Adirondack Park Agency

When I was eight years old, my family went on a vacation to Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Being the extravagant woman that she is, my grandmother spared no expense; we stayed in a Disney hotel with a jungle theme and went to the water parks and restaurants. However, the prospect of going to Cinderella's Castle made me most euphoric. I had always loved Disney and had traveled to Disney World once before, but I was too young to truly remember the trip. The world around me was new and exciting,…

Many events, protests and demonstrations took place because of the formation of so many new activist groups. A popular protest event was the sit in. On February 1, 1960, the first sit in took place at Greensboro’s Five and Dime. Four students sat down at a lunch counter asking to be served. The response from the waiter was that the store didn’t serve colored. The students were unhappy for they had ordered at a different table and were served, but when they went up to a whites counter, they were…

In the 1880s an Irishman named Charles C. Boycott refused to lower the rent of his renter which were farmers. The farmers weren’t capable of paying the overpriced rent because a disease had killed all of their crops. Keep in mind that the farmers lived off these crops. Furthermore, the renters started to protest against Charles, but he declined their grievances. Moreover, an activist from this protest named Michael David suggested that we shouldn't attack Charles but instead to not do any…

Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat on a public bus and was arrested; this action was in direct violation of the Jim Crow laws. Following her arrest, Martin Luther King Jr. led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, leading to action by the Supreme Court; bus segregation was declared unconstitutional in 1956. Rosa Parks is “a symbol of dignity and strength in the face of discrimination” (Korpe, "Rosa Parks and Civil Disobedience"). By implementing civil disobedience…

In and out of the fictional world bravery can take place and appear in many different forms. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird authored by Harper Lee and in the four articles, Things We Do For Love, The bravest thing you have ever done, The power of real girls, and finally Runaway slave on the Wisconsin-Canada line, the novel and articles alike all explain that a hero doesn’t have to be an almighty super hero, but an average mom or even a slave in earlier times. Though these articles aren’t…

The Titan I felt my stomach turning, I still didn’t know if I was going to be brave enough to do it. I was 9 and loved anything that had to do with roller coasters . I would always hear people screaming and I could feel the exhilaration building up in my body. We went to six flags and I went on a ride that i have never been on before the Titan, I went on and my heart starting racing, I had never been so scared before after that I was so frightened to get on another ride. I had to face my fear…

THE DOMINATOR is a free fall, spiral, looping, steel roller coaster. This one of a kind coaster is like no other and is the first basketball themed ride to ever be made. You will spot this orange and black coaster from across the park. The top speed of THE DOMINATOR is a 60 mile per hour spiral, that will have you scoring big. You will never know where the next turn will take you. The average speed of this exhilarating ride is 40 miles per hour! Some points will have you going at a constant…

began the civil rights movement. Although Rosa Parks is remembered as the woman who refused to give her seat to a white man, she played a small role in this larger movement. The movement involved peoples such as African Americans, organizations, and even whites as well. Without the unity of African Americans and the group of white males and females who supported this movement, the rights that we have today would have never existed. Although Rosa Parks became a symbol of the movement, the…

Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American woman, was the reason buses were integrated. After being beaten and put in jail for being disobedient, a peaceful boycott was created and lasted 381 days. Parks’s lawyer filed a notice of appeal. However, buses were integrated for everyone in the United States. Lastly, Parks became known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.” Personally, I feel like Rosa Parks really was a huge impact on America. For this reason, African Americans and…

messages across without them being masked by bad intentions or violence. When peaceful resistances are performed under the right context, they can change the path of history in a significant way. Without some of our great resistors like MLK and Rosa Parks, we may not be where we are today; therefore, it can be said that through peaceful resistance, even when we think laws are correct, can shape our moral standing in the world. They can show our culture new ways of thinking and turn our heads…