I remember the first day of my freshman year of high school. The staff instructed us to sit on the cold rubber gym floor, everyone looked a little annoyed to attend this pep rally, but I was excited! I have never found out why people didn't like pep rallies. The music started and I felt my body shiver with excitement, and a student walked out in the middle of the gym and started talking. The loud music buzzing in my body, the bright lights shining through my eyes, I was mesmerized. Throughout the pep rally, I was thrilled! With the sports coming out running, the dance team, and cheer team, everyone performing, and students going around taking pictures with fancy cameras, I knew I NEEDED to participate in something like this. It was exactly …show more content…
She told me she didn't make the team until her second try. Even though I wasn't going to give up, I still cried in the car on the way back home while explaining everything to my mom. Tryouts were going to open back up in August and I insisted on making it so when summer came around the corner, I watched YouTube videos of dances, and even learned two, to enhance my dancing skills. I was going to make it this time. The same routine again for the second time, we had two days and I was feeling way more confident about this dance. I pulled out my swiftness skills, my facials, everything, and hoped I made it. We had to stand outside again and I was even more nervous than the first time. I could imagine myself in the gym with sparkling bright red lights, everyone in cute matching outfits like cargo jeans and a little top, practicing every day after school with the big shiny mirror. I was aroused by this new life ahead of me. My dreams come true. I MADE THE TEAM, my heart was jumping up and down with
Carl Icahn has been in a bidding war with Bridgestone for a great many months (two of them); regarding the fate of Pep Boys (Manny, Moe and Jack). In October of 2015, Bridgestone proposed to buy Pep Boys for a hefty 15 dollars a share. The Pennsylvania born acquisition target, was trading at only $9.25 per share, a short 5 months (May 19th) before the deal. Today, Pep Boys is trading has ostensibly doubled in value, but that is only by a metric that would excite a consumer (stock price). Barring
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getting rid of segregation. Although entering high school may seem as easy as signing in and going to class, the test and trials the Little Rock nine went through shows a true test of determination. Comparatively, the “Arab Spring”, a movement of protests in the Middle East, has caused controversy all over the world. Citizens are rebelling against an unfair government in hopes of create a new way of life. Tired of all the disrespect, unjust, and oppressive government Muslims and Middle Easterners
family's success--"'School is all right for little boys. I help make this land one good farm'" (94)--cannot be seen as entirely good, if we agree that "the value of education is among the greatest of all human values" (Woolf 45); and in spite of her protests to the contrary, the bitter recognition of exclusion brings Ántonia to tears. However, recognizing the women's relationship to the development of national culture does suggest some alternative readings to the conclusions often reached, even as Ántonia's
argument to the government in a way that they think is suitable and which will get the message across of the people’s feelings. An example of the channelling of communication between the people and the government would be the anti- war in Iraq protests. Although the government still decided to go through ... ... middle of paper ... ... the British union leaders until the reforms of the 1980s. Another negative factor Is not all sections of the community are represented equally. The influence
Birmingham, Alabama was in the heart of the struggle for equal rights. African Americans protested and fought for what they believed in through peaceful and violent protests. In this picture the struggle is shown on how difficult it was for African Americans to gain equal rights. The photo was taken in the midst of a protest which adds dramatic effect, the people in the photo show pain and the people not pictured make them a faceless foe and the lack of colors in the picture helps send a powerful
overcome by the replanting of 5000 new trees which would cover 16 football ovals. This is almost double the amount of trees that were there previously. They don't care about the huge impact that the race had on Melbourne, instead they unsuccessfully protest against it and by doing so it has cost the Victorian taxpayers $1.3 million. But the track has already been built and the first race held, so there is no chance of it being removed and the park could
If something isn’t right, there is a way to fix it. Violence of course is never the answer therefore, non-violent protests were started. Non-Violent protesting had a slow start then it spread around the world when it hit media attention. Non-violent protest also had more effectiveness than violent protests. Non-Violent protests may have taken a while, but the results were successful. During 1960-1966, there was a committee of students that were wanting equality for whites and blacks, but they
Causes and Effect for Protest There was total chaos on the roads, rallies and strikers in some places. They yelled with righteous indignation as well as raised signs to express their requirements for the government. I watched these picture on the TV on 18 December 2010 which called Arab Spring which began in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya was wave demonstrations against governments have never happened before . I think that there were two mainly causes to appear protest in some countries, and we will talk
‘The Sun’ could be seen to use all these elements, for example they over emphasize on the violence that occurred and ... ... middle of paper ... ...labelled them as such (Hayward, 2006). In this case, if the label is accepted there could be more protests and riots because the individuals may believe that this is the quickest way to get the message across, UKUncuts activist also claimed within ‘The Guardian’ that ‘more high profiled campaigns could be expected’. Conclusion Overall, it is clear
crowds or transmundane tire-fires that captured the eye of the public. This uprising, that looked at first just like any other "color revolution", quickly escalated into a strong self-organized and structured movement, becoming a higher level of protest for Ukraine in particular and Europe in general. Caused by a number of political and social tensions, this national crisis still keeps developing even after the notorious president and his government are gone, inciting both an informational and an
In 1865, congress passed the thirteenth amendment, which was ratified on December 6, 1865. The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery in the United States permanently. It was thought by many African Americans that there would finally be peace, and that they too would be treated as fairly as the whites. This was sadly not the case. African Americans were brutally segregated and entrusted to hard times and conditions. Whites began to insist on racial segregation, which had been practiced before, and
society is abundantly more progressive in its thinking and accepting of aspects of our culture. Peaceful protests were the most prominent form of civil rights activities during the sixties, and often proved successful, given time. “Peaceful but relentless protest was more effective than violent action” (Lindop 30), the legendary civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. argued. One form of this protest manifested itself through James Farmer, who formed the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE for short)
that civil disobedience is a slippery slope and it will lead to revolution. Civil disobedience is very respectful and the only reason it is happening is because there are unjust laws. The people who participate in civil disobedience or peaceful protests are displaying respect for their government by helping it become better, rather than trying to overthrow
possible significances and contributions this research might have for the country will be briefly discussed. 1.2 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Malaysia is no stranger to online and offline Civil Disobedience. The most famous occurrence of violent rioting and protest in Malaysian history was the riot of 13 May 1969. Since then, the government has often used 13 May as a fear-tactic to remind and to discourage citizens from protesting and rioting. No other mass rioting had occurred in the country until 1997, amidst