An African American woman named Rosa Parks had just got off of work and got on the bus to go home. She sat on the front row of the colored section. Whe the white section had gotten filled the bus driver told Rosa and three other African Americans to move so the whites could sit down. Everyone moved but Rosa. She was arrested and fined ten dollars and four more dollars for court fees. Rosa had had many encounters with this particular bus driver before. One time Rosa walked to the front of the bus to
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John Lee Hooker born on August 22‚ 1917‚ in Clarksdale‚ Mississippi. He was the fourth out of eleven children in his family of William and Minnie Hooker. His father was a sharecropper and Baptist minister who was not fond of the blues because his father refers blues music as the “devil’s music”. When he was five years old‚ his parents separated from each other and they divorced when he was eleven. In his younger years‚ Hooker received a limited amount of formal education. However‚ music was an important
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Indigenous culture is full of diversity and different valuable traditions that are often misunderstood due to fixed and stereotypical ideologies that are often overlooked. “Compatriots” by Emma Lee Warrior follows a story of Indigenous traditions and the different issues that are faced by individuals of that culture. One of the underlying issues that can be seen through the story is stereotyping‚ which can be seen through the character of Hilda Afflerbach. Hilda contributes to the theme of stereotypes
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On December 1‚ 1955 Rosa Parks‚ active NAACP member‚ headed home from work on a bus like any other day. In Montgomery‚ the first 10 seats on city bus were strictly reserved for white people. Blacks were allowed to sit in those first few seats as long as a white person was not in the need of it‚ but if a black person was sitting there it was their job to get up to accommodate that white person. Rosa Parks however‚ refused to move even after being threatened to have the police summoned to arrest her
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3. The Light in My Head Went On Fábio Rosa‚ Brazil: Rural Electrification In 1982‚ at the same time that Gloria de Souza was launching her Environmental Studies curriculum in India‚ Fábio Rosa‚ twenty-two‚ a recent graduate in agronomic engineering‚ was trying to deliver electricity to poor people in Brazil. It all began when Rosa received a phone call from one of his university classmates inviting him to come to Palmares do Sul‚ a rural municipality in Brazil’s southernmost state‚ Rio Grande do
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Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4‚ 1913‚ in Tuskegee‚ Alabama to a teacher and a carpenter. One of her great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish and one of her great-grandmothers was a Native American slave. When she was little‚ she suffered from poor health because of tonsillitis. Rosa took classes at rural schools till she was eleven. She went to a laboratory school set up by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes for secondary education but dropped out to take care
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“Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit‚ and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again” (Rosa Quotes)? This quote by Rosa Parks‚ is explaining the life she had in just one sentence. It hurt‚ and she knew what she was doing‚ but kept on doing it with will. Civil Disobedience is basically when protestors act in action and protest a law that have been purposefully violated (Suber). The purpose of this is to grab people’s attention to a certain law so they will look into
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Davidovich Bronshtein‚ later named Leon Trotsky‚ was born on November 7‚ 1879 was a revolutionary figure that helped to ignite the Russian Revolution‚ and built up the Red Army during the civil war. In his early days‚ Trotsky founded the South Russian Worker’s Union‚ leading to his imprisonment in Siberia. After Trotsky managed to escape from prison‚ he changed his name to Leon Trotsky‚ and was able to join Vladimir Lenin and the Socialist Democratic Party. By 1905 Leon Trotsky became the leader of the
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optimistic in attitude”. Sometimes in hard situations or conflict the solution is to just be positive. If it doesn’t solve the conflict it will definitely help it. Examples of people that dealt with conflict with positivity are Anne Frank‚ Miss.Breed‚ and Rosa Parks. To start Anne frank is a person that dealt with the conflict of being a Jew during the holocaust by being positive. Anne was a young jewish girl that had to go into hiding so that she wouldn’t be brought to a concentration camp. She went
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up for themselves but first they had to make some sacrifices such as Rosa Parks being arrested. Another thing that caused the boycott to succeed was that the entire Negro states hat stuck together and really stuck it out through the whole boycott‚ and one of the last things that really helped the boycott was King’s speech to his audience‚ MIA. These 3 reasons were the main points of why the boycott succeeded. First‚ when Rosa Parks was arrested for it‚ it really set the motion of the boycott
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