Malcolm X vs Frederick Douglass
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Bryan Warman
English 100-A03
Instructor: Duval
February 21, 2011
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Malcolm X VS. Frederick Douglass How would you compare your education experience with Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass? Education comes from attending elementary; middle school, high school, and college. However education can also come from home if the education is legitimate. In Malcolm X's "A Homemade Education," Malcolm discusses his struggles between the language on his childhood streets growing up and the language of literature. Being in prison, he explains how his interest and determination to be able to read and understand. literature led him to a freedom he had never had or ever felt before. He indulged himself in reading while broadening his vocabulary by copying the entire dictionary. As he followed the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, he found extraordinary interest in black history and slavery. Due to slavery's horrific impact on Malcolm he became a minister of Mr. Muhammad's, gaining enlightenment that would lead him to fighting for African-American's human and civil rights. I will explain the differences between Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass’s education experience, how they learned, what were the necessary steps taken to learn what they know now, and what they became after education. The difference between Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X is that Malcolm X taught himself and Frederick Douglass was taught by his mistress and boys from his community any chance he could. Frederick Douglass learned to read and write because he wanted to get to the north to his freedom (157). Malcolm X learned how to read and write because he was getting frustrated not being able to express what he wanted in the letters he would attempt to write to Mr. Elijah Muhammad (266). Malcolm X learned how to read and write in jail
Bryan Warman
English 100-A03
Instructor: Duval
February 21, 2011
Essay 2
Lead-In
Author, Title, and main Idea
Final Thought
Topic
Sentence
Malcolm X VS. Frederick Douglass How would you compare your education experience with Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass? Education comes from attending elementary; middle school, high school, and college. However education can also come from home if the education is legitimate. In Malcolm X's "A Homemade Education," Malcolm discusses his struggles between the language on his childhood streets growing up and the language of literature. Being in prison, he explains how his interest and determination to be able to read and understand. literature led him to a freedom he had never had or ever felt before. He indulged himself in reading while broadening his vocabulary by copying the entire dictionary. As he followed the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, he found extraordinary interest in black history and slavery. Due to slavery's horrific impact on Malcolm he became a minister of Mr. Muhammad's, gaining enlightenment that would lead him to fighting for African-American's human and civil rights. I will explain the differences between Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass’s education experience, how they learned, what were the necessary steps taken to learn what they know now, and what they became after education. The difference between Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X is that Malcolm X taught himself and Frederick Douglass was taught by his mistress and boys from his community any chance he could. Frederick Douglass learned to read and write because he wanted to get to the north to his freedom (157). Malcolm X learned how to read and write because he was getting frustrated not being able to express what he wanted in the letters he would attempt to write to Mr. Elijah Muhammad (266). Malcolm X learned how to read and write in jail