Can turning point in a single person’s life change a whole society? A turning point can be described as a life changing event that teaches people of the world around them. People who endure a life changing event can respond positive/negative. In the autobiography “I Never had it made” by Jackie Robinson. The memoir “Warriors Don’t Cry” by Melba Pattillo Beals. In “The Father of Chinese Aviation” an article by Rebecca Maksel each of the individuals faced life-changing experience that altered both their live and country.
Jackie Robinson, Melba Patillo Beals, and Feng Ru all helped the world by being the first pioneer of what they wanted to accomplish. They had to take some life risks but they had being a pioneer of their goal the main priority. Jackie Robinson was chosen to integrate into the Major League Baseball during, the time blacks were not apart of the MLB. In his …show more content…
In paragraph eighteen the text states... “Step by step we climbed upward-where none of my people had ever before walked as a student. We stepped up the front door of Central High School and crossed the threshold into that place where angry segregationist mobs had forbidden us to go”. I chose that quote to explain my answer because she was going to be the first African American to go to a white school. These events challenged Beals to be brave and confident to stand up to the segregation that was going on. In paragraph seven, the text states… “Let’s bow our heads for a word of prayer. I noticed tears were streaming down the faces of many adults. That proves that people were praying and crying for them to stay safe and alive because in Little Rock the whites were segregating and some people didn’t accept them attending Central High School. Beals responds to those events by being determined to make her way into an all white school and to be
Jackie Robinson, Melba Patillo Beals, and Feng Ru all helped the world by being the first pioneer of what they wanted to accomplish. They had to take some life risks but they had being a pioneer of their goal the main priority. Jackie Robinson was chosen to integrate into the Major League Baseball during, the time blacks were not apart of the MLB. In his …show more content…
In paragraph eighteen the text states... “Step by step we climbed upward-where none of my people had ever before walked as a student. We stepped up the front door of Central High School and crossed the threshold into that place where angry segregationist mobs had forbidden us to go”. I chose that quote to explain my answer because she was going to be the first African American to go to a white school. These events challenged Beals to be brave and confident to stand up to the segregation that was going on. In paragraph seven, the text states… “Let’s bow our heads for a word of prayer. I noticed tears were streaming down the faces of many adults. That proves that people were praying and crying for them to stay safe and alive because in Little Rock the whites were segregating and some people didn’t accept them attending Central High School. Beals responds to those events by being determined to make her way into an all white school and to be