...Sonia Sotomayor is one of our 9 Supreme Court Justices today. She is born and raised from the Bronx, New York. Born on June 25th, 1954 to Juan and Celina Baez- Sotomayor, and she is the older sibling of the two children they have. Her upbringing through childhood was pretty well off. While her mother was a nurse, her father was a tool and dye worker. Sonia’s father passed away in 1963, which left her mother behind being a single mom. Her mother’s goal while raising her two children alone was to be sure her children would be successful, she strived for this. Sonia graduated from Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx in 1972. From there, she started school at Princeton University. She got discouraged quickly while attending Princeton due to receiving a not so well-off grade on a midterm. She...
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...Sonia Sotomayor is the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in the history of the United States and the third woman. She was nominated by President Barack Obama in May of 2009 and assumed the role in August of 2009. She was born in the Bronx during 1954 to Juan and Celina Baez Sotomayor. Sonia parents were born in Puerto Rico and later moved the United States for a better life. Her father died when she was nine and her mother assumed the role of single parent. Sonia's mother made sure to instill in her children the importance of higher education and learning English. Her mother made many sacrifices to make sure her kids would have a better life. When talking about Sotomayor's mother Antonia Felix writes " Celina's ability to forge a strong sense...
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...Sonia PAIN, I have realized, is beautiful only when one can rise from its depressing power. I have known people who have become bitter and cynical under the lash of sorrow; and I have known some who never recovered from anguish. My experience is important only so far as it may help others toward growth; it is worthless to me if it implies vanity. Sonia to me is a fairy tale half told or a lyric half lost in fancy, a delicate melody unsung. Had she grown into full womanhood, she might have become an intellectual; for she was deliberate and clearcut in her language, precise in her reasoning, and keen in sensing nuances which maturer minds about her could not appreciate; then I should have remembered her as reason grown into wit and perhaps into philosophy, but the impression of a fairyland would have been forever lost, the glamor of its poetry never felt even in vague suggestions, and the delicate melodies never perceived. As a friend suggested to me when grief was most oppresive: "You shall always remember her as a child." How beautiful I felt it was! For nothing but poetry could give such a feeling. In such a moment, reason would have destroyed me with consummate triumph; for if I had tried to explain why God had snatched away from me the thing I loved best in life, I would have allowed reason to rob me of sorrow to show me the way to a more beautiful, more full, and nearly perfect life. Sonia shall always live in my memory as a child who wonders why the stars shine in the...
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...Brian Yan All was good and well. The house was trouble free. There were no conflicts. This was prior to the Professor’s visit. In a couple of days, huge fights occur. Shots go off in the house and suicide almost committed. It was a completely different environment. This can all be attributed to the Professor. The professor is extremely selfish and it is this selfishness that is the source of all misery within the estate. For many years, Vanya and his niece Sonya, have been looking over the estate that belonged to Vanya’s sister, Maria who is also the first wife of the Professor. Meanwhile, the Professor and his young wife, Elena are living in city off the earnings of the estate. Retired with no job, he is simply a mooching cradle robber who needs constant care by Elena or Sonya. In the play, it is clear that he is no longer the brilliant man that he was once was. Naturally, the Professor is selfish because he has become extremely dependent on others due to his old age. He requires a lot from those around him and gives nothing back. Simply he is a burden as demonstrated in his own words to Elena “You are quite right, of course. I am not an idiot; I can understand you. You are young and healthy and beautiful, and longing for life, and I am an old dotard, almost a dead man already. Don't I know it? Of course I see that it is foolish for me to live so long, but wait! I shall soon set you all free. My life cannot drag on much longer. (Chekhov)” This does not only apply to Elena...
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...Kailen Adgerson-Smith Women politics Term essay Sonia Sotomayor Sonia Maria Sotomayor was born June 25th 1954 in South Bronx new York . She was the oldest child of two. Her parenets were Juan and Celina (Baez) Sotomayor .The family moverd to the bronx in a projects where they were income family. Sotomayor ‘s Mother was a nurse and her father was a factory worker who died when she was 9 years old. When Sotomayor was young she loved watching the hit show “Perry Mason”. She wanted to be like Nancy Drew from the show and didn’t like the outcome of a verdict and decided she wanted to be a Attorney or Judge. “That was what I was going to be” said Sonia . When her father died , her mother worked harder and raised the children as a single parent. Her mother pressured her even more to go to college and always pushed education. Sonia remembered getting a set encyclopedia for a Christmas gift. She graduated from Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx in 1972 and went Princeton University. The young woman felt overwhelmed by her new school; after her first mid-term paper got a bad grade she decided she needed help in English and writing because her first language at home was Spanish . She worked with the university's discipline committee, where she started working on her legal skills. Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton in 1976. She was also received the Pyne Prize, which is the highest academic award given...
