"I am a positive person, I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward" Rosie Perez the proud woman who declared this quote is a person who overcame many obstacles and difficulties to bring success in her life, despite her many hardships and traumatizing past. To start with, Rosie Perez or Rosa Marie Perez was born on September 6, 1964 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, United States. She is a actress, dancer, choreographer, director, and community activist. Her parents are Lydia Perez, a singer and Ismael Serrano, a merchant marine seaman. Her aunt had been raising and catering her until her mother, Lydia Perez took her away and put her in Foster Care when she was 3. It wouldn't be much of a surprise if Rosie was to detest her parents after all they put her through. Rosie stayed there until she moved in with another aunt when she was 12. Later on she joined a high school in Rightwood, Grover Cleveland High School. Now most of the confusion and sadness had culminate. …show more content…
Meanwhile, Rosie was discovered by Spike Lee at a night club, from then on and forward, her career started.
She actually never thought of being an actor, especially a famous one. She wanted to become a marine biologist and her whole career just started with one accidental trip to the club. Rosie started starring in many movies such as 'Do the Right Thing' in 1989 and 'Night on Earth' in 1991; she has been in a total of 34 movies. She also directed her own movies and would choreograph many dances or join them herself. Rosie has also been awarded with 8 wins and 15 nominations for example; 'Best Supporting Actress' and 'Oscar Nomination'. She also lent her voice to numerous television project. She lent her voice to the children's show 'Go! Diego, Go!' and the adult oriented show 'The Cleveland
Show'. Finally, despite Rosie Perez being a very successful woman, she has gone through many hardships. After being moved from foster home to foster home, getting beat up and bullied she went through emotional-trauma which resulted in her having speech problems. Even though she went through problems she would always try to consolidate herself and help others. She got arrested for protesting in front of the U.S Mission to the United Nations over the Navy's bombing range on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. She also was an activist for many Puerto Rican rights. She is close friends with with many famous people, who helped her help the community. She was close with a friend named Seth Zvi Rosenfield who she later stayed happily married with for 10 years until they filed a divorce. Rosie then married her other friend Eric Haze who has been her husband since 2013. Rosie Perez is a woman who conquered many hardships and overcame obstacles just to become successful in life and not let her traumatizing past stop and dishearten her from trying. Despite wanting to only be a marine biologist she became much more than that. A actress, dancer, director, choreographer, and a community activist. And to think it all started by an accidental trip to a night club.
Christine De Pizan’s work in The Book of The City of Ladies pioneers a new genre of feminist literature that exposes a time period from the perspective of its female population. Due to this, De Pizan justifiably earns the title of a revolutionary author. However, to say that De Pizan revolutionized the conditions of women in the medieval ages and onward is an overstatement. In her book, De Pizan critiques sexist arguments in order to defend women against misogyny. The change that De Pizan presented in medieval culture was gradual because she was attempting to amend people’s perspectives on women rather than offer any institutional rectifications. She worked to establish that women can be just as mighty as men, and thus, they are not innately inferior. However, her goal was not to ensure that women have equal access to exercise and pursue their virtuous roles. Therefore, if observed
Music icons that speak to my soul and still continuing to inspire me; are Jenni Rivera Mexican-American singer, American singer-songwriter and dancer Michael Jackson. The qualities of these singers which make them appealing to me include; their unique voices, powerful lyrics, and music. These are artist to me are consider legendary for their hard ethic music work.
Assata Shakur’s political views are similar and different from many other political activists but the injustice she faced changed her views in ways other will never understand. Assata Shakur was an African American activist who became a member of the Black Panther party which supported the black power movement. Shakur faces oppression and is persecuted by the FBI for being a member of the black liberation army and the Black Panther party. Assata was convicted and charged with murdering a New Jersey police officer. She faced life in prison but she escaped and fled to Cuba where she seeked political asylum. Assata was persecuted so heavily and incarcerated because of her involvement
Dolores Clara Fernandez was born on April 10, 1930, in Stockton, California where she was raised in a single parent home. She gained her strong work ethic from her mother who worked multiple jobs to support her children and also had them partake in cultural activities. Growing up, Dolores dealt with racism, which only prompted her to work twice as hard and help those who cannot speak up for themselves. Huerta’s distraught encounters with her students ignited the fire in her to begin her career as
“Si se puede”, Is something Ceasar Chavez said when he wanted to inspire people and change their lives. Cesar Chavez changed farm workers lives by getting them new rights,better pay, and got them safer working conditions. “Mother” Jones helped the rights of factory workers, but the laws she wanted to be passed didn’t happen until a few years after her death. They both helped workers rights but Mother Jones did a little more than Cesar Chavez because she physically helped the factory workers by getting them safer working conditions so they did not get hurt. In this essay i will be talking about who helped the most and i will also be comparing them both.
