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Struggles and challenges can happen without notice or without help from others around us. Three interesting people in history, had to go through life-changing struggles: Jackie Robinson, Melba Beals, and Feng Ru. Jackie from “I Never Had It Made,” was the first black baseball player, Feng Ru from “Father of Chinese Aviation,” brought aviation to China, and Melba Beals from “Warriors Don't Cry,” was one out of nine black students to go to an all white school. Jackie Robinson was the first black MLB player. He wrote about his experience with his situation in his book, “I Never Had It Made.” He wrote about the words said to him and why he stayed in the MLB. He was called racial slurs and was sent death threats. The racial slurs were like the word “N----,” (Jackie) as said in Jackie’s book. He stayed in the game because he didn't care what people thought. He also looked up to his coach, Mr.Ricky. People of his race would tell him that Mr. Rickey was using him as an experiment or a pawn for money. Like Jackie, Melba changed our country. She change our country by helping with racism. She went to an all …show more content…
He didn't help our country but helped his country, China. China back then didn't have aviation. Aviation is flying or knowledge on flight or air travel. Feng saw the Wright brothers building airplanes and wanted to do the same. He wanted to do his best to accomplish making China have aviation. He tried and tried and almost died in a few of the planes that he built. In one crash he plummeted into his workshop “setting it ablaze,” ( Rebecca Maksel) but still kept going. He died in a plane show on aug\25\1912. He took his best plane to China and showed everyone in his country his plane. The plane could fly and do what planes usually do. Today he is remembered for being the “ Father of Chinese Aviation.” A school is named after him in his

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