Essays Tagged: "Sandra Day O'Connor"

Role Model: The Britney SPears Controversy

Role Model: The Britney Spears Controversy?Eleanor Roosevelt, Sandra Day O'Connor, Rosa Parks, and Britney Spears. The first three names have little in common wit ...

(5 pages) 234 1 4.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Sandra Day O'Connor.

Sandra Day O'Connor is the first woman and the 102nd person to sit on the Supreme Court of the Unite ... it would be difficult for her to get a good education. There she attended Radford School For Girls. Sandra skipped a grade in grammar school, attending Austin High School a year earlier. She finished ... he was promoted to deputy county attorney. That year she married John Jay O'Connor. They met during Sandra's work as an editor on the Stanford Law Review. He was also attending law school at Stanford. ...

(5 pages) 47 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Men Rule the World.

vernment in voting and congress. Although there are powerful women in the government today, such as Sandra Day O'Connor, Hilary Clinton, and Olympia Snowe, it is still a field ruled by men. Have you e ...

(2 pages) 37 0 1.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Informative Speech, "Sandra day O'Connor"

On March 26, 1930 Sandra Day was born in El Paso, Texas to Harry and Ada Day. The family owned a ranch in Arizona, whi ... he family owned a ranch in Arizona, which her grandfather Henry Day established in the 1880's. When Sandra was a child she rode horses, helped with the cattle, and did many things boys did. Her parent ... adford. After a year, she switched to Austin High School, where she graduated at the age of sixteen.Sandra prepared herself for success at Stanford University. There she majored in economics. In 1950 ...

(4 pages) 54 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

"FEMALE INVOLVEMENT IN POLITICS"- although it was difficult at first, the number of women in U.S. politics is increasing.

minated. Women are still well out-numbered.Women are even better out-numbered in the Supreme Court. Sandra Day O' Conner, the first female member was not appointed until 1991. It's taken over two hund ... le of being politicians. That is why the percentage of women in the politics is continually rising. Sandra Day o' Conner is handling cases just like all the other justices are. Yes, they are continual ...

(2 pages) 150 7 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Media Bias Essay - How Different Sides Discussed the Alito Senate Confirmation Hearings

el Anthony Alito, Jr. was nominated by President Bush to the Supreme Court--to fill a vacancy after Sandra Day O'Connor stepped down--and, after a long series of hearings, was confirmed by a vote of 5 ...

(3 pages) 37 0 4.0 May/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Do you think that it is morally acceptable to have preferential treatment programs for disabled veterans?

require the discharge of white males and their replacement with members of underrepresented groups. Sandra Day O'Connor wrote a separate, more narrowly construed concurring opinion. (Lindsay 1989)Anto ...

(4 pages) 93 1 3.3 Oct/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Emergency Pill

eme Court lost two advocates, the death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor. This gave Bush administration the advantages to change the balance on the court ...

(1 pages) 1225 1 2.3 Oct/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Assisted Suicide Debate: Legalizing Physician

doctors who prescribed overdoses in order to cause death to their terminally ill patients. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor pointed out a very interesting argument. She stated that doctors assist in the l ...

(2 pages) 28 1 5.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Euthenasia

Women's Rights

tive Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island, Governor Madeleine Kunin of Vermont, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and U.S Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, etc"¦And what have they achie ...

(3 pages) 38 0 3.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

The American Justice System

the United States of America is William H Rehnquist. The associate justices are John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O?Connor, Margaret Thatcher, Anthony M Kennedy, David H Souter, Janet Reno, Ruth Bader Gi ...

(1 pages) 15 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

The Right To Vote

on over to George W. Bush. Gary Mauro, professor of law states that "Justices such as Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Connor, who might have wanted to retire soon after the election of a Republican preside ... on over to George W. Bush. Gary Mauro, professor of law states that "Justices such as Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Connor, who might have wanted to retire soon after the election of a Republican preside ...

(22 pages) 27 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Checks and Balances

iven that the administration has said its war on terrorism might draw out over generations, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote, the indefinite detention of a prisoner could last for the rest of his lif ...

(2 pages) 26 0 4.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: Law & Government Essays