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    a person’s life can be a stressful or hard time. This idea is explored in Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals‚ an autobiography “I Never Had It Made” by Jackie Robinson‚ and “The Father of Chinese Aviation” By Rebecca Maksel. All of the characters had to face many difficult obstacles and people that would be thought to prevent them from achieving their goal‚ but changed their country in doing so. Melba Pattillo Beals made a new way for African American’s education. On a Wednesday morning‚ 1957

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    A young black strong female named Melba Pattillo Beals‚ has a great story of how she found strength and finish high school even though they it was a very dangerous situation. She was one of the few from LIttle rock 9 that got chosen to go to a all white school named Centrtal high. She was constantly getting picked on and abused by the students but she didn’t give up. There was something in her head to tell her to keep pushing keep fighting. Sometimes it was her grandma India‚ Personal solider Danny

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    life unexpectedly. In‚”Warriors Don’t Cry”(Melba Pattillo Beals)‚ “The Father of Chinese Aviation”(Rebecca Maksel)‚ and “I Never Had It Made”(Jackie Robinson) all have a turning point. The three people‚ Feng Ru‚ Melba Pattillo Beals‚ and Jackie Robinson‚ have all faced life changing experiences‚ which led them to change their country. Body paragraphs. (refer to pages 95-99) Melba Beals faced many racial difficulties‚ yet she stayed calm throughout those times. Melba Beals was the first (with

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    most glorifying and enriching piece of writing I’ve ever laid eyes on‚ Warriors Don’t Cry‚ written by Melba Pattillo Beals on the struggle of integration of Central High School in Arkansas 1957. Reading about how students of color my age had to interact with people that had no sense of morality and ethics everyday‚ makes me think about the ethics that I pursue daily and how it may affect people who are around me. Warriors Don’t Cry taught me that standing up for somebody that it is in fact worth it

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    analyzed in the memoir Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Patillo Beals‚ the autobiography¨I Never Had It Made¨ by Jackie Robinson‚ and “The ¨Father Of Aviation” by Rebecca Maskell.  Melba Pattillo Beals‚ Jackie Robinson‚ and Feng Ru faced Challenges‚discrimination‚and turning points.  This impacted not only them but their countries too.     Melba Pattillo Beals one of the Little Rock nine to integrate an all white high school.The life chaning experinces and decisions Melba Pattillo Beals faced was integratinga

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    Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Patillo Beals‚ is a memoir of the events involving the Integration at Little Rock Central High School. The story took place in 1957‚ but it is still told today. This book is still important because it shows how far we have come‚ and it shows how everyone was affected in the past. Everyone had a different view of the integration‚ but no one will ever forget what happened. For the nine African American students‚ going to Little Rock was full of bullying‚ racial slurs‚

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    Barreto 1 English III Honors Warriors Don’t Cry Warriors don’t cry is a well written book by Melba Patillo Beals. She was one of nine black teenagers who in 1957 integrated Little Rock Central High school. The book is about Martha’s view of how it was for her in the integration. Although you only get one view of the story‚ the way Melba wrote this book gives you enough details about how and what happened during this time. You

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    October 5‚ 2010 Warrior’s Don’t Cry Book Review Warriors Don’t Cry is a gripping journal of Melba Pattillo Beal’s life during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock‚ Arkansas. I really enjoyed this book. It allowed me a glimpse of experiences that I will never be able to relate to. I was able to feel compassion for Melba and really care about the difficulties she faced in life. She desired equality and she volunteered to be one of the very first black students to be integrated

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    The Struggles Of Melba In the novel Warriors Don´t Cry‚ by Melba Pattillo Beals describes one young girls struggle to integrate in a horrifically bigoted community in the 1950s civil rights movement. For example‚ Melba voluntarily puts herself on the front line of the battle in Little Rock. After arriving for school the first day they are turned away by the national guard called out by the governor of Little Rock. This book is a timeline of hurtful events in her life during integration. Although

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    In Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Patillo Beals‚ the character Link fascinated me. In a time of bigotry and segregation‚ Link steps out of the status quo to help Melba‚ a black student at Central High. Throughout the last fifth of the novel he cautions Melba as to what will happen to her throughout the day and tells her how she can avoid these issues. “My dad makes me go to those meetings-where they plan what to do to get ya’ll kicked out of school‚” Link explains on page 263 how he is prescient about

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