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 * Ellen Ochoa**[[image:grimeslanguagearts/ellen_ochoa.jpg width="220" height="225"]]

Ellen Ochoa is a person who went through space. Went to college when not encouraged to. That's why I am writing about her.

When she wasn't encouraged to go to college she went. She was the best in her class. Girls weren't encouraged to take hard classes. So that's why she took physics and she took it because she loved it. Then she became valedictorian and she was the best in her physics class. She stayed strong even when her Dad left and her mother was the only one around to help her. Ellen Ochoa showed perseverance by going to college even when not encouraged to,becoming a astronaut and taking the hard math classes when her father left her.

After going to collage she became an astronaut by puting her name in a applcation and she was the one who was picked. She overcame training and she knew that it would be hard. After weeks of traning she met her goal by going into space. She got many meatals like the flight meatals in 2002. She also got a outstanding leadership meatal in 1995. She got the nasas excepional service meatal in 1997.

She over came her Dad leaving by taking hard math classes in school. When she was little girls wernt encouraged to have hard classes. But she proved them wrong by geting a bachelor degree in science in 1980. She proved to every one that girls can take hard classes.

Ellen Ochoa overcame alot of stuff. Like her Dad leaving her.Going to space training. Not being encouraged to do anything so I think Ellen Ochoa is a very persavering person.

References:

humphrey, S. M. (2005). //Dare to dream 25 extrodinary lives//. (p. 98). New York: Prometheous books. Biography.com. (2011). //Ellen ochoa//. Retrieved from http://www.biography.com/people/ellenochoa-10413023   //Ellen ochoa // [Theater]. (2011). Available from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/85165/Ellen-Ochoa