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Essay: "Information"by Michael J. McKinney Information is a great source to enlightenment. Information is a great source to knowledge and power because the more you know, the more you can do. Information is very flexible because there are all sorts of information that help you gain so much knowledge on so many different levels. Through studying all kinds of forms of information, I have gained so much insight that I did not know about years ago, and this little prison cell I have lived in for years has given me more time than I needed to rack up on all kinds of information that was not provided to me when I was in public school. Now I can see there was so much information kept away from me when I was growing up. And now I can see that prison is not all bad because now I have more time to think and study information, and through studying this information, I have learned that over a hundred and some years ago (or even more) African Americans were still slaves. By law, they were forbidden from learning how to read and write. Now I can see the reason for that because information is power. Information holds the keys to freedom from mental and physical bondage, and that’s why it was outlawed for these slaves to learn how to read and write: because they did not want them to free themselves through information, they wanted to keep them from learning true knowledge of themselves, they wanted to keep them brainwashed, and they wanted to keep that information away from them.
When I was young and going to public school, a lot of information that I needed to know was kept away from me. And from studying and gaining the information that I needed to know, I have come to learn. If you deny people the knowledge of their history and culture, you deny them the ability to develop their full potential. Information is power. And from studying, I have also come to learn that living provides us with an opportunity to gather information and use it to improve the quality of our lives. Studying has filled me up with so much information, and it is the responsibility of every adult to know their history and culture to preserve it and pass it onto the next generation. And youths have the responsibility of using that knowledge to assume their rightful place in history and passing this information onto the next generation. Because information is power. Information provides us with food for thought necessary to free our minds. And I have to agree with Dick Gregory; he said it best when he stated information is power. Education is power. Money is not power. It is only through the acquisition of information that a group of people develops the ability to control its destiny. |