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of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood…” (Document D) The necessity of nonviolence will create better opportunities in accomplishing our goals and creating peace with one another. Because Martin Luther King Jr. believed in that necessity, he accomplished his goal in equal treatment of African Americans in the public environment. Martin Luther King Jr’s resistance of violence led to the accomplishment of equal rights for African Americans.…

"Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless world", by Scott Russell Sanders , responds to Salman Rushdie's essay on the effect of mass migrations. He responds to this essay using the american way of life as an example. By using many Rhetorical strategies such as Repition and Rythym along with devices like allusion, analogy, and rhetorical questioning he challenges, supports, and at times refutes Salman's essay. Through the use of repition and rythym, achieved by alliteration and assonance Scott…

The philosophy of Black Nationalism as espoused by Malcolm X differs greatly to the viewpoints of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s. Between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s philosophy—nonviolence and civil disobedience—and Malcolm X—any means that is necessary—I would most identify myself with the philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s due to the aspect of nonviolence and civil disobedience that is peaceful in arguing a movement for equality. Additionally, some would choose the means like Malcolm X in…

Ashley Hutchinson FYS 100 October 16th, 2017 Thesis: John Lewis and those who have used nonviolence within the civil rights community have proven that peaceful protest and nonviolence is an effective way to make a difference. Examples: Bloody Sunday, the media’s exposure and the public’s response (Pg. 345) It speaks to someone’s character if they inflicts harm upon another who presents no threat or causes no harm. Especially if there are laws prohibiting the infliction of harm upon those…

In 1779, at the age of 18, William Carey left the Church of England to follow Christ. At first he joined the Congregational church at Hackleton where he was a shoemaker’s apprentice. While in Hackelton, Carey regularly took five mile journeys to Olney, in search for more spiritual truth. Olney was a stronghold of the Particular Baptists, the group that Carey associated himself with after his baptism on October 5, 1783. Two years later he moved to Moulton to become a schoolmaster and after a year…

One work that is difficult is The Comet by W.E.B. Du Bois. This work is difficult because the story features an African-American man being the hero. When W.E.B. Du Bois wrote this, white people were always the main characters and heroes in stories. For example, in The Comet, “She stared at him. Of all the sorts of men she had pictured as coming to her rescue she had not dreamed of one like him” (McMichael 1111-1112). A white woman was in need of rescue, and she did not imagine that an…

If all people are humans just of different colors, then why weren’t all people treated equally? I, Rosa Parks, truly would like to know the reason people were segregated and treated unequally. Everyone as I saw it is a human with many of the same features as one another. This being said, why did there have to be a law for segregation put in place to start with? The U.S. was and still is known as a free country. When I think of it, I picture people going out and doing their own thing without…

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that ‘All men are created equal’”. A teacher once told me, I am supposed to teach black children that the world isn’t out to get you, when you go to a school that held up signs showing racism. I came to Center in middle school. I thought I wasn’t going to be welcomed. Now I’m here, friends with everyone. Center kept true to Lincoln’s word; that all…

The Giants Stood Upon Many people today are well aware of the amazing feats done by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. From the nonviolence in the Montgomery Bus Boycott where he picked up a following, to the historic March on Washington where he delivered his awe-inspiring “I Have a Dream” Speech (History.com 1). There is no doubt whatsoever, Doctor King was an incredibly influential person in the Civil Rights Movement whose legacy would never be forgotten. However, Isaac Newton once said “If I have…

Unit Assessment The socioeconomic and political momentum African Americans achieved during the reconstruction era hit a solid wall of constitutionalized Jim Crow laws, laws legalized by the Plessey v Ferguson Supreme Court Case, which segregated black and white Americans. African Americans remained on the receiving end of racial discrimination and terrorism for almost a century. Although it had made no progress for almost a century, the push for African American rights gained a lot of…