Mahatma Gandhi
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to do anything. If there was no freedom to make mistakes, what would be the point of freedom. It was a cold winter day; October 2nd, when this great soul was born. Mahatma Gandhi! Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India was the person who guided India safely to freedom from the British control. Because of this great man, India got its freedom in the year of 1947. This man encouraged many others to join him during the war, and he helped people fight for their rights and their freedom.
Freedom is worth fighting for because everybody has the rights to do what ever they want. Can you imagine a place without freedom? There would be fighting everywhere. Everybody would want to fight for their freedom. Nobody wants to be a slave. As Langston Hughes says, "I dream a world where all will know sweet freedoms way". He wants to tell us that everybody should have their own freedom. Everybody on this Earth, no matter what race or color they are, have the same rights as every other person. Every man will share the bounties of the Earth and there will be no greed, as Langston Hughes states in his poem. He says that there will be no unhappiness in this Earth. There will be jot everywhere.
In Hughes poem, he mentions that "peace will adorn its way and no man other man will scorn". Without freedom, there can be no peace. Everybody would be fighting for their freedom. There would be huge war. How is this peace? In order to have peace, every other man should have freedom. Hughes also says that no other man will scorn. He is trying to say that, nobody is worthless. Everybody should have the chance to so something in his/her life. Every man can do something for this Earth. As the saying goes, "Be the change you want to see in the world". This quote means that if one person stands up for their freedom, the whole country will come to their senses. Every man can do something to change this world.
India, in the late 90's had no freedom. Mahatma Gandhi, the great soul of India, started alone to fight for India's freedom. After a while, the whole nation joined him to get freedom. When Mahatma Gandhi wan in South Africa, he was travelling in a bus. The rule was that whenever a white person entered the bus, the black would have to give up his seat. But Mahatma Gandhi refused to do so when this case happened with him. He was thrown out of the bus because of his actions. This is when he started the civil rights movement. He wanted everybody to be equal and fair. He has been arrested a several times for trying to do the right act. He never did any violence. He only fought with his mouth which never said bad to any other living being. Freedom and peace was all he wanted.
Another great soul was Martin Luther King. He had stood up for the black people. He didn't want any difference between the white and the black. He wanted everyone to be equal and fair. Martin was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and Bayard Rustin. He was amazed to see that Mahatma Gandhi did no violence to the the British. Martin Luther king wanted everybody to have equal rights and the same share of the Earth. He stood up for himself, after some time, millions of people joined him in this act. He had made the world a better place to live.
Imagine the people who fought for years and years to make this world a better place to live. Right now, if there had been no act of this civil rights, you would have not been in the situation you would not have as much freedom. You would have strict rules and you would have no rights. You should thank you ancestors for making this world better place just for you!
In this world, everybody longs for their rights to do anything. Every other man wants freedom. If there is freedom, there is peace. Don't you want your freedom?!
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ReplyDeleteI think you did very good convincing the reader to suport your ideas, and I liked how you made me feel like you where trying to get me to "be on your side", I think you could of told more about Mahatma Ghandi, and you could have given more information on what you though about freedom. I liked how you asked the questions, but you could of thought of more interesting words, but overal I liked your main idea.
ReplyDeleteI think that you supported your claim thoroughly, like when you explained why freedom is important. Something you could work on is to explain how the person fought for freedom. Maybe in the supporting paragraphs you could connect the ideas to Mahatma Ghandi. I agree that freedom is vey important to fight for and that the world wouldn't be the same without it.
ReplyDeleteI think you did very good convincing the reader to suport your ideas, and I liked how you made me feel like you where trying to get me to "be on your side", like you where arguing with someone and you where trying to convince them to believe you in what you where saying. Your main idea of freedom was good, but is there anything else that connect to freedom? Over all I thought your blog was well thought out and good.
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