Sandra Day O’Connor is famously known as the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. She was nominated for the position by former president Ronald Regan in 1981. O’Connor was unanimously approved by the Senate and since then she has been a role model for many women across the country. In her many years of service in the Supreme Court Sandra Day O’Connor was the swing vote in many important cases such as Roe v. Wade and Bush v. Gore. Born on March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas, Sandra Day O’Connor spent her childhood living on her family’s Arizona ranch.
I’m the eldest of the “Famous Five”, I am a legal expert and women often came to me for help with legal issues affecting women and children. (1)This is a picture of me with the other four women in the “Famous Five”. The one in the middle is me. I’m an activist for suffrage and political rights for women. I’ve worked closely with women's missionary societies for over four decades.
Tan’s first book, The Joy Luck Club, had many influences including her relationship with her mother, the stories her mother told, understanding and becoming comfortable with her culture, and her own life experiences. Tan’s mother took great pride in her Chinese culture; while her daughter often tried to become more Americanized and forget her origins (“Amy Tan” 1). So Tan’s mother further enforced their traditions. Just like all the mothers in The Joy Luck Club, tradition and customs were very important to them. Cooking for the family has meaning in each story of The Joy Luck Club, because cooking is a sign of love in Chinese culture.
Kamala, which means "lotus flower" in the sacred Indian language of Sanskrit, spent her early years in nearby Berkeley, where her parents attended college and worked in the civil rights movement. Gopalan would become a nationally respected doctor, specializing in breast cancer research, and Donald Harris would teach economics at Stanford University. When she was seven, her parents divorced, young Kamala and her sister Maya Lakshmi were then raised by their mother. Though Harris would most often be identified as African American, she also highly valued her Indian heritage, especially the tradition of strong, courageous women she saw personified in her feminist mother and in her grandmother, who she saw on family visits to the Indian city of Chennai. Gopalan's family was Brahmin, India's highest social class, with a tradition of higher education and service to the
Seeing my parents do at least two jobs so they can put food on the table to a big change for me. I can relate to Esperanza’s struggles in this country. This book is an easy read and will improve reading, writing and speech skills. This book has a lot of meaning behind it, its not a story about an immigrant family who moves to the America, but it also talks about the Mexican Revolution. This book not only teaches the class about struggles an immigrant family goes through but also a little bit about the Mexican history.
In addition to living a torn apart shack, her parents could barely afford to feed her and siblings. Evita would do anything she could to help out her family. She had so much respect for her parents because she knew how hard they working to support the family. Knowing this, she would clean up the house, cook dinner (if there was any), and help out the rest of the children. Through difficult times Eva kept her head up and made it through.
Marlee Matlin is an Academy Award winning actress and a prominent spokesperson for various organizations. Marlee lives in the greater Los Angeles area with her husband, law enforcement officer Kevin Grandalski, and their four children, Sarah, Brandon, Tyler and Isabelle. At the age of 18 months, she had a bout with a form of German measles, which left her totally deaf in her right ear and 80% deaf in her left ear. In spite of this fact, Marlee has become an inspiration to members of the Deaf and hearing communities alike. She has inspired millions with her dedication to connecting with the Deaf and hearing communities.
B. She was the final guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. C. Worked at a Dole pineapple processing plant in Hawaii in her early years. D. Her first big album "The Divine Miss M" was produced by Barry Manilow. F. She is a huge fan and longtime friend of the late singer Rosemary Clooney.
The poverty was a result of her father’s lack of income. Her father, Bronson Alcott was a transcendentalist who was sure that his utopian community, Fruitlands would succeed. Like many of her fathers failed projects, Fruitlands failed as well. After Louisa’s fathers constant failures, she realized that her father would not be capable to support her and her family. Due to her fathers idealistic ways, she grew up at a young age, and took on jobs as a servant, educator, and a seamstress.
African-Americans, unable to obtain ingredients indigenous to Africa, found familiarity in the sweet potato, eggplant, and turnips, and incorporated these flavors into their cuisine. Both cultures used food and communal eating as forms of socialization, and immigrants soon found that their foodways became a source of identity. The mothers and wives were revered for the hearty food they prepared and thus responsible for creating this intimate connection to past. Because the kitchen, and everything involved with it was so central to family unity, it would not be ridiculous to claim that for many cultures, the kitchen was the heart that pumped the blood, or in this case food, to the rest of the family. Through historical works such as Hasia Diner’s Hungering for America, Alice A. Deck’s “Now Then—Who Said Biscuits?”- The Black Woman Cook as Fetish in American Advertising, 1905-1953, Tracey N. Poe’s “The Origins of Black Soul Food in Urban Identity: Chicago, 1915-1947”, and Harvey Levenstein’s “The American Response to Italian Food, 18880-1930”, one can analyze both the Italians and African-American’s response towards their cultural identity.