Thursday, April 5, 2018

Mike Tyson and Freddie Gray Assignment


My Life As a Young Thug
As I read this article about Mike Tyson growing up as a thug, I thought to myself, I wish everyone had the dedication like him. He went from having a crummy life to being a professional boxer. After being such a bad kid when he was younger, he found the dedication to pursue what he had always found an interest in to do. He put all the hard work and dedication into becoming a boxer. He worked to get enough credits to go and fight Mr. Stewart, one of the counselors at Elmwood. Elmwood was the school Mike Tyson got sent to after his multiple charges against him became too long to send him to all the New York City vicinity. He worked hard enough to get his Honor Roll star and enough credits to go and “see” Mr. Stewart. He went there and fought Bobby Stewart. He ended up getting punched so hard in the stomach he threw up. Bobby told him just to get up and walk it off. The way Mike Tyson was brought up in a ruff environment and found something that he could put his time and effort in. He worked really hard to become a boxer and all his hard work payed off. He become one of the most well-known boxer. Him and his buddies collected and hid pigeons in an old warehouse. Pigeon racing was very popular according to the article that I read. I didn’t know much of Mike Tyson’s story before reading his article about him growing up a thug. It was really interesting learning what Mike Tyson grew up in and what he got out of by becoming a boxer. I think that society failed Mike Tyson if our society would just help people like thugs and people like the younger Mike Tyson, everyone would be better off. People like the younger Mike Tyson would get help from society they might actually graduate from high school and not drop out when they are seven years old. Mike Tyson did that he quit school when he was seven and got taken into the thug life to be used for ruthless acts of crime. He got taught things that he would have never been taught if he would have just stayed in school. That is why I think society failed Mike Tyson. I think that the government should also help thugs, just like welfare helps poor people. Overall, I really enjoyed learning and reading about Mike Tyson I didn’t know much about him and know I feel like I have a good grasp on his story.

Why you should know what happened in Freddie Gray’s life — long before his death
As I was reading this article about Freddie Gray I was thinking to myself why does the government not do something to help people like him. Why doesn’t the government help them get into a school that he has a higher chance of graduating from. Why doesn’t the government help them have a better home to live in. If the government only would have done that Freddie Gray’s life and many more might have been a better life to live. Freddie was a child that was born premature and had a lot of health problems from being born premature. His mother was suspected of doing drugs when she was pregnant with him and his twin sister. He didn’t graduate high school, because he was diagnosed with attention deficit disorders and impulse control problems. He was later put into a special education room. The school he went to had teachers that would miss up to ten days at a time during one school year. A lot of the teachers didn’t know what they were doing because they were so new and uneducated on how to teach. If the government were to help the students that go to school in underdeveloped schools, like the one Freddie Gray went to, I think that there would be a higher percentage of graduating students in schools that are underdeveloped. If the government would put better educators in schools like the one Freddie went to. The government could also help by making better homes for people like Freddie Gray to live in. When he was younger Freddie Gray was tested and the doctors found that he had a level of lead in his blood seven times higher than a child at his age should have in his system. Which that high of a level can lead to severe and permanent brain damage. Freddie Gray was at a high risk of obtaining brain damage while living in his home. If the government would create better ways for people like Freddie to live in it would help with the costs of medical bills for those who can’t afford it. I think that Freddie Gray let himself down in ways and at the same time I think society let him down also. He let himself down because he never found a drive like Mike Tyson did. He let himself down he could of gotten out of the thug life like Mike Tyson did, but he didn’t. Society also let him down because he was going to a school that needed better educators, and a program that really didn’t help Freddie become educated like he needed to be. Overall, I think reading the article is very informational and it helped me understand facts about the way Freddie Gray had to live before he died.