Critiqar Ali's Journey From Slavery To Freedom

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Slavery to Freedom Moses courageously chose to help his people rather than live alongside his brother as an Egyptian prince. Before Moses discovered his true origins, the Israelites were treated as slaves, many times beat, whipped and killed. Moses convinced the Pharaoh to let his people go giving the Hebrews the chance to escape and showed his people the wonders of God. What Moses did was very brave and showed his love for the people. After all these years in slavery, the Hebrews must have been overjoyed to have escaped to freedom and to begin a new life but scared to leave everything they once knew. I believe it would be very difficult for the Hebrews, especially with all the hardships they will face on their journey. It would also be very intimidating, going to unknown places lead by a mysterious man. …show more content…

Born in Afghanistan, people of his ethnicity was increasingly becoming a target of extremists. His family was forced to move to Pakistan, but many disapproved Alis religion forcing them to move yet again. Mr Ali's journey to Australia took several days crossing several borders with the help of many agents. The boat journey from Indonesia to Australian waters took two days and two nights. From there onward they spent 15 days on Christmas Island to six months in an Adelaide detention centre, Mr Ali’s family went through many treatments from varies vaccination and other formalities. Mr Ali explains the difficulty of not knowing any English in Australia in the quote shown below: “With no English, it was very, very hard — when I saw people in the plaza and they were talking English, I just run away, [because] if anyone asked me anything, it was very hard to give an answer.” But along with Mr Ali’s journey, there were many who helped such as AMES (Australian Multicultural Education services), social workers and

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