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Biography Sonia Sotomayor was appointed a Supreme Court justice in 2009 and became the first woman of Latin origin at the highest level of judicial hierarchy in the United States. Sonia Sotomayor was born in Bronx, New York, on June 25, 1954. Her parents were both born in Puerto Rico but moved to New York during World War II (Biography 2016). In Bronx, Sonia was raised in poor catholic Puerto Rican community and was speaking mostly Spanish (Lewis 2016). At age seven, she was diagnosed with…

sermons warning about the dangers of rock and roll music, expressed his disdain and attached adjectives such as 'sick', 'repulsive', 'horrible' and 'dangerous' to the genre (Weinstein p. 1). Dr. Deena Weinstein, professor of sociology at DePaul University and heavy metal aficionado called the genre a 'bricolage of culture' in her book entitled "Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture" (p. 5). Developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a reaction against the flower power, peace and love hippie…

to be president in 1960 to be the thirty fifth president. He was forty three years old when he became president. He was the youngest and Roman Catholic to take the office. (Staff, H. (2009). Retrieved December 17, 2015.) Kennedy went to Harvard University to become a journalist. In nineteen forty four he decided he didn’t want to become a journalist, and he also left the navy. In nineteen forty six he went back to Boston to begin running for congress. He was a democrat, and he won by a lot…

referrerid=246160&t=406602>. a. This bulletin includes a combination of students and legal advice regarding the topic of whether failing a student because of lack of attendance is legal. I want to explore the bulletin posted by one person saying that a girl in Washington was failed from a class for lack of attendance and she took it to court. Apparently, the superior court determined that since she paid for her classes it was her right to choose whether she would attend or not and if she…

fathom how it would feel to be in a situation such as the Palmer family, when Mr. Palmer lost his whole family in an instant. “The roof stood up and fell upon the family. They went under the water together. Palmer came up alone. … He saw nothing of Lee or Mae.” (Larson, 186)3 The Hopkins and the Credos did something which may have saved them and could have saved Palmer’s family. Larson wrote, “…with no warning, her mother [Mrs. Hopkins] lifted the ax over her shoulder and slammed it into the…

According to a 2016 database from The Washington Post, 875 individuals have been killed by the police in the United States. This database gathered that number from news reports, public records, social media and other sources (“Police Shooting 2016 database,” 2016). While this number is not by any means enormous, deaths at the hands of police officers were higher during the first six months of this year than compared to 2015 (Kindy, Lower, Rich, Tate, & Jenkins, 2016). Additionally, Kindy, Lower,…

all of history with his Dark Romanticism themed stories. He applied what he was going through in his personal life into the works he successfully wrote. This is why we should continue to read Poe in our schools right beside the names of Fitzgerald, Lee, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Twain, and Shakespeare. Wherever you are in life, we should use the gifts we are blessed with just like Poe did. Maybe the world would be a better place because of…

Josh Robinson Mr. Lee Intro to Cinema 9 June 2016 Director Robert Zemeckis Robert Zemeckis has directed many films ranging in genres. His films include Cast Away, Back to the Future, Annie, A Christmas Carol, Forrest Gump, and Flight. Zemeckis has earned a reputation as a “tech-savvy auteur whose work has explored special effects and digital magic” (Ressner 2013). Zemeckis grew up in a working-class family with little, to no money, in the south side of Chicago. He grew up watching television…

Drug Abuse “I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one...” (Kemp 1). In today’s society it is common for individuals to link onto something such as a person or drug. The recurrent use of illegal drugs or the misuse of prescription or over-the-counter drugs with negative consequences is known as drug abuse (umm.edu). In this day in age drug abuse is consuming the nation and…

On November 21, 1963, President Kennedy traveled to Dallas, Texas for a battle appearance. The following day, November 22, Kennedy, alongside his wife and Texas representative John Connally, rode through lizabeth Fitzgerald, was a Boston debutante, and his dad, Joseph Kennedy Sr., was an effective financier who made a fortune on stocks after World War I. Joe Kennedy Sr. went ahead to an administration profession as director of the Securities and Exchange Commission and as a diplomat to Great…