Personal Narrative: The Color Barrier

Therefore, it is revealed that overcoming barriers and obstacles within the journey are an important aspect which can form shape and strengthen an individual throughout their

Jackie Robinson was a courageous and fearless man. Throughout his life he broke many barriers that no one thought he would, perhaps the most important and monumental was the breaking of the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Don't be mistaken, this was no easy task for Jackie Robinson; he faced scrutiny, racism, and verbal and physical threats. Not all was bad for Jackie while entering the Major Leagues, there were some who admired and respected Jackie for what he was doing and the way he was doing it.

Jackie Robinson overcame a very big obstacle while he was growing up due to segregation. After he came out of war he wanted to play baseball but during his time black males were not allowed to play with the whites. But when the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers offered him a spot on the team allowing him to break the color barrier. After his first year he received the Rookie

Many people face barriers in their life. Merriam Webster’s School Dictionary states that barriers are something immaterial that separates. Some people face barriers every day such as a fear of heights,and a different language.

Throughout history, many barriers have been broken. Some big, some small. Jackie Robinson; Jose Hernandez; Abraham Lincoln; Martin Luther King, Jr; and John Lewis and fellow students are all great examples of people who have broken barriers. Without them our future would have been so different. To begin with, Jackie Robinson help their future by breaking the sports with color barrier.

I was born and raised in the small but growing city of Perris, CA. This isn’t the best city out there but it tends to grow on you, and you begin to truly love it for what it is. The people, however, not so much. The community can vary from which part of the city you’re in. That’s because there’s diversity here in Perris. I’m a product of this diversity, being half Mexican and half African American. My parents fell in love after high school and later on began a family. I am the youngest of five. I have two older brothers, an older sister, and an older cousin who lives with us. The order is boy, girl, boy, boy, girl with my cousin being included in there too. We all live in the same house with my parents and are quite close with each other. They all seem to have raised me growing up due to the fact that my parents were busy trying to provide for us. This was a challenge by itself, resulting in lots of house moving and my father being unemployed for six years after losing his job. I never complained about moving because I knew that my parents were doing their absolute best and were working with all that they had and then some. This unquestionably made me adaptable to new environments and gave me a

The worker contacted Misty Black who is a friend of Brittany Hardin. Mrs. Black stated “Brittany was in a situation where her ex (well she told me they were already broken up at the time) had assaulted her. Brittany had called me after Ronita Grady had hit her so I immediately called the police and made my way to Brittany. When I arrived the OCPD were already there speaking to Brittany. The officers also spoke to me and I told him I was the one who called them. After the police left Brittany and the boys stayed with me for a couple days because Brittany was still shaken up. The boys all seemed okay, I don’t think they really knew what had just happened. Brittany thanked me for helping her, because at the time we weren’t really speaking to

You might be asking,what's your barriers? My barrier is the fear of judgement,just like my example above,authors might hold back on their work because they feel it will disappoint the readers.This prevents me from doing many things in public,including public speaking.Everyone can be involved in this,even if you don’t mean to.It occurs when I go out in public and I feel as if people’s opinions are shooting me with negativity,even if they’re doing nothing to show it.It’s often called stage fright.It can be broken like any other barrier,one of the most famous baseball players is a good representation of this barrier,Jackie Robinson.

As a child between the ages of three and four, you start to discover whom you are from the color of your skin to the social gender identity in the world. As a little girl every time I looked in the mirror I noticed the color I was brown and when I was at school I was always separated with the specific group to go in girl’s bathroom. Going to elementary school you learned about many topics in history class but the two topics that relate to black children is slavery and civil rights movement. When you reach middle school, you begin to learn about women’s rights suffrage movement and how we as women are still fighting for rights. In school to this day as a college student, all I ever learned is how women and African American’s are mistreated in

These beautiful words were found in an old Skillman Avenue bulletin when we were working on an estate sale. They are words that resonate strongly in our world today. If there were not a greater movement and a greater leader we would be without hope in a world which sometimes feels as if it has been turned upside down.

A barrier that I had to break or overcome is the fact that I have WPW or ( Wolf Parkinsons White Syndrome), a heart defect. I uses many values to help me overcome my barrier. The main three I used were courage,determination,and excellence. I used COURAGE to help me realize that I had to have surgery to help me and my heart even though it did not work I know personally that I can have any kind of surgery and not be afraid. The same way Jackie Robinson used courage to ignore that man that was yelling at him even though he wanted to he knew the right thing is to not say anything at all. One of the main values I used is DETERMINATION,because right before surgery I was wanting to back out and not have it,but then I started telling myself I would

I'm going insane, I can tell. I blink and I see flashes of things that never happened, faces of people that I've never met, and colors. Always colors. Maybe it's the dehydration. They only give me enough water to stay alive, nothing more. As for food, I'm steadily losing weight. I'm all skin and bones, and colors.

I woke up because I was hot as hell, it took me a moment to realize why. I was shocked at how sexy this man was laying beneath me. I laid there just looking at him thinking of how good he had treated me and I can honestly say that these six weeks of being single have made me see things in a whole new light. Blue doesn't deserve me nor Lyric. It's sad that I've been so caught up in what I wanted that I haven't thought of how my baby's missing out on having a father. I've been so dumb by staying with a man who's a dead beat. The only thing I want is for him to just sign over his rights to my daughter so that we can completely move on it may sound cold but he's never stepped up for her and she's doing just fine without his ass. Watching how she

One barrier that I have overcome is social anxiety. This was more than just shyness and self-consciousness but an impediment to social interaction on a daily basis. The simplest tasks such as making a phone call to order pizza or introducing myself to new people provoked an excessive form of fear that I tried to avoid for the longest time. Because social anxiety and other mental illnesses are so stigmatized and misunderstood by society, I felt uncomfortable to open up with anyone about it. My parents were unable to assist me in overcoming this daily challenge because they were uneducated about the subject and simply dismissed as just as early age awkwardness.

Overcoming a barrier in your life is one of the most challenging day to day struggles. It truly tests your physical and mental strength. No matter how big or small the barrier, we are forced to show commitment, persistence, integrity, determination, and teamwork to show our barriers that we are stronger than they are. Looking back, my barrier of having two left feet, being a terrible dancer, may now seem petty compared to challenges other people face, but it has molded me into a motivated dancer who knows what self confidence and work ethic are.