage between them and to combine their two farms. Although Ida wanted to become a doctor, she still agreed to the marriage.

Marie Ationnette was born as the 15th child into the Austrian royal family in 1755. At the early age of 14, she was married off in 1770 to the dauphine of France, Louis. At 19 she became queen of France, becoming an embodiment of the ancien regime, eventually becoming the symbol of the excesses of the monarchy and their irresponsible spending, earning her the name of Madame deficit. Marie Ationnette was significant to the revolution, for her symbolism of lavish spending, her scandals, and her role in the march of the women provoked the people to overthrow the Monarchy. Marie Ationnette was best known for her extravagant spending, which ultimately earned her the name “Madame Deficit”. To entertain herself Marie would often go to parties, theatre,

Isabella d’Este, also known as “the first lady of the world,” was an influential person in the Renaissance period. She was married to Francisco Gonzaga and ruled the city-state of Mantua, in his absence. In her youth, her family ruled Ferrara, another Italian city-state, located on the Po River. At the age of sixteen she was married, and perfectly embodied the Renaissance ideal of an individual. This is true because she was universally educated and fulfilled her duties.

Anne Tyler was the oldest of four children, by an industrial chemist and a social worker. Both of her parents were Quakers, and they were very active with social causes in the Midwest and South. She lived in Celo community from age seven to eleven, her job was to help her family and others with caring for livestock and organic farming. There she didn’t attend formal public school. When she was eleven her parents decided to move to Raleigh, North Carolina there Tyler felt herself to be an outsider in the public schools, and that feeling followed her most of her life. She entered school academically well ahead of most of her classmates. There she stayed in the libraries and there she discovered a lot of authors, but Eudora Welty remained one of her favorites. Welty was “my crowning influence” (Tyler).

He was now focusing on designing an “Analytic Engine”, which would be a machine that could perform calculations without user input. Ada immediately grasped the potential significance of such a machine and impressed Babbage with her ideas on the concept of a calculating engine. Her friend, Sophia Frend, later wrote, “Miss Byron, young as she was, understood its working, and saw the great beauty of the invention” (Toole 51). Ada requested that Babbage send her the blueprints for the machine so that she could further understand it. This was the beginning of a long intellectual relationship between the two and they would continue to correspond and collaborate for the next nine years. However, her mother disagreed with Babbage’s metaphysical views on mathematics and “preferred that Ada be grounded in what she considered the facts” (Toole 52). Despite this, Ada continued to meet and write with Baggage. She would go against her mother’s wishes by deciding to “not destroy her imagination but use it in her own way” (Toole 53). Ada’s work no longer focused on studying what had already been learned, but instead imagined new

“Well, if it is something that I must be allowed to know, then speak out your mind, or forever be forced to live out the remainder of your days in unbearable regret…”

Marie Curie was a scientist that lived from 1867 to 1934. Curie was very hardworking and devoted to science, after graduating at the age of 15 she went on to get her masters in physics in 1893 then got a degree in mathematics in 1894. She married Perre Curie, also a devoted scientist, and began her work with him. She made countless contributions to physics, chemistry, and the medical field. She is known for her discovery of radium and polonium, her invention the Little Curie, and her two Nobel Prizes.

Marie Curie was born November 7, 1867 in Warsaw Poland. which, being controlled by Russia was very suppressed. Marie’s mother worked as a teacher as did her father, and they made sure that their daughter had a great education. As Marie grew up she began to see how the Russians suppressed the Polish people :for example her father lost his job. Whenever Marie was old enough to go to college, She worked out a deal with her sister, while one was at college in Paris the other would get a job to help support the other. Marie’s sister went first ,and so Marie got a job as a governess. When it was Marie’s turn to go to college she went to the Sorbonne and moved to Paris. Soon after she started college, she decided to get degrees in physics and calculus.