Joseph Smith, Jr.

A great leader has to have one main attribute and that is character because character covers all the aspects of a leader. An individual’s character is based on a set of behavior traits that define the inner-self of a person. One popular leadership model is being a servant, which is very important in my opinion because in our society today many people have a selfish mentality. One of Belhaven quotes that I learn is “to serve and not to be serve”, which is very important to do as a Christian. I…

Unity Can Conquer Racism Since the birth of America, Americans have struggled transforming a government changing as much as the people who reside in it. Racist acts committed like Jim Crow laws and Plessy v. Ferguson are examples of discriminatory acts that demonstrate parts of racism in history. In contemporary times, events like Ferguson and the actions of the police portrays the racism still prevalent today. In 2008, Obama gives “A More Perfect Union” speech during the time when he ran for…

Dr. King used oratorical questions, metaphors and an urgent tone to make his letter engaging and significant. Dr. King writes to the reader so that they could see that the unjust treatment, segregation, and lack of rights was an injustice to the black American and to question why it was happening. There were several criticisms from the white clergy to Dr. King which influenced his response to them; four of them being, outsiders coming into Birmingham, the white moderate, the white church and the…

Race. It is a word that is associated with many thoughts, emotions, and arguments. Building upon how people looked at things back then those arguments could have been both bad and/or good. In Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham, he justified the tragedy of how inactive the white moderates, or clergymen, were compared to the white segregationists who wanted to see more people come together while doing what was right. Hand in hand the white segregationists were more stimulating when it…

The book, The Education of African Americans, was edited by Charles Willie, Antoine Garibaldi, and Wornie Reed. The book was copyrighted in 1991 by the William Monroe Trotter Institute which is located at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. The ISBN number is 0-16569-018-9 and the type of book is non-fictional since it discusses facts, real events, and real people regarding the historical perspectives of African Americans within the educational system. The author, Charles Willie’s,…

men and women of all color and race. This is still a dream and eventually this dream and peace will come. Background Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Born January 15, 1929 In Atlanta Georgia, Dr. King was originally given the name Michael King Jr. He later took the name Martin Luther after his father did from a German protestant religious leader (King, M. L. Jr. 2015). King was a depressed boy who tried committing suicide at the age of 12 after his grandmother died. While growing up King was never…

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, argued to his equality supporting peers that non-violent and instigative protests, while not as dignified as court battles, were fundamentally more potent and provocative. King successfully produced an appealing and effective message by integrating pathos and logos, utilizing faith based ethos, suitable literary devices, and a unique subtle tone that allowed him to maintain even-tempered and reasonable appeal in subject he was…

“We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us” this quote by accurately describes America during the 20th century, one could go as far as saying the 20th century shaped what has become of society in the early years of the 21st century. The turn of the century shed light on a new world forming, a world with new opportunity and new discoveries, however, a sense of newness did not cover up the old, deep rooted problems. Slavery was still looked at, by the majority of people, as a norm.…

necessarily classified at the time as war. The Civil rights movement has been a major issue the past couple decades and still remained an issue in the 1960’s. On August 28, 1963, a civil rights march took place in Washington DC where Dr. Martin Luther King JR, a civil rights activist, gave his famous “I have a Dream” speech. This was a monumental day in American history. Some might say that this was yet another march with yet another speech but this dream that King possessed lives within…

Language is the most vivid key to identity, it defines people and their experiences. African Americans have been deprived of many things throughout history, and many people seem to forget of all the suffering they received in the past. I believe that when you take someone 's language you are taking their identity, therefore I argue that Black English should be considered a language because it reveals the cruel truths of American society. In “ If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What…