Name: Emanuel Morency Period: 1 Date: 9/22/2016
ESSAY (MLK & GETTYSBURG)
How did Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King address the theme of freedom? They both addressed the theme of freedom by creating a speech. Dr. King speech is named “I have a dream’’. Abraham Lincoln also made a speech named “The Gettysburg address”. Although the speeches was performed to entirely different audiences in different contexts, they both share similar values and qualities. These speeches changed so many things and the way people think .It also changed laws and opened a window for the black community .Without those two speeches I don’t know where the world would be today far as segregation.
We come to MLK speech which was said in the USA capital in Washington D.C on the 28th of August in 1963. This speech was said to motivate and tell the Negro’s of America the wrong doing that was going with them in that country and how they were like 3rd class citizens. It also was about the system of segregation and the radical of discrimination that was going on. This was strongly highlighted in the phase were he says “the life of Negros is still crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination’’. Even though both of their speeches touched on the same bases I felt Dr. King speech was more powerful. Simply because during that time if you were black you were impacted no matter where you came from or even if you had 1% of black in your DNA you were counted as black. Dr. King’s …show more content…
This speech was said in a battle field after the American civil war and its purpose was to talk about the freedom and equality that everyone should have. This is highlighted when he says “by the people for the people”. He so signed the final emancipation proclamation to end slavery in rebelling
ESSAY (MLK & GETTYSBURG)
How did Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King address the theme of freedom? They both addressed the theme of freedom by creating a speech. Dr. King speech is named “I have a dream’’. Abraham Lincoln also made a speech named “The Gettysburg address”. Although the speeches was performed to entirely different audiences in different contexts, they both share similar values and qualities. These speeches changed so many things and the way people think .It also changed laws and opened a window for the black community .Without those two speeches I don’t know where the world would be today far as segregation.
We come to MLK speech which was said in the USA capital in Washington D.C on the 28th of August in 1963. This speech was said to motivate and tell the Negro’s of America the wrong doing that was going with them in that country and how they were like 3rd class citizens. It also was about the system of segregation and the radical of discrimination that was going on. This was strongly highlighted in the phase were he says “the life of Negros is still crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination’’. Even though both of their speeches touched on the same bases I felt Dr. King speech was more powerful. Simply because during that time if you were black you were impacted no matter where you came from or even if you had 1% of black in your DNA you were counted as black. Dr. King’s …show more content…
This speech was said in a battle field after the American civil war and its purpose was to talk about the freedom and equality that everyone should have. This is highlighted when he says “by the people for the people”. He so signed the final emancipation proclamation to end slavery in rebelling