many of them do I look up to? Of course the most obvious person is my very own mother‚ but that made me think who else deserves to join this circle of reverence. Some names entered my mind‚ but do I really admire them? It is clear that women that enter my daily life like Oprah Winfrey have an impression on me‚ but impact and admiration do not always go hand in hand. Then I realized who I really admire: Britney Spears. <br> <br>The teen pop idol singer Britney Spears is a woman that I look up to for
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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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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 a while‚ she never gave up. Then‚ she told all the blacks to give up riding the bus
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movement were Rosa Parks‚ Thurgood Marshall‚ and the most famous leader for the “I Have A Dream” speech‚ Martin Luther King Jr. ("Black Power") In these 14 years of discrimination‚ colored US citizens were basically being bullied. The colored citizens had way less rights than whites did even though they were still people too. The civil rights movement may have stopped in 1968‚ but this kind of racism still exists today‚ for example‚ the KKK. The Civil Rights Movement all started when Rosa Parks refused
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A nonconformist is a person who whose behavior or views do not conform to prevailing ideas or practices. You’re simple average everyday people typically follow big crowds and do whatever it take to fit in and be the same even though sometimes they want change ever so badly‚ it takes a brave person to go agents the crowd to stand out and make their word be heard. Two people that stand out and express their thoughts not only for themselves but for everyone are Rosa Parks from the Civil rights movement
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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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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 because
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struggle for racial equality in America‚ but what happened to Emmett Till and Rosa Parks started the Civil Rights movement. Since the beginning of time‚ black and whites lived separate lives; the whites being the privileged of the two. African Americans were first brought over
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negative impact on a free society. Majority of peaceful assemblies can give the group of activist their freedom of speech and views towards something they believe in. Famous public figures like Claudette Colvin and Rosa Park’s civil disobedience had a powerful effect on the world. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move her seat for a white men while sitting on a segregated white bus in Montgomery‚ Alabama on December 1st‚ 1955. Similarly‚ Claudette Colvin found herself in the same predicament
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