Campus Martius Park

Rosa got on the bus, and she sat in the white section. Then, a white man got on the bus and he wanted Rosa’s seat, but she refused to get up. So the bus driver said “If you do not get up, I will have you arrested.” So Rosa said said “You may do that.” So the bus driver had her arrested. The police took her in their custody. They put her in jail for 2 days. Before they put her in jail, they asked her questions about the case. She said that the reason she did not get is because she was tired and…

Middle School rushed into Dorney Park merrily, with huge smiles on their faces on June 9th. The trip to Dorney Park in Allentown, PA has always been the field trip all eighth graders look forward to years in advance. Parsippany students have been going to Dorney Park for a field trip in eighth grade for the past sixteen years and it has always been wonderful. Thankfully, June 9th was a gorgeous day in spring, a perfect day to go to Dorney Park. The amusement park and waterpark consists of…

color was Rosa Park on the city bus where she refused to give up her seat for a white man. She was arrested for breaking the law, Parks did not cause a scene or argued, she peacefully sat in her seat and did not get up, She was arrested for breaking the law. That is an act of peaceful resistance, it did not hurt the society in any way, in fact it did impacted the society in a positive way. It created a city…

enhance the themes intended by the author. To the naked eye, the theme of survival would be the most outstanding theme in both Michael Crichton’s, ‘Jurassic Park’, and Francis Lawrence’s 2007 movie adaption of the book ‘I am legend’. In both these texts, the author places the characters in a dangerous situation instigated by science. In Jurassic Park, the ego-manic John Hammond, uses DNA to recreate prehistoric animals that just like their ancestors carry the instincts to hunt and survive. In I…

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…