Meet the Robinsons

Hey Seniors, Two of our fellow seniors, Curtis Robinson and Sumayyah Singletary, have taken the initiative to plan an unofficial class trip. The following is a message from them: We are planning an unofficial class trip to Statesville Haunted Prison on Thursday, October 27th. Yes, you read that right! We know this is an abrupt field trip, but we wanted to do an activity that was both exciting and could raise money for our class. The tickets for the haunted house is $30 (bus fare included), however

professional sports was a turning point in history. It happened in 1947, when Jackie Robinson, an African-American athlete, began playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers under the watchful eye of their owner, Branch Rickey. The man who broke this barrier was a hero in his own right, changing the world of baseball as well as aiding the Civil Rights Movement. But this was not his only heroic accomplishment. Robinson was a star athlete as a child, at the University of California, Los Angeles, and in Major

ruling of the case of Tom Robinson, at the time of the setting in the book, a major case that originated near the town of Maycomb, where the novel takes place. The Scottsboro case of a group of young black males in a case where they were on the same freight train looking for work, when the two young girls accused the boys of rape and harming them. This was the same way as the Robinson case where he was asked to help with an odd job of Ms. Ewells (the women that accused Robinson of rape), and both by

Throughout life, one meets many people, and no one person is the same, but all should be treated equal. However, people can be treated unfairly from their ethnicity or their personality but some treat others as they would want to be treated. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the Golden Rule is one main subject and to follow the Golden Rule is to treat others as you treat yourself. Some people follow the lead of Atticus, a major character in the book, he treated colored people like they were

Loneliness, isolation, solitude, foreigner, and trapped are what many people think of when deserted on an island. But in Daniel Defoe’s classic, Robinson Crusoe, these words are merely an atmosphere in the many atmospheres of the book. Robinson Crusoe learns not only to cope with isolation, but to boldly embrace his new lifestyle. Defoe dives deep into the mind of a man who has lost everything and his struggle to survive while he finds his pathway to redemption in Christ and solace on his desolate

countries and lives go by the names Jackie Robinson, Melba Beals, and Helen Keller. African-American students took one step forward to equal education because of Melba Beals. “The first nine black students, including Melba Pattillo Beals” (StudySync). According to the text, Beals was one of the first African-American students. “Step by step we climbed upward-where none of my people had ever before walked as a student” (Beals). This tells us that

Rosa Parks once quoted “Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully we shall overcome.” No matter the challenges black kids in the future may suffer, the parents should teach them to overcome racism. In Maycomb racism happens throughout the whole story. In To Kill a Mockingbird many people of Maycomb thought that it wasn’t smart for Atticus to defend a black man because he stood no chance and they were right because, In To Kill a

structure and social discrimination of Maycomb County had a profound effect on the events in the novel. The impact of this class structure was especially evident in the trial of Tom Robinson, a Maycomb Negro. The extreme prejudice of the town eventually led to the unjust conviction of Robinson for a crime he did not commit. The society of Maycomb County

rights activist said “Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome”. Racism is a real issue and it's not going away. We may not be able to change it now but it is our jobs as a society to prepare our future generations to face this issue. Racism is the brutal and unkind treatment of blacks like Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird he was unfairly convicted of a crime because he was a black man accused of raping a

were only a few people who started the movement, and those people, were outsiders. Two people who were outsiders from that time period were Jackie Robinson and Rosa Parks. They stood against normal beliefs and tried to change the way of life, which is what many outsiders do. An outsider is not simply someone who is misjudged or misunderstood. Jackie Robinson was one of the first people to do something against common beliefs. His great impact on the civil rights movement absorbed all kinds of hate and