Endorsing and Recognizing Courage
Change and progress are not possible without courage. Someone needs courage in order to encounter the unknown. Acts of courage can be both big and small, but no amount of courage should ever go unrecognized. Throughout my life, I have both recognized and endorsed courage. I was able to see people stand up for their own value. Moreover, I myself was able to serve my country and fight for my fellow Americans. Everyone has courage; the hard part is ascertaining it.
Undoubtedly, times were changing at the end of the Second World War. Shortly after World War Two Korea had split into two. The United States government oversaw the north portion and the USSR controlled the southern portion. Since the war had ended, the tension between the USSR and the United States was rapidly increasing. The two countries came together to defeat Hitler and Nazi …show more content…
An African-American woman arrived on the bus. She appeared weary to me. Her posture hunched over in exhaustion, and small creases of stress retained on her face. She sat on the last remaining seat. Simultaneously, a white man boarded the bus. He briskly walked over to her and instructed she should move, so he would have a place to sit. Her drained eyes looked up at him as she refused. The man astonished, left and went to the bus driver. Several other passengers in earshot turned her way and gave revolting looks of disgust. The tired woman who I learned later to be Rosa Parks, was then arrested, because she refused to give up her seat. The law in Alabama requires that if a bus is full, then an African-American passenger must give up his or her seat. Rosa Parks started a movement; after hearing word of her remarkable story, other people started to boycott the Montgomery bus system. I boycotted as well! I biked my way to work every day. Rosa started a phenomenon that lead to the banning of segregation on public
Change and progress are not possible without courage. Someone needs courage in order to encounter the unknown. Acts of courage can be both big and small, but no amount of courage should ever go unrecognized. Throughout my life, I have both recognized and endorsed courage. I was able to see people stand up for their own value. Moreover, I myself was able to serve my country and fight for my fellow Americans. Everyone has courage; the hard part is ascertaining it.
Undoubtedly, times were changing at the end of the Second World War. Shortly after World War Two Korea had split into two. The United States government oversaw the north portion and the USSR controlled the southern portion. Since the war had ended, the tension between the USSR and the United States was rapidly increasing. The two countries came together to defeat Hitler and Nazi …show more content…
An African-American woman arrived on the bus. She appeared weary to me. Her posture hunched over in exhaustion, and small creases of stress retained on her face. She sat on the last remaining seat. Simultaneously, a white man boarded the bus. He briskly walked over to her and instructed she should move, so he would have a place to sit. Her drained eyes looked up at him as she refused. The man astonished, left and went to the bus driver. Several other passengers in earshot turned her way and gave revolting looks of disgust. The tired woman who I learned later to be Rosa Parks, was then arrested, because she refused to give up her seat. The law in Alabama requires that if a bus is full, then an African-American passenger must give up his or her seat. Rosa Parks started a movement; after hearing word of her remarkable story, other people started to boycott the Montgomery bus system. I boycotted as well! I biked my way to work every day. Rosa started a phenomenon that lead to the banning of segregation on public