Born on June 25, 1954, Sonia Sotomayor is the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history. Her parents, Juan and Celina (Baez) Sotomayor, who both had Puerto Rican descendants, moved the South Bronx area of New York City where they raised their children. Losing her father at the age of 9, Sotomayor and her siblings were raised by their hardworking mother. Celina Baez was a strong woman who made great sacrifices to buy her children a set of encyclopedias, to give her children a higher education and motivated them to become fluent in English. Sonia’s dream to become a judge sparked when she watched an episode of the television show Perry Mason.
Every day we are challenged and faced with many struggles that we have to overcome in order to go about our every-day lives. In Sonia Sotomayor’s book she shows us how most of her childhood she was faced with new struggles every day, and how overcoming them helped her to be the person she is today. Being brought up in a poor society, Sonia had to make sure she kept on track, and had to make sure that she didn’t get caught up in the outside drama. Poverty has a huge impact on the way a person acts and builds a person’s character. How you face poverty and how you overcome it will let you do what you have to do to become a better and more successful person.
Case Gone Wrong: Anthony vs State of Florida Case No. 5D11-2357 If ever there was a botched case it was this one with inconsistencies on the part of the State being overwhelming. I watched this trial intently and read everything available.
Soto Mayor and Robert Frost’s stories both have things in common and thing different. In both stories both have to make decisions. In the story “My Beloved World” Soto Mayor has to choose a job but it was hard because of her diabetic, it stopped her from being what she wanted to be so she had a very hard decision to make. In the stories “The Road Not Taken” The narrator has to pick which road to take and this poem shows that he has a hard time choosing which to take.
The theme of these two stories are about that they both had to make hard decisions in both of their lives. They also made good decisions like in The Road Not Taken,” the narrator had to choose which road to travel on, the first road which a lot of people took or the second road that not a lot of people traveled on. The narrator chose the second road because he wants to go on a adventure. In Sotomayor’s life she took a good decision too by staying in school not giving up and following her dreams.
Pragmatic. Moderate. Persevering. These are just some of the words that describe Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who, a few days before his meeting with the president, had gotten into a car accident with a punctured lung and broken ribs. After rushing out of the hospital to meet Bill Clinton, Breyer was appointed as a Justice on August 3rd, 1994 (Oyez).
However, this is also one of his major flaws while he did care for the people of his country he did not give the government enough of his attention. Due to the previous history of conflicts, many began losing faith in The United States, no longer believe it to be the great country as advertised by the American dream (Costello et al). Reagan brought it on himself to go back to the old ways of thinking from the glory days of prosperity and growth. Reagan’s influence has spread throughout the 1980’s prompting many like Miller to yearn for the rugged individualism that was the 1940s. Within Frank Miller’s Batman, it can be argued that he himself was influenced by Reagan's views so much so that he injected this view in creating Batman.
The theme for Sonia Sotomayor’s story My Beloved World, is to be a leader not a follower. The theme for the poem “The Road Not Taken” is when you have two decisions you have to pick the decision which is right for you. A connection to the story, My Beloved World and the poem, “The Road Not Taken” is that both narrators have to make a decision in Sonia’s case it's up to her if she wants to lead or follow people. The narrator in “The Road not Taken” he needs to make a decision on which road to take. The “roads” that were available to Sonia Sotomayor where for her to follow the people or to lead the people.
“Road Not Taken” is a renowned poem by a famous American poet containing a message about life’s choices that is familiar to most people. Donald M. Murray uses the notoriety of the poem’s message to his advantage by alluding to it. In doing so, he emphasizes the similar message of his essay about how innocence causes blind decision making and the way in which people look back on those
Matthew Ferguson English 102 Professor June 7, 2015 The Road Not Taken Thesis Statement: We come to countless decisions in life, and there are issues we have to let chance take command. I. Introduction a. Thesis Statement i. Robert Frost ii. Lyric poem iii. Choosing the road II.
There are many lessons throughout the novel that could be taught and learned in our world, this society, today. They may be true; however, the reasons the lessons are taught in the first place is because of the society being presented in this literary work, The Road. This gives the sociological approach a more appropriate understanding approach to the road. The society and the characters can be analyzed thoroughly and effectively this way. “When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that will never be and you are happy again then you have given up.
Which road will the speaker take? This question sets the literal and metaphorical divergence in the woods that the speaker will have to face: both an actual path through the woods and the life decisions implied by it. The first extended metaphor of choice happens in these line: the chosen path is the chosen life choices. The speaker will have to choose a road to go down and one not to, presenting the first conflict of choice. He is faced with two different roads that each lead to a different outcome.
The poem The Road Not Taken has been misinterpreted in many ways. For started the poem is about a person whom was walking down a yellow brick road. While the person is walking down the road he or she notice a split between the road leading through two different path. The person decided to make a choice by looking as far as he or she could through both road and chooses the one that was less traveled by.
There will come a time in every person’s life where he has to make a decision that could alter his life forever. In fact, this exact situation may occur multiple times in his existence. In trying to make the right choices, a person might weigh both options and take into account all the possible effects and arguments for each. For example, when he was growing up, Robert Frost would take strolls with his friend, Edward Thomas, who would constantly face the struggle of choosing the right path and would always worry about whether he made the right decision. In his poem, “The Road Not Taken,” Frost portrays this relatable clash of choices.
In the poem, “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost uses beautifully crafted metaphors, imagery, and tone to convey a theme that all people are presented with choices in life, some of which are life-altering, so one should heavily way the options in order to make the best choices possible. Frost uses metaphors to develop the theme that life 's journey sometimes presents difficult choices, and the future is many times determined by these choices. Throughout the poem, Frost uses these metaphors to illustrate life 's path and the fork in the road to represent an opportunity to make a choice. One of the most salient metaphors in the poem is the fork in the road. Frost describes the split as, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both (“The Road Not Taken,” lines 1-2).
