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“ClICkeTY cLaCK”, you hear the stairs under your feet as you are leaving to your tiny apartment to go to the marketplace in the dry desert of Kabul. You are helping your injured father who only has one leg, to sell things to make money for your many family members to survive this devastation time of the Taliban. Perseverance is when someone accomplishes something that is difficult.The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis is about a girl named Parvana who lives in Kabul during the reign of the Taliban, and

(Beals 170). This quote, in essence, shows that she killed her old self and had to become a whole new person in order to survive the new school year. She had to shed all of her old insecurities and emotions that plagued her in order to survive Little Rock. Consequently this also meant that she lost all of her old friends and her boyfriend because of how different she became.

Different traits define a person, and could help or hurt them. In the memoir Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, Melba choses to go to integrate at Central High School, an all white school, along with 8 other black students. Melba has many traits through her year but some are particularly important to getting through the year. Melba’s own traits of being brave and persistent help her through the 1957-58 year at Central High. Being brave helps Melba through her through year at Central

The Little Rock Crisis. The little rock crisis was when nine black students tried to go into a segregated school, in Little Rock Arkansas, September 1957-58. President Eisenhower, who sent the 101st airborne division. Was justified to do this action. He was justified to do this due to it being his duty to carry out the law, and because the protesters who were stopping the Little Rock Nine from going to school, were being violent. President Eisenhower was validated in sending troops to Little Rock

Imagine if you were a young 15 year old girl or boy growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas and the Supreme Court just ruled that school segregation is unconstitutional. So you enroll in a previously white only school. As you enter on your first day of school, there are people outside that school yelling and screaming at you. There are armed men outside your school that will not let you enter. You eventually get let in through a side door. The next thing that you know you are in the school and people

Determination and fortitude will help you accomplish great things in your life and make a difference in the world. Harriet Quimby was a very daring women and she accomplished great things in her life. Harriet never doubted herself and she always believed that women had the ability to do anything that men could do. Harriet Quimby had a very large impact on society because she was the first American woman pilot. She showed that men were not superior in their abilities to do certain activities. After

Perseverance has changed many people's lives and people have even made livings from persevering. Perseverance is doing something despite difficulty, or delay in achieving success. Anne Frank , Steve Jobs and Derek Redmond are all examples of people who persevered to succeed in what their goals were. Anne Frank is probably one of the most known person for perservening. She spent almost 2 years in an attic with 7 other people, to hide from the Nazis who were taking over many countries. Anne,

Back in September 1957, a picture was captured of a Elizabeth Eckford, she is a young African American girl walking past Little Rock Central High School, being constantly abused with racist comments while her friend, Hazel Bryan, follows behind her. Since then, our society has made some process with race relations and incidents like this are diminishing. Furthermore, Elizabeth possessed a lot of courage to tolerate an angry crowd when they are constantly yelling and bullying her at a young age. Although

The 1950s was a time of strong racial segregation in society, and the changes that occurred took a lot of hard work. In 1957, the town of Little Rock, Arkansas decided to take initiative toward that change and integrate nine African American students into the all-white school, Central High; Melba Pattillo was one of them. She believed God had called her to the battlefield, but the second she entered those doors, it proved harder than she thought as she struggled not only with other people but with

Join Us and the World Will be as One “You must be the change you wish to see in the world,” said Indian civil rights leader Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi, along with Mother Jones and Melba Pattillo Beals wanted equality. Gandhi’s mission was to cease color prejudice, Mother Jones’s mission was to achieve child labor rights and Melba’s mission was to make integration possible. These three individuals fought courageously for equal human rights because they wanted to see a difference in the world. Gandhi