Long Walk to Freedom

correlated to a college recruitment game of softball. It’s Saturday morning, and the star pitcher of her high school’s softball team is riding a bus with other players from the state that made it pass round one of a college recruitment game. It’s a long journey across the country to the college where they all have to fight for a position on the college team. She reminisces on the game that the recruiters came and watched her play. The nervous and scared feeling she feels tingling in her bones,…

What is freedom? Is it being mistreated or doubted for your lack of an education? Is it being kicked to the back of the line because of your skin color or is it being beaten for standing up to what you believe is right. In “The Speech at the March on Washington” by Josephine Baker and “From Letter to Viceroy, Lord Irwin” by Mahatma Gandhi, each article passionately argues about the equality and power of an education along with the mistreatment of those who stand up for what they believe is right…

has a history of heart trouble. Mrs. Mallard receives some tragic news that is life-changing. An unexpected reaction is given when receiving news, but she later takes it as a relief. Things are now put into perspective and she shortly realize the freedoms she now has. A short summary of the story is Louise Mallard suffers a heart condition. Josephine carefully breaks down the news of her husband’s death. He has been in a fatal tragic railroad accident. Louise is not crushed by his death, nor…

As I open the door to walk through my backyard, the cold quickly stings my face, legs, and hands, I realized that the walk I was about to begin would be a long and terribly bitter time. So I shut the door behind myself and started out on my adventure, walking slowly, to take in as much as I could. I noticed that overnight the ground was covered in beautiful shimmering white snow, so perfect and immaculate, it almost seemed like a waste to tread over and ruin the lovely display over my property.…

the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was created to resolve these and many other problems we have in society, it still doesn’t seem to support all the issues that women still face. Women do not feel safe, secure and protected in the choices that they make in society because their rights and freedoms under the Charter of Rights are not consistent or stringently enforced. Women are still truly not viewed as equals in society. I don’t think that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms supports the many…

“Better to die fighting for freedom than to be a prisoner all the days of your life.” Bob Marley’s words perfectly capture the wild spirit of civil resistance, a non-violent act meant to cause a change in laws that goes against a ‘norm’, but doesn’t necessarily break a law. Odessa explores this concept in The Long Walk Home while she joins the Montgomery bus boycott to fight for equality among the races. While Odessa’s story is fictional, it is in fact based on a real event. Rosa Parks war…

children and their families. Many of the children I teach are permanent residents of the hospital; many will never be able to walk, to speak or to focus for long enough to write an essay like this one. My primary volunteer contribution to this community is teaching swimming and water safety and helping to provide aquatic therapy to the children. They experience a freedom of movement in the water that is critical to their physical and mental well-being, which means that I have a significant…

walking only done by the devout. It’s a long, laborious, spiritually transformative walk known as pilgrimages. Rebecca Solnit, a writer, joined one of the pilgrims on her journey and wrote about her experience in her work, ‘The Uphill Road to Grace: Some Pilgrimages’. Henry David Thoreau, a naturalist and a philosopher, also wrote about this type of journey - albeit he doesn’t call it pilgrimage - in his famous essay, ‘Walking’. He described his daily walk into the woods and how people may…

man wrote on the walls of King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, England, in 1965, saying “Free Mandela.” While he was in jail he had a lot of struggles concerning his health. He had tuberculosis while he was in jail. His cell was so small that he could walk from one wall to the other in three small steps. Nelson Mandela was freed out of prison on February 11, 1990, by President F.W. de Kirk. As soon as Nelson got out of prison he resumed all of his work. (Mandela,…

At the beginning, Johnny is telling the story of a man, who cannot return to civilization due to a crime he has committed. How he is now chained from the outside world, but how he desperately longs for the freedom he once took for granted. He attempts to picture the beautiful sunshine, which is denied to him by the concrete blocks and steel bars that confines him within the prison. Another day comes, and another day goes but he still remains in the prison and time begins to move slower with each…