Introduction
Sam Maggs is one of the Master’s students who has achieved a lot in life. She won the 2014 Cineplex Entertainment’s Casting Call contest. In the following year, that is 2015; she moved to Edmonton, where she works up to now as a writer for the different best-selling video game developer, BioWare. She earned her streaks as a ‘geek girl’ navigating the Doom and Myst virtual worlds. She aims at showing the world through her writing that women are less represented and that their efforts are less appreciated. Therefore, Sam Maggs is one of the many feminist Master students making a change in the world, writing about how women are incredible in the inventory and discovery world.
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Maggs is a Canadian-American writer who has written several books, video games, and comics. Maggs is renowned for her Fangirl’s Guide and Wonder Women. She was born on 10th November 1988, in Ontario province, Canada, before moving to the United States, where she lives in Los Angeles (Ellis and Dawson 190). The author is often referred to as the Canadian fan culture considering her works that exemplify the feminist-leaning geek culture. Holistically, Sam Maggs is well known for her different pieces written both as books and as video games.
Sam Maggs credits both her parents and her professor, Christopher Keep, who encouraged her to continue writing. Her parents were great nerds, seeing Star Wars over twenty times in different theatres. Maggs went to Lester B. Pearson art school and London Central high school. Subsequently, she gained her Bachelor’s degree in Literature, English, and Film Studies from Western Ontario University in 2010 (Ellis and Dawson 190). Maggs studied sensation fiction and Victorian literature as her specialization. In addition to her Bachelor, she holds a Master’s Degree in modernity literature from the University of Ryerson, from which she graduated in 2011.
Maggs aims at making the world understand that women played a critical role in the ancient past, but they went unrecognized. Through her works, she seeks to shed light across the globe that women critically contributed to lots of incredible inventions and discoveries throughout history. The author strives to tell the audience the diverse radical actions which the ancient women did but went unrecognized. Being a feminist, the author feels like only men’s effort was recognized in previous centuries (Ellis and Dawson 190). Understandably, the writer develops an insight into the reader’s mind that there are women who did several tremendous things in the past. Thus, Maggs projects at establishing the different excellent and incredible inventions and discoveries that women engaged in throughout history.
Significantly, Maggs has described excellent traits of women, whereby they are hardworking people. In her book Wonder Women, she uncovers twenty-five innovators, trailblazers, and inventors who changed history (Ellis and Dawson 190). The piece shares the accounts of notable females in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), an area that was affiliated to men only. The book equally presents women in the espionage and adventure fields. Connectedly, Maggs celebrates women’s overlooked achievements in history and the actual female friendship power, agitating for the spirit of women supporting their fellow women.
Conclusion
In conclusion, it is paramount noting that Sam Maggs is one of the Master’s students that has achieved a lot in society as a feminist. She aims at understanding women’s achievements in history which went unrecognized both in STEM, espionage, and adventure. She champions harmony and collaboration among women to ensure that they have the same chances and compete with men favorably. Overall, Maggs’ ambitions of uplifting women’s status in society are welcome in modern society.
Work Cited
Ellis, Dave and Dawson, Debra. “Becoming a Master Student.” 7th ed., Nelson Education Ltd., 2020.