Rosa Parks And Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Children come into the world with some temperament already instilled in their tiny little bodies. “Temperament refers to inborn, biologically based behavior and emotional patterns that are observable in infancy and early childhood; personality is the complex brew that emerges after cultural influence and personal experience are thrown into the mix. Some say that temperament is the foundation and personality is the building” (Cain 101). As the child grows and adapts to his or her surrounding more traits are picked up as their personality is really beginning to shape. Some studies have shown that personality types may be known just from paying attention to the way babies respond to certain stimuli and whether they will be more of an introvert

Qualities produced by introverts will be more effective in certain situations than those of an extrovert. In the case of Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., two people that stood on opposite ends of the introvert-extrovert spectrum, their different qualities balanced each other. Dr. King was the outspoken leader that was already sitting on the see-saw when Rosa Parks balance it by sitting on the other side. Their lives intertwined made history in this case that one could not do without the other: “a formidable orator (Dr. King) refusing to give up his seat on a segregated bus wouldn’t have had the same effect as a modest woman who’d clearly prefer to keep silent but for the exigencies of the situation. And Parks didn’t have the stuff to thrill a crowd if she’d tried to stand up and announce that she had a dream. But with King’s help, she didn’t have to” (Cain 3). The power of her shyness, resilience, silence, and sticking by who she was started a movement. A movement that was helped with the stand of civil rights and one that would not have been so successful without Dr. King. Thus giving more power to the fact of both personalities balancing out the world. Like the civil rights movement, “Without introverts, the world would be devoid of: the theory of gravity, the theory of relativity, the Cat in the Hat, Charlie Brown, Google, Peter Pan” (Cain 5) and much more. If the world was just one big party without the intellectual thinkers that are able to sit and concentrate on their task to come up with new inventions or reflect on situations before jumping right into action, many great inventions would not exist. Some of the best intellectual minds of inventors came from someone that is an introvert. The computer for example may still cost a high dollar amount and not be as technologically capable as it is in this day and age. It takes and