...Did Jackie Robinson have a life changing turning points to shape our history? Yes, he did. Actually three people did. For example in the autobiography I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson, the memoir Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, and the article “The Father Of Chinese Aviation”, by Rebecca Maksel all had a major turning point in their lives. Their turning points made history what it is now. In the autobiography I Never Had It Made, is a story about Jackie Robinson, the first black person to play in the Major League Baseball. At the time most of the country was segregated based on skin color. Many white people were racist toward black people. Some obstacles he faced are racial slurs, disrespect from white fans and players, hate mail, and threats to him and his family. Robinson even said,” bigoted fans screaming ‘n----’ ” In his life he learned to use perseverance despite difficulties. He kept moving forward. Robinson said that a white kid said,” Attaboy Jackie”. This shows that white people finally changed their mind about black people playing in the Major League Baseball....
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...The obstacles that Jackie Robinson, Melba Beals, and Feng Ru faced were difficult. Each individual from the stories, I Never Had It Made, Warriors Don't Cry, and The Father Of Chinese Aviation each had a turning point in their lives. Jackie Robinson went from not being able to play in Major League Baseball to play. Melba Beals faced adversity trying to go to school because she was black. Feng Ru was an immigrant from China who was determined to bring aviation back to his homeland Authors Robinson, Beals, and Maksel showed readers how three important could break barriers and change American History. Jackie Robinson was the first black person to play a professional sport. It was not easy for him because, at the time, most of the country was segregated....
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...Feng Ru, Melba Beals, and Jackie robinson all made an life changing experience in their country, They faced challenges and other things as they made a turning point in history. Jackie Robinson was the first person to break the color barrier in the M.L.B. as an black person. When Jackie was first entered he didn't get accepted immediately when he joined. In the autobiography Jackie was only playing because he brought in more money for the fans. And some people treated him with loyalty and respect and in the text “in a Dixie town, cried out, “attaboy, Jackie.” this all explains that jackie Robinson changed his country Feng ru was the first Chinese to bring aviation to china and and was a excellent hard worker. Feng Ru worked in factory and...
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...Turning Points About Famous Heroes By:Ava Pillar 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...
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...Have you ever went through a turning point? These three individuals went through a lot. Warriors Don’t Cry By Melba Pattillo Beals, I Never Had it Made by Jackie Robinson, and “The Father of Chinese Aviation” By Rebecca Maskell. Melba Pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru changed their countries by going through different hard challenges while risking their lives doing it. Melba was the first to integrate an all white school, Jackie was the first to integrate Major League Baseball, and Feng was the first Chinese man to fly and build his own air plane. Melba Pattillo Beals was an African American that wanted to improve other African American’s education. Doing so she was one of the first Little Rock Nine to ever integrate an all white school. Melba went through threats to her life by a mob and protesters. In paragraph thirteen it states, “ Some of the white people looked totally horrified, while others raised their fists to us. Others shouted ugly words.” But Beals was glad because...
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...People can change things every day, but they don’t change their country every day. “I Never Had it Made”, “Warriors Don’t Cry”, and “The Father of Chinese Aviation” are about people that experienced life changing turning points. Melba Beals, Feng Ru, and Jackie Robinson faced crucial life changing experiences that impacted not just their lives but also their countries. Melba Beals changed schools by breaking the rule were black children could go to go school with white children. She had to go through so much trouble to get to that point in time. Because she was “sad that they had to go to such great lengths” [Beals] just to have a little freedom to go to a school. Her country had to bring in the 101st just so everything would be okay. Some people were excited for them to go to school with whites because they said “, however some people cried in horror when this happened. They also have the 101st for safety because of the white people who “raised their fists” [Beals]. Even though they faced a lot of danger they changed the lives of young African American children in a big way....