Are you more of a glass half-empty type of person or a glass half-full? In the essay “Happiness is a glass half empty” writer Oliver Burkeman would say he is a glass half empty type of person. In his essay he writes, “Be positive, look on the bright side, stay focused on success: so goes our modern mantra. But perhaps the true path to contentment is to learn to be a loser” (Burkeman). I think what he means in this statement is people nowadays are taught to always look on the brighter side of life. When in actuality people should be looking on the negative side of life to realize how great their lives really are. In this essay writer Oliver Burkeman uses rhetorical devices such ethos, pathos, and logos to prove that maybe being negative
Ruby Nell Bridges played a significant role within the civil rights movement because she led the fight in desegregating schools in the south by being the first black student to attend an all white school there. She was born on September 8, 1954 in Tylertown, Mississippi. This was the same year that the Supreme Court made its Brown v. Board of Education decision. At the age of four she and her family moved from Mississippi to New Orleans.
Lena Horne was born on June 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents were Teddy and Edna Scottron Horne. After her father left her at the age of two in order to pursue his gambling career; her mother leaving soon after that to pursue her acting career; she went to live with her grandparents. Through her grandparents influence she became involved with organizations like the NAACP, at an early age.
Not many know how to achieve success in all categories, but Tina Fey didn’t have any problems figuring that out. Tina fey, television writer, screenwriter, actress, comedian, and mother, has taken the world by storm. Tina Fey has a powerful influence on our world today and she has become a worldwide icon in the eyes of many young women. Tina Fey may have been THE woman to make it stylish to wear glasses in the mid-2000s, but there is more to this multi-talented woman then those trademark black-rimmed spectacles.
Jennie Finch is a softball legend. Finch is an American, former collegiate All-American, right-handed hitting softball pitcher and first-baseman. Jennie has a motivation and inspiring story.
Sonia Sotomayor overcame many obstacles throughout her lifetime. From struggles in her first year in Princeton to becoming the first Hispanic supreme justice. Sotomayor has shown from hard work and believing what is right to yourself you can achieve and make a difference in the world. Sonia Sotomayor was born in June 25, 1954 in the South Bronx area of New York City, her parents were both of Puerto Rican decent. Her inspiration in politics began at a young age when Sotomayor first viewed the show Perry Mason.
After the huge success of her previous show, she shifted into the TV sitcoms (comedy) and debuted debut as Nell Carter's neighbor on Gimme a Break in 1986 which is aired on NBC (National Broadcasting Company). After a TV sitcom (comedy) and a series of movies has made her well known to the world. From the year of 1996 to 2002, she anchored the TV show named The Rosie O'Donnell Show and due to this show, she won the multiple Emmy Awards. She earned the title i.e. The Queen of Nice for her style of light-hearted chitchat with her guests and communications with the audience. Donnell released a book named Find Me which is a combination of memoir (note), mystery and detective story with a hidden interest in rejoining
Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop-country sensations of the 21st century. With over billions of sells, she is also one of the top selling artists of our generation. But what makes her so unique? Are there not other pop-country artists out there? This is the story of Taylor Swift, and how she came to be.
“The luxury is blond, skinny, and has blue eyes”, that is how Rachel Maia starts all her presentations and speeches all over the world. Rachel Maia is not only a woman CEO, but also she is part of the only 0.04% of the CEO’s worldwide that represents black women. Being a black woman CEO of Pandora, a luxury jewelry brand company, in Brazil still shocks many people, since Brazil, as most of the people know, is a poor country where luxury accessories are not a priority, but a must-have for those who love jewelry. Before having the CEO position at Pandora offered to her, Rachel Maia was a CFO at Tiffany & Co for almost 8 years and had an executive position at 7-Eleven.
The first section I chose was 37. The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism by Karen Warren. Reading Warren’s essay, I too think that ecofeminism applies to both the controlling of women and nature. I came to this conclusion considering how these two concepts are connected and show similar characteristics. Warren argues in this essay that there are connections between the “domination of women” and the “domination of nature,” which is the meaning of ecofeminism (Pojman, Pojman, & McShane, 2016, p. 390).