I decided to write my paper on the honorable Ruth Ginsburg. Ruth Baber Ginsburg is a U.S Supreme Court Justice. She is an excellent role model to young adults trying to excel in their careers. Ginsburg is seen as a fair person. She is the second woman to be appointed to the position. Ruth was also the first Jewish female justice. Ruth was nominated by Bill Clinton and preceded by Byron White. Ruth Ginsburg was born March 15, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York. Ginsburg’s grew up in a low-income home. She was taught the importance of education and independence. Some of Ruth’s earliest memories are of going to the public library with her mother, trips that imbued her with a desire to read and a love of learning. Although her mother did not go to college she still did everything could to influence Ruth in the right direction. Her mother, Cecelia, instead of going to college worked in a garment factory to help for the education of her sons. Growing up Ruth admired the selflessness of her mother. Ginsburg attended James Madison High School in Brooklyn where worked diligently and excelled in her studies. Ruth edited the school newspaper, the Highway Herald, for which she wrote articles on the Magna Carta and on the Bill of Rights (A&E Networks Television, 2014). She was also an active member and officer of the Go-Getters, a pep club for sporting and social events; she wore its black satin jacket, sold tickets to football games and other functions. Even with her mom struggling with cancer she still managed to stay focus. Sadly, her mom passed the day before she graduated from high school. Upon graduation from high school, she received various awards and a New York State scholarship. Ruth furthers’ her education and graduate... ... middle of paper ... .... She also authored Text, Cases, and Materials on Sex-Based Discrimination with Herma Hill Kay and Kenneth M. Davidson in 1974. In conclusion, one may agree that Ruth Baber Ginsburg was a phenomenal woman. She has overcome many obstacles as a woman and as a Jew to achieve her success. Ruth has paved the way for other Jewish women to move up the ladder of success. She used her intelligence to fight for what she thought was right. Ruth never let anything get into the way of her career or her studies. She was a strong woman. She had goals and did whatever it took to achieve them. Ginsburg would is a great role model. Her life stories are so realistic. She faced hardships and overcame them. She started out small and is now honorable. Ruth Ginsburg would be a great person to speak young adults because of the inspiring things she has done throughout her life.
Katherine Russell is an exceptional representative of equality for ladies on the grounds that she is capable, brave, and clever. Women like Russell make the world a better place and open the eyes of many to the
First, the challenge of diabetes. Sotomayor told Robert Barnes, of the Washington Post, “It drove me in a way that perhaps nothing else might have to accomplish as much as I could as early as possible.” What can be pulled from this quote is that she saw this disease not as something that would hold her back from her dreams but something that would drive her harder to her dreams. Sonia also told Barnes that she strived hard to reach her goals before age fifty because she was afraid she would die early. The drive of fear and determination really helped push Sonia to the finish line. Next, her cultural and social background. Sonia overcame this by working very hard: “Sotomayor bought grammar books and vocabulary texts and practiced each lunch hour at her summer job”(Barnes) He goes on to tell us that not only did Sotomayor get better at english and close the education gap but was awarded Princeton’s top academic prize. The video by Bio.com tells us that at school she was a quiet girl and was one of the smartest people in a school filled with smart people. Sonia worked really hard to conquer this adversity so she could go into law. Overall, Sonia Sotomayor has faced a lot of adversity in her lifetime but she has overcome it with great
She displayed great bravery, determination, and forgiveness at such a young age. She is wise and the fact that she still fights for equal rights shows how committed she is. She broke the color barrier for schools and showed that all children, despite their races, can come together and learn. She showed that integration of schools is a positive thing despite all the people wanting to stop her. Ruby Bridges is an inspiration to all those little black girls who are put down everyday because of the pigmentation of their skin. She proved that little girls can, in fact, change the
Between 1924 and 1938,she was the executive director of YWCA facilities in Springfield,Ohio,Jersey City,New Jersey,Harlem,Philidelphia,Pennsylvania and Brooklyn. She married Merritt A Hedgeman in 1936. In addition,she was also the excutive director of the National Committee for a Permanet Fair Employment Practices Commission,she briefly served as the assistant Deam of Women at Howard University,as public relations consultant for Fuller Products Company,as a associate editor,columnist for the New York Age. And she also worked for the Harry Truman Presidential campaign. Besides her being the first black woman to have a Bachlor`s degree in English,she was also the first black woman to serve to hold the position in the cabniet of New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr from 1954 to 1958. All of her success made her a well respected civic leader by the early
