Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Lois was both a little sister and a big sister. Her older sister was called Helen and her little brother was called Jon. Her sister Helen died in 1962 at the age of only 28 of cancer. This incident was the background of her first book, “A Summer to Die”, which is about a young girl who tragically loses her older sister. Her brother Jon, who’s six years younger than Lois, grew up to be a doctor.

Janet Yellen is the first woman chair of the board of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946 to Jewish parents Anne and Julius Yellen. Her father, who had grown up on the lower east side, the son of immigrants from Poland, was a family doctor. He went to medical school abroad because he could not get into medical school in the United States due to the quotas put on the number of Jewish people who could be accepted to medical school. Her mother grew up in Brooklyn and was an elementary-school teacher.

There is a girl and both of her parents graduated from college, in fact, her dad is a doctor, while her mom is a teacher. The next dad in the story is an entrepreneur who is not even sure if he graduated high school. The other mom also graduated college and was a teacher, but gave it up 13 years ago to help the entrepreneur and stay home with her daughter. If someone took a look at the houses both families lived in they would not only assume the doctor lived in the house that the entrepreneur owns, but they would be so confident they would place a bet on it. Oh, how they would be mistaken.

At the time of this essay, she had been disabled for over four decades. Born to parents who both taught foreign language, they were able to afford hired help but she knew it could not be for her whole life. She graduated from law school in 1985 and went on to champion for disability rights. In the spring of 2002, McBryde Johnson testified in front of a subcommittee of the South Carolina State Senate in support of a bill that later became a law. This law created an exemption from the state definition of “nursing” to allow any person with a disability the right to choose who

Alice Johnson was born and raised in Boston, she was born on June 14th 1800. Her mother died at her birth she was raised by her two older sister and father who worked in the trading business, both of her sisters were school teachers. Alice was very well educated at home. She began writing poetry at the age of 13, reaching her early 20s, she used poetry to speak out against the inequality of Men and Women. Alice lived in a house in a suburban area, new railroads were being built just a mile away.

From creating the Student Council my freshmen year, to serving as Freshmen, Sophomore, and Senior Class President, I work to the best of my abilities to better my school. My junior year, when Noel Community Arts Middle School was in the process of closure, I organized students and invited at

Her mother is struggles to make good money at her nursing job. She barley gets by day to day living off her pay checks. By using a big proportion of her salary on her children’s education means that she wants the best for her children, and wants to see them succeed. Sotomayor graduated from Cardinal Spellman High School in 1972 and decided that she was going to attend one of the best ivy-league colleges in the country, Princeton University. Sonia accepted a full scholarship to attend Princeton, and this proves that anything is possible.

The memoir details the struggles and freedoms of a young woman in a new land. In her memoir, Santiago reveals the history of her life and her family in the Puerto Rican Island. She was the first born to her parents, even though she says her father has an older daughter she has never seen. Santiago tells how her parents’ relationship was on the rocks because her mother suspected her dad was unfaithful (Santiago 107). During all this, her younger brother Raymond is badly injured in a bicycle accident.

For many poor people the only way they can get out of poverty is through education. The movie “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story,” based on Liz Murray’s experience of growing up with heroin addicted parents. Her parents would used their welfare money to buy heroine which Murray led to dropping out of school. She filled her mind with rubbish until one day her mom died which led Murray to pursue a better life since her mom died without changing her situation. At the age of 17 she was able to finish four years of high school work in two years.

She was originally from Moorestown, New Jersey, went to college at Swarthmore, and was a hardworking student. “by the time Alice was a junior, she had become a serious student who often hung a ‘ busy’ sign on her door and studied through the night,” (kops 1, 8). Military like leadership of a party called the National Women’s Party, “Feminist organizer Alice Paul (1885-1977) cofounded the National Woman 's Party and led the militant wing of the woman suffrage movement” (“Commentary on Alice Paul”). The National women’s party was a group of young women fighting for women’s right to vote using protests. Alice made many other strides towards equal rights like getting the women’s party to fight on a national level not at the state level.

Childhood On July 6, 1921, Anne Frances Robbins was born in New York City, she was an only child of Kenneth Robbins, a salesman, and Edith Luckett Robbins, an aspiring actress. From an early age, Anne acquired the nickname “Nancy”. During Nancy’s infancy, her father, Kenneth left the marriage, leading to Edith to send her daughter to be raised by her aunt and uncle, Virginia and C. Audley Galbraith, in Bethesda, Maryland. While there, Nancy attended Sidwell Friends School. Her aunt would also travel with her to New York to visit her mother, when her mother was there for lengthy theater runs (1).