Malcolm X

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

If I Was the Last Book

If I was the last book in the universe a message I would leave would be that no matter how much violence of crime in the world it all leads up to something because what ever happens it happened for a reason and people should leave it like that because you cant change it well unless you made a time machine but till then people cant make a difference another message I would leave is if you do something right people wont notice you did anything at all so you should let thing be as they should. One more message would be when you find out who you really are then you discover what you really like for some examples you would notice what you really want in a girl or what you favorite food or sport is also what your really good at, for some people it can take years to figure out who you really are and for some people it just one or two years to find out.

A story I would tell them would be of a guy who never was noticed until he tried something different out of his normal schedule he had once used every day then he realized that trying new things can make people and your self notice who you really are and what your really personality is like.

I would want future generations to know that people had different styles of life like if your in a building and you look around you would notice that everyone has a different story to tell kind of like a never ending book that when you read it you are sucked in to it like a virtual reality game of life even if you talk to a hobo then there is a story you will never here in your life.

Heros of Life

What makes a hero to me? In my opinion a hero is some one who will help others when needed most and even when they don’t he/or she will help for nothing in returned and wont brag or tell any one he/or she will know in there hearts that they did good in a new persons or old persons life also they know they did something good which makes them wanna do more to help others.

Which character in the book do I think is the real hero? In my opinion I think the real hero would be Charley because he sent the latch runner to tell Spaz that bean was dying and if it wasn’t for him Spaz wouldn’t have come up with the plan to go see her and help bean get better or at least try to help.

I think he is more of a hero then the others because even though he told Spaz to leave the family he still cared to tell him that bean was dying so id say he is a hero because he’s forgiving and he cares for people even if he told Spaz to leave he is also a hero because he would do a lot to make someone happy