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An example of a speech I read was during a Youth Leadership Knoxville event last year. I spoke about the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr and was terrified in front of the crowd. As I paused for a great deal of time, I imagined members of the audience looking at me with creepy slanted eyes and aggravated expressions on their face. I said to myself, “You can’t do this” and “Is my speech…

Rosa Lee is an African American woman. She learned many lessons about what is to be African American in society. For instance, Rosa Lee at an early age learned about the rules of attraction and prejudices of being a certain shade of color. A light skinned Africa American was seen as more attractive than someone who is dark skin. For example, at thirteen a friend of Rosa Lee at that time informed her that boys had more of an interest in girls who were lighter skinned. These lessons about race had…

According to Brinkley, Rosa as a young girl with the help of her mother and grandmother found so much comfort and peace while reading the bible where her mother repeatedly pointed to her that every being is equal in the sight of God and that God’s children were supposed to free. The teachings of the bible became a way of life and helped her in dealing with her day-to-day problems. From the bible, young Rosa learned that people should stand up rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the…

Martin Luther King, Jr. uses his powerful voice throughout his works to draw on the hearts of his audience by tapping into their moral compasses. King has an impressive understanding on the influence that the argumentative appeal, ethos, has on his readers. By using ethos, King is able to appeal to the character of every single one of his readers. This allows his works to seem more personal, therefore resulting in a bigger influence on his audience. In “The American Dream” and “Letter From…

weary: a change never comes about without a fight, a fight that most times involves violence, either a direct or an indirect violence. One such man, a pastor, a leader of the southern Christian leadership conference, and an author Martin Luther King Jr , wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” written on April 12, 1963 in the Birmingham jail. He claim against the injustice towards the black community in the United States, especially in the southern part and sets up an elite case for equality for…

As a citizen in a country you must obey the laws of the land and not be a troublemaker in society. For Martin Luther King Jr, Crito and Socrates, they have different views on how to do things as a citizen; King wants to disobey laws in order to end racism in the south, Crito wants to get Socrates out of jail, and Socrates wants to serve his death sentence because that’s what he believes is the right thing to do. In Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 Martin Luther King was locked up in a jail cell for…

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” Primary Source Analysis Martin Luther King, Jr. seldom had time to answer his critics. But on April 16, 1963, he was confined to the Birmingham jail, imprisoned for participating in civil rights demonstrations. “Alone for days in the dull monotony of a narrow jail cell,” King pondered a letter titled A Call for Unity that fellow clergymen had published pressing him to drop his crusade of nonviolent resistance and to leave the battle for racial equality to the…

The Anti-War Movement “Like most Americans, I had only seen war only through the cooling lens of a TV camera. I knew the statistics: so many dead, so many bombs dropped. But seeing in person, driving past dozens of devastated buildings, was far more emotional, even in the dark.” (Zimmerman 260). President Lyndon B. Johnson refused to lose Vietnam, and he feared losing Vietnam would send them in the direction as China. In 1960, Viet-Cong rebels from south revolted causing the election to be Ho…

Two Societies After watching, Eyes on the Prize episode, Two Societies, I was wondering what the topic was about, which I had an idea, but I was not sure. When I watched this episode I was in complete shock. Before writing this paper, I had to really reflect. Everything I have learned about history is so absurd. I personally cannot wait to continue on learning and spreading this information on to others about the real history of the United States of America. Often times with readings people…

movement, coined the term “Garveyism,” and gave many blacks a nationalistic sense of dignity in the ‘60s. Furthermore, Gandhi played an important role in the Civil Rights movement by instituting successful passive modes of protest, as he affected King Jr. and Rosa Parks. This also resulted in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on…