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...Meleis, A. (2012). Theoretical nursing: development and progress (5th ed.) Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.f d f f dsf sf f fd ff f dsfd f sd f df f df df f d fds f d fs f f df d The stage is set for the mother of all battles in Amethi, which is going to the polls on Wednesday. With campaigning for the high-profile contest coming to an end at 5pm on Monday, both the BJP and Congress have lined up their arsenal in full force for a fight to finish. While BJP's charge will be led by its PM candidate Narendra Modi, Congress will have Priyanka Gandhi leading from the forefront. While Modi is defying tradition to storm into the constituency of his chief rival, Congress insiders say that even party chief Sonia Gandhi might join her razing army on the front on Monday to give the prospects of her son one last push. The Aam Aadmi Party, too, will have its star campaigners bolstering the campaign of Kumar Vishwas which, of late, has got mired in the tangle of attacks and FIRs. Even BJP top brass in the state was taken unawares when word reached them on Friday evening about Modi's rally right in Amethi. When TOI reached the rally ground on Saturday, top state BJP leaders were found running around to make arrangements. "It's a big battle and neither side wants to yield even an inch," was the feeling among party workers in both Congress and BJP camps. They admit that the fact that Modi chose to take the battle right into Rahul's territory...
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...ASPECTS OF BEREAVEMENT THAT CAN BE DISENFRANCHISED In life, there are certain situations in which an individual's grief is not recognized and unacknowledged by others, a phenomenon that has been termed disenfranchised grief. These individuals are denied the "right to grief" and are not offered social support, sympathy, or opportunities to express their emotions. Disenfranchised grief is more actively negative and destructive as it involves denial of entitlement. Disenfranchising messages actively discount, dismiss, disapprove, discourage, and invalidate, the experiences and efforts of grieving. And disenfranchising behaviors interfere with the exercise of the right to grieve by withholding permission, disallowing, constraining, hindering, and even prohibiting it. ( Attig ). Kenneth Doka defined disenfranchised grief as the grief that people experience from a loss that is not, or cannot be, openly acknowledged, publicly mourned, or socially supported. There is a wide range of multiple losses that people experience on a daily basis that fits into a disenfranchised grief framework. These losses can range from changes in jobs and friendships to loss of a lover, through divorce or the death of a pet or due to the physical or emotional changes to a loved one brought on by conditions such as AIDS or Alzheimer's disease. In each case, where there was once an attachment, there soon follows a loss and its accompanying grief. The grief process, however, becomes more complex...
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...Successful leaders are mindful of their actions. Leading becomes natural when you do so by example. They are positive and inspiring individuals. A great leader has been Sonia Sotomayor. The Honorable Sotomayer is from Puerto Rican and the first female U.S. Supreme Court Judge. She is a hard working, ethical who bonds with her community. The following is how to your effectiveness as a dominance style leader basing it on Judge Sotomayor’s great efforts as a leader. Judge Sotomayor is from Bronx, NY. She is very familiar with struggle. She had juvenile diabetes and took insulin at age 8. She graduated from Princeton and was the editor of the Yale Law Journal. She also joined a Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. ( 27 May, 2009). The White House states the Judge is “one of the ablest federal judges currently sitting” (The White House, 26 May 2009). In 1979 she was hired as an Assistant District Attorney . She has the experience in law. Judge Sotomayor reviews factual details and legal doctrines in cases. This helps her arrive to her decisions (The White House, 26 May 2009). She is committed to co-workers and family. She is a mentor and a sponsor for inter inner city high schools. Bronxdale homes were renamed after the Judge and that is where she grew up. The Judge is a great leader. She is a confident woman and is a great attorney. She is dedicated and a powerful Supreme Court Judge. She shows strong determination. She also continues to be humble...
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...expensive they have to borrow money to pay tuition. They have so many financial responsibilities they need to work more hours and do not have enough time to study. Then they are not prepared for test and papers; end up failing and dropping out. Because they are dropping out they will not have the degree for a better job, and now have debt. Community college students are at higher risk of dropping out than students that are at a university because of many reasons: lack of motivation, less financial investment, and insufficient time management. A woman that was able to overcome these obstacles was Sonia Sotomayor, author of My Beloved World. She describes the same kind of difficulty as college students are going through right now, except for dropping out. Even though she had significant burdens on her shoulders she graduated from an Ivy League school. If prospective college’s students applied Sonia Sotomayor tactics before and during the first years at university, then they would be more apt to complete their degree. Sonya Sotomayor initially found herself at Harvard, a campus that she quickly was uncomfortable with and in ways regretted attending, a feeling that many current college students find themselves experiencing as they arrive at university. As a Puerto Rican, and a woman, typically wealthy, white, males who have dominated...
