Parks and Recreation

Do like speedy, exciting roller coasters? How about adventures and thrills? If so, come undergo our newest roller coaster, The Temple. The story of the temple is that there is an ancient, abandoned temple found in Mexico, a group of tourists goes out to tour the jungle. When they take a wrong turn, their tour heads for the worse. The Temple is a ride of adventure and thrills on a rapid roller coaster accelerating through the jungle, with spectacular twists, shocking turns, stunning scenery, and…

it is right"(Parks). Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a society because it makes people aware of the issue(s), educates society and makes a statement without harming others. Through peaceful resistance much more can be accomplished compared to using violent resistance or violent tactics. Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white gentleman is a prime example of how civil disobedience has accomplished so much through the years. When Rosa Parks refused…

Sarlo 1 Mrs. Henderson American History Period 3 February 18, 2017 Rosa Parks Rosa Parks, born Rosa Louise McCauley, impacted the 20th Century by helping to initiate the Civil Rights movement, dismantling the Segregation Laws, and the founding of the Institution for Self-Development. At an early age Mrs. Parks faced many injustices wherever she went. This encouraged her to take action instead of sitting back and doing nothing. “She soon…

Segregation Case Involving Bus Ride Dimon Brown Montgomery, Alabama- Rosa Parks, a negro woman, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on the bus and was arrested. She had been tired after a long day working as a seamstress in a department store. When she got on the bus to go home, she sat on the fifth row- the first row of the colored section. The bus became full which meant that the seats nearer the front were given to the white passengers. The the bus driver, James Blake ordered…

“Come on Makayla! You can do this!” my friend Miranda said to me as I reluctantly climbed the stairs to the roller coaster. “It’s not that scary.” Said my other friend John. Miranda, John, my camp counselor Izzy and I were about to ride our first roller coaster together. This was something that most eight year olds wouldn’t even dare thinking of, much less actually going through with their plans. When we finally made it to the top of the stairs I stopped dead in my tracks and couldn’t move. What…

Diversity and citizenship education: Global perspectives (pp. 71-96). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. "Johnson Signs Voting Rights Act." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2009. Web. 13 Dec. 2015.] Banks, James, Cherry Banks, Carlos Cortes, and Caryn Park. "Democracy and DiversityPRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS FOR EDUCATING CITIZENS IN A GLOBAL AGE." DEMOCRACY (n.d.): n. pag. 2005. Web. 12 Dec. 2015. Carmona, Michelle. "381 DAYS THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT STORY." 3 8 1 D AY S (n.d.): n. pag.…

Rosa Parks is known today as the’ mother of the civil rights movement” for her arrest for refusing to give up a seat on the bus. No blacks were allowed to sit in the front of the bus back then, blacks had to stand up for a white person if there were no more empty seats on the bus, or give up their seat for a white person. Because supposedly white people were better than them and they didn't matter, they were too different. But Rosa changed everything by not getting up and refusing to give up…

Rosa Parks was an African-American civil known as the “mother of the civil right movements”. In the 20th century, she subdued an act of brave transformed American thinking of the black community. Born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Rosa finished elementary school, in the 1920s, she went to the industrial school and Alabama State Teacher’s College. She has to cut short in her high school diploma because her mother became very ill. In 1932, she married with Raymond Parks who supported…

In July 1, 1960, eight high school students protested at a lunch counter in the store Woolworths. These high school students were protesting about segregated lunch counters. The counter owner closed the counter until the students left. The eight students rotated between the three stores Woolworths, W.T. Grants, and People’s Drug Store. All reacted the same way by closing down the counter. The police could do nothing because there were no trespass or complaints filed. The store owners tried…

Twisted Colossus (Narrative) To start with, my friends and I had just pulled to the amusement park known as Six Flags, Magic Mountain when I saw it. This thing was the coolest one I had ever seen! We started to walk towards the front gate while I was stared at the monstrous metal/wood beast. Once we got past the front gate, I could get a better look at the curves of the rollercoaster, the drops, and that menacing 5 second inversion. I thought to myself, “I have to ride that thing!” and I went…