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    to a worse one is when Rosa is explaining the situation in which two young teens from New Jersey were put in jail for a short period of time for sitting in the white section of the bus. “They boarded a city bus and took seats in the white section. The driver‚ S. T. Lock‚ drew his pistol on them and police also‚ because the two teenagers were arrested and held in jail for two days. This was July of

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    Rosa Parks Racism has always been an issue in the United States. African Americans were always treated badly and were denied basic rights like eating at a certain restaurant or even sitting at certain place in a bus. However on December 1st one woman had had enough of the unfair treatment and finally took a stand. Rosa Parks refused to move from her seat and give it to a white bus rider and was arrested. Her arrest ignited a bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King and for 381 days African

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    won the Nobel Peace Prize. He referred of trying to get freedom‚ to a “long walk to freedom”. He also said that a brave man isn’t a man that’s never afraid; it’s a man that could overcome the fear. I think he’s one of my heroes. Even though Rosa Parks passed away in 2005‚ she is still highly remembered. She is one of the world’s bravest and most desperate women in the World. She was especially brave when she didn’t give up her seat on the bus for a white person. Even though she was jailed for

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    Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4‚ 1913 in Alabama and died on October 24‚ 2005. Her parents were She only attended segregated schools but then dropped out in 11th grade‚ due to her needing to help her dying grandmother and mother. She then worked and didn’t go back to getting a good education. until she was 19 when her husband told her she should. When she was young‚ she saw the Ku Klux Klan terrorize some part of their neighborhood‚ this is when she first saw in her eyes the unfairness

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    lives and others lives. Rosa Parks was one of those important woman that made a difference in the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks was known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.” She was one of the leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was a civil rights organization formed in 1909 to advance justice for African-Americans. On December 1‚1995 after she got off work Rosa got on a bus to go home

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    During this time colored people had to sit in the back of the bus‚ and if a white person came on the bus they would have to give up their seat for them. Parks act of defiance inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ which was a plan for African-Americans to not ride buses for one whole day. The plan worked and the boycott went on until December 21st‚ 1956 when all buses were legally desegregated (Wright). There

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    Rosa Parks was a black seamstress in Montgomery‚ Alabama. She was arrested for being courageous in 1955. While fed up with white racism; she did not give up her bus seat to a white man. This preceded to the Montgomery bus boycott against the city’s bus system which Martin Luther King Jr. led. Ida B. Wells was the first African American to file a suit against discrimination after she was denied a seat on a railroad car for being black. She also founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement

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    Sample Speech Asking for Donations You know those friends who are perpetually there for you? Whether you need a ride home at 2 in the morning or you’re sick and they come bring you soup‚ you just know you can always count on them to have your back. Well‚ that’s sort of like the friendship a dog brings to your life. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been gone from the house for four minutes or four hours‚ dogs are always ecstatic to see you again. You could throw a stick across the lawn all afternoon

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    Maria Nina D. Dollentes BSAct 2-1 I. Introduction Good Morning everyone! I’m here today to talk to you about an extremely serious issue that society faces today‚ racism. Racism is the discrimination of a person because of the race that they have inherited. There are many different types of racism‚ like racial discrimination‚ ethnic jokes‚ racial assumptions‚ and harassment‚ but they all got a couple of things in common. All kinds of racism are despicable and create a negative and sometimes dangerous

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    (*) Acting Capacity # | Name | Term Began | Term Ended | President | 1 | Jose Antonio Gonzales | March 1986 | June 30‚ 1987 | Corazon Aquino | 2 | Rafael Alunan III | July 1‚ 1987 | June 30‚ 1989 | | 3 | Narzalina Z. Lim | July 1‚ 1989 | June 30‚ 1992 | | 4 | Vicente Carlos | July 1‚ 1992 | 1996 | Fidel Ramos | * | Evelyn B. Pantig | 1996 | 1996 | | 5 | Guillermina T. Gabor | May 19‚ 1996 | June 30‚ 1998 | | 6 | Gemma Cruz-Araneta | June 30‚ 1998 | January 20‚ 2001 | Joseph Estrada

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