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    Rosa Parks, a civil rights activist, takes a stand when she refused to give her seat up to a white passenger. Immediately after the incident occurred, the city of Alabama lifted the law for segregation on city buses as well. The Montgomery city code declared that the bus drivers were like “police officers” as long as they were driving the bus. This means they have the right to keep colored and whites segregated.As the first lady of civil rights she is known as the “Mother of Freedom”. Some…

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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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    bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This sudden incident happened on the citywide boycott bus, it stirred up nationwide segregation in public facilities. When Rosa Parks was a child she experienced racial discrimination activism. Her mother and father had separated when she was a child. Rosa Parks in her seat on the bus. She and her mother moved in with her grandparents. On the farm her grandpa stood on the porch with a shot and watched as the Ku Klux Klan marched down the…

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    Montgomery bus Boycott A woman named Rosa Parks was arrested and treated badly by the Montgomery police. In 1955 women who rode the buses in Montgomery were arrested for refusing to give up their seats to white men and women. Another woman named Jo Ann Robinson made handbills and handed them out to college students, that handbill told people to stay off the buses for one whole day. Instead of staying on the buses for one day, Martin Luther King, Jr boycotted the buses for a whole year. People…

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    Jurassic Park Psychology

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    Jurassic Park Analysis The Jurassic Park film was released in 1993 when dinosaurs were brought back from extinction, in which turned into an amusement park. In the movie, John Hammond is fanatic about dinosaurs so much that he spends lots of his time trying to figure out how to clone them. Even though he loves dinosaurs, he wants to make a profit off of making a dinosaur park. Eventually Hammond, the owner of InGen, finds a scientist who knows how to clone dinosaurs. This ends up forming a park…

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    Who Is Allen Clark

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    Alen Turing. Criptogropher from Cambridge who is hired to a group of men to break the Nazis enigma code. However he feels team ates will only slow him down, and after taking control of the group he starts by firing two men who he feels are inadequate for the job. His next step is to find new people to fill there positions by putting out a cross word puzzle to fish for canidates. Jone Clark becomes a part of the group along with another man. The story then flashes back to Allen's childhood where…

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    Verrückt – USA https://youtu.be/7W7YPDU6nrg What would a theme park be without a waterslide? This amazing water-coaster is over 50 meters tall. Also, as you are in a tube, there are no restraints. However, there is a downside to this ride, depending on how you look at it, in order to get to the start of the ride, you need to climb 264 stairs. Whether you want to visit Gold Reef City in Johannesburg or Six Flags Great Adventure Park in New Jersey, let us know. We will assist with your travel…

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    Roller skates first came into American history when James Plimpton, an inventor, found a more usual way to design on land skates. After roller skates had been made more functional The Coliseum in Chicago had opened a public skating rink. After that Madison Square Garden had become a skating rink. Hundreds of rink openings followed. The roller skates had been made for the rich only. During the golden age of roller skating, 1920’s- 1950’s, the roller rinks were segregated. Then the roller derby…

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    America had gone through so many things when the Montgomery Bus Boycott was going on. They just had gone through the Vietnam War, which was hard for America to overcome. America was at one time almost in all out nuclear war with Russia, better known as the cold war. But now you have blacks fighting for the same rights that the whites had. They were breaking laws, but yet they were not using any violence while breaking these laws, because their leader Martin Luther King Jr. knew that they could…

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    Lloyd Augustus Hall was born in Elgin, Illinois on June 20th, 1894. While growing up he was an honors student at West Side High School in Aurora, Illinois. He was captain of the school debate team while competing in baseball, football, and track. He graduated high school at the top 10 of his class. Hall then chose to attend Northwestern University. In 1916, he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. He then graduated, earning a degree from the University of Chicago. Through a…

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