Kaveh Samimi
Fredrick Douglas a man whom used knowledge to achieve freedom from a life of slavery was faced with many challenges in his life. As I read and studied his autobiography I was faced with that fact that though I cannot relate directly to the challenges he had to face, I can recall times when I have felt similar toward challenges in my own life. Those instances were when he had a lack of education, not having any instructors to educate him, and feeling trapped in the life he was born into.
I unlike Douglas am very fortunate to have been presented with the opportunity to be educated in my life. But where I can relate to Douglas’s feelings were on the football pitch. I started my career in football when I was 11 years old. It was …show more content…
Douglas being born a slave was not allowed an education, so that means he had no one to teach him. I was the same way, although I had a right to have an instructor my parents never saw a reason why I should have one, so like Douglas I was on my own. But that did not stop me; I trained every day after school. Found any time I could to hit the pitch and practice. I used emulations to learn skills off of others whom were around practicing, and even managed to get some of the to train me. And Douglas did the same. He had no teacher he tough himself everything he knew and even occasionally used the children in the town as teachers. He would feed some little children in town and use the little knowledge that they poses to his own advantage. So we both had to persevere though challenged and think outside the box to reach our goals. And these situations made us very hard working in our own ways. We kept going no matter how tough it …show more content…
Life of slavery had no end. If you were born a slave, then you would die a slave. So he felt trapped in the circumstance he was in. And I felt the same in my career in football; I would train and train but still feel that I am the same. I felt no gains in my work at the beginning. I was unhappy with myself, even at time thinking that I would never be better than I was currently. But I did not give up, I trained for years and found out that playing football and understanding football was a very long process. And with hard work, passion, and dedication I was able to achieve the level that I had always dreamed of. And so did Fredrick Douglas. He achieved the impossible by not losing focus and overcoming the obstacles that life threw at him. So throughout our journey we became very tenacious. We were not afraid of the challenges that we faced, and looked for every opportunity to come out
Fredrick Douglas a man whom used knowledge to achieve freedom from a life of slavery was faced with many challenges in his life. As I read and studied his autobiography I was faced with that fact that though I cannot relate directly to the challenges he had to face, I can recall times when I have felt similar toward challenges in my own life. Those instances were when he had a lack of education, not having any instructors to educate him, and feeling trapped in the life he was born into.
I unlike Douglas am very fortunate to have been presented with the opportunity to be educated in my life. But where I can relate to Douglas’s feelings were on the football pitch. I started my career in football when I was 11 years old. It was …show more content…
Douglas being born a slave was not allowed an education, so that means he had no one to teach him. I was the same way, although I had a right to have an instructor my parents never saw a reason why I should have one, so like Douglas I was on my own. But that did not stop me; I trained every day after school. Found any time I could to hit the pitch and practice. I used emulations to learn skills off of others whom were around practicing, and even managed to get some of the to train me. And Douglas did the same. He had no teacher he tough himself everything he knew and even occasionally used the children in the town as teachers. He would feed some little children in town and use the little knowledge that they poses to his own advantage. So we both had to persevere though challenged and think outside the box to reach our goals. And these situations made us very hard working in our own ways. We kept going no matter how tough it …show more content…
Life of slavery had no end. If you were born a slave, then you would die a slave. So he felt trapped in the circumstance he was in. And I felt the same in my career in football; I would train and train but still feel that I am the same. I felt no gains in my work at the beginning. I was unhappy with myself, even at time thinking that I would never be better than I was currently. But I did not give up, I trained for years and found out that playing football and understanding football was a very long process. And with hard work, passion, and dedication I was able to achieve the level that I had always dreamed of. And so did Fredrick Douglas. He achieved the impossible by not losing focus and overcoming the obstacles that life threw at him. So throughout our journey we became very tenacious. We were not afraid of the challenges that we faced, and looked for every opportunity to come out