bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This sudden incident happened on the citywide boycott bus, it stirred up nationwide segregation in public facilities. When Rosa Parks was a child she experienced racial discrimination activism. Her mother and father had separated when she was a child. Rosa Parks in her seat on the bus. She and her mother moved in with her grandparents. On the farm her grandpa stood on the porch with a shot and watched as the Ku Klux Klan marched down the…
Montgomery bus Boycott A woman named Rosa Parks was arrested and treated badly by the Montgomery police. In 1955 women who rode the buses in Montgomery were arrested for refusing to give up their seats to white men and women. Another woman named Jo Ann Robinson made handbills and handed them out to college students, that handbill told people to stay off the buses for one whole day. Instead of staying on the buses for one day, Martin Luther King, Jr boycotted the buses for a whole year. People…
Alen Turing. Criptogropher from Cambridge who is hired to a group of men to break the Nazis enigma code. However he feels team ates will only slow him down, and after taking control of the group he starts by firing two men who he feels are inadequate for the job. His next step is to find new people to fill there positions by putting out a cross word puzzle to fish for canidates. Jone Clark becomes a part of the group along with another man. The story then flashes back to Allen's childhood where…
America had gone through so many things when the Montgomery Bus Boycott was going on. They just had gone through the Vietnam War, which was hard for America to overcome. America was at one time almost in all out nuclear war with Russia, better known as the cold war. But now you have blacks fighting for the same rights that the whites had. They were breaking laws, but yet they were not using any violence while breaking these laws, because their leader Martin Luther King Jr. knew that they could…
Lloyd Augustus Hall was born in Elgin, Illinois on June 20th, 1894. While growing up he was an honors student at West Side High School in Aurora, Illinois. He was captain of the school debate team while competing in baseball, football, and track. He graduated high school at the top 10 of his class. Hall then chose to attend Northwestern University. In 1916, he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. He then graduated, earning a degree from the University of Chicago. Through a…
Strangely enough one of my close friends shares a birthday with the famous symbolic interactionism theorists because Herbert George Blumer who is a white male was born on March 7th, 1900 in Missouri. He grew up on a farm with his mother being a homemaker and his father making cabinets. However, this small town feeling did not stop him wanting to be surrounded in the world of business. It is when he attended college was where Herbert got his first taste of the sociological and psychological…
The ride to Atlanta is never boring with the sound of horns honking, tires screeching, people yelling. Seeing the towering buildings over me, surrounding me from every corner, like being trapped behind oversized prison bars. But as soon as I see Turner Field in the distance, I know I am in for a real treat. Attending a baseball game at Turner Field in Atlanta, Georgia, is something I believe people must experience at some point in their lifetime. Watching the Braves play on the television is a…
My intent of this paper topic will be highlighting the inspiration of how Robert Hammond and Josh David visionary idea transformed the creation of an unused, abandoned railway line to a spectacular greenery park in the sky -the New York’s High Line. Hammond and David were two guys from the neighborhood who decided that tearing down the railway line was not a good idea, while other people in the community, including property owners and the Mayor Giuliani wanted the unused railway demolish. With…
Rosalind Franklin’s story started in Notting Hill, London, United Kingdom. Her full name was Rosalind Elsie Franklin, and she was born to a rather conspicuous British Jewish family on July 25, 1920. The second of five children, three boys and two girls. Daughter of Muriel and Ellis Franklin, both of her parents originated from Jewish families that settled in England in the 1700s and 1800s. Her guardians owned banks and publishing companies. They were both educated and companionable people.These…
Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox Baseball team, where you can eat your foods, and where the greatest fans meet to watch a game. Fenway Park, is the stadium of the Boston Red Sox. It is the oldest baseball stadium in the country. When I first approach Fenway, it look to be a row of food shops and vendors, Inside it is a regular baseball field like any other, except for the Green Monster, a massive wall in left field, that stands a little over thirty seven feet high and two hundred thirty…