would be a hero because she was able to stand up for herself‚ she was able to stand up for others‚ and was able to stop segregation. Rosa Parks is a hero because she was able to stand up for herself on the bus. This was when the driver asked her to give her seat to a white person and she refused to do it (Rosa Parks My Story). The primary reason she had refused was because she knew that the Jim Crow laws were awful and unfair for blacks.The other reason was that she was tired of giving in.This demonstrated
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What if somebody asked people on the street if they knew who Zheng He was? Why do people not pay attention to such a huge part of world history? Zheng He was a Chinese fleet commander and was famous for the seven voyages that he made between 1405 to 1433. His voyages should be celebrated for several reasons. Firstly‚ he invented several innovations in nautical architecture. Secondly‚ wherever he went‚ he was always respectful to the native people and did not expel or colonize them. Thirdly‚ Zheng
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The article “When America Was Rocked” tells about how the American culture was changed and shaped throughout the 1940s and 1960s. One of the biggest changes was the amount of young people in America and the music they listened to. Young people at this time were being called reckless or rebellious. However most teenagers found out that they could express themselves better through music. Music at this time was sang only by white people‚ but a new genre called “race music” was becoming very popular
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In 1787 B.C.‚ Hammurabi created the first set of written organized laws‚ called the Code of Hammurabi‚ The law tried to make the victim and perpetrator fair and equal. The code was unfair because the punishments did not prescribe justice. Hammurabi’s Code is fair with the use of certain rules. Law #232 states that “If a builder builds a house for someone‚ even though he has not yet completed it; if the walls seem toppling‚ the builder must make the walls solid from his own means” (Hammurabi’s Code)
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The Days When The World Was Wide The world is narrow and ways are short‚ and our lives are dull and slow‚ For little is new where the crowds resort‚ and less where the wanderers go; Greater‚ or smaller‚ the same old things we see by the dull road-side — And tired of all is the spirit that sings of the days when the world was wide. When the North was hale in the march of Time‚ and the South and the West were new‚ And the gorgeous East was a pantomime‚ as it seemed in our boyhood’s view; When Spain was
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Murder! That is what happened to Julius Caesar. When Brutus murdered Caesar he thought that by killing him he was helping Rome and its people. In the story The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare we learn this was not true at all‚ Caesar was a great man who cared for the people of Rome‚ was very brave‚ had good leader ship skills‚ and was certainly not ambitious. Even though Brutus claimed that they were justified in killing Caesar‚ he did not see how unjust it really was. Firstly Caesar
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Empire of the Sun directed by Steven Spielberg and the novel When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka the main characters struggle with identifying which side of World War II they are supposed to be aligned with. The protagonists from both of the works experience a moment where the line between good and bad is extremely thin. Both Jamie and the family are forced to question their allegiances in World War II. Jamie Graham was born into an opulent English family with many privileges.
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Period 2 Ms. Johnson All through elementary school‚ I was left out. I never got along with other kids because I wasn’t pretty or bubbly as a little kid. Basically‚ my awkward phase was all the way to middle school. I can honestly say that I had one single friend at each elementary school I went to. When I went to Lockmar in Palm Bay‚ it was Jessica. We were the only two kids with lesbian parents‚ so we were close as could be. When I was in the fourth grade‚ my mom had a nervous breakdown.
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written by J.D. Salinger. It was published in 1951 and contains 214 pages. The publisher was Little‚ Brown and Company. If you were to put the book in a certain genre‚ it would fall under Literary realism and Coming-of-age story. Originally the book was written for adults but over the years more and more teenagers have been drawn to the book because of the themes and the telling of life of being a kid that age. Within two weeks of being published this book was on New York’s bestseller list.
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Samuel Akande 7/86/2011 when the emperor was divine The Japanese Americans In the novel find themselves torn between two identities: they struggle to reconcile their divided loyalties whether it’s politics‚ religion‚ or culture. In the book when the emperor was divine it gave us some connections about what Japanese Americans views on the war politically on pg 75 the mom started destroying objects that you can say are an influence of Japanese culture and politics for example
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