I want to thank all of you who have taken the time
to read the
information on this web project. I hope you have learned what I
have,
and more over the last 14 weeks. I have learned much more than I
expected to designing and creating this web project. For starters, I am
not the most computer literate person, even with a father who is a
computer engineer. I was thankful that learning to create this web page
was not as hard as I thought. I ran into a few minor problems, but the
main point is that I finished it. I had hoped to make it more colorful
or interactive for the reader, but that is not what is important. What
I wanted to make sure is that all of you who read my web project
understood why I chose the topic this topic.
I wanted to inform readers of
famous women from our history. I wish I
could have picked more than three to research about, but was limited by
time and three was recommended by my professor. Initially I thought I
was going to have difficulty finding information on a famous woman from
the Ancient time period. Lucky me, I found more names and more
available information on women from the Ancient time period than I did
for women in the Medieval and Early Modern Science time period. I
hypothesized
that famous and intelligent women went unrecognized and un-acredited
from our past history. To no big suprise, my hypothesis was right. Of
all the
history classes I have taken throughout my college career have all
focused soley on men and thier intelligence and contributions to
science. The majority of what I learned of male involvement in
the feild of science is simply, without them, then we would not have
science or would not be at the level of understanding of science. This
is false. I found hundreds of
names of many influential women from our past history. It seems that we
have forgotten the women of science and if it wasn't for them, the men
would not have what they claim to be science soley by thier own hand.
I have learned what I knew was my
hypothesis. Becasue of how women were
veiwed in our past history, their intelligence and influence in the
feild of science
has gone unrecognized until recent professionals have written books and
made it known to all that powerful women from our past did indeed
exist. I researched more women than the three I chose for this
project,
and it seems clear that the men would not have survived without women.
Some famous and influential men from our past history were supported by
thier wives. Some took credit for the research and knowledge of thier
own wives.
I knew there were women who existed in our past history, but it
was a matter
of finding them and then learing about them. I did just that. What I
thought was going to be
a hard topic turned out to be a bit easier than I thougt. I think this
says something about the 20th century. Women are making a come
back and proving thier worth in this world. Women are smart and
intelligent
creatures and have the ability to accomplish and do anything and more
than men. Women
are still thought of as very different toward men and not thier equal,
but
that theory is slowly changing with time. All women need to do, is to
continue on the road we have been trucking down and continue to shine
in the same ray of light with men as equals.
LINKS:
My
PROJECT Page...
Any Questions and/or Suggestions
Please Email Erica Sheldon: erica-sheldon@ouhsc.edu
