Electronic civil disobedience

“Several members of the Metropolitan Police were injured, one reported seriously,” a letter from the President of the D.C. Board of Commissioners states. “The Commissioners of the District of Columbia, therefore, request that they be given the assistance of federal troops, in maintaining law and order.” Upon receiving this message, President Hoover immediately jumped into action, offering the assistance of the federal troops he commanded. He did his best to stop the destructive advance of the…

Martin Luther King, a black rights activist and preacher, writes a letter responding to a letter of criticism he received from a few clergymen. He writes about racism and reasons for civil disobedience. He supports his claim by using allusion, pathos and finally logos. King’s purpose is to justify his civil disobedience and opening people’s eyes to how unjust segregation is. He adopts a respectful yet fervid tone for his fellow Christian leaders and…

Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” responds to the eight clergymen’s letter condemning his nonviolent demonstrations, labeling him as an extremist. King’s usage of allusions, antithesis, and analogy to build his credibility and appeal to the emotions of his moderate audience justify his extremist actions and persuades the reader to act against injustices. King addresses the clergymen’s accusation of King’s “extreme measures” by creating analogies to justify his actions. He…

Collectivism, noun, the practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it. Emphasis on collective rather than individual action or identity. Some collectivist societies are bent on having all things equal and leave no room for individual thought. Most people in this society would gladly go along with whatever the leaders say because they know best. Some people have written books based on this idea of a equal society. One of these books is a novelette called Anthem by…

Civil disobedience is a heartfelt endeavor that puts someone's own life at risk to be of service to others, in this case Antigone is sacrificing her safety in order to pay respect to her fallen brother: “Go to what you please. I go to bury him. How beautiful to die in such pursuit!” (Roche 194). Antigone’s civil disobedience is just one example of the many committed and just like Antigone, Julia Butterfly Hill also stood up for what she believed in. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary,…

The tensions created by these limits may have a negative impact on a free society, but these effects are not to be confused with the purity of the right to resist peacefully. It is understood that government will impose regulations in times of great civil unrest, but this should never happen to peaceful protest.…

the clergymen thought of the civil rights movement. He wrote this letter to them to make arguments against what they had said about what the African Americans were doing to get political freedoms and be accepted by the white population. Martin Luther King Jr. used figurative language to create pathos in his audience of Alabama Clergymen while arguing the points they made in their public statement. King's use of metaphors, emphasizes the causes and effects of the civil rights movement. These…

Dr.Martin Luther King Jr in his speech "I have a dream uses powerful rhetorical devices. One main device he uses is parallelism in his speech. anaphora, alliteration. and pathos was used in order to empower his speech, for him to be able to get his point across to the people. Within his argument, he was aiming to touch the heard of people's hearts. First off parallelism is shown throughout the speech as he repeats his ideas. By using "Let freedom ring from the snow capped Rockies of Colorado;…

Civil disobedience in simple terms is when you refuse to obey the laws that the government lays out for you. It is possible to make a positive impact on this free nation. There is a huge difference between civil disobedience and violent protesting. Civil disobedience is simply doing things, non-violently, to show that you don’t agree with government policies. Boycotting, or not paying your taxes are forms of peaceful resistance to laws and policies. Henry David Thoreau expressed, “That…

In the ¨Letter from Birmingham Jail¨, Martin Luther King Jr. uses ethical appeals in order to convince the Clergymen of his authority. King uses ethical appeals to influence his audience by making appropriate allusions. This is shown when King says, " I am in Birmingham because injustice is here...and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus to the far corners of the Greco- Roman world." King is comparing himself to the Apostle Paul, saying that he is…