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and the colony fell to Stephen Austin. Austin decided on a site on the lower Colorado and Brazos rivers, his colonist settled there in January in 1822. Almost instantaneously he faced opposition from the newly independent Mexican government, which refused his father's grant since it was made under Spanish charter. Austin traveled to Mexico city to correct…

on the stage, and the rainbow balloon-like “bubbles” on them, and listen to my brother whine about how he was hungry, and beg my dad for more beef jerky.My dad adamantly refused to give my brother any, saying that the show would start soon. I had to watch a tug-of-war with the beef jerky package while…

Rosa Parks protest. We all know the story (hopefully): there was a law that African-Americans had to sit in the back of the bus. Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus, and a White man told her to move. She absolutely refused to move. The police were called and she still refused to move. This simple protest by an older Black woman did tons to further equality for all races. This is an amazing result. So yes, civil disobedience has a positive effect on society. There is a reason why…

What are the steps that can change a person viewpoint on racism? One man was able to do that through these four steps of a nonviolent protest. His name is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was a leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Martin Luther King Jr. organized a campaign against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. Due to being an outside agitator, the police came in and took King to jail. King was in jail for eight days. While he was in jail he wrote his “Letter from…

needs someone to watch over him, due to his ill state. Jem and Scout also might not meet Boo, because they are petrified of him. In the story the mere mention of Boo could keep the kids disciplined, because they believed in the rumors. Many kids even refused to pick the Radleys’ pecans, or fetch baseballs that fell into the Radleys’ yard. Jem and Scout went as far as to believe that Boo dined on cats and squirrels, had yellow teeth and supported a jagged facial scar, implying that they believe…

he was offered release from the Hoa Lo prison in Vietnam, he refused and stated that he could not be released until the other prisoners, who had been there for a longer period of time, were released as the US military code stated. His defiance of the Vietnamese led to him being brutally beaten and sent to a closet sized isolation cell. McCain put the military code over his own life, fully knowing what was going to happen after he refused; no supposed do-gooder could ever complete a task of this…

they approached Atticus they told him to stand aside because they didn’t want to hurt him because they only wanted Tom, but Atticus refused to let them by. When Scout bursted through the mob of people and went up to Atticus only to see his face full of fear. Doing this angered the mob of people before them. Atticus commanded Jem to take Scout and Dill home, but he refused. When Scout recognized Mr. Cunningham from the group of people and tries to talk with him he realizes that what he is doing…

What you think the Green Knight was trying to prove? The major theme of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the hero’s passage to maturity. The Green Knight took Sir Gawain through three tests to see how he would do and was he mature enough for them. Gawain took King Arthur’s place, turn down advantages, and knew his fate. The Green Knight wanted Gawain to be better. The Green Knight made Sir Gawain mature, and let him show his honor, by accepting the challenge, refusing gifts, and seeing his…

requested she give up her seat to a white passenger and move to the back of the bus. Parks refused to relinquish the seat and was promptly arrested. Her arrest that day sparked a protest of the Montgomery bus system that became known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Several civil rights activists, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (CCS) orchestrated the boycott and (CCS) 99% of the city's African American population refused to ride the city buses. The boycott continued for over a year despite…

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 other African- Americans refused to take the bus. This boycott continued for 381 days, where 90% of African-Americans refused to ride buses. In 1964, the Civil Rights Act banned segregation on buses. 2: Martin led 200,000 people on a march called March on Washington Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. This was…