Sonia Sotomayor

In the book, My Beloved World, Sonia Sotomayor discusses the long list of struggles that she faced throughout her early childhood all the way to the point that she reached college. She explains experiences ranging from things as difficult as losing her father suddenly and unexpectedly to simply struggling to keep her grades up or decide between what college she wanted to attend. Though Sonia faced these struggles, she still managed to find things that shaped her into the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court that she is today. Sonia mentions early on in her book that she was very influenced by popular books and television shows that left her inspired, similar to the feeling that one would experience after watching an uplifting movie. There is a scene in Sotomayor’s novel where she explains an office visit where she finds a pamphlet naming off occupations that a diabetic would and would not be able to take part in. In this scene, she expresses her disappointment at the fact that she would never be able to be like her favorite book character Nancy Drew because of the lifelong disease that she was diagnosed with from a very young age. In this scene, Sotomayor describes herself as being very
Ever since I was a preteen, I was always fascinated with the channel TLC— otherwise known as The Learning Channel. This certain channel always seemed to focus their shows on topics related to the medical field whether it was a documentary on a person with a genetic mutation that affected their life dramatically or simply a show about ER doctors. It typically didn’t matter what they were showing on any specific day because the producers of the channel always had my eyes glued to the screen, fascinated with the new discoveries I always felt that I was