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STRONG SPIRITS
A mind is a masterpiece where a lot of ideas are flowing like a crowded traffic on a street. Some of us might have the ambition to put that idea into a scripture that will live long. But the question is, do we know how to address clearly our ideas in a way most people can understand? Maybe our idea might be a mind blowing masterpiece which might touch millions of lives. Here I will be analyzing the two pieces of writing. The first one is entitled “Homemade Education” written by the most famous, prominent and controversial civil right activist Malcom x (1925-1965). He stated all his personal experience of beginning & growth process of his writing and reading skills with their positive attribute in his life. The second of piece
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For the rest, he was narrating the patience, dedication of time, the tactics he has used and the change he has seen in himself for going through that sounds more like as if he is speaking to all readers to feel what he was going through. This lesson learned for us to decide the purpose and the message we would like to convey before we start writing, it can be a research paper, applying for a job, or a certain essay. We all have an ambition to let the reader know our way of perception for the sake of maybe entertainment or probably convincing them to do something or know something about us. Malcom x way of presenting his purpose is quite fascinating. He wrote it in a way that any reader at any background can understand. All the details of his first beginning of learning words from a dictionary, how he wholly dedicated himself to study what he found every day from scratch, the books & tactics he used to reach his level of progression, how his situation or the fact he was in prison affected him. He finally put how his habit of reading brought him to his interest and all his methods of writing. When I observe the purpose of his writing seems that he wants to address to us that a good writing comes through dedication of our time

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