Wednesday, April 15, 2015

What if Rosa Parks never refused to give up her seat up to a white man?

Rosa parks, is a very well known historical figure because in 1995, she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. This took place in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa was a black woman, who dispised the fact that whites and blacks were so unequal. Whites and blacks used different bathrooms, drank from two different water fountains, rode different busses ect. Because of the segregation laws, it was legal to make a black person get up and give his or her seat to a white man or woman, if their wasnt anymore empty seats. Rosa, was arrested, put in jail and fined $10 plus $4 in court costs because she was guilty for breaking the segregation laws and not getting up and giving the bus seat to a white man. "The leaders of the local black community organized bus boycott that began the day Parks was convicted of violating segregation laws"(Rosa Parks). If Rosa Parks, never fought for what she believed in, which was that blacks and whites shouldn't be seperated, and everyone should be equal. Today's world, would be so different. Maybe the freedom of blacks wouldn't be like how it is today. Maybe things would of kept being the same as how they were before, whites and colored at their seperate ways. Buses and bathrooms would be only for blacks or only for whites. Rosa Parks, changed our world and society against race. 

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Bianca's Blitzkrieg ch2/3

"In the afternoon, they made us line up. Three prisoners brought a table and some medical instruments. We were told to roll up our left sleeves and file past the table. The three "veteran" prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name" (Wiesel 52).

Significance: In my English class we're reading Night, a story that is told by Ellie Wiesel and his experience in the Holocaust. This quote shows how he has being treated and how the Nazis numbered their workers. He no longer had a name he was just a number. It help explains the plot because the idea of going to a camp to work was no longer an idea, it was now a reality. He wasnt living his own life anymore. He got told everything, like his name, what to do, and when to do it. He had to follow the rules or else he would've gotten killed.