By Kyria Abrahams
(www.narrative.ly)
"These days, “Mythbusters” is a wonderful show for young girls. It makes you realize that science is the world around you. Science is your life. Science is your body. Science is your backyard. Science isn't some dry thing in a book."
This piece is a profile of an explorer, researcher, and all over love of science, Mary Roach, told in the first person. Roach is a very popular science writer in the literary world, even though she is not a scientist. What fuels her writing and her interest peaked in school and on her own, as a little girl exploring in her backyard with her neighbors. Roach's love of writing also stemmed in grade school where she wrote and illustrated graphic novels. In the pieces Roach talked about "Mythbusters" being inspirational for young girls to get them interested in science, a field seen as predominantly male.
Roach says, "Generally, the Internet drives me nuts, the ease with which people accept things as fact." This was a strong quote because it shows her true nature. In this quote you realize that she is someone who goes against the grain, or the givens, to find a different meaning of things, which rings true for scientists and explorers.
"We'd go out and catch fireflies. We were endlessly absorbed by this little world around us. It was just this magical time. I was very much out in science." Roach really shows her inquisitive side here as she recollects a time where she viewed the world scientifically through a simple pass time. This also goes together with her beliefs that science is all around us in the simplest of things.
This piece is a profile of an explorer, researcher, and all over love of science, Mary Roach, told in the first person. Roach is a very popular science writer in the literary world, even though she is not a scientist. What fuels her writing and her interest peaked in school and on her own, as a little girl exploring in her backyard with her neighbors. Roach's love of writing also stemmed in grade school where she wrote and illustrated graphic novels. In the pieces Roach talked about "Mythbusters" being inspirational for young girls to get them interested in science, a field seen as predominantly male.
Roach says, "Generally, the Internet drives me nuts, the ease with which people accept things as fact." This was a strong quote because it shows her true nature. In this quote you realize that she is someone who goes against the grain, or the givens, to find a different meaning of things, which rings true for scientists and explorers.
"We'd go out and catch fireflies. We were endlessly absorbed by this little world around us. It was just this magical time. I was very much out in science." Roach really shows her inquisitive side here as she recollects a time where she viewed the world scientifically through a simple pass time. This also goes together with her beliefs that science is all around us in the simplest of things.
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