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    Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a man of many achievements. He was the youngest person to win a Nobel Peace Prize. He was a Baptist and a social activist ( Mcguire and Wheeler). Martin Luther King Jr. changed the atmosphere of the whole U.S. when he fought for civil rights. His main goal was to eliminate discrimination in a peaceful and nonviolent way so he arranged many protests and gave many speeches. These protests left a huge impact on the world. Martin Luther King Jr.…

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    Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. King continues to be recognized as a spokesperson and additionally as the leader of the civil rights movement in 1954. Moreover, Dr. King proved to be actively against violence, and consequently throughout the civil rights movement he acted through tactics of nonviolence. Through utilizing nonviolent tactics amid protests against the south’s segregation, there proved to be an increase in media coverage. Thus, King…

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    Martin Luther King Jr.’s experiences whenever he was young definitely had a big impact on how he acted and on his beliefs. Whenever he was fifteen he realized how different white people were in the north compared to the south. That was whenever he realized that not every white person treats black people badly, so he knew something needed to be changed. It was 1944 when MLK Jr. was in Connecticut harvesting tobacco. He wrote to his parents that the white people were very nice there. He said that…

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    I have dream Martin Luther king was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. He was the first son and second born, he was born to a very Christian family. His father was a minster. At a young age martin show the need for the social change King first came across discrimination, aged six, when he and a white friend were sent to different schools. Aged 14, King was forced to give up his bus seat for a white passenger on a ride home from Georgia. He had just won a contest, with a speech about…

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    Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta Georgia .1 He was brought up in a middle-class family that held the tradition of Baptist ministry; as a youth, Martin Luther King Jr.’s father was a pastor for the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he taught the Christian faith and the sense of commitment to the black community.2 Hearing his father preach as a young boy about the faith of Jesus gave Martin Luther King Jr. exposure to publicly speaking. He learned early on how to encourage staying…

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    approaches. Martin Luther King Jr marched and gave speeches to promote confidence and power to his followers. Malcolm X spoke about the nation of islam as his saviour and how blacks should stand together to fight for freedom. Muhammad Ali listened to Malcolm and Elijah Muhammad 's speeches which helped him become an islamic boxer. He fought every powerful boxer he could to show power is earned not given. He fought the military on the draft and stood up for what he believed in. Martin Luther…

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    Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence argues his stance against the government and their decisions on war. King views the Vietnam war as only a symptom of a disease that is affecting America and the American spirit. King holds the U.S. government and the American people responsible for the Vietnam war as well as other wars and revolutions. He holds the government responsible due to the fact that they are the “purveyor[s] of violence” (2). On the other…

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    Archival Research Center at Boston University. On the 15 January 1929 Martin Luther King Jr was born in Atlanta Georgia. He entered Morehouse College at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1948. In 1954 he accepted a job at the Dexter Avenue Baptist church in Montgomery Alabama, during his sermons he would often encourage his congregation to get involved in community and social matters, speaking about the importance in voting. In 1955 Martin Luther King Jr returned to Atlanta Georgia taking his…

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    develops pretentious diction can misleading people from the language and language is a reflection of our culture and society. On the other hand, in "Letter from Birmingham Jail", Martin Luther King, Jr. shows his belief about the segregation and tried to get the support from the community. In both texts, George Orwell and Martin Luther King, Jr. both show that political leaders use the language to encourage the individuals in society by making an encouragement to bring them together and convince…

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    Martin was an inspiration for blacks. He helped them push for civil rights and freedom, and he was successful. With speeches and freedom walks, inspiring them to fight for rights. Growing up in Atlanta, King attended Booker T. Washington High School. He skipped ninth and twelfth grade, and entered Morehouse College at age fifteen without formally graduated from high school. In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse with a bachelor of sociology. And enrolled corer theological seminary in Chester,…

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