There are a number of posts on this blog, and today you need to read a few of them. As you read, you need to find one post that you agree with, and one that you disagree with. For the post with which you disagree, you need to post a comment on the blog; in this comment write a paragraph that explains what you disagree with and why, and what change could be made to the post that would make you agree with it. With the post that you agree with, you need to post a comment in which you state why you agree and make a statement that could possibly strengthen the paragraph (in many ways this is more difficult than disagreeing). Be sure to put your four digit code on your comments, or else you will not be given credit, and try to look for the thoughtful responses.

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The writers each have different opinions, but both stories state that you should speak out for your opinion no matter what.Dick schaap, describes the life of Muhammad Ali as a young boxer with little experience,who later grew up into a very interesting person with an important opinion. The boxer's personality changes over this period of time as well as mature. Ernest Hemingway describes writers during WWII, who are being subjected to a strict writing mold that these writers are expected to follow. He disagrees with this idea and states that each writer needs to write about what they want to write about.
These opinions are important to all writers. Writers need to write about what they want to write about because they can not show their full potential if they do not write about one of their own opinions.

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                I think schaap’s opinion is saying that Muhammad Ali is famous as others like presidents. Both the president and Muhammad Ali have changed in many ways, but they still remain the same thing. Ali has been a self- prideful guy and trust him self that he would be the champion, and knows it. His confidential idea has been in his mind every time. This is what makes him cocky. He always wants to be victorious. Ali has matured through his career of boxing, but he still has the personality of being a winner and his confidence is still alive.

 But it is not the only thing that is going on in his life when the writer talks about Ali. There are different things going on the society. Ali have not become to be a person who has changed him self completely. But partially, he has things in a society that he is a part of that let him made him to be a more matured person. This doesn’t mean that he has quit thing that he used to do, but growing, and remains the same.

           

            The importance of this opinion might be the growth process of peoples in a different period of times. Ali was very prideful when he begins boxing and throughout his every boxing, he still is self- confident. When things get newer and fixed, you try to match up with that. Ali has put things aside that has to be change, he might need to do that, but it doesn’t mean he is new, he just has changed, the personality of Ali is still there with him self. You might be get push to remain your self to change, not to make your self another. All things around you in a society make people to go through a many different ways, you don’t just hold on to one or two things forever.

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HIs opinion in writing about Mohummad Ali is that Ali really was a good guy but he turned into a bad guy because people were racist in his time. They were rude to him and his people and therefore he reacted by becoming the Ali we know now. He was innocent but he hated racism. So Dick pointed out. that because the white people were racist he had to be someone else in order to not be hurt by that. His view was important because it shows us how it was back then and how hard it was to be an innocent person like how Mohummad was back then, how he needed to change.

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Dick Shaap’s opinion in “Muhammad Ali: Then and Now”, is that society has the ability to change a person, and in Ali’s case, for the worst. He started out as a brilliant young man, respectful and maybe even a bit naïve. However, as he began to grow and develop, he was influenced by the circumstances in the world, especially from the issue of racism in America. His point-of-view is basically that society can make a person turn out to be someone they’re not. For example, Ali began to involve himself with major people and organizations such as the Black Muslims and Malcolm X. Yet he was the same person inside.

 

His view is important because he shows that though Ali is more upfront about his views on racism, he still acts like how he did when he was a beginner boxer. Nothing has changed inside of him, but because society forced him, he had to change and be a little rougher on the outside. Schaap’s opinion is that the issues of the world and especially the conditions that was in the 60’s greatly influenced a person’s character, especially Muhammad Ali’s.

Schaap speaks of Muhammad Ali's attempts to try and adjust and change in the world he's plunged into unknowingly, which seemed feeble in the end. Which can be understandable, he was just a normal kid who happened to be a good fighter. It seems you have to grow up in that to really know how to act. It seems Schaap was witnessing something like a lifelong housecoat being forced to live outside, unbeknownst to the dangers and reality of it all.
Although through the course of his life Muhammad's beliefs and ideas changed and blossomed, he still was like a kid. His mannerisms, confidence, arrogance, all parts of him which would never change, and never will. As Schaap put it, he is "so different, but still the same."

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Dick Schaap has the opinion that people and history do change over time, but share some similar characteristics like before. He shows this through Muhammad Ali who changed his motivation of becoming a top champ, and moved on to support the civil rights movement through his professional career to end segregation in the US.
This message is important and relevant since America has drastically changed since the time of Muhammad Ali, but some things of legacy still remain over the two score years that have passed. We see it's relevance in the fact that we have an African American president, yet still have some racial discrimination toward minorities like the event of immigration green cards or other loop holes that are constitutional to still discriminate. This would still show that attitude that Muhammad was fighting against way back in the 60s occurring still to this day.