When I was watching the video, I was trying to think more like a writer and about the analysis part. I realized he talked in a very stern tone which he did that to get the point across. He starts out the speech with a little bit of background with slaves and the decloration of independance which helps makes his argument stronger becuase people know a little bit of where everything originated. He pursuades the audiance by saying how much better life would be if everyone was equal throughout the whole
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Everyone must have the right to be treaty equal. During generations, there have been people trying to accomplish equal rights. Doctor Martin Luther king fought for the right of black people. The song “Bikini kill” help to found the third wave feminist movement know, as the Riot Grrl, which was eventually a feminist discourse community. Both Martin Luther King and The Riot Grrrls use rhetoric as the power to persuade their audience to stand up against the abuse that people face in their daily bases
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history greater than Henry David Thoreau and the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior, whom gave their respective peoples the hope that they had long since been searching for. Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man" (Thoreau), and sparked a revolution against the government of his time and fueled other revolts around the world, giving all men hope of a brighter future. Martin Luther King Junior wrote a letter while he was imprisoned in a jail
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Martin Luther King has characterized civil disobedience in a very fluid method; “ One has moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” When acting upon civil disobedience, there has to be a reasonable and non arrogant approach to the problem in which peacefulness is the main trait being expressed. In Sophocles’s play Antigone Creon produces the law stating no one is allowed to bury the body of the fallen soldier, Polyneices because of his traitory towards the state. Directly defying that law, Antigone
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he goes through. In summary, Creon shows many characteristics of a tragic hero, including hubris and a devastating misfortune. (Question Three) Throughout history, civil disobedience has been looked at in many different ways. For example, Martin Luther King Jr. sees civil disobedience as standing up to the oppressor, believing that laws are made by the people for the people. What he wants to do is gain attention as an oppressed, colored man to give justice to all. How MLK does that is through his
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Thesis Statement: In Malcolm X The Autobiography and Martin Luther King “Letter from Birmingham Jail” influenced the African American through hatred, nonviolence and religion. Firstly, in Malcolm X Autobiography one can see the expression of hatred and violence that influenced the African American. Malcom X talked about White Americans in a negative light. Malcolm X referred to White American as being evil and the devil. Malcolm X says; “[…] which opened my eyes gradually, then wider and wider
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A conscientious objector is defined as a person standing up for what they believe to be right. A person in the real world, like Rosa Parks, or a character from a play, such as Antigone, can be conscientious objectors. Antigone and Rosa Parks both fit the description of a conscientious objector. The reason why they fit into the description is because both women had the courage to do what they thought was right. In the play Antigone by Sophocles, the character Antigone can be described as a conscientious
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laws that organizations or individuals saw as unfit. This technique has been used many times before and still today as it is seen as symbolic to many people. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impact a free society proven by the success of Martin Luther King Jr's principle of non violent protest like the Montgomery bus boycott and currently San Francisco's 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's peaceful protest against the unjustness of police
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or races. Ethnicity: the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition. Racism is hurtful and in today's society, it almost affect the same way as it did a few years back, maybe around the time Martin Luther King Jr. was alive and preaching peace and love. In Hurtson's "How It Feels To Be Colored Me", she expresses the idea that "At certain time, I have no race, I am me"(211). Hurston feels that society judges and criticize based on your race and ethnicity
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In Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, he describes Howard University as Mecca a place of guidance for his life.During his time in college he came across with many kinds of African people who made him believe that power was restore to them by seeing students diversity.He was admitted in the institution where his grandfather worked and family members who assisted graduated from Howard.Throughout his time in the institution he learned more of the history of African American lives.For most
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