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The Transcript Of 'The Friday Everything Changed'

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Robert Frost once said, “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” ― Robert Frost. This quote explains that if someone does not learn to be courageous in life when the situation is risky, that individual will accomplish very little that one desires in life. In “The Friday Everything Changed” by Anne Hart is about a girl in a small school in Nova Scotia, Canada who stands up against the boys who mistreat her and others. While, “The Transcript of Full Joseph McNeil Interview'' by Newsday is about a guy who wants to put a stop to the oppression he and his peers experience in their community. Both of these short stories show how it is important to be courageous when one wants to accomplish the changes they …show more content…

“Alma Niles, put up her hand and said: “Why can’t girls go for the water, too?”(6 Hart). This shows that Alma is willing to stand up for the change in allowing girls to carry the water buckets, not just the boys. The girls all wanted to carry the buckets, but they knew they had to voice their desires, or there would never be a change. However, this change did bring some hard trials. When the class was …show more content…

In “The Transcript of Full Joseph McNeil Interview”, Joseph experienced unfair treatment because of his race. He wanted to make a change, so he did. As they walked in to eat, Joseph and others, “were told by several people that if [they] continued to sit at this lunch counter [they] were going to get into a lot of trouble. And [they] advised the store and its employees and its manager that [they] intended to sit and to continue to sit until they served [them]”(10 Newsday). Joseph and his friends were not happy with the way they were treated, so they said “we continued to sit”(10 Newsday). They wanted to get served, and they knew if they moved they would be getting served in other parts of the diner. Because they wanted to be treated fairly, they made an act of courage and stayed. They knew they needed to make a change, so they took charge. This is what one would call a movement. They wanted to be able to

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Eleanor Roosevelt had once stated “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the think which you think you cannot do.” An interpretation of this is that the only way growth and courage can increase is when the time is taken to perform at the best state possible. This can occurs when there is a challenge which may or may not be extremely difficult, but you must push forward and come out ahead. The Little Rock nine had to endure going to school facing true hatred and constant denigrate each and everyday.

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Nelson Mandela once said, “I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but who conquers that fear.” Through the exploration of this unit, many characters have shown courage. More specifically, “Transcript of Full Joseph McNeil Interview” written by Newsday, “The Terror” by Junot Diaz, and Amelia Earhart best exemplify the quote by Mandela. In the story “Transcript of Full Joseph McNeil Interview” helps us understand the quote that Mandela said.

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How exactly can courage and risk-taking help people find their voice and take a stand? The texts The Dangers of Groupthink by Naomi Karten, and The Crucible by Arthur Miller, convey that learning to build up enough courage to take risks will aide one in discovering their inner voice, and ultimately teach one to stand up for him or her self, or take a stand for his or her beliefs. Maintaining the quality to possess courage can help one realize the importance of taking the risk to stand up for him or her self. On page two of The Dangers of Groupthink, Naomi Karten emphasizes the importance of one being able to use their inner voice and speak up or stand up for him or her self. Naomi continues by providing the reader with an example to ensure

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To find courage during tough times people have to believe in themselves. Courage will lead individuals to take action against discrimination. One specific example that supports this theme is how on Page 198-199 Henry was displaying courage to run through bullets and bombs to get to every soldier. When Henry had

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You take risks every day, know it or not. Even if they aren’t influential, every risk has the potential to teach you a valuable lesson. Lessons like these are seen in many texts. Excerpt from chapter VII of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave is an example among two others, "Learning to Read" and, "The Day I Saved a Life." The three texts all have one thing in common: the speakers all took a risk for a lesson to be learned.

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Within “Transcript of Full Joseph Mcneil Interview” Joseph talks about when he did constant sit-ins at a segregated restaurant.

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Courage has gone through many changes. It has been altered throughout races, cultures, religions, sex, and time. However, the core values of courage has always remained parallel. It is difficult to explain in words the meaning of courage, like describing a color, but everyone knows what courage is, how it feels, and how to perform it. In Harper Lee’s

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And when the speaker and his friends doing the sit in, they were threatened by the manager and the people in the store, but they continued to sit because they were served in other parts of the store. For example, the speaker states “We were told by several people that if we continued to sit at this lunch counter that we were going to get into a lot of trouble. And we advised the store and its employees and its manager that we intended to sit and to continue to sit until they served us, because they had served us in other parts of the store so they could in fact serve us if they so choose to do so. So, we continued to sit.” (McNeil 10) the evidence before you show that McNiel and his friends overcame the fear of the white people, and they were threatened by many people.

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