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however, every newspaper article about her tends to have something positive to say. The Huffington Post and The New York Times gave her the nickname, The Notorious R.B.G. (compared to The Notorious B.I.G.), because like B.I.G. was the one who changed hip-hop music forever, Ruth changed America, forever. However, even before Ruth became the legend that she is today, she still has very positive reviews from the media. The New York Times stories on Ruth always talk about how she is attempting to restore the freedom to every citizen of the United States. Ruth’s goal as a justice is to make everyone equal, whether it concern marriage, payments, or even women’s reproductive lives. (Over Ginsburg’s Dissent) (Galanes,
She knew what was right and couldn’t hold back. From Detroit Board of Education to segregation, she fought with everything and everyone for justice. Mrs. Liuzzo challenged the Detroit Board of Education for recently passed Michigan State Statue that reduced the age at which a student could drop out of high school without any permission to sixteen from eighteen. She believed children must be required to stay in school until they were eighteen as it could protect them from being exploited just as the child labor laws did before (Stanton pp.60 – 61). Viola Liuzzo was involved in neighborhood activism most of her adulthood, moreover she began to get seriously involved in the organized civil rights movement right after entering college. She was involved in the march to the federal building in Detroit held by 250 Wayne State University students’ which was a part of the civil rights movement. When it came to segregation she went totally against it. Stanton writes she once said to her black best friend Sarah Evans “Sarah we’re all created equal yet they’ll give me more justice than they’ll give you. That’s no right.’’ Stanton adds she wanted to be part of what was happening in the country. She had some of the stuff in her that Dr. King had in him (Stanton
Shirley Chisholm was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Barbadian parents. When she was three years old, Shirley was sent to live with her grandmother on a farm in Barbados, a former British colony in the West Indies. She received much of her primary education in the Barbadian school Her ideals were perfect for the times. In the mid-1960s the civil rights movement was in full swing.
When Ruth first started her journey in law, women were practically unheard of as lawyers; now three women sit on the bench of the highest court in the nation. On March 13, 1933, Joan Ruth Bader was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Celia Amster and Nathan Bader (Salokar & Volcansek, 1996). Ruth had an older sister, Marilyn, but she passed away at the age of six from meningitis; Ruth was one year old at the time. Cecilia, Ruth’s mother, stayed home and took care of Ruth while she grew up. Cecilia made sure that Ruth worked diligently in school and taught her the value of hard work.
woman and a great role model. Serving as a First Lady, she knew she would face
Katherine Johnson was known for her amazing mind ever since she was little. She was born on August 26th, 1918 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, and is still alive today. Her mother worked as a teacher, and her father as a farmer and janitor. At the age of thirteen, she was one of only three black students picked to go to a prestigious, and primarily white college in West Virginia. Her family moved 125 miles away so she and her 3 siblings could further their education there. She actually enrolled in the college itself at fourteen and quickly learned the math curriculum. During college she met her first husband, James Goble. She eventually got involved in a choir at Carver Presbyterian church and stayed there for 50 years. She also joined
In Reagan’s campaign, he needed more women voters to help him. He promised that if he was elected, he would elect a woman to the Supreme Court. Sandra saw the chance and jumped right in to make herself recognized. In 1981, Reagan was elected president and kept his promise. In his speech he spoke, “I made a commitment that one of my first appointments to the Supreme Court vacancy would be the most qualified woman that I could possibly find. Now, this is not to say that I would appoint a woman merely to do so. That would not be fair to women nor to future generations of all Americans whose lives are so deeply affected by decisions of the Court. Rather, I pledged to appoint a woman who meets the very high standards that I demand of all court appointees. I have identified such a person.” That person was none other than Sandra Day O’Connor. The senate quickly voted her in. She was the first person to be appointed in twenty-four years with state court experience and the first in thirty-two years with a lawmaking experience. Sandra Day O’Connor had a giant influence on women’s rights when she won this
... she addressed many problems of her time in her writings. She was an inspirational person for the feminism movements. In fact, she awoke women’s awareness about their rights and freedom of choice. She was really a great woman.
She was a voice for women all over the world. She wanted the world to stop treating women like their rights are different then human rights. “If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all.” A law will not fix this issue, it will not change how women are treated, we, as a nation has to change our views. Women make up half of the population; we rely on them for many tasks. They are mothers, sister, wives, workers, and politicians. The only way this nation can reach its full potential is when everyone is treated with respect and
...woman And, while she may not have earned women the right to vote or gained women admission into institutes of higher education, she stood up for herself in a normal everyday situation, and that’s a start. She is a woman who was one of the exceptions in her era; she was not just a woman on a roof, but rather a hero of her generation.