Blog #2 American Icons Ideas.

1.Surfrider Foundation represents to me advocacy and helping others who are in need and can not support themselves.

2. Surfrider fights to help save the beaches and oceans and animals that reside there. They want to keep our oceans safe, protect special places, and preserve the beaches.

3. Surfrider is important because they spread awareness to people that the state of our oceans is not very much of a good one and we need to take it into our own hands to fix the problem we have created.

4. Surfrider became important to me when I did a water and sewer science project and we went into depth about everything going on with water and the earth. I learned about water pollution and many other things and it makes me feel very very bad that this is happening and I do my part in using reuasble bags and recycling and spreading word to my family and friends.

1.To me Martin Luther King Jr. represents piece of mind and awareness.

2. There were many important things to MLK and one of them was religion. While his father was alive he acted as an assitant pastor in church. I believe his education was important to him because he finished High School at the age of 15 and went on to graduate college and so on.

3.MLKJ became important to American culture because he fought for civil rights of African-Americans and supported the movement which many did not. He was able to stand up for those whose voices could not be heard.He opened up peoples eyes to what the future may behold for everyone to get along peacefully side by side.

4.MLKJ is important to me because he taught me that you have to stand up for what you believe is right in your heart and stand up for others who cannot stand up for themselves.

5.MLKJ inspired many peoplein a lot of different ways' some good and some bad. For example whoever killed him he probably inspired that person to not want MLKJ's dream to happen in the future...if that makes sense.

1. I think Rosa Parks represents courage because she stood up for freedom which not many blacks did back then.

2. She was always taught to stand up for herself and believe in herself ever since her school days when she attended Montgomery Industrial School for Girls whose policy was 'to take advantage of the oppurtunities no matter how few there were.'

3. Rosa Parks became important to the American culture because with her single act of defiance came a movement for the end of segregation.

4. This icon became important to me when I wrote something about her in 3rd grade during black history month. I wrote about what she did on the bus and later found out that what she did had a great influence on the movement and if it wasn't for the legal ending of segregation my life would be extremely different.

5. Rosa Parks inspired many people whether white, black, asian, or mexican, to stand up for themselves and what they believe in and know is right in their hearts.