Got to Give It Up

remember my mom saying “She was a grumpy grandma, but she had her fun moments.” My uncle told us that In her teen years she got very ill and almost died, but she said she saw a light and a man saying “What are you doing here you’re not supposed to be here yet. You’re going to live for a long time and have a big family.” I also learned that she married young and grew up in a tiny town in Mexico called Tequila.Her and…

The Odyssey, Odysseus acts like a modern day hero. Odysseus could be considered a modern day hero because he never gives up, he is loyal, and is smart. One way that Odysseus can be considered a modern day hero is that he never gives up. Odysseus never let the people know it was him when he was dressed like a beggar. He never let any anger out and he kept it all in when Odysseus got hit by Antinous with a stool. Odysseus kept his cool while the suitors mistreated him,did not let him have food,…

came up with an idea to help the community kids during the stress that will come with taking state tests. For my Service Learning Project, Maggie, Lindsay, and I are making what we call “Study Buddies”. Study Buddies are going to be a clothespin designed as a person that comes with an inspirational note for kids who are taking test, such as the Park test..We plan on making these items over the week and sending them to the seventh graders at illini during their testing session next week. I got…

Our parents are always giving us rules: don’t talk to strangers, don’t play in the streets, do eat your vegetables, and pick up your toys when you are done with them. We have to follow these rules or else we get in trouble. Back in the 1100s knights had to follow what was called The Medieval Chivalry Code or they got in trouble. The Medieval Chivalry Code are rules the knights had to follow that emphasized bravery, loyalty to women, following lords rules, fighting to uphold christianity, seeking…

Rosa Louise Parks was born on February 4th 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Rosa went to school at industrial for girls. She also went to alabama state teachers college for negroes. On December 1st 1955 Rosa Parks got on the cleveland avenue bus so she could go home. She sat down in the first couple of rows on the bus. (“Rosa Parks”) In montgomery all the buses had to be segregated. The drivers of the bus had to have separate but equal seats for black and white people that ride the bus. They…

soldiers never gave up and they stood up for themselves in order to get treated the same as the white people. In addition, one African American soldier in this movie in particular stood up for not only himself, but also the rest of the soldiers multiple times.He got the African American soldiers to go against what the white people had going on. In the end the African American soldiers get respected and treated properly just like the white soldiers. So therefore, to sum the whole movie up, the…

Melba Pattillo is an African American that was in the little rock 9. melba Pattillo helped integrate little rock central high. She gets bullied her and were mean to her. A soldier named Dan helped her find the strength not to give up. Religion helped her not give up. A challenge that I face is my kick-flip because when I do it, I don’t commit and I land one footed. find my strength by imagining me doing a perfect kick-flip. I also watch people doing kick-flips in slow-motion. Tony…

my eight years of schooling. All through elementary school, it was really easy for me, but when I got into sixth grade, it was death to me, I just did not understand anything they were saying. So I just tried my hardest on everything trying to be a great student, but I failed everything, and I thought I was the worst person…

his dad to a surprise, chase did not know what it was but he did know it could go up on price by a-thousand. (his dad got a big business loan) As the car was pulling up in the parking garage chase was too short and couldn’t see out the window but his seat was also blocking him (he was five years of age). When he got out of the car and he was walking along he saw it, it was… The Pet Store thing! And as he was walking up with his dad his dad turned left, then right, then left again, finally they…

Have you ever been wrongfully been mistreated and told that certain people were more important than you and when you refused to listen to them you got put in your so called place. Well a man on flight 3411 by the name of Doctor David Dao this man was deemed less important than a polit that had to catch a ride in a overbooked plane and after he was offered one-thousand-three-hundred-seventy-two dollars to leave his seat catch another plane he told them no but they decided they did not like that…