Joseph McNeil, a black college student, sat at a lunch counter with three of his friends until they were served. ... A New York Times article was printed on the story and inspired black and white students across the country to participate in such protests. ...
When I sat in my father's blue 2003 Ford Taurus at the age of fifteen, little did I know my life was to change forever. "Alright children, your mom and I have to speak with you about something important," exclaimed my father. My elder sister and I knew what was going to come next. I whispered under...
Next to my table, it sat the network engineer called Steven who took care of our computer network. ... He sat in front of our computers to run some scripts to fix the errors. ... The first course was a theory course and the concepts were so new, which I had not learned in my college at all. ...
However, the 1990's brought about a new medium that would again change the way Americans prefer to receive their news and entertainment. ... Television also provided people with a new source of entertainment in television programming like CBS's I Love Lucy and NBC's The Aldrich Family. Television connected Americans as they sat around their television sets watching The $64,000 Question on CBS. ... This new mobile option gives Americans the opportunity to take their news with them. ...
Where America should have been moving toward an enlightened society, its policies have ushered in a New Feudalism where other industrialized nations have instituted much more progressive policies. ... In a school that has a distinct socio-economic disparity, where a contingent arrives at school each morning driving new cars – it's not uncommon to see a BMW or new SUV in the student lot – and another arrives by bus, students are offered the same curricular and extra-curricular choices, but socioeconomic conditions – students' access to money and their ability to pay ...
Forty to fifty years ago fast food was a relatively new thing, and to be able to eat it was a luxury. ... As time went by he bag of potato chips didn't seem to appease the taste of the new coming generations of school lunches. ... Fifty years ago most American families sat to a breakfast of eggs, toast, milk or orange juice, and bacon or sausage. ...
One of the main contributors to this change in America was a development of a new style of music. ... Because of these new lyrics, the younger generation of people began to form a movement where unity, togetherness, and rebellion against "the man " became of utmost importance. ... Between ten and thirty thousand students and faculty sat on the college campus for thirty six hours straight and gave speeches about how displeased they were with the war. ...
America was started by people who did not want to be neglected by their country or told what to do in their country, so these people decided to leave their country and begin a new country. ... , well i heard this and i sat back for a second. ...
Some did not make it back to the safe haven of their homes because four commercial jets were hijacked and two of those aircraft were flown into the World Trade Towers, leveling the once mighty skyscrapers that stood tall above New York City. ... Americans no longer felt safe as they sat with their families, thankful to be alive, huddled around a television set trying to comprehend what just had happened in the early morning hours of September 11th. ... Our strong economy took a hit after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, causing many New York businesses to collapse, which caused...
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia says that one is considered overweight when his or her body mass index is above twenty five, and is considered obese above thirty percent. ... When the 80's rolled around the so-called fat acceptance movement caused people to face the risk of getting sat on if caught making fun of a fat person. ... In other words, the new craze of diet foods is ultimately causing people to gain weight because they end up eating more. ...
I sat there for the whole service and there was a lot that I learned from just one hour of listening. ... It is okay to get out there and try and do new things every once in awhile. Open your mind to learning new things and you never know what you'll run into. ...
