4) In the context of the article, how does a person overcome adversity? How did Jackie Robinson overcome the discrimination he experienced in life and in baseball) despite being
told not to fight back? How did Robinson continue to challenge discrimination during this
time?

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.