...Martin Luther King Jr.’s death was unjustified. Imagine your life being taken away out of nowhere from one day to another, from being alive to the next being dead. Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American who fought for many americans so that we all got treated equally. King’s death was unjustified because nobody should be killed by another human being. It was also unjustified because he was a great man who didn’t do harm to nobody but instead was helping many. The last reason why Martin Luther King Jr.’s death was unjustified was because being killed for hatred is not okay. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death was unjustified. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death was unjustified because nobody should be killed by another human being. Martin Luther king Jr. didn’t deserve to die the day of April 4, 1968 when he was shot outside a motel on his balcony at Memphis, Tennessee. He was a great man who was the voice for many americans in the United States. He inspired many people to fight for what they wanted. He wanted a better life and a better future for us the americans. Being killed by another human just because they hated the fact that a person was speaking up for many people was something so immature to do. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed because a person didn’t like the fact that...
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...everyone certain unalienable rights. Nearly 187 years after this document was written, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from inside the Birmingham jail addressing the inequality that African American people were facing in the South. Most white people in the South during this time were interpreting the Declaration in different ways that supported the segregation of African Americans and white supremacy where they took the phrase “separate but equal” out of context. Martin Luther King Jr. provides detailed events of unjust treatment based on race within his letter where he aims to re-interpret...
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...Written by Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 16, 1963 “Letter From Birmingham Jail” was written to eight clergymen responding to their previous letter. Born in 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. grew up to become one of the most influential civil rights leaders in the 1950’s and 1960’s. He was a preacher who along side with teaching God’s word, was also a leader in civil rights. He founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and later led numerous protests against segregation. In 1963, King had led a march in Birmingham, Alabama and got improper treatment and was thrown in jail. While residing in jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. received a letter written by eight clergymen criticizing King’s actions. King responded to the letter with honesty, knowledge, and also a sense of power he had. Martin Luther King, Jr. used ethos, logos, and pathos to show where claims of the clergymen were faulty and to give a sense of understanding to what it is like on the black side of segregation. Ethos is ethical appeal or appeals based on the writer’s authority and credibility. Martin Luther King, Jr. uses ethos to portray that just because he is a colored man, does not mean he is not important. He uses it to show the clergymen that he did belong in Birmingham. He is credible in the sense that he has honor “serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference” where he leads groups of people for Movement of Human Rights. King cares about the people, he states “injustice anywhere...
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...Civil disobedience is the act of refusal against laws, taxes, or demands by a government usually staying peaceful in nature. Martin Luther King Jr. and Antigone implement civil disobedience to defy unjust law; however, both approaches used to go against the wrong laws are different. Martin Luther King Jr. became the leader for the civil rights movement to put an end to segregation through civil disobedience by stressing the importance of peacefully protesting; while Antigone purposely went against the law, knowing the consequences, to follow God’s law instead of man-made law in a holy effort to bury her late brother Polyneices. Martin Luther King Jr. goes against unjust laws through civil disobedience by initiating peaceful protests. He believed that using nonviolent tactics are better at showing the immorality the unjust laws’ and calls for black people to fight the long battle against segregation. In Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail”, he reveals the unjust treatment going on in Birmingham and why it is important for him to be there helping, “Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already...
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...Malcolm X is evoked as one of the greatest and influential African American figures, at the same time degraded for the violence he provoked as well as his black supremacy teachings. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the other hand, is recognized as the greatest influential character in the black Civil Rights Movement, with teachings of non-violent resistance and equal rights for blacks and whites. After spending several years in prison, Malcolm converted to the Muslim religion and utilized newspaper columns, radio, and television to convey the Nation of Islam's (NOI) message. King strived to gain credentials from his audiences by everything from his tone to quoting biblical figures. Malcolm X was not able to influence the black community as well as Martin Luther King, Jr. Due to their differences in childhood and religion, their philosophies differed, causing supporters to accord more with the statements of Martin Luther King, Jr. Born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska, to Earl Little, a Baptist minister; and to Louise Norton Little, a housewife busy with the family's eight children. Earl Little was a supported of Marcus Garvey, the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). This prompted the Little family with death threats and by age four, Malcolm's Lansing, Michigan home was burned to the ground. Two years later, Earl Little was murdered by a white mob. Louise trying to keep the family in order, suffered an emotional breakdown and was...