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...Introduction(refer to pages 93-94): \ Turning points are life changing experiences and can be difficult. This sentence is proved by "Warriors Don't Cry" by Melba Pattillo Beals, "I had never had it made" by Jackie Robinson, and The Father of Chinese Aviation by Rebecca Maskel. Feng Ru Jackie Robinson, and Melba Beals faced life changing experiences and changed their country. Jackie Robinson integrated the major league baseball. This was a big deal during that time in 1947 because only white players were allowed in the MLB. “ I had become the first black player to play in the world series”. He broke the color barrier and was the first black player. This was dangerous back then because people were racist and said racist things. Some people liked the idea of blacks coming into sports that were normally only played by white people. Some did not like the idea of blacks and rejected him. “ I had been forced to live with the snuffs and rebuffs and rejections.” Some people hated the idea if a black man coming into the MLB. The fact that some people were so against blacks made Jackie word harder to prove them wrong. Robinson was overall a great human with great strength to stand against everyone....
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...Look Up, It’s you? These people’s lives were threatened because of the color of their skin, or because they had a harsh life, and had to live on there own. How would you respond if a terrible life experience happened to you? Jackie Robinson, Brian Robson, and Karana all had a turning point in their life. They all faced something terrible that interchanged their point of view and changed their country and lives. Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson was the first african American baseball player in the MLB, and was facing many obstacles. He was having troublesome times with opposing teams and even his own colleagues. “It hadn't been that easy to fight the resentment expressed by players on other teams, by the team owners, or by bigoted fans screaming "n-----." Even though he faced gargantuan struggles, he still came through and helped his community. “ I was proud to be in the hurricane eye of a significant breakthrough and to be used to prove that a sport can’t be called national if blacks are barred from it. “ Feng Ru...
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...another single individual or an act. This can easily be said of Jackie Robinson, as he was the individual who progressed a movement that was a long time coming. Jackie Robinson was the perfect person to come along and make a difference on two completely different fronts. Robinson stood for an issue greater than his own dilemma and pushed forward the Civil Rights Movement due to his actions. Robinson at first, was passive when it came to Civil Rights, but as time passed he became more determined and was able to stand tall in the face of adversity. Compared to what he easily could have done, he went over and beyond his role. Jackie Robinson was the perfect advocate to usher in a new era of change, not only on the baseball field but also on the frontline of the Civil Rights movement. The most successful advocates for change are...
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...How We Chose Our Topic We chose turning points in baseball history because we thought it would be interesting to learn about. We all play and love baseball so we wanted to know how it really changed history. We all know a few players were famous because of their color. Also, we all wanted to know what baseball meant when the color barrier was not broken. Moreover, our group wanted to know how baseball was a major point in history. Lastly, we wanted to know many different ways the color barrier was broken and who broke it. In conclusion, since baseball is famous today we wanted to know how it really became so famous. How We Constructed Our Research We constructed our research in several ways. One way we researched out topic was we went to the library and asked the librarian for books about Jackie Robinson and Babe Ruth. She helped us find many books and we took notes on these people. Since there are four people in our group, we needed to split the work evenly. Two people researched about people, and two people researched about events in baseball history. Splitting the work between four people made it so much easier to construct our website. In addition, each member of the group gathered pictures off Google that related to our topic. How We Created and Developed Our Website After we finished researching about the major turning points in Major League Baseball history we asked our teacher about setting up an account for our website. After setting up our account we saw...
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...Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was the first African American Baseball player to play in the major leagues in the modern era. Despite obvious struggles such as race, social class, and the absence of his father, he managed to turn himself into an African American Icon throughout his era. Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. He was the youngest of five children born to Mallie and Jerry Robinson. His parents gave him his middle name after Theodore Roosevelt, who passed away only twenty-five days before Jackie’s birth. When Robinson was only 6 months his father decided to leave them. After the fact, Mallie decided it was time to move to Pasadena, California. Jackie was a great athlete who played many sports besides baseball. He participated in Football, Basketball and Track....
