What Are The Challenges Of Stomayor's Life

Sonia Sotomayor is a Puerto Rican Bronx native woman who lived a strenuous life. She went to Cardinal Spellman High School, a private High School in The Bronx. After graduating from Cardinal Spellman High School. She went to Ivy League school Princeton University in 7New Jersey. She earned her bachelor degree at Princeton University after. She then earned her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979. She was the first hispanic woman who was nominated to serve as a justice on the United States supreme court by President Barack Hussein Obama. Her experience in life was difficult. Sonia encountered many life challenges that overturned her. She developed type one diabetes at such a young age. Another Challenge she face was growing up in the public housing,
The poverty consumed her. Growing up poor was very difficult for her. Sonia Sotomayor got into college by affirmative action. This was a big support in her life because it got her into Princeton University Sonia Sotomayor's life is a story of social justice because it demonstrates that she brought awareness and action regarding issues of racial presentation. Sonia Sotomayor's life consisted of many challenges that she overcame.
She had support that facilitated her success and changed her life, which illustrates how her life was a story of social justice. Sonia Sotomayor grew up in The South Bronx. She faced a huge challenge when she was a young girl. She was Diagnosed with type one diabetes at such a young age. “Type one diabetes, once known as juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin, a hormone needed to allow sugar (glucose) to enter cells to produce energy. The far more common type 2 diabetes occurs when the body becomes resistant to insulin or doesn't make enough insulin.” ( Mayo Clinic, 2014 ) Which means that the pancreas produces no insulin and therefore making it harder for people to live. Having diabetes at such a young age can be so difficult. According to Psychological challenges for children living with diabetes by Abolina. She states that, “Living with diabetes can feel overwhelming for parents and children because constant vigilance is required for proper care. Childhood diabetes means that no food is supposed to be consumed without understanding: the
carbohydrate level, how much insulin to take, waiting for an effect, and problem solving if numbers are too high or low. Additionally, as children age, there may be social functions that they may miss altogether or participate in a limited fashion because of their condition” ( Abolina, 2013). Children who live with diabetes tend to face many obstacles when diagnosed. They have to make sure what they are intaking into their system in order to live a healthy and normal life, This can be a conflict when it comes to relationships and friendships with other from a parents point of view. Ablonia says, “some children are excluded from friends’ sleepovers, birthday parties, and summer camps because of fears from other parents and adults. Parents of children with diabetes may feel obligated to educate their child’s school at the beginning of the year, and advocate throughout the year by speaking with teachers, principals, and school nurses. Many children report feeling singled out and different from their peers. There is a range of reported experiences: some children have a network of very supportive friends and classmates, while others are bullied and teased.”(Abolina, 2013) It is true that children face situations such as bullying and isolation which they are not in control of but still manage to cope with it. In the case of Sonia Sotomayor she was diagnosed with type one diabetes at the age of seven. She describes her situation in explicit details and with such emotion. It can even affect a child's education. The child can feel inferior to school.. “I WAS NOT YET eight years old when I was diagnosed with diabetes. To my family, the disease was a deadly curse. To me, it was ,more a threat to the already fragile world of my childhood, a state of constant tension punctuated by explosive discord, all of it caused by my father’s alcoholism and my mother’s response to it, whether family fight or emotional fight. But the disease also inspired in me a kind of precocious self-reliance that is not uncommon in children who feel the adults around them to be unreliable.” (Sonia Sotomayor, 2013). Sonia’s family felt that that her disease was deadly curse, meaning that her family was ignorant to her illness and thought that it was a malediction to her. When sonia says that it was a threat to her childhood , it means that she was in jeopardy of dying soon and not being able to enjoy her childhood. Sonia’s type one diabetes played an enormous impact in her life. Abolina is in fact right about how type one diabetes affects a child emotional state as it affected Sonia’s childhood. Type one diabetes is harmful. It can harm a child both physically and emotionally. It is true that it can change the life of a child and due to this fact there can be a different outcome for a childs life.
Sonia Sotomayor was also very poor during her early ages in life.
She grew up in The Bronx. She moved to the projects in The Bronx for better living conditions. “Around the same time that junior was born, we moved to a newly constructed public housing project in Soundview, just a ten-minute drive from our old neighborhood. The Bronxdale houses sprawled over three large city blocks: twenty-eight buildings, each seven stories tall with eight apartments to a floor. My mother saw the projects as a safer, cleaner, brighter alternative to the decaying tenement what we had lived… in the projects we were isolated.” (Sonia Sotomayor, p. 1. 2013) Sonia grew up in the projects and her mother felt that it would be safer than where she used to live. The projects a government-subsidized housing development with relatively low rents.(Google, 2014) The projects are for people who are poor and for people who cannot afford rent.”Junior and I were absolutely forbidden to take the stairs, where my mother had once been mugge and where addicts regularly shot up, littering the scene with needles and other paraphernalia.” (Sonia Sotomayor,p. 24. 2013). This was the negative aspect of living in the projects. She faced this in the poor place. Having type one diabetes and living in poverty were two significant life challenges that Sonia Sotomayor encountered when growing
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Sonia Sotomayor was the first hispanic chief justice of the supreme court in The United States of America. She became very successful. But before accomplishing this goal and becoming successful in her life she had to face many obstacles. She got into Princeton University by affirmative action. Affirmative action is an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination (Google 2014). Affirmative action made Sonia Sotomayor who she is today. It makes a person grow. “ The daily princetonian routinely published letters to the editor lamenting the presence on campus of affirmative action students, each one of whom had presumably displaced far more deserving affluent white male and could rightly be expected to crash into the gutter built of her own unrealistic aspirations. There were vultures circling, ready to dive when we stumbled. The pressure to succeed was relentless, even if self--imposed out of fear and insecurity. For we all felt that if we did fail, we would be proving the critics right, and the doors that had opened just a crack to let us in would be slammed shut again” (Sonia Sotomayor, p 183. 2013) Sonia felt the pressure behind her. She felt that failing was not an option and that she would try her best to succeed and surpass all the stereotypes. Which is what she in fact accomplished. Affirmative action was an aspect that facilitated her success. If she did not receive the perks of affirmative action she probably would have not been in a justice in the supreme court.
Sonia Sotomayor is a leader to the minority people living in The United States of america. Her life is a story of social justice and she is a living leader of social justice. Social justice is justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. Sonia Sotomayor was a poor girl who was raised in The South Bronx in the projects. She went to a catholic school that helped her a bit. She later went to and Ivy League school. She went to Princeton University. She was granted the opportunity with affirmative action and was privileged to stay there at Princeton. Sonia Supports affirmative action and hopes that people will be equally treated. Treated equally in education and hopes that all students will be given the opportunity and be privileged to go to any school they want. (Washington Post,2013). Sonia’s life is proof that anything is possible. She proved that getting out of poverty is possible. The overall message is that anything is possible when you strive and put effort towards anything you are accomplishing.
Sonia Sotomayor was a strong woman from The South Bronx who went to princeton and was the first hispanic american who was nominated by Barack Hussein Obama. She faced many challenges in her life, the two big challenges she faced was type one diabetes and poverty. These two significant challenges challenged her but she did not give up on school or anything else. She kept her head up and strived forward. Affirmative action was her facilitation into college. Affirmative action helped her to become who she is today. Her autobiography is proof of social justice and how anything is possible for minorities.
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