In “Muhammad Ali Then and Now,” Dick Schaap describes Ali as a young man who has a lot of confidence and acts pretty cocky. In the beginning of the essay, Schaap writes about how Ali is a some-what innocent, clear minded guy who gives his all to be the best that he can be. His actions are compared to that of a little child by his innocence and his chivalry. Throughout the essay, slight changes in his personality and in him altogether, begin to show or are just obvious. Basically, Schaap just writes about a cocky, young man who grows up, matures, and does things that he thought he would never do.
His main opinion is how Ali had changed almost everything about himself and yet he was still the same. This is important because it basically shows how people in general are when they begin to grow up and mature. It’s sort of how if you had a best friend when you were little, you moved away, and then you came back ten years later and saw them. They are practically still the same, yet they’re so different. SO in the essay, we got a first hand experience of seeing how this boy was when he left Kentucky and how he molded into the man he came to be.
I very much agree with your post. People do change over a period of time while others change drastically others do not. When people do change you can still see a glimmer of their old self. I would have talked more about how his decision to turn to the Nation of Islam changed him. He changed his views and I would have brought that up. Overall I do agree with this particular post.
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ReplyDeleteI am sorry but i really don't agree because even though you do have a best friend, and he or she comes back it is their choice if they do want to remember the friendship and sometimes I hate to say but your friends will always change over the years. I really do not know anyone that has stay the same. People change and sometimes not for the good. Ask yourself where is your best friend from pre-school?
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I agree with this because even though time has past, there is still the same character and personality in the person even if times were tough. I would of added more information about how he was a major leader in the civil rights era.
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yes in the very beginig Muhammad was alittle cocky but it was closser to the fact that he came from a difrent back ground and was trying to make a name for him self. all he really wanted was to be some one. in the end he had change to the public but to his friends he was still a person that want to be some one but didnt know how to a cheve his gaol in life. so its not that he was a cocky young man that grow up but a man surching for a place in sosiety. 1637
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