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The beloved world of Sonia Sotomayor
No full text"In this adaptation for middle graders based on her bestselling adult memoir, My Beloved World, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor's extraordinary life inspires. Her achievement serves as a true testament to the fact that no matter the obstacles, dreams can come true. Includes an 8-page photo insert. Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States, was a young girl when she dared to dream big. Her dream? To become a lawyer and a judge. As Justice Sotomayor explains, "When I was a child my family was poor and we knew no lawyers or judges and none lived in our neighborhood. I knew nothing about the Supreme Court and how much its work in reinterpreting the Constitution and the laws of the United States affected peoples' lives. You cannot dream of becoming something you don't even know about. That has been the most important lesson of my life. You have to learn to dream big dreams." Sonia did not let the hardships of her background...which included growing up in the rough housing projects of New York City's South Bronx, dealing with juvenile diabetes, coping with parents who argued and fought personal demons, and worrying about money...stand in her way. Always, she believed in herself. Her determination, along with guidance from generous mentors and the unwavering love of her extended Puerto Rican family, propelled her ever forward"..."An adaptation for middle graders based on the bestselling adult memoir, My Beloved World, in which the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor's details her achievements, which serve as a true testament to the fact that no matter the obstacles, dreams can come true. Includes an 8-page photo insert"..
Displaced Façade (Hotel for Sonia Rosso):Sonia Rosso, Turin
No full textExhibition dates 05/11/2011—10/2013PROGETTO LIRA HOTEL is a project curated by Jonathan Monk and Sonia Rosso. As part of this project Scott Myles was invited to produce a design for a room to be installed at Sonia Rosso. The resulting room is titled Displaced Façade (Hotel for Sonia Rosso).Myles' design makes reference to the de-architecture of the SITE architectural practice, specifically, the ‘BEST Cutler Ridge showroom’ built in Miami in 1979. With a brick wall separated into three segmented parts, each part is successively reduced to create a private bedroom chamber concealing the bed. The result is something akin to a Russian Doll, a motif representing the family unit in descending scale. The installation reflects Myles’ interest in sculptural forms and ascribed meanings where in this instance, simple, repeated building blocks are linked both to architecture and child’s play. The collective parts of the three walls line up to give the illusion of one wall, uninterrupted. However, when viewed at an angle, the successive reductions disengage and stand freely in the space, disjointing it, creating a space that is layered, both in form and function, where what was one wall, apparently complete and without fault, reveals three walls, each incomplete, in a state of potential ruin. Such deconstruction exists not only in postmodern architectural practices like SITE, but also for example, in many earlier meditations upon ruins in the paintings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Joseph Gandy, the latter of which was commissioned by Sir John Soane in 1830 to depict his building for the Bank of England as a ruin of the future, both premeditating the inevitable fall of the British Empire and elevating the building as a masterpiece on a par with buildings from the time of the Roman Empire. Looking forward by looking back.Along with the perfunctionary bed, furnishing the hotel room will be a desk unit and a single shelf from Deiter Rams' 606 Universal Shelving System, coupled with a chair from the gallery. Seen as the epitome of ‘good design’ Myles chose the Rams pieces for their materiality and his liking of them as purely functional pieces of furniture. Reciprocity on Three Planes (2009), a screenprint on paper, reveals Myles’ interest in sculptural or built space and co-dependency, a co-dependency that is highlighted by the varying relationships within the project: that there is an implicit relationship between the artist Myles, the commissioner Rosso and the guest who chooses to stay. The role of the project space and that of the artist within it is complicated here because economic considerations are not the only factors to bear. In The Gift, Lewis Hyde writes: "In antiquity the Roman familia was not simply people but the entire 'household', including the objects in the home down to the food and the means of livelihood. Later Roman law, however, increasingly distinguished economic and ritual interest; it divided the familia into res and personae, into things and persons, and in so doing, ‘passed beyond that antiquated and dangerous gift economy, encumbered by personal considerations, incompatible with the development of the market, trade and productivity - which was, in a word, uneconomic'."In summation, Myles presents a contemplative and thoughtful space, one that is a site of exchange. Myles proposes Displaced Façade (Hotel for Sonia Rosso) as an artwork and container in which the guest will become a performative participant in an installation that also happens to be a perfectly functional hotel room.<br/
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author Sonia Nazario
Full text link--Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author Sonia Nazario--Enrique\u27s Journey--Monday, April 11 @ 7 p.m.--Latino Americans 500 Years of History--Sponsors--More information can be found at library.uni.edu/diversityhttps://scholarworks.uni.edu/latinoamericans_documents/1004/thumbnail.jp
Autograph of Sonia Johnson in "The SisterWitch Conspiracy"
No full textThe title page and an autograph by the author, Sonia Johnson, in their work ""The SisterWitch Conspiracy"" with an inscription.To Carolyn, In appreciation of your courage and passion. Soni
Sonia Kam, transcript only
Full text linkTranscript of an interview with Sonia Kam by Lucille Brown of Union College. This interview picks up when Sonia was working as a teacher in 1921 in Russia.https://digitalworks.union.edu/berkoralhistories/1030/thumbnail.jp
Sonia Reizes
No full textSonia Reizes, born Sonia Schweid on June 5, 1925, in Berlin, Germany, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Mrs. Reizes recalls growing up in the German capital before and during Hitler's regime. Her father married an American in 1937, and this facilitated their emigration to the United States in 1938. Interviewers: Zelda Kaplan and Jan Darsa. Notetaker: Harriet Wacks. Produced by the Holocaust Center, Peabody, Mass. Filmed at Cablevision, Peabody, Mass
Entrevista Dra. Sonia Alda
No full textEntrevista realizada a la doctora Sonia Alda docente del Instituto Universitario Gutiérrez Mellado UNED, realizada dentro del marco de la Novena Semana Iberoamericana UNED - UMNG
Author interview: Q and A with Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross, authors of Parenting for a Digital Future
No full textIn this author interview, we speak to Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross about their new book, Parenting for a Digital Future, which draws on interviews and a national survey with UK parents to explore how hopes and fears about digital technologies are shaping parenting today
Faculty Recital, Sonia Vlahcevic, piano
Full text linkFaculty Recital Sonia Vlahcevic, piano with special guest Greg Giannascoli, marimba Sunday, October 10, 2021, 4:00 p.m. Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall 922 Park Avenue Richmond, VA 2328
Interview with Ruba Salih, by Nadeem Karkabi and Sonia Boulos
No full textOn the occasion of publishing a special issue of Palestine/
Israel Review (PIR) on the decolonization of the city of Haifa, PIR interviewed Ruba Salih, a professor of anthropology at the Department of
Arts, University of Bologna. Salih’s research focuses on transnational
migration and diasporas across Europe, the Middle East, and North
Africa; Islam and gender; the Palestine question and refugees; and
trauma and conflict in the Middle East. She is the author of numerous academic works, including the book Gender in Transnationalism:
Home, Longing and Belonging among Moroccan (Routledge, 2003), and
the article “Bodies That Walk, Bodies That Talk, Bodies That Love: Palestinian Women Refugees, Affectivity, and the Politics of the Ordinary” (Antipode, 2017). Currently, she is working on a book on waiting and the politics of return among Palestinian refugees (Cambridge University Press). Ruba herself is the daughter of a Palestinian refugee from
Haifa, and her mother was born in Yafa/Jaffa. PIR held an interview
with her to talk about her work and her own experience of refuge as a
descendant of Palestinian refugees from Haifa. Nadeem Karkabi and
Sonia Boulos conducted the interview for PIR
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