Malcolm X was sent to prison for 8 years for coordinating prostitution, drugs, and gambling rings. While in prison Malcolm studied Elijah Muhammad, leader of the nation of Islam, for more than 3 years. When released he changed his last name to “x” because he thought Little was a slave name. In Malcolm’s’ earlier years he was a very smart kid whop was always ready to learn he wanted to be a lawyer but his favorite teacher said “it wasn’t the right dream for a black male.”
Malcolm had 7 siblings who were all separated because there mom Louis Little had a mental break down about her husband Earl Little’s death a year before this. Malcolm reunited with his half sister Ella Little years after in New York., Malcolm was a petty criminal, in 1942 Malcolm was coordinating drugs, prostitution, and gambling rings. Malcolm met a friend with the name Malcolm jives, and they moved back to Boston, in 1946 they were both arrested for burglary Malcolm placated himself by using his 8 year sentence to finish his school when paroled I 1052 he was a devoted follower to Elijah Muhammad ,leader of the nation of Islam,.
Malcolm’s greatest achievement would be when he converted to the nation of Islam. Malcolm’s conversion made him a better person because he gave up criminal activity he no longer does drug, gamble, and buy prostitutes. Malcolm x knew he was going to follow the rules of Elijah and the other rulers as well he accepted the consequences and the positive things that would happen. When Malcolm wanted to be a follower to the nation of Islam he stuck with it no matter how many threats and racist comments they had said to him over the years.
Malcolm x is a good example of over coming adversity by over coming the challenges he had to face with his past coming back to haunt him and all the temptation. Malcolm shows that he overcomes challenges a lot like when he went to prison he chose to finish school and in his cell he would remines on how he could rob houses and comment criminal activity more differently but in stead he chose to follow the nation of Islam. People didn’t realize he was once a criminal until he died when someone wrote a biography that showed why he was that man was in his day and why he spoke out agents the lies they would say and to speak out agents black people being treated wrong.
When Malcolm went back to school in prison and proved his teacher wrong was a great way he over came adversity. When Malcolm spoke out about the nation of Islam even threw the treats was a good achievement. We all say we will prove people wrong but most of us don’t we ether forget or we give up we should all keep a goal and stick with it and when we achieve that goal we should not gloat about it but instead just have a smile from self satisfaction.
Work cited:
Gormley, Beatrice. Malcolm X. New York; 2008.
“Biography of Malcolm X”. African within. (2001): March 16, 2011
Http//www.africanwithin.com/MalcolmX_bio.html
3 comments:
Hey Nay,
Alright to be honest When i first started to read your i was a little nervious. I wasn't sure how much it would make since to me as i kept reading. You surprised me because your wording was very creative and i could get what you were saying in a way that i didn't think would be possible for me to do. One thing to work on though is try wording the dirst part of each sentence a little bit different form the others. I kearned about in your paper is that your person spoke out to people. Great job.
1.one thing he did great was how he used buy prstitudeds and do drungs sn gamble and he changed his life around to a nation.
2.i think you can work on grammer
3.i learned that he was a petti criminal
One thing I learned about Malcom X is he used to manage prostitutes and sell drugs and manage gambling rings oh I didn't know that he went to prison for 8 years.
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