What does it mean to be....

What does it mean to be an individual? (This is what I think, you have you're own identity, but I need to expand more and I can't think of anything...) I'm basically asking, what does it take to be an individual?

What does it mean to have freedom? (I think it means having free of speech, free of conscience and having rights and such, is there more to it? Please tell me in specific what freedom means)

Please respond to my post since I need clarification of what it means to be an individual and to have freedom so I can proceed on writing an essay relating these words!

Thank You.

P.S. What's the difference between human freedom and political freedom?