Have you ever had an experience that changed your life forever? Many people have faced life-changing experiences, and three well-known people had life-changing experiences that also affected their society. This is shown by the characters in the stories, “Warriors Don’t Cry” by Melba Beals, “I Never Had it Made” by Jackie Robinson, and “The Father of Chinese Aviation”, by Rebecca Maksel. Beals, Robinson, and Feng Ru have all affected society, by taking the life-changing experiences they faced, and turning them into ways to change things for the better.
Jackie Robinson affected society by helping form equal rights for African Americans in baseball. “It was a history making day. It would be the first time that a black man would be allowed to participate in a world series.” He wrote this line in his autobiography, called I Never Had it Made. His goal was to improve rights in sports for people of all races. The year was 1987, a time when segregation was in place, which made the time when he first played vital and important in history. “ Suppressed and repressed for so many years, they needed a victorious
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What Feng Ru did was he had immigrated to America. “He was staggered by America’s growth and prosperity. He understood industrialization made the country great, and felt industrialization could do the same for China.”(Rebecca) Because of these thoughts he felt, he decided to make his own design airplane, which was a bi-plane. He had immigrated back and forth from China to America, and collected knowledge from wherever he could, and when he made it he had introduced to China. He was challenged from immigrating because the, “Anti Chinese-Sentiment” was out, and barely avoided them.“The republic of China gave him a full military funeral, awarding him the posthumous rank of a major general”, at Yat-Sen’s request. Feng Ru was greatly appreciated in the country China, and has changed Chinese ways of