Phyllis Gonzalez was visible presence in Chelsea for decades. She served as president of a local PTA, as a member of both the Hudson Guild's Advisory Council and Community Board 4, and as a secretary for the Citywide Council for Presidents of the New York City Housing Authority. But it was perhaps as president of the Elliott-Chelsea Houses for four terms that she had her greatest influence. Gonzalez, who was 65 when she died in September 2012, fought to improve conditions at the housing project however and wherever she could, friends and family said. She accomplished all this despite suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and congestive heart problems. “She had wanted to be a nurse, but when that didn't work out she directed her energies toward …show more content…
City and community officials could count on her to give “an unvarnished assessment” of the neighborhood, he said. “Phyllis was a real special person because she represented the best of the community. Her imprint on Chelsea is so deep and permanent. Whether it’s the Chelsea Recreation Center, Elliot-Chelsea public housing, Hudson Guild, she’s done it all. She was a jack of all trades and an expert on so many issues that concerned the community,” Hoylman said. Marion Gonzalez, 34, described her mother’s passion for the neighborhood as a simple desire that she’d carried all of her life. And as well as being a mother to her two children, Marion and a son, Eric, Gonzalez became a mother figure to the tenants she helped, whom she considered her second family, friends and acquaintances said. Gonzalez helped ensure the safety of residents, they said, including her moving residents out of Allerton and Martinique welfare hotels and into the Elliott-Chelsea Houses – where she lived – pressuring the Housing Authority to purchase and install closed-circuit security cameras during a crime spike, and participating in the creation of the Chelsea Recreation
Her talents and many leadership positions brought her into close contact with influential black and white leaders, including Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Robert Ingersoll, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams, and others.
Born and raised in Michigan, Debbie Stabenow has been one of Michigan’s senators for the past 16 years. She has been a helping hand not only for Michigan but for the whole United States, finding ways to create jobs, improve health care and protect the Great Lakes of Michigan. Stabenow’s role in the senate is crucial, being on the Senate Agriculture Committee, fighting for small business’ and manufacturing. Debbie Stabenow is a fighter for what she believes in for Michigan and for America.
Cathy Barnett, a 50 year old mother with 3 kids, didn't have many issues getting from high school to college. She felt she had more responsibility at 16 having a car, bank account, and job. Her goal in high school and college was to try and get the highest GPA. That lead her to college with a 3.6 GPA and finishing college with a 3.2 GPA. She went to the community college of the Air Force. She joined the air force because she a got the travel bug when visiting a friend in England and Spain. When she got in the community college of the Air Force she took airway science and some nursing. Her transition from the Air Force to working at a Fred Meyers and starbucks years later. It was a big difference telling planes where to go than working in a deli and Starbucks but, she was still the happiest mom at home while staying busy at work.
“I put out the very best that was in. I often state I ‘m not here for myself but for others coming behind me” These are the powerful words of one strong dedicated woman, who devoted her life to helping others and who’s legacy paved the way for other women and African Americans. Felice Hill Gaines was an educator, devoted worker, a scholar, and a trail blazer.
Some of the more remarkable archaeological discoveries in the 20th century were made by Dame Kathleen Kenyon. Kathleen Kenyon was born into the heart of the English scholarly community and with all the help that influence and connections could provide became one of the foremost excavators in Great Britain. Even though Miss Kenyon was purported to be a Christian, she did not argue for the biblical account
Susan became a leader because she fought so hard and so long and was determined to win the war against cancer. She did not just become a leader she became a role model for other women that was battling breast cancer. While she was battling cancer she became an icon for breast cancer, she set the standard pretty high for others battling
These Individuals were not just advocates and rebels (at the time they were seem as rebels) for standing up for their rights by demanding equal rights they deserve such as education and respect. But they also talk about how Sal Castro still has such important role in their lives. The East Los Walkouts in the 1968 change the legacy for the next generation. For instance, Bobby Lee Verdugo is a retired social Worker he went to UCLA but ended up getting his degree at California State University, Los Angeles. As a social worker he work by helping teen fathers succeed in life. For instance, Verdugo drop out of high school and it wasn’t until years later that he graduated and pursue higher education. Paula Crisostomo found her voice during the Chicano movement in the movie Alexa Vega play her role in the movie you could see that she was not afraid to stand up for her rights and make a difference. In the seminar she explained how she is still involved with the community and encourages students to pursue their dreams. She also talked about the education pipeline in how still today many are not receiving their bachelors and a higher degree. Also that there’s not many people transferring out from their community college. Yoli Rios also highlight the same thing and the importance of perusing a degree and a career. She also talked about STEM majors and about how she had and has a passion for
She went on to add that she was initially unsure about being a nurse manager, she was encouraged to apply by her the Administrative Director and once promoted, she was given little
In the film Norma Rae, the textile workers were unsatisfied with many aspects of their Capitalistic work environment. They fought to form a union so that they could change the undesirable characteristics to better meet their needs. Political, environmental and cultural processes all played a part in the workers struggle to form an effective union.
Carmen Miranda, if you never read about her and saw her in movies, advertisement or even on stage, you will not believe she is a Brazilian. She was very popular, not only in Brazil but in America and internationally, putting Brazil on the map of entertainment. This woman named Carmen Miranda played a large part in the Good Neighbor policy and benefited from it. Her outfits, hats, fitted her body very well, which left me wondering who her stylist was. Some of her outfits look like the clothes worn by the women in our textbook. Fruits hats, colorful and flowers dresses are a representative of Brazil, and their culture is similar to that of the African culture. This course and the Brazilian culture remind me of my African heritage.
She didn't allow people to be unkind in her home, which was a reflection of what she really embodied as a person. You have a chance to be a representative too. Right until you die you can be kind and loving or mean and hateful. You can inspire and uplift or you can drag people down and make them feel bad about themselves.
Have you at any point considered how specialists see our heart functioning? Christine Fleming is building up another capable device for cardiologists to utilize: high-resolution real time movies of the living, beating heart, even during cardiac procedures. This innovation may even enable doctors to locate the correct location of unsafe unpredictable heart rhythms without intrusive biopsies. It could also help screen treatment.
us used to get up a tree to look out for any assailant, or kidnapper
My personal reaction to this story is that I have somewhat experienced the same thing. Joanie started off with journalism, she noticed that didn’t work which must have been hard, seeing it was a passion. For me, I’ve always wanted to be a nurse. ever since I was little. I took some classes in high school, and it didn’t take long
Márquez uses the character of Angela Vicario to show the power women can possess over the men in their lives. Angela Vicario is arguably the most powerful character in the novel, as she is the one who tells her brothers that it was Santiago who took her virginity, which consequently sets the entire plot of the story in motion. After Angela is returned by Bayardo San Román to her family due to the fact that she is not a virgin, when her brothers ask who it was who took her virginity, Angela “nailed [Santiago’s name] to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written” (Márquez 47). The way in which Angela searches for Santiago’s name shows that it may not have been Santiago who had taken