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...Civil Rights in the Sixties The 1960s brought about social change in America. America elected the second youngest and the first Catholic president (John F. Kennedy) and the Anti-War Movement began. The Anti-War Movement was based on people mostly the youth of America protesting a war (Vietnam War) that they believed America could not win. At the same time people were protesting the war they were objecting to the social injustice surrounding minorities; thus began the Civil Rights Movement. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was instrumental in starting The Civil Rights Movement the yearlong battle for equal treatment on buses gave minorities the strength to fight for more equal treatment and gave rise to Martin Luther King Jr. who was elected by the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) to lead the boycott. During The Montgomery Bus Boycott whites tried to use the media to put out false stories by claiming the boycott have come to an end and that minorities settled for the same moderate desegregation plan that they received before the boycott. Public opion in Montgomery Alabama at first was against the boycott, but once the business community realized they were losing money because minorities were no longer shopping downtown their opion began to wane. Throughout the civil rights movement the media was a constant force some believe that without the media exposing the at times moving and often unsightly events of the movement that it would not advanced as much as it did. Some Southern...
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...Leader Martin Luther King Jr, has been referenced by many political leaders to remind people of what the United States can be with peace between citizens. Another widely known project by Martin Luther King Jr. is the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Martin Luther King Jr. created this letter to respond to a public statement of concern by eight clergymen of the South. Dr King’s intentions were to defend the strategy of the nonviolent resistance to racism. Although some of his arguments fail, overall Dr. King provides valid arguments to these criticisms that use logic and credibility. In his letter, Dr. King. begins by stating that he does not usually address criticisms but he will answer to them because of their seemingly genuine intentions. Dr. King immediately makes it his duty to attack the notion that he and his associates should be considered “outsiders.” The clergyman state, “However, we are now confronted by a series of demonstrations by some of our Negro citizens, directed and led in part by outsiders” (Public Statement by eight Alabama clergyman 1). Dr. King establishes credibility to this opposition that he is indeed not an “outsider” by mentioning that he serves as the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and he also includes that, “We have some eighty-five affiliated organizations all across the South” (Letter from Birmingham 1). He states that his purpose in Birmingham is because of his...
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...It is often believed that the best way to give a good claim through writing is through three different individual elements. These elements are ethos, which is the credibility as to why the reader should be interested, pathos, being the emotions of the writer and logos, the logic behind the claim. These three elements combined together can make the writer persuade the reader and make an explicit argument. In the stories “Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Robert F. Kennedy, “Letters from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, and “A Homemade Education” by Malcolm X, all three authors used these elements to get their message across and keeping the reader interested in what they are saying. However, too much of one element can throw the reader off, and a good example of a well balanced use ethos, logos and pathos would be Malcolm’s X “A Homemade Education”. Through the use of these three elements Malcolm made his point and managed to keep the reader's attention. Malcolm’s goal through his story “A Homemade Education” is to show the reader how having an...
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...In Martin Luther King Jr’s The Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Dr. King outlines four basic steps to any nonviolent campaign: “collection of facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action”. The direct action he calls for falls in line with Dr. King’s assertion of “We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right”. This is a call to action as much as a philosophical musing. An American diplomat working in the field of International Relations would undoubtedly benefit by adopting Martin Luther King’s steps and perspective. First, comes a collection of facts, which may seem like an obvious step, but should not be undervalued. Billions of dollars are assigned to help carry out U.S. foreign policy, so even a small percentage that is lost to fraud can account for substantially large losses. By following up on the contracts negotiated, allocations of resources and measuring the outcomes for specific projects, a...
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...Racism is when a person discriminates or prejudices against another race because their race or beliefs.Martin Luther King JR wanted to end and stop racism with love and not fighting. Racism also took place in the Holocaust by Germans being Anti Semitic. The Germans took and killed Jews just because what they believed in. One famous quote that Martin Luther KIng JR said was.“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter .”The quote means that Martin Luther King JR wants to end racism and he shouldn't be silent about it.And this is how Martin Luther King JR and the Jews were...
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...August 28, 2014 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was a prominent political leader in the Indian Independence struggle. Gandhi is my definition of a great leader. The Gandhian ideology or doctrine of non-violence inspired many great leaders including Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama. In India, Gandhi photo is on all paper currency. October 2 is celebrated as a holiday in India, is the day he was born. To be a great leader there are 10 qualities, I feel you should need to be successful. Ambition, patience, humility, humor, vision, compliance, tolerance, courage, accountability and gratitude are the main 10 qualities a great leader should have. Gandhi was boldly driven forward, passionately rising to new heights, clearing a path for those who follow. Gandhi was able to vision the future and articulates, in crystal clear language, a strategic plan to get everyone on board. Gandhi knew how to play by the rules in order to build respect and sustainability. Gandhi knew that people are individuals who thrive best when allowed to choose their own approach to risk and happiness. He blazed an aisle in the aphotic and afford their own light, admitting alive that alarm lurks about corners. He took abounding accountability if there were problems of area mistakes were fabricated or whose achievement was substandard. Gandhi approved acknowledgment audibly and generally to those who accord of themselves to abutment the group's success....
