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    through their actions. Having distinct qualities that makes one self-reliant and possesses unique characteristics to stand firmly alone for one’s beliefs can be defined as individualism. Some of the greatest luminaries of our time are Aristotle‚ Rosa Parks‚ and Sir Isaac Newton‚ who impacted the world through their revolutionary beliefs. As an individual in this vast world‚ I can still make contributions and stand out as an individualist. Aristotle made significantly valiant contributions to

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    Maya Angelous ‚ Rosa Parks‚ and Oprah Winfrey are all hero’s in today life. Each of them had an positive effect. However‚ the definition of an hero is someone who is honest‚ a leader and someone who is selflessness. Through using the traits of honest‚ leader and selflessness men and women rose above all and became heroes in the eyes of our society. Not everyone can be an hero but anyone can try to do the characteristics of an hero. Heros should always be honest. Honest heros expect honesty from

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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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    Kailee and I chose Rosa Parks to do our project on because she left behind such a big impact on the lives of colored people. If Mrs. Parks hadn’t stood up against segregation‚ then who knows where we would be right now regarding civil rights.     My partner and I conducted our research by watching videos‚ and reading articles on the internet about Rosa and how she stood up for black equality. The civil rights movement was started when Rosa decided not to give up her seat to a white passenger on

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    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 a while‚ she never gave up. Then‚ she told all the blacks to give up riding the bus. She was also one of the helpers of Martin Luther King Jr. fight for freedom.

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    Rosa Parks Rosa Parks‚ born in February of 1913 is known today for what she did while boarding a bus in Montgomery‚ Alabama on December 1‚ 1955. Parks’s role as a civil rights activist in the mid 1900s sprung from her experiences as a child being the victim of segregation. Both in and outside of school‚ African Americans were treated as inferior to whites. Her role began not long after earning her high school degree at the age of nineteen when she became apart of the NAACP—the National Association

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    Her own personal bus boycott began that day” (Hare). This is very important because there were many forces on Rosa Parks’s early life that helped forget her activism. First and foremost Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4‚ 1913‚ in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Her childhood revolved around a small church where her uncle was the pastor. There she developed both a strong faith and a sense of racial pride. Parks later in life spoke proudly of the fact that the African

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    In 1955‚ at the age of 15‚ she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white person‚ in violation of local law. Her arrest preceded civil rights activist Rosa Parks’ (on December 1‚ 1955) by nine months. Ms. Colvin was a student at Booker T. Washington High School. Colvin’s family didn’t own a car‚ so she relied on the city’s gold-and-green buses to get to school. On March 2‚ 1955‚ she boarded a public bus and‚ shortly thereafter‚ refused to give up her seat to a white man. Colvin was

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    American citizen. Without this peaceful resistance to unjust laws‚ we would be tied down to regulations that serve to endanger and infringe upon the freedom our founding fathers fought for. Though out history‚ civil heros such as Henry David Thoreau‚ Rosa Parks‚ and Martin Luther King Jr serve to reflect the positive impact and enhanced freedom brought to life by civil disobedience. As early as 1849‚ people were beginning to find fault in their government and its means of controlling its citizens. In

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    Even more so than the Bus Boycott‚ the members of this movement were very diverse‚ consisting of “young students‚ movement veterans‚ blacks and whites‚ men and women‚ northerners and southerners‚ and religious and secular activists.” They “did not possess a coherent identity‚ rather they were unified in their desired ends” (Luthi‚ 386). The movement relied upon the diversity of the members. The methods of the movement were to send buses full of both black and white people down into the south in a

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