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.
