Montgomery Bus Boycott

With a bus, you only need one driver. Not only that, the average school bus can carry almost 10 times the amount of students you can carry in a normal car, which is almost the entire population in the school, including teachers! The main issue with renting a car is what you’re actually renting…

people. In waves you board a bus which will talk you from the airport to Fort Jackson. I remember the moment we got on Fort Jackson and the bus came to a stop, I looked out the window and saw the Drill Instructors (DI) standing there feet shoulder width apart, arms bent at the elbow at a 45o angle with hands overlapping behind them. This large figure emerges from the shadow, it was 2100 (or 9 pm for those that don’t know military…

powerful speeches, marches, and boycotts. In 1964, segregation and racism was banned in the USA. On April 4th, 1968, in a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, while giving a speech, he was shot by James Earl Ray. January 5th(Martins’ birthday) is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Major Accomplishments 1: On December 5, 1955, Martin led a boycott against black and white separation on buses because of Rosa Park’s arrest due to not giving up her bus spot. At Montgomery, Alabama, him and lots of…

A Thousand Splendid Suns uses many examples of imagery, such as the following excerpts to make a reader feel a certain way, or to help them better understand the events taking place at the time. In the first excerpt, Laila is waiting to board the bus after Wakil “bought tickets” for Laila, Mariam, and Aziza. She is in a pleasant, unbreakably optimistic mood. Her feelings are reflected by the imagery the author provides us with. It mentions that it is sunny and warm outside. The sun is a…

profession in transportation the company and product selected is Thomas Built Buses and school bus designs. Thomas Built Buses originated back in 1916 in North Carolina during World War 1 as streetcar manufacturer. It wasn’t until the 1930’s when the company started actually manufacturing and developing the school bus product. It took the company until the 1960’s to actually gain national reputation among school bus leaders. After the 1960’s the company continued to grow and develop and…

I was changed. I was so amped to go to school that day, I rushed down stair grabbed my black and red backpack and ran for the bus stop. While I was running I heard my sister scream“Wait, Rocky, your paper!”. She caught up to me and handed me the paper, huffing and puffing, she said “ How could you forget the paper you worked so hard on, and who in the world runs to a bus stop on a snowy, february morning?”. That paper, three paragraphs, nine sentences, on a page of wide ruled paper and about the…

Deeya Patel Bus D1 Students are Consistently Delayed On Tuesday September 26th, Deeya Patel’s bus driver mistakenly took a wrong between 3:15 and 3:30 and ended up on Route 206. As a new bus driver, Gina has been taking a different route almost everyday. As a result, Deeya Patel and many others shared a confused look. Was Gina taking a different route because she wanted to see the fastest way or was it hard for her to memorize the given route? As students at Hillsborough Middle School, they…

i’ll just take the bus. I check on google for the next bus, and it says the bus will arrive in a couple minutes, so everything is fine i tell myself. As i am waiting for the bus, my feet are literally burning, the sidewalk is so hot that i can feel the heat through my shoes. Well, maybe it’s because i’m standing still i tell myself, so i’m thinking about going across the street to Otto’s fruit stand for a nice cold smoothie but i have some doubts because what if i miss the bus.…

second grade, and I was just getting on to the school bus; I sat right in the middle row next to my friend who looked just like me -- we each sported fresh new glasses, a fashionable bowl cut, a polo shirt, and khakis. Aside from the banal clothing we had both decided to wear, we shared one glaring similarity: we were both Indian-American, each with caramel colored skin. A tall and quite imposing fourth grader had sat in front of us and before the bus had started, he swiveled back at us and…

It was a sunny morning , it was a school field trip for the maroon and white,when we got to the school the big bus marron was there.Everyone got inside the bus,then we went on the ride for about 3 hour.Then we got to guthrie oklahoma,we performed a song at guthrie oklahoma after that we went to frontier city when we got to frontier we got of the bus and give the worker our ticket and then we got in long line for lunch.Our lunch was chicken,soda and cookies.After we eat we went to the ride the…