Having a U.S Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor attending Campus is not only interesting but very educational. I’d love to attend this event if I am available that day. I believe the event timeline would be strictly structured as someone with a prestige job like Sonia Sotomayor is our guest. As for the requirements, there will probably be some type of security check while arriving at the event and also a precise time table.…
Sonia Sotomayor was appointed by Barack Obama in 2009. Sonia, is currently serving as, associate. Before Sonia became part of the supreme court, she graduated from law school at Yale in 1980. Sonia served as a District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York in 1992. In 1998 Sonia was elevated to the Circuit Court of Appeals. In addition Sonia began teaching at New York University and Columbia Law School. She was the first Latina to be appointed into the Supreme Court in 2009 by Barack Obama. Nomination took place on May 26, 2000. The U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination in August, by a vote of 68 to 31. As a child Sonia lived a rough life with her family. Sonia comes from a family of Puerto Rican immigrants, and was raised with her…
Carla Washburn is a 76 year-old African-American woman who lost her husband fifteen years ago. She lives alone in the small town of Plainville, which is Northwest. Ms. Washburn lost her son Roland and his wife in a car accident and recently lost her grandson, Roland Jr, in Afghanistan. Although Mrs. Washburn and her sister speak on a weekly basis by phone, she has made no attempt to contact her since Roland Jr.'s passing eight months ago. Ms. Washburn recently fell in her home, which has made it difficult for her to walk. She also has Type II diabetes, and is insulin-dependent (Lieberman, 2013).…
She feels such isolation bears painful, even dangerous consequences on the disabled. Making them feel as if they’re not there- that they don’t exist.…
Magtadt defines liberals has typically holding civil rights close to heart. They are often the primary defenders of individuals or groups that they see as victims of past discrimination, such as racial minorities, women and the poor (p. 37, 2015). Although identifying as independent she has quite often voted along with the liberal side of the Supreme Court. However, it can be said that unlike other liberals Sotomayor takes a more case-by-case approach. Sotomayor has shown a willingness to side with conservative in cases pertaining to criminal law, no doubt an influence of her time as prosecutor. For example, in Wetzel v. Lambert back in February 2010, she sided with the conservative bloc’s majority opinion to reinstituting a convict’s death…
A time when Sonia Sotomayor was determined to give back to her community was when she had to give her speech during her speech competition. She started by talking about the killing of Kiddie Jenaveys and how it took place. After she got off work from her job at a bar late at night around three in the morning, getting home to her apartments in the queens, she parked her car in a nearby parking lot walking through an alley towards her apartment when a stranger appeared in her shadow and frightened her so she ran and he caught up to her and stabbed her in the back as she screamed and cried for help. Several neighbors heard her cries and her struggle as Winston Mosley stabbed her. The windows were shut due to the cold weather, but kiddie kept screaming for help as he stabbed her repeatedly and beat her to shut up and finely raped her. When it was all over the neighbors called the police and they arrived minutes after but Mosley got away that night later caught for a burglary charge and now is faced with life in prison.…
Nancy Mairs's essay “Disability from Carnival Acts describes how the speaker, Nancy Mairs, lives every day with a disability. She reveals her view on the handicap and disabled. Nancy Mairs has multiple sclerosis, weakening of the bones, and she feels as if she is being judged and is inferior to everyone else. The audience is definitely aware of how she feels. She is very blunt about her feelings and everything else. She wants to make a stand for all the disabled people. The essay displays desperation, as well as hope. She is desperate to be equal and to no be judged; She has hope that one day all handicap will be equal. Nancy Mairs is a true symbol of how handicap people can persevere, stand through anything, and triumph over adversity. She lives a competent life filled with judgmental people looking at her poorly, simply because of her disability.…
In My Beloved World, Justice Sonia Sotomayor chronicles her rise from an impoverished childhood in the Bronx to a successful legal career. Sotomayor offers a simple rationale for her ability to make this improbable rise: the help of mentors. Throughout her life, Sotomayor relies on the advice and help of others, allowing her to first see beyond her poor neighborhood then reach the summit of the legal profession. Sotomayor both seeks mentorship from obvious sources like her mother, her grandmother, and later professors, and qualities in friends and colleagues. Sotomayor makes it clear: her ability to make mentors of friends and superiors allowed her to reach the office she holds today.…
