Jorge Ramos Good morning ladies and gentlemen, Have you ever heard of, or met a leader, who works hard at influencing people, and earns it by consistently delivering a message, and every step they take, they are backing those messages up. If not, meet Jorge Ramos. But, before I introduce the life of one of the most influential leaders in the Hispanic community today, let me define leader. Leader as defined on google, the person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country.…
In the United States Congress there are currently 20 women who are serving as senators. The woman that was first elected as a senator and made history in the United States is Debbie Stabenow, who is the senator for the state of Michigan, and part of the Democratic Party. Senator Stabenow is passionate about many issues like saving the lakes in Michigan, and making healthcare affordable for everyone, but she in not passionate about the immigration issue and fixing the immigration problems that the United States has. Senator Debbie Stabenow was born in Gladwin, Michigan, and lived there for majority of her life. She studied in the state of Michigan and got her master’s degree in social work from Michigan State University.…
Sandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas March 26, 1930. She lived a pioneer like life on a ranch with her parents. This helped her grow her independent spirit of a hard working woman. Her family also encouraged her to strive to be educated. O’Connor attended Stanford University where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics.…
Informational Essay Ruth Bader Ginsburg or aka R.B.G. is notorious for her great accomplishments. You probably don’t know what she did or the achievements she have made. Ruth Ginsburg has made notable feats in gender equality, that are no small deeds, especially when you’re a mother in college, facing a sexist society, while still managing to insert females into a unfamiliar field. Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg grew up in a low-income family in Brooklyn, New York.…
Everyone growing up had a role model to look up too, but how would you feel if you noticed that every successful person in the news was of one race and it wasn’t yours? It discourage many Latin Americans never having someone of their own race to look up too. Some jobs became just a dream to some seeing that no one had ever achieved such a high level of success. But, when Sotomayor took the office it encouraged people by showing them that anyone can do anything. “- were all asking, ‘Are we dreaming?’…
I admire Ruth Bader Ginsburg Supreme Court Justice; What Ginsburg did was bold. She fed a significant influence to the political audience. Her wisdom in policy makes her most qualified to express concerns and or judgment towards any candidate running for president. However, she is not above the law. Political involved behavior is a violation of the U.S code of conduct for judges, I also understand that.…
The Judicial branch in the U.S. government is an important branch because this branch interprets the Constitution. More specifically, it is the Supreme Court justices that are entrusted to interpret the Constitution. The Supreme Court justices help shape our legal system. There are usually nine Supreme Court justices. This paper will be focusing on Supreme Court justice Stephen G. Breyer in regards to his early life and his legal career before he became a Supreme Court justice.…
Throughout school and her career as a lawyer and judge, Sotomayor always had someone besides her who would guide and support her through her challenges. Throughout school and her career as a lawyer and judge, Sotomayor always had someone besides her who would guide and support her through her challenges. In Sotomayor’s senior year, Kenny had called her from Princeton to talk about college. As Kenny and Sotomayor talked, Sotomayor recalls that “ [Kenny] advised [her] that it was time for [her] too to be thinking about applying for college” and “Try for the Ivy League” (Sotomayor 147). Kenny had helped Sotomayor decide which colleges were right for her and encouraged her to aim for the highest college education available which ultimately made…
From her academic success through discrimination and sexism. Pass the struggles she moves on to make s huge impact on our society with her effects on court of law and cases. To even keeping up with the times and becoming popular in social media, she has done it…
Sarah thanks for your comments, but I do think you are a scholar. And, I do appreciate the compliment, “What I don't quite take away from your post is whether you think her style was a good thing or a bad thing.” My essay was to be of a scholarly approach too. It was not indented to express my opinion. But, I do stand by my original thesis.…
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American Politician and this year’s Democratic Party candidate for the president of the United States. She was born on October 26, 1947 in Illinois. Her father, Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, managed a successful small business in the textile industry. Her mother is Dorothy Emma Howell and Secretary Clinton also has two younger brothers named Hugh and Tony Rodham. She played many sports as a child including swimming and baseball.…
Nuria Chinchilla “was generally acknowledged to be a leader if not the leader in workplace flexibility and work-family issues internationally” (2). Nuria, by definition is a leader, someone who led others to deliberately generate an outcome that would not have been achievable otherwise. She spent the majority of her professional career advocating for the possibility of having balance in the workplace and home life. Leading in so many more ways than solely getting people to implicate her proposed reforms. Rather, she led by allowing her own life to be one in resemblance to that which she advocated for.…
Anita Hill is an African American woman who is a law professor and attorney. In 1991, Anita worked for Clarence Thomas, a former Supreme Court nominee, as his assistant. A few months after, he asked her to go out with him and she rejected him. He sexually harassed her with disturbing comments and pornography. It took her ten years to have the courage and strength to testify.…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is Time Magazine's "Person of The Year." CNN reports the 61-year-old German leader has won the title for her "steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply," wrote Time editor Nancy Gibbs. Merkel topped the magazine's list followed by Islamic State leader Abi Bakr al-Baghdadi (2nd place), US presidential candidate Donald Trump (3rd place), activist group Black Lives Matter (4th place), Iran President Hassan Rouhani (5th place), American entrepreneur Travis Kalanick (6th place), and transgender Olympian Caitlyn Jenner (7th place). "…
From the first sentence of the book, I was completely hooked. Sotomayor’s description of her insulin injection struck a chord in me– her story was a familiar one, and from her description of her diagnosis with type I diabetes, I was able to connect the book to my own life. Someone very close to me is a type I diabetic, and although I myself do not suffer from the disease, it still profoundly affects my life. Every day, I see how others manage diabetes, through insulin pumps, and constant blood glucose monitoring. So, when Sotomayor detailed the moment she received the list of careers she could never have due to her diabetes, my heart broke for her.…