From Potter's Field

speeches and actions, his writing has proved just as powerful as the former. Though each has his own voice in his writing, these writers share a few common characteristics in how they persuade a reader. In Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience and King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, these two write about a particular injustice they observe, and convince…

Anyone reading this letter has something to look back on as inspiration. Martin Luther King truly projected through his words, as well as greatly performed his reasoning both clearly and constructively. His use of factual sources from our history and documentation makes it almost impossible to refuse his side of the argument. His choice of vocabulary skills, theoretical, and abstract languaging provides a credible background of education. As well as making his readers believe his…

and has become acutely aware of the evil in his own heart” (Easterly) This reveals that the Puritan society also has a darkness. As he turns away from Puritanism, Brown embraces evil thoughts and gives way to evil action. He heads into the forest taking a path with trees that create a door-like closing that separates him literally and figuratively from his village. Though he fears what lies in the forest, he wants to see how strong his faith is. Faith that is strong in public, but weakens in…

In his Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy depicts the theme of true love. Whether one believes that love is blind, love has no boundaries, or that love is patient and kind, one fact remains consistent: love is like falling asleep—it happens slowly, then all at once. In Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd, Bathsheba Everdene experiences what true love means through the quest of courting three suitors during the course of the novel. She depicts what it is like to want to live on her…

not only right, it was necessary as he was concerned that there was injustice in Birmingham, and that should the injustice in Birmingham remain unresolved it would spread to and impact the rest of the world. To understand the letter, one must know from whence it came. In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested for…

The primary sources selected relate to the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960 's. From these documents, the social injustices perpetrated on the Black community are made known through their fearless leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and acknowledge by Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Through these documents social and political injustices are discussed with the hope that justice will prevail. The first primary source evaluated was the “I Have a Dream speech” delivered on August 28,…

The story "The Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story revolved around the belief of religion in the perspective of a man named Goodman Brown. The story leads us on into learning how Goodman Brown’s belief is put into question along with the loss of innocence after seeing corruption within his surroundings. Goodman Brown leaves one day to spend the night out in the woods, not giving his wife, Faith, a reason. She begs and insists of him not leaving that night. However, she…

known as (Beghairat –one with no honor and courage) callous. Keeping women at home in return results in them to be weak, and do not have access to outside resources and/or opportunities for enhancement of themselves or their lives. Preventing them from working outside will increase their reliance on their husbands and fathers thus keeping them financially vulnerable and dependent on the male counterparts. Circumstances are such that they are kept physically, economically, psychologically, and…

understandable enough. I don’t think many people know very much about priests – I’m not talking now about anything so complicated as the psychology of the religious, or the motives for vocation; I mean just the ordinary simple matter of how priests live from day to day, how they fill in their idle hours – and those do know aren’t necessarily in Hollywood” (154). This is very true in a certain sense; there is a lot of ignorance about priestly life. Some people think that priests are “angels” who…

was an outsider and his protests were untimely and unwise. King successfully rebuttals these claims through establishing his credibility and generating a candid tone which he then uses to proclaim that it is “... the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.” and push people to create a society where segregation no longer exists. Martin Luther King effectively counters the white clergymen with his claim of not being that he is not…