Frankie Fredericks

I train for athletics on the weekends with a group of men who all have over 50 years on me. Training with them has and always will be the best decision I have made. My trainer is called Jack Giddy and he trained my grandfather in athletics as well. He is currently 93 years old. He and his wife, Snow, have been family friends with us for years. He had a friend called Reg Austin was also a runner that was trained by Jack when he was young. Born on October 16, 1936, Reg Austin was a runner from 1962 to 2001. After he had finished his athletic career, he still went on the coach and mentor younger and older athletes. Reg won professional races across Australia, claimed 15 World Masters titles and set seven world records. Reg was moved into a nursing home in the last few years of his life. This came after he had had a few minor strokes. It was decided that he be moved into a nursing home for his own safety. His speech was slurred and he shuffled with a walking frame. He was gradually improving, walking and talking, although he would not be allowed to go back home for the fear of hurting himself. He was walking to get a coffee when he fell, having one of his seizures. These had been happening on and off for some time, pretty bad at first but they were gradually improving. On this occasion, he had hit his head pretty hard on the tile floor. This caused bleeding on the brain. He was slipping in and out of a coma for a few days, gradually being able to open his eyes and say a word or…

As Frankie Manning was the best dancer of the Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers. He tells how people from all of the town used to come in clubs to be entertained by best Lindy Hop dancers. Music made the biggest influence for dancers it made them want to move and they could not stop. People spent most of their time at the Savoy Ballroom, Manning even dropped out of the high school. He explains that people were dancing like anything else did not matter, like the rest of the world did not exist and there…

unique style. The dance draws from an 8 count pulse “with a solid, flowing style that closely reflects its music” (Renzland). The style of Lindy Hop ranges “from the most ‘social’ of social dances to one of the most dynamic and rhythmically intricate stage dances ever devised”(Monaghan). Traditionally it is performed in a social setting with partners that react and flow with the music. Important elements can include swing rhythm, triple steps, tuck turns, stretch connection, and swivels, but…

Nat Turner's Confessions and Frederick Douglass' The Heroic Slave The names of Nat Turner and Frederick Douglass are remembered because of the fame that they earned as black Americans during pre-Civil War slave period. However, their names color the pages of history books for widely different reasons: Nat Turner led one of the greatest slave revolts in almost 150 years of slavery, while Frederick Douglass obtained his freedom and education, going on to become a renowned speaker, author, and…

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass follows a man who found freedom after many years of slavery. The narrative starts of by telling us where Frederick Douglass was born, which was Tuckahoe. He also mentions his mom Harriet Bailey. She died when Frederick was about seven years old. His first master was Captain Anthony. The overseer was Mr. Severe, he was a very cruel. Later he was replaced by Mr. Hopkins. Frederick and many slaves lived in a place called the great house farm. Frederick…

Narrative of the Life of Frederic Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself is a book written by Frederic Douglass, a slave who escaped a plantation to become one of the most important people in slave abolition and African American history. In this book, Douglass explains his experiences as a slave and as a man who did not own himself. Douglass learned many things along his journey and he shares them with us through his writings. This narrative explains how slaves were inadequately treated…

in the proper victims honor was The Narrative of Frederick Douglas, an autobiography. This biography describes Douglas’ life from early childhood until his escape of slavery. For Frederick, his foulest fear was spending his entire life powerless and as a slave. In this narrative we, Douglas’ audience, become aware of the cruelties that a plentiful amount of men and women faced in the past when slavery was still existent. "I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed,…

black America” (225). In this West urges many to dispel the negative ideas and word of the oppressor which in turn produce this sense of worthlessness and self-loathing. One way to dispel these ideas is through literacy. As many of the propaganda against people of color is done through the media. If one is literate, it can be said that one has to capacity to tell the falsified truth of the media—which keep their oppressors in power—from the hidden truths of reality. Similarly, if one takes a…

Frederick Douglass once said, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress” (“West India Emancipation Speech”, 1857). His whole life based around this quote. Douglass was born into slavery and it took control of most of his life, until he decided to do something about it. He became a free man and was one of the most influential abolitionists ever. Douglass’s life had been filled with whippings, betrayal, deaths, and his struggle towards freedom. A typical life for a slave was not that of…

Brown was remarkable, for besides oration and documentary reports he also produced a novel, European travel book, plays, several historical studies, and reflective memoirs. He spoke up against slavery even though everyone was for slavery. “William Wells Brown’s commitment to the struggle for freedom and equality for the blacks was a consuming passion that found expression, not alone in effort to affect his goals through legislation and political activity.” The main problem was that 20th-century…