Successful men are celebrated as inspired, driven, naturally talented and hard-working, while women with CEO or VP in their titles are heralded as super-humans or enigmas who have defied all odds.
for the Advancement of Colored People has blasted voter ID laws and called for a "high tide of registration and mobilization and motivation and protection". If, indeed, the voter ID laws inspire drives to register citizens and get them to the polls (and get them photo IDs), won't America be better off?
Former Nasa scientist Kevin Grazier, who was the technical consultant for Battlestar Galactica, says that a version of the Alcubierre warp drive inspired the "jump drive" used in that series.
After she graduated Kovitz was hired as an associate producer on a documentary film called "The Pushouts". This was her first real-world experience within the industry, and inspired her drive to become a filmmaker too.
In "Under the Dome," investigative reporter Chai Jing tells the story of how her daughter's birth inspired her drive to understand China's pollution crisis.
If it was on the moon, I would be there". Ross speculates now that her mother, who taught acting, might have inspired her drive: Marion Ross was going to become the actress the late Ellen Ross wanted to become.
That first drive-in theater, opened in Pennsauken, near Camden, was the brainchild of Richard Hollingshead, who was inspired by drive-in restaurants, where waitresses served customers in their cars.
The Quakers and the Evangelicals were inspired and driven by their religion to oppose slavery, and a good thing too.
The partnerships further develop and bring to the ground the vision while remaining inspired and driven by sustainability as a guiding and practicing principle.
In fact, many scientific innovations8,9 have been inspired or driven by science fiction, from the tractor beams10 of Star Wars to the invisibility cloaks11 of Harry Potter.
