Extended Writing Project - Jacob Covarrubias-Orta Melba Pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru all helped change their countries while going through life changing events and challenges. Jackie Robinson explains how he went through these challenges and life changing event by writing his autobiography I Never Had It Made. Melba Pattillo Beals explains her challenges and life changing event by writing her autobiography Warriors Don’t Cry. Lastly, Rebecca Maksel describes Feng’s challenges by writing a nonfiction book called “The Father Of Chinese Aviation”.…
WDC Rough Draft Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Patillo Beals is about the integration of Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas. Melba often feels discouraged; however, she realizes she needs to be confident to achieve her goal of freedom and equality. Initially, Melba’s goal to be free from discrimination is seemingly halted by her discouragement. When the Little Rock Nine are being evacuated from Central High in the midst of the rioting segregationists, Melba realizes “we were in the kind of trouble I hadn’t even imagined before” (Beals 117).…
I am reading an autobiography named Warriors don’t cry by Melba Patillo Bells. I have learnt that Melba is of color and a member of the little rock nine. The Little Rock Nine were a group of colored people who protested segregation by attending a “Whites-only school” in Little Rock, Arkansas. Due to her life as a colored person inside the then-racist America, I would consider her a hero (along with the other colored people living in her era).…
Rein M. Melba Patillo helped to change the way her town, state, and country viewed integration and racial equality; the ordeals she went through helped shape her own views. Warriors Don?t Cry by Melba Patillo-Beales, an autobiography, gives people an inside look at the struggles and obstacles African-Americans faced during their fight for racial equality. The events of the Central High integration, though a nationally regarded issue, also shaped the views and outlooks of the people involved. The trials of the integration of Central High have shown Melba?s incredible determination. After being accepted into the school, even people from her own local community discourage her.…
Whenever she was in doubt, Melba would think of several different things to help her get through the challenges she faced. She would often use religion to help her with what she was dealing with. She would also think of her grandma India, and her brother. Sometimes, she would even think of her guard Danny and his knowledgeable words that he had told her, he told her that warriors never give up and it inspired her to keep going. Melba and I could relate in several ways as to how we can find strength.…
In the book Warriors don't cry by Melba Patillio Beals, The author has many motivators and motivations. The support, protection, strength, and encouragement from her family are examples of how it motivates people to struggle to change. Support can make you struggle for change if someone helps you or if they are there for you while you are struggling. In the book Melba's family supported her decision when she chose to go to Central High and start integration in the school system.…
Melba Pattillo Beals impressed me the most. Though many of her qualities were impressive and rare, I will be talking about two of them today. The first quality that I thought was most impressive was her kindness. Beals showed this quality throughout the book many times. One time she showed this trait was at Central High School.…
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful” Joshua J. Marine. Betty Marie overcame her obstacles in many different ways. Like she ignored the kids who bullied her about her last name, she kept her mind on her career, and she always knows that being an Osage Indian is nothing funny, but something to be proud of. At first Betty Marie was shy and docile, so she was not able to become famous in her point in life.…
The first job someone has is often memorable in many ways, they are earning their own money, accepting a new form of responsibility, and they’re usually treated horribly because their position is seen as inferior. In today’s world, people who work jobs that don’t require a degree are looked down upon. It is often ignored that the resources that are needed to obtain the education that is required for a white collar job, are not available to everyone. A certain intelligence that comes of blue collar workers and what they must deal with is also dismissed. There is no shame in being a blue collar worker, it requires a completely different skill set that cannot be taught.…
When Melba discussed her not letting negative advice affect her I was proud because it felt inspirational to people who may face bullying. As a reader, it was shocking to discover that after Melba’s hardship at Central High School she went on to marry and have a family with a white man. It’s clear to see that Melba wasn’t going to let her problems in High School affect her future. Melba’s emotional connection to readers makes for a good book, that I would…
“Sometimes I pretend to be normal, but it gets boring so I go back to being me,” says Emily-Anne Rigal. Emily-Anne became an anti-bullying teen activist at the age of 16. She also made a foundation called We Stop Hate that helps with confidence boosting and bullying which is a problem all throughout the U.S. Emily-Anne was bullied, became a bully and then finished the cycle by becoming an anti-bullying activist. When she was nine years old many people called her fat and ugly.…
How do turning points impact people’s lives and countries? A turning point can be described as a significant event that changes people’s lives in positive or negative ways. In the autobiography, “I Never Had it Made” by Jackie Robinson, the memoir, “Warriors Don’t Cry” by Melba Patillo Beals, and the article, “The Father of Chinese Aviation”, by Rebecca Maksel, each of the individuals faced turning points. Jackie Robinson, Melba Patillo Beals, and Feng Ru faced life-changing experiences that changed their lives and their countries.…
Personal statement The year 2004 marked a time in my family’s history in which we took a substantial step forward by coming to the United States. Before that, we lived through and experienced a lot of unspeakable things. Originating in Somalia, my parents understood that it was a place where nothing could be achieved. Civil war broke out, devastating hundreds upon thousands of lives, including several of my family members. Corruption infected the government, military, and all forms of law enforcement.…
The definition of a warrior is someone who is brave and experienced as a soldier or fighter. A warrior is someone who battles with whatever situation they happen to be in. Traits that warriors have are determination, leaders, & be brave. I believe that Melba and the rest of little rock nine were warriors because no matter what happened through the day they never gave up and always fought back. They fought back without creating more problems.…
I believe that my personal background, and my success despite the adversity that I have faced is an essential part of who I am. The first of my struggles came from being born to two teenage parents without at least a high school education, and although my mother went on to get a GED and to college my father did not. Many people in my family had issues with substance abuse and addictions including my father. Although, I was raised by my mother and grandmother, my father’s actions and behaviors negatively impacted my life. My father was verbally and mentally abusive to the people around him, especially when he used alcohol.…