Electronic civil disobedience

1. In the first few paragraphs of Martin Luther King Jr.’s, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” he specifically addresses the local clergymen, lays out his purpose for the letter, and creates an authoritative and well-organized tone. He makes his goal of wanting to prove he does belong in Birmingham to create racial equality clear by stating, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere” (800). Throughout this entire article King addresses the local clergymen and the white moderates;…

Protests are a method of communicating dissatisfaction towards governmental policies and actions. There are many different types of protest; however, the two predominant protests are, non-violent and violent. Non-Violent protests usually consist of strikes, posters, rallies, and abstaining from various procedures. Violent protests consist of riots, murders, vandalism, and damage to buildings. One example of a non-violent protest is the Rowlatt Satyagraha. The Rowlatt Satyagraha of 1919 protest…

March 7, 1965, has been named in history as Bloody Sunday for the tragic and important event in the Civil Rights Movement. On this Sunday in Selma, Alabama, around 525 African Americans gathered at Browns Chapel in order to march for their right to vote. They planned to march from Browns Chapel in Selma to Montgomery which is an at least a fifty mile march. The marchers were trying to go to Montgomery in order to see Governor Wallace. They wanted to tell him that they wanted the right to…

Allusion is very adequate because it concedes the audience to build reciprocity in their consciousness. The reason he does this is to state openly the injustices history had through time and how it is repeating again, like when he mentioned Birmingham and its fraudulent laws. He displays satire of Birmingham and braces the debate of honorable and dishonorable law: “We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary…

Martin Luther King Jr., a clergyman and an activist for the expansion of African American rights, was known for putting together non-violent protests to combat against racial inequality. King was mostly active throughout the 1950s into the 1960s until his assassination in 1968. He was known for his “I Have a Dream” speech, and was also the author of the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, in which he refutes against the white clergymen who say that his non-violent protests were “unwise and untimely…

Equality means to be treated as an equal regardless of gender, class, or race. Yet, students at a university in Princeton find themselves faced with the worst form of inequality which is discrimination. The situation occurred when the campus brought up the subject of the institute's former president Woodrow Wilson. A majority of the school praises Wilson for his achievements even naming the university after him. However, Woodrow was a racist and African-American students began to protest.…

to the Civil Rights Movement. The technique and procedure of his common noncompliance appeared to be copied by King more than 100 years after the fact. His hypotheses and thinking on the theme of out of line laws appeared to catalyze the contentions utilized by King amid the Civil Rights Movement. The contention for Brown v. Leading body of Education, as pursued by Warren, appeared to create in light of the speculations of Thoreau. By and large, the most noteworthy activities of the Civil Rights…

the white moderate along with the white church and its leadership at fault for the injustices that the African-Americans have had to deal with in the past. Throughout his letter, King references and connects with Socrates through the use of civil disobedience to end injustice. Both Socrates and King were imprisoned for questioning the law. They both accepted the penalty even though both felt there was an unjust act being committed. Their reason for accepting the unjust penalty was that it was…

In the short stories, “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. and “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau, both of their circumstances were the same, which was to make unjust laws just. I do believe that both writers were justified in their actions because they both were doing something for the people. I believe that Martin Luther King Jr. had more justification than Thoreau did because if Thoreau had more justification what he was protesting for would have stopped all of…

King's use of ethos and allusion in "Letter From Birmingham Jail" proves effective as a method of advocating for the credibility of his cause and civil disobedience. King writes, "Isn't this like condemning Socrates because he's unswerving commitment to the truth and his philosophical delvings precipitated the misguided popular mind to make him drink the hemlock," (paragraph 18, line 3). In writing this, King uses allusion to plead his case for the peaceful protests and their effectiveness.…