Melba

How Melba Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru changed their countries forever. A turning point in an individual's life is when a decisive change takes place and results in a better or worse outcome. It can also be a crisis that needs resolution. After reading the excerpts from “Warriors Don’t Cry” by Melba Pattillo Beals, the autobiography “I Never had it Made” by Jackie Robinson, and “The Father of Chinese Aviation” by Rebecca Maksel, it is evident that all of these people faced turning points

break racial barriers, thats all around near impossible. In the story, “Warriors Don't Cry” by Melba Pattillo Beals, she portrays how she had to be a leader in integration, while being a high schooler at the same time. In her story, she uses figurative language, such as irony and similes, to enhance some of her most difficult times. Through her use of figurative language, the reader is opened up to how Melba uses figurative language throughout her story to emphasise her hardships and struggles, and

it as a way to bring in violence, but it all started in Arkansas, in 1957, a conflict against two different points of views. However, In Warriors Don't Cry Melba Pattillo Beals presents the idea that emotional strength, Determination, and confidence are necessary to gain freedom and equality for all. Emotional strength shows throughout Melba Patillio Beals search for freedom and equality. While Beals comes home one day screaming out,"I'll never go back to Central!"Later on in the story, Beals still

similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. THIS REQUIRED THE DESEGREGATION OF SCHOOLS ACROSS AMERICA. Melba Patillo Beal's was one of the nine students that were chosen to intragate Central High School in 1957. She kept a diary of all her thoughts while intragation was being

veryone in this world has a turning point, big or small. But three people named Jackie Robinson, Feng Ru, and Melba Beals all had life changing experiences that changed their whole country.Jackie Robinson from the autobiography I Never Had It Made was the first black in the major leagues, while Melba Pattillo Beals from the book Warriors Don’t Cry was one of the first African-Americans to go to an all-white high school. Feng Ru from the biography by Rebecca Maksel “The Father Of Chinese Aviation”

Melba Pattillo Beals is the main character in this book. She was fourteen years old when she attended Central High in Little Rock, Kansas with eight other black students. While Melba attended the high school, she was spat on, slapped, and several sickening insults would be shouted at her. These actions led to Melba to not even fight back but to simply just say thank you and walk away. This was one of the factors that built up her courageous attitude that stuck with her throughout the rest of her

Melba Pattillo and eight other African American students became soldiers on the battlefield of equality at a young age. When entering Central High School, Melba had to become a warrior in order to survive the school year. She had to be a warrior to fight for what she believed in and not give up. Melba created a warrior inside herself to rise above the pressure and scrutiny from her peers, community, and nation. She was a warrior of civil justice and equality for the future generations of kids who

Melba Pattillo Beals is a teenage girl who got excepted with eight other kids to go to an all white high school called "Central High". Melba and the other were tormented and threatened the whole time they were there. Melbas family and friends gave her the strength to get through her problems even if she wasn’t wanted at Central High. Melba made some white kids who were different, She was in a life or death situation a couple of times at Central High. I never went through what Melba had too and

Today as I come home from a long day at work to see Melba and Grandma India pacing and worrying. I right away start asking question because this kind of behavior is not usual at our house, and when it happens it is something terrible. Grandma India and Melba both talk over each other and I feel like my face went pale. What if this was a trick? What if they were going to call the cops and say she stole the car? Many more questions flooded my mind as I tried looking for a plausible way out of this

Melba Beals was one of the first black students to integrate into a full white school in Arkansas. Before she could go to the new school, the Governor of Arkansas, commanded a National Guard to block the path to the white school, however president Eisenhower wanted these blacks to integrate, so he arranged some guards to take the nine, black students into the school. Beals had to face bountiful obstacles such as a National Guard, the Arkansas governor, angry segregationist mobs, rejection from white