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...Event | Who Involved | What Happened | Why Important | Jackie Robinson | Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, and African-Americans. | Jackie Robinson became the first African-American in U.S history play for a major league baseball team in 1947. After he retired, he joined the Civil Rights Movement, playing a huge role. | Jackie Robinson’s achievements broke down racial barriers and helped wake up America’s conscience. Within the first five years of his career, over 150 African-Americans joined the minor and major leagues. | Montgomery Bus Boycott | African-American Bus Boycotters, Rosa Parks, Supreme Court | On December 1, 1955, African-American Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white man and was later arrested for it. After this incident, African-Americans refused to ride the city buses in Montgomery to protest the segregated seating. | The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system, and one of the leaders of the boycott, a young pastor named Martin Luther King Jr.), emerged as a leader of the American civil rights. | Little Rock Nine | The Nine African-American Students, President Eisenhower, Orval Faubus, National Guard, 101st Airborne Division. | After the U.S Supreme Court decision after Brown v. Board of Education, all segregated schools were declared unconstitutional. So after a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School, they were prevented from entering by Orval Faubus...
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...unusual also comes with activity of this nature, and this is the ability to forget the destitution and difficulty of everyday life and the capability to be on a level playing field with many people that believe the same way, no matter what socio-economic class they represent. One sport in particular has transcended all other games, has continually been a psychological shelter from pain and hardships of life, and also a cultural rocket breaking through the social barriers in the American society. That sport is simply the most beloved American game of all, baseball. The purpose of this essay is to critically explore a myriad of aspects of life that have been changed due to sports, all the while concentrating on baseball as the main focal point. Further, this work will continually pose the question of how it is conceivable that a single and simple sport could greatly impact a country the way baseball has the United States. At the time of the first foreign inhabitants of North America, life was more difficult than someone of the twenty-first century could have imagined. The hardships were endured by every colonist nearly twenty-four hours a day, with little to relieve their minds of the complexities of early American life. Nonetheless, there was at least one aspect of life that offered them the ability to escape the perennial cruelties of life, and that was sports. Throughout the colonies, no matter north or south,...
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...I chose to further examine the film Hoosiers from week 13 of class. After reviewing the film I will compare it with chapter 13 of Major Problems. Hoosiers really caught my interest as a great underdog story and that is why I chose to further study the 1986 classic. I always had heard people talk about this movie but I had never seen it. In this paper I will discuss the historical period Hoosiers is set in, compare and contrast major themes from the week, and evaluate the film based on its effectiveness. Hoosiers is a fictional movie that is actually based on real events in a small town in Indiana. It is based on a true story but does change some of the truths, as evidenced by the ESPN article. The message I gathered from the film was that anything is possible if you can work hard and accept change. The little town of Hickory was very set in its ways and uncooperative of the new basketball coach. Once the town and players learned to accept something different, the team flourished. The argument the film presents is to never count someone out. No matter how small a school or town is, hard work can trump talent and compete with the big boys. The message of acceptance resonates with the viewer and is most likely why Hoosiers is so highly regarded as a sports movie. The historical period that Hoosiers is set in is 1952 rural Indiana. In this time period, people are more centralized around common goals and the entire town knows when someone moves in. There are no...
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...Significant events World War II through the 1970’s Assignment 3 “World War II through the 1970’s” Tim Truster Professor Michael Curran 26 August, 2012 Abstract My history assignment 3 “World War II through the 1970’s” will identify two major historical turning points during this period and what impact they had on current society, economy, politics, and culture. It will also explain two reasons Americans in the late 1930’s wanted to stay out of the European conflict that became World War II. I will explain the role women played to help win World War II. I will describe two civil rights breakthroughs after World War II that moved the cause of African-Americans forward. An explanation to why the Vietnam War brought political awareness to a new generation of young Americans. Finally two programs under President Johnson’s “Great Society” agenda that are still with us today will be discussed. Two historical turning points during the period of World War II through the 1970’s I will discuss in my paper will be the ending of World War II by defeating Japan and the Civil Rights movement. World War II itself was a major turning point in history. In 1945, Japan was lightly defended against the American attack; huge firebombing of Japanese cities went unanswered. America estimated that an invasion of the Japanese home islands would cost 50,000 American casualties in the first phase of the attack. The battles at Iwo Jima and Okinawa demonstrated the extent to which Japanese...
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