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...Name: Khuraijam Sonia Devi | Address :Sampangiramnagar ,Bangalore-560027 | Email id.: sonianao21@gmail.com Mobile No.: +919743547085 | CAREER OBJECTIVE: | * To develop further knowledge in the field of Healthcare and work for the growth of the organization by coordinating, organizing and utilizing technical skills. COMPUTER SKILL: | * Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and Powerpoint * Windows * Basic Internet Functions AREA OF INTEREST: | * Hospital Administration * Hospital Planning and Operations * Finance * Public Health * Hospital Information System QUALIFICATION: | COURSE MBA in Healthcare and Hospital Administration | INSTITUTION GEMS B SCHOOL | UNIVERSITYBHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY | YEAR OF PASSING 2015 | PERCENTAGE | Bachelors in Hospital Administration | Padmashree College of Hospital Administration, Bangalore | Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences | 2010-2013 sem:72%6th sem: 5t | 80.2 | 10+2 | Human Resource Development Academy,Manipur | COHSEM | 2010 | 68.75 | 10th | Little Flower High School, Imphal, Manipur | BOSEM | 2008 | 68 | | INTERNSHIP: 6 months INTERNSHIP in HCG Hospitals, Bangalore | ACHIEVEMENTS: | Topper of Rajiv Gandhi University in 1st Year and 2nd Year of B.H.A (2010-2013) POSTINGS:...
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...a) Resilience I admire Sonia Sotomayor was able to move on in her life after the death of her father and grandmother. Unlike her mother, who needed more time to grieve with her lost; Sonia returned back to her daily activities. These two people had a very special place in her heart. Even though her father was an alcoholic, he helped provide for his family and loved them very much. Sonia's grandmother, who she called abuelita, began to wear black on a daily basis. That was her way of grieving with her loss. Sonia was raised by a single parent and did not grow up in the best neighborhood or building. Her mother never allowed her children to take the stairs because of the drug users getting high on the staircase. Despite her background, Sonia Sotomayor made history. Sotomayor is the first Latina to be in the Supreme Court. Not only being the first Latina, Sonia is one of the only three women in the Supreme Court...
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...THE ACCIDENTAL PRIME MINISTER THE ACCIDENTAL PRIME MINISTER THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF MANMOHAN SINGH SANJAYA BARU VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi 110 017, India Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 707 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3008, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, Auckland 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Group (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, Block D, Rosebank Office Park, 181 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parktown North, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in Viking by Penguin Books India 2014 Copyright © Sanjaya Baru 2014 All rights reserved 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The views and opinions expressed in this book are the author’s own and the facts are as reported by him which have been verified to the extent possible, and the publishers are not in any way liable for the same. ISBN 9780670086740 Typeset in Bembo by R. Ajith Kumar, New Delhi Printed at Thomson Press India...
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...Affirmative Action Joshua Guest POS/110 August 22, 2010 Lisa Beiduk Affirmative Action Affirmative action was introduced in 1961 by President Kennedy as a form of redressing discrimination that was still present despite the civil rights laws and constitutional guarantees (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 2007). Affirmative action aims at providing minorities and women equal rights to employment and education. Affirmative action was debatable since it began in the 1960’s and is still a very debatable topic today. Affirmative action requires increased attention and knowledge to understand both the pros and the cons of affirmative action and allow people to make educated decisions on affirmative action being beneficial or detrimental. Affirmative action is a set of public policies aimed at protecting the civil rights of underprivileged individuals of minority races or who are women. Affirmative action policies require that all state and local governments and all businesses associated with government funding must adopt the principles of affirmative action (Edwards III, Wattenberg, Lineberry, 2008). The principle action of affirmative action is the better treatment of members of minority groups and women. Many argued that affirmative action policies were violating the principle of the law which states all individuals are equal. The policies related to affirmative action needed some mending. While affirmative action was a stepping...
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...76 lakh crores (40 billion dollars) Classic example of collusion between politicians, industrialists and media with high powered brokers. Indian Government refuses to constitute a joint parliamentary committee of all parties to investigate the scam (that resulted in total deadlock in entire last parliamentary session). India, Republic of Scams 2G Spectrum Allocation Fraud(2010) India Today Jan 3, 2010 No tolerance for corruption or deception? Govt refused Joint Parliamentary committee because based on proportion of MPs there will be majority representatives from other parties who will be able expose those who actually received money and deposited in swiss and other safe havens? Who are they protecting? According to Dr. Swamy, Sonia has taken a big share of the loot deposited under her sisters names (Anushka and Nadia) India, Republic of Scams Commonwealth games (CWG) fraud 60,000 crores, 13 billion dollars (2010) [Conservative estimate!!!] CWG cost comparisons 2002 (UK): Rs 2,100 crores 2006 (Australia): Rs 5,000 crores 2010 (India): Rs 60,000 crores!!! 2014(UK,estimated): Rs 2,200 crores!!! Original estimate of India’s...
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...Named among the most influential Latinos by Hispanic Business Magazine and a “trendsetter” by Hispanic Magazine, Sonia Nazario is an award-winning journalist whose stories has challenged a few of our country’s most problematic issues – hunger, drug addiction, and immigration. Nazario’s immense knowledge in immigration and spending over 20 years reporting and writing about social issues for U.S. newspapers made her a popular and devoted speaker amongst legislative, legal, and humanitarian audiences. Sonia Nazario grew up in Kansas and in Argentina and has written widely about Latinos from Latin America and in the United States and is well known for her national bestselling book, “Enrique’s Journey” that was published as a series in Los Angeles...
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