Parks and Recreation

Rosa Parks and James Blake (bus driver) enter the scene. Many whites sit toward the front of the bus while blacks take the back due to laws supporting segregation. Because of this, quite a few Negros don’t ride the bus; they find it demeaning since the front of the bus has much more space and less heat compared to the back. Rosa is sitting down in her seat located in the fifth row, the “Colored section,” of the bus alongside three other Negros when a white man gets on, looking for an open seat.…

Appreciation to Rosa Parks Icon, Oprah Winfrey, in her eulogy, Rosa Parks Eulogy, acknowledges Rosa Parks bravery. Winfrey purpose is to give gratitude towards Rosa Parks. She utilizes imagery, passionate tone, and repetition in order to tell the people mourning her death that she is a good person. Winfrey began her tribute with imagery in her eulogy by acknowledge her bravery. She uses imagery to explain the bravery that she “must be a hundred feet tall,” is “strong,” and must “. . . [carry] a…

Rachel Lee Rubin’s book Well Met chronicles the history of the Renaissance Pleasure Faire, a cultural wellspring in 1960s Los Angeles, and subsequent events modeled after it. Through her research, Rubin shows the reader how the “Faire” has affected American culture and our lives today. The Faire is set in Shakespearean times. One early attendee drew her own connection to the Faire’s setting and the time of its development: “The Faire… had an intellectual focus on the history of an era of…

Alan Mathison Turing was one of the greatest mathematicians to have served this world. Without Turing, World War 2 would've raged on for about two to four more years. With Alan Turing's invention of the "Colossus", he was able to break the German code of Enigma. The "Colossus" deciphered the message that came from the German machine the Enigma. With the "Colossus", he saved up to ten to twenty-one million lives. He's a hero of World War 2 and a hero to countless people who could've been a…

I could not withhold my excitement as our car pulled up to the huge amusement park I was about to enter. I could see several roller coasters rushing through the air, their tracks gleaming in the sunlight and looking huge against the blue sky. I was elated to be going to Europa Park for the first time with my friends in the band I was a part of. When we finally entered the park I was very excited to be in a group with one of my friends, Naomi, as we both had never been. As sixth graders we could…

The greatest place on the face of the earth is Disneyland. Nowhere else has the magic that a day at Disneyland possesses. From my childhood to now, I have never experienced a day at Disneyland that didn't put enough joy in my heart to far exceed the admission price. Rides, shops, shows, and characters. These are just a few of the many great aspects of this wonderful place. In order to enter Disneyland, you must walk through Main Street. This is a large street, where if you are lucky enough, you…

movement in multiple ways. Rosa Parks is a specific example of why the civil rights movement was so successful. Rosa Parks was sitting on the first row of the black section of one of the segregated buses in Alabama, when a white man got on the bus and there were no more seats in the white section (History.com Staff). As a result they asked Rosa Parks to get up and move so that he could sit on that row; she refused to move and therefore was arrested (History.com Staff). Rosa Parks’ bravery became…

is a breathtaking national park. It is located in the Sierra Nevada which is in the northwest part of California. Who created Yosemite? The process started when Abraham Lincoln set aside the land to be saved in 1864. What he said was, “be held for public use, resort, and recreation...inalienable for all time.” Then on October 1, 1890 John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt founded Yosemite. It was created to preserve wilderness. Yosemite is one of the most famous national parks in the United States…

Martin Luther King, Jr. accomplished many things in his lifetime. His greatest belief in the world was equality for all. He fought hard his whole life to make peace and change the minds of racists. Martin was a minister, so he shared his beliefs at church and other places. His most famous and notable speech was at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. He spoke to thousands of people black and white and shared his feelings and expressed his ideas about equality. “We hold these to truths…

whites. In 1943, Parks became a member of the NAACP. At the time, Rosa’s spouse was also a member of the NAACP. Parks participated in these clubs for many years, until she perished on October 24, 2005 (Parks, Rosa). Before Rosa passed away, she was able to see how successful the Montgomery Bus Boycott had been. On November 23, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). The MIA confirmed that segregated bussing was unconstitutional (Rosa Parks). The…