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    Rosa Parks

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    Rosa Park was born in Tuskegee‚ Alabama on February 4th 1913. She grew up on a farm with Her maternal grandparents. In 1932 Rosa Parks married Raymond Parks a barber from Montgomery. When Rosa was young she suffered poor health and had chronic tonsillitis. Black and white people were segregated in virtually every aspect of daily life in the south. School bus transportation was unavailable for any form for blacks schoolchildren. In December 1943 Parks became active in the Civil Rights Movements

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    Jurassic Park

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    Jurassic Park is a book about the cloning of dinosaurs and they are used as the park entertainment on an island. In this park where dinosaurs are the attraction‚ not every thing will go as planned . Reading this book will teach someone how Michael Crichton feels about biological science and the cloning of extinct animals. There are things that caused the park to be unsuccessful. Dr. Malcolm and Dennis Nedry where two of the parks problems‚ and the other was the nature of the animals. Dr.

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    Gosford Park

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    Gosford Park Summary The movie Gosford Park is a story that takes place in an old rich English country house in the 1930’s. Sir William McCordle and his wife Lady Sylvia is a pair of wealthy British socialites. They have their big house‚ a complete staff‚ a butler and everything that an upper class English family would have. One weekend they invite their friends and family up for a weekend shooting party. All the guests are also wealthy and some even bring their own maids. Among the guests

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    Rosa Parks

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    Rosa Parks was one of significant people who fought for the African American Civil Rights. Throughout her whole life‚ she had lived in segregation between the white and the black people in Alabama‚ USA. She was a determined woman to stop racism and it was more difficult for her at that time because she was an African American female. Through her life she went through different challenges and the experiences which one of them is the Montgomery Bus Boycott event where she refused to give up her seat

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    Rosa Parks

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    Rosa Parks Date: February 4‚ 1913-Otober 24‚ 2005 On February 4‚ 1913‚ Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee‚ Alabama to parents James McCauley and Leona Edwards. Her father was employed as a carpenter and her mother as a teacher. In her younger years she was sick much of the time‚ and as a result‚ was a small child. Her parents eventually separated and her mother took her and her brother and moved to Pine Level‚ a town adjacent to Montgomery‚ Alabama

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    Rosa Parks

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    By: Brooke McClain Mcclain 1 The Summary Rosa Parks‚ born in Tuskegee‚ Alabama on February 4‚ 1913 in was raised in an era during which segregation was normal and black suppression was a way of life. She lived with relatives in Montgomery‚ where she finished high school in 1933 and continued her education at Alabama State College. She married her husband‚ Raymond Parks‚ a barber‚ in 1932. She worked as a clerk‚ an insurance salesperson‚ and a tailor ’s assistant at a department store. She was

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    Luneta Park

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    TRIVIA LUNETA PARK 1. Luneta is located at the center of Manila‚ the Philippine capital. It is one of the city’s most popular attractions. 2. Luneta is derived from the word “lunette” which means crescent moon – the shape of this formerly marshy land. 3. As early as 1601‚ there is already a small town on this marshy land called Bagumbayan or Nuevo Barrio in Spanish‚ hence‚ Luneta is also known before as Bagumbayan. 4. In 1872‚ Father Burgos‚ Fr. Gomez and Fr. Zamora were executed by garrote in Luneta

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    Rosa Parks

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    Rosa Parks Outline Rosa Parks affected history by contributing to the NAACP‚ by helping begin the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ and by helping during the Civil Rights movements and fighting for equality for African Americans. I. Introduction A. “The only tired I was‚ was tired of giving in.” 1. Rosa was the youth adviser in the NAACP group‚ and taught her students to resist segregation whenever they could. 2. She was admired in the black community as a dedicated volunteer who served as secretary

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    Nowhere does it say that Rosa Parks can not sit on that bus. The Montgomery Code required all public transportation was segregated (Kishel‚ 2006). The city claimed that the bus drivers had the "powers of a police officer of the city while in actual charge of any bus for the purposes of carrying out the provisions" of the code (Kishel‚ 2006). While driving the bus‚ drivers were required to provide separate but equal accommodations for white and black passengers by assigning seats. This was completed

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    case. Many people’s kindness makes them a great leader. For instance Rosa Parks showed bravery and courage when she refused to leave her seat even though she knew she would be arrested and kicked off the bus. This shows that she was a great leader because she did what she thought was right. So many people believed the same as Rosa Parks‚ and this small act led to something greater called the bus boycott. Rosa Parks wasn’t the only exceptional leader of the civil rights act. We have all learned

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