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    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…

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    when, Rosa Parks got arrested for refusing to give up her seat. She was arrested because of the Montgomery, Alabama, ordinance that required blacks to sit in the back of the bus and if the white section of the bus was full, the African Americans must yield their seats to white people. The day Rosa Parks was arrested the whole white section of the bus was full, and a white male made Rosa give up her seat. She refused. so tTherefore, she was arrested. Soon after her arrest, Rosa Parks got bailed…

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    The Montgomery Bus Boycott started in December 1955. This brought much attention to Miss Rosa Parks. Very intriguingly, all African American citizens refused to ride the bus, due to Parks being arrested for refusing to give up her seat. This was a big deal. It upset many blacks and they refused to ride the bus any longer. Since black Americans refused to ride the bus, it caused serious financial problems for the bus company. They had to desegregate the buses. The Montgomery bus company faced…

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    generation,” by Coretta Scott King. I believe that freedom has to be rewon. In every generation freedom has to be rewon because people that make a difference only make a difference in that time of age. People like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. He led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s. In the spring of 1963, he gave a speech “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by…

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    False Memory Is False

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    “Memory – like liberty – is a fragile thing.” - Elizabeth Loftus. We tend to think about memories like photographs. They’re snippets of the past, and we go over the most monumental (or embarrassing) moments in our lives time and time again, sometimes just to remind ourselves of who we are. It's such a fundamental part of our daily routines that we forget how reliant we are on memories. Every thing from the taste of strawberries to the name of that film you saw yesterday are all parts of what…

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    Heros in the past. some of the people in the past changed history that effected the future."For Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955, courage ment refusing to give up her seat on a public bus." (Source 1) She was standing up for her rites at the time on the bus. "When Rosa parksboarded that bus in 1955, she sat down in the first row of seats designated fo African Americans. Montomery law reserved the front ten rows of seats on the bus for white passengers. Sometimes the buses became very crowded…

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    awed narration as we began our final, rounded descent. Lollipop roofs on canvas tents. Sun glinting off the polished brass poles of the carousel. People darting about, miniature, with all the frenzy of a colony of ants. The huge, manic mouth of Luna Park was ever hungry, greedily swallowing the frantic flow of families. It was then, as we drew closer to the ground, that I noticed a flaw, a great blemish in the rich tapestry of carnival colour. A woman. She sat on a bench beside the duck-shooting…

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    The roller coaster traces its origins to Russia, where wood-framed ice slides sent sledders down 70-foot high slopes as early as the 16th century. These Russian Mountains also became popular summertime attractions when wheeled carts rolled riders down large, undulating wooden ramps. What is considered the first successful commercial roller coaster made its debut in 1884 at New York's famous Coney Island. LaMarcus A. Thompson constructed the first roller coaster, the primitive Gravity Switchback…

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    At a young age, I didn’t pay attention to my surroundings just the big entertainments like the castle, Mickey Mouse and his friends that are roaming around the theme park. Now, as we are older, we are more aware of the people surrounding us. The amusement park is packed with people in big groups which consists of tourists, people with year around passes, or kids in school field trips. These are the people that are constantly visiting Disneyland. There are multiple…

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    around talking and interacting with those who came to Disney. These thoughts were occurring to him as he was at an amusement parking sitting while his daughters were playing. Walt never wanted his amusement park to be like the typical one. He once said “What this country really needs is an amusement park that families can take their children to. They’ve gotten so honky tonk with a lot of questionable characters running around, and they’re not too safe. They’re not well kept. I want to have…

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