Masingita dedicated her life to helping others with disabilities, especially those with the condition of cerebral palsy(city press,2004). By being an activist for the disabled she in return was gaining more confidence and sharing her life experiences with others meant that she was also helping them acquire the similar confidence she…
I adhere to a doctrine of rationalism and follow my own interests. In the show people misunderstand Daria’s lack of words as misery, but it is resistance to homogenized happiness and acceptance of the status quo. Daria uses her words wisely and speaks when she needs to. I am similar to her in that way; my silence stems from my instinct to observe my surroundings and absorb what people are discussing rather than just speak bombastically. I never conform to people’s attitudes just to be a part of a group, and I am quick to assert myself when I do not agree with someone. With this mentality, I joined my high school’s speech and debate team freshman year, participating in extemporaneous speaking by voicing my opinion on several foreign and national issues. My sophomore year I joined my The City Club Of Cleveland's Youth Forum Council, and I helped…
Realizing he has more to live for is what makes him, “the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” In memory of his fight with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS is often referred to as Lou Gehrig disease. The Hall of Fame baseball player impacted many lives due to his strong will and ability to never give up. Through the use of rhetorical questions, repetition, and understatements Gehrig explains all the reasons he has to keep fighting and…
Imagine yourself waking up every morning and realizing that you have to literally avoid death from the moment you wake up till the time you are supposedly safe at home. Imagine that you’re told by many people, who you love, that you’re a sin and that you will burn in hell. Imagine that everyday the people you thought cared for you turn you away and threaten you if you don't change, for some people that is something they can never even begin to understand, but now imagine it happening to someone for their entire life. Laverne Cox, a transgender woman and actress, gives a powerful speech during ‘Creating Change 2014’ (an organization that brings awareness to the LGBT community) she talks about the violent injustices and police discrimination against the lives of transgender women of color as a way to spread awareness of the inequalities of transgender within the LGBT community to those who feel the T in LGBT isn't as important. Throughout her speech she appeals to the viewer's empathy to those in pain through personal anecdotes and asyndeton sentences.…
She explains how disabled people were denied rights in the early days, the media’s influence and the current dilemma many of them face. One example was her explaining on how she was told about “a boy with Down syndrome” (pg. 445) “who wasn’t allowed to go to school” (pg. 445) in a small town Georgia neighborhood. Later we see the passing of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1975 followed by Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. She explains the promotion of Tropic Thunder and its exploitation of the word “retard”. Bauer also used statistics to back her claim of stigma that America has on those with people with disabilities even in the modern era. Research was conducted by University of Massachusetts found that “half of young people wouldn’t spend time with a student with an intellectual disability”. (pg. 445) “More than half of parents didn’t want such students at their children’s school” (pg. 445) Towards the end, she argues against the stereotype or predictable future of a person with disability. She explains the surprising success her daughter has had despite the fact she has Down…
“If there was a red pill and you could take it, and there would be no side effects and your disability would be gone. Would to take it?” (Liberty Mutual’s The Responsibility Project, 2012). Anjali Forber-Pratt is paralyzed from childhood. She conquered issues uncommon to most able-bodied individuals such as social pressures, critical personal decisions, and relationships between legal and ethical issues, but she could win gold at the Paralympics.…
I have always loved history and learning about different people and how they created an impact that still last today. The historical figure I admire the most is Eunice Kennedy Shriver. I admire Eunice Kennedy Shriver for several reasons. I admire her for her hard work, her perseverance and the change she created.…