Freedom, By Stedman Graham - 1135 Words

Freedom Thinking Stedman Graham once said: â€Å"Freedom is about a way of thinking. Freedom is about understanding that you can do anything that you want and freedom is about being able to take information and education and make it relevant to your own growth every single day. Freedom is not staying in the box. Freedom is not doing what other people want you to do.† It’s safe to say that Frederick Douglass would agree with this statement, due to the accounts he lived. Douglass was born a slave in Maryland in 1818. He was an African-American social reformer who longed to be free. He planned to achieve this through education, through reading and writing. During these times many African-Americans were slaves. Most slaves had ruthless masters and were treated as commodities instead of people. Somedays the studying proved to hard due to the harsh treatments shown and felt by literate slaves. He even says that he wishes he could get rid of thinking (72), but thinking is the best course of a ction to become free. In Learning to read and write, we see all of this, we see how some views are changed, we see how some people live, we see how hard and tricky it was to be able to learn to read and write for an African-American slave, but he persevered, he had one goal: Freedom. The story of learning to read and write unfolds in the youth of Frederick. When he was a young boy he was a slave to Master Hugh. With this family he started learning to read thanks to her mistress; she used to teachShow MoreRelatedSports17369 Words   |  70 PagesYankees versus New York Giants Sandy Hunt and Tommy Cowan on WJZ Oct. 7, 1922 - First Radio Chain Broadcast- WJZ and WGY transmitted a World Series game from the field Grantland Rice and Graham McNamee 10 EXERCISES IN SPORTSCASTING Nov. 24, 1923 - First Radio Broadcast of the Annual Army Navy football game - Graham McNamee Jan. 1, 1927 - First Coast-to-Coast Radio Program - Univ. of Alabama versus Stanford - originating from Pasadena, California, broadcast from the Rose Bowl - NBC network MayRead MoreSports17363 Words   |  70 PagesYankees versus New York Giants Sandy Hunt and Tommy Cowan on WJZ Oct. 7, 1922 - First Radio Chain Broadcast- WJZ and WGY transmitted a World Series game from the field Grantland Rice and Graham McNamee 10 EXERCISES IN SPORTSCASTING Nov. 24, 1923 - First Radio Broadcast of the Annual Army Navy football game - Graham McNamee Jan. 1, 1927 - First Coast-to-Coast Radio Program - Univ. of Alabama versus Stanford - originating from Pasadena, California, broadcast from the Rose Bowl - NBC network May 17