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...Why Can't We All Just Get Along? I recall an incident back in my Middle school days, when I was on the playground during an afternoon recess. My friends and I were intensely involved in an emotional game of basketball. I had been playing miserably, so after my fourth brick, I spiked the ball, super bowl touchdown style against the solid pavement. It began a long process of ricocheting off the walls of the covered area and amidst its air born flight it somehow managed to collide with the jawbone of a rather thuggish looking 8th grader. At this time, an ominous dark cloud of rage began spouting from the disgruntled upperclassmen's nostrils. A large crowd began chanting, "Fight! Fight! Fight!" That was slowly forming around us like vultures circling to pick at the bones of the unfortunate loser. Realizing that the odds of me emerging alive from this mess weren’t very good, I began to think of a strategy that would enable all my major organs to remain intact. I decided to use humor to defeat this barbaric beast. I must have ridiculed and made fun of myself over 200 times. I told him that even if he passed out, in a full body cast, and suffered from leprosy, he still could wipe the floor with my feeble body. I told him if he didn't disfigure me, that I would offer to be his own personal reusable toothpick for as long as he wished. Violence and nonviolence are two very effective ways to solve problems, but for people like me whose brains are stronger than their fists...
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...there were major changes when the U.S. supreme court ruled segregation in public schools. During her childhood, television was becoming more popular and sock hops were the thing to go to for entertainment and dances. A period of time that Arlene has experienced is in 1963, when the civil rights march on Washington DC for jobs and freedom is attended by 250,00 people where Martin Luther King delivers his famous Martin Luther King speech from the steps of the Lincoln memorial. On February 21st, 1965, Malcolm X who was a black nationalist and the organization of afro American unity was assassinated. In 1966, the Black Panthers were founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. In 1967, Thurgood Marshall was appointed by President Johnson to the Supreme Court; he became the first black Supreme Court justice. In 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1992, she remembers everything that had happen from the Rodney king beatings and the reason why the Los Angeles riots began. To her beliefs if the 4 police officers were not acquitted from the trial dealing with Rodney king those 6 days of rioting wouldn’t have happen. In 2008, Senator Barack Obama becomes the first African American to be elected...
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...Time Capsule Latanya Gonzalez Kaplan University SS310-14 Time Capsule The year is 2325 and being the prominent archeologist I have become, I have been summoned to a dig site where a time capsule from the 1960’s has been discovered. After carefully unearthing this delicate finding, my colleagues and I discover five significant things from the 1960’s. First brought out is an antiwar sign, obviously hand made. Second from the capsule is a portrait of our 35th President, President John F. Kennedy. Third is the Woman’s Movement of the 1960’s. Fourth is a portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. The final, fifth item to be brought from the time capsule, is the Civil Rights Movement. Each item is a significant and defining factor of the 1960’s era; a part of history that remains embedded in the American people’s minds and hearts. The antiwar handheld sign was the first to come out of the time capsule. This sign is still legible. The sign is a wood stick with a thin flat 4X4 piece of wood stapled to it. The flat wood sign has “Stop the War” spray-painted in red on one side. On the other side of the flat wood board is a peace sign spray-painted in yellow. The wood stick had a thin scarf tied to it still. This piece of history has significant meaning to the antiwar era of the 1960’s. This sign most likely was held and waved through the air at many of the antiwar protest often held by the so-called hippies of the 60’s. Many individuals who were against the war in Vietnam...
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...The criteria point about why a martyr joined their movement is necessary to have an accurate evaluation. It’s already understood why a person may hurt or even kill a martyr, it’s to stop them from spreading their message and to stop their revolution. However, understanding why someone was willing to put themselves in harm’s way is more important. This is talked about in the academic journal, “Christian martyrdom as a pervasive phenomenon”, where it’s mentioned that “the motives of the victims are considered more important than those of the killers in identifying a martyrdom situation” (Johnson & Zurlo, 2014). I want to assure that I’m not talking about religion martyr, but I believe that it’s very important to understand where these martyrs’ hearts are. They could have joined their civil movements because they understand the struggle that...
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