English Impact On The Modern-Day Compared To Fridrick Douglass's Era

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Ryan Rocks

Gladys Green

SLS1101

1/29/23

English Impact on the Modern-Day Compared to Fridrick Douglass’s Era

The impact of reading and writing has caused over the many years has had many effects on many people. The ability to read is not always a good thing as it leaves you to find out things you never wished to know existed. Most jobs require a basic level of education while simple jobs typically require the worker to a lot of stress upon their body. Reading and writing let us as humans share a vast range of facts and opinions that can help us build new and greater things or help us achieve our personal goals. Fredrick Douglass learned how cruel the world was once he was able to read about slaves and his position on life …show more content…

One notable example of this would be when I got my Florida driver's license. Driver's licenses in Florida and many other states require a physical driving test but before that stage, you need to pass a written test. This written test proves the driver knows the laws of the road and has the intelligence to read and understand the text. The ability to drive me around to work, friends' houses, or events gave me a sense of freedom as I was no longer restricted to only my house, and I could explore what my community had to offer. Fredrick Douglass found a form of freedom too, but it was more physical as he was trapped and forced to work for a master. Fredrick Douglass learned that enslavers hated enslaved people knowing to read and write as they feared what the enslaved people could do this that information. Douglass heard Mr. Auld ban Mrs. Auld from teaching Douglass how to read because, as he states, “Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now,” said he, “if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave” (Douglass Fredrick 38). Fredrick Douglass realized freedom was possible through learning, which inspired him to escape and learn more. Douglass used literacy to read arguments and compelling points to free his mind of oppression and slavery which lead him to make more professional and better resonating points …show more content…

We use our ability to read and write for everything like purchasing food, prices, warnings, reading books, reading labels and so much more. Fredrick Douglass is an amazing example of how much reading and writing can affect someone's life. Reading and writing are needed for jobs like mine, need to be carefully read, and print out labels and matchboxes a lot. Fredrick Douglass needs to read and write to make his speeches which empowered and convinced many people to see how dark and harsh slavery was and that it needed to be stopped. Reading helped us learn about what is going on in our lives and what is going on around us. Reading can help us find out about new skills and techniques. I learned about how to build and upgrade computers by learning and reading about all the parts and sizes and what goes together. Fredricks learned more about the estimate of how many people were enslaved and its reach across the lands. Fredrick learned about different and innovative writing techniques and good places to preach his speeches