Need help picking topic for WS report

cintari · March 2011

In a brain slump here. The requirements for my report is that it has to be on a living woman. I tried looking up more personal information for one individual, Michiru Oshima, came up with nothing. Tried to see if there were any prominent female game developers, wikipedias list had 1 and i didn't recognize the game series she worked on. Going to try and look up information on Chikayo Fukuda right now. If you know any living women (Oprah, Michelle Obama, etc. have been taken for the most part) feel free to drop names.

TychoCelchuuu · March 2011

You can't think of any living women to do a report on? Like, not even one other than Oprah or Michelle Obama?

*sigh*

If you're looking for the "game developer" sort of angle, Brenda Brathwaite might be someone to look into. I'm not sure how detailed your report needs to be, or even what the report is, but given that you're starting at Wikipedia I'm guessing you don't have to do much work, and depending on what needs to go in the report you probably won't have trouble finding enough stuff on her.

cintari · March 2011

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

You can't think of any living women to do a report on? Like, not even one other than Oprah or Michelle Obama?

No I learn under the southern education system. It's not as bad as most would imagine. We write on the pelts of dead squirrels and occasionally get a book or two to share amongst our grades students. Our required literature is Dr. Seuss ABC's and whatever we can find written amongst the bathroom stalls. I must admit though my lack of knowledge when it comes to women mostly has to do with the fact that I'm a male chauvinist. I chose at an early age to learn as little as I could about womens rights, accomplishments, and such. (Or it could have been the fact that the majority of history books I got in my classes had only about 4 or 5 mentions of famous women and furthermore, barely covered anything after WWII).

ps
My womens studies teacher isn't the best of teachers. Her lessons usually consist of 15 minutes of talking about ancient Hawaiin and Roman goddesses followed by 35 minutes of Betty Boop cartoons and Billy Jole songs. At the end of class we're given a crossword puzzle or fill in the blank worksheet to create the illusion that she is actually teaching us. Its the middle of the second semester and I haven't had a single test, or essay assignment to do. She's just cashing in time till school's over.

Skoal Cat · March 2011

That isn't a very good reason for not being able to think of a women to write about.

If you want something video game related, how about Jane McGonigal?
Or Jane Goodall?
Or Charna Halpern?
Or Madonna?
Or Casey Anthony?

Pure Din · March 2011

How about female scientists?

I like the above suggestion of Jane Goodall, also here's some more you could read about:
Sally Ride (Astronaut)
Shirley Ann Jackson (Physics)
Temple Grandin (Animal Scientist)

Actually, I think a report about Temple Grandin would be fun. My boyfriend said her autobiography is really interesting, and there was a movie about her that came out last year as well.