Shaka Senghor

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To some the mistakes that are made throughout life are considered as deeds that define what others reflect of us rather then what you may think of yourself. In reality we are human beings we all make mistakes whether those mistakes maybe big or small they don’t define us. Instead those mistakes help us grow, they shape us into the people that we have become today, and they continue to shape us in to the people that we will be in the future and so on. Ted talks “why your worst deeds don’t define you” discusses why our deeds do not define us. During the video Shaka Senghor thrashed out that we are simply human, and everyone makes mistakes. Shaka was a young drug dealer, when he had shot and killed a man it was not the end of his story, but barely

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