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    “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. This quote was one of the most famous quotes of Martin Luther King that he used in the I Have a Dream speech. The I Have a Dream speech is one of the most remarkable speeches ever. This speech had an exceptional flow that was caused by the amazing style that MLK used. MLK used various types of rhetorical devices, such as…

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    The definition of Civil Disobedience by John Rawls, widely accepted by many, is defined as a public, non-violent, and conscientious breach of law undertaking with the aim of bringing about a change in laws or government policies. Ronald Dworkin has divided civil disobedience into three types: integrity-based, justice-based, and policy-based. Integrity-based civil disobedience disobeys a law he/she feels immoral. Justice-based civil disobedience disobeys laws in order get back some rights denied…

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    always been a problem, and yet to this day, it still remains. Specifically, in the past, women had adapted to live in a suppressed environment, solely because their limited rights have never allowed them to cross a certain boundary. In fact, the United States, foremost in the race of modernization in the world, enabled women to vote in 1920; however, prior to that, individualism, freedom, and equality did not exist in the dictionary for women. Kate Chopin, the author of “The Story of an Hour”…

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    vastly different from her previous poem. This poem also has a much different tone compared to the other. In “Bleeding Heart”, the poet sounds almost desperate. But this is not the case in “Pillow Talk”. In the beginning of the poem, Giménez Smith states her situation as a female slave. She writes about how she’s under someone’s thumb but they somehow “got here the same way you did”. She also mentions how the other person promised her and that they did not fulfill those promises. But in the end…

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    In John Adams’ Reflection on the Missouri Question, Adam observed the growing division between the northern and southern states regarding the issue of slavery. Some of the observations were that the northern states were supportive of the abolition of slavery, while the southern states were against the idea of abolishing slavery. This is likely because the southern states living are highly depended on farming, and farming requires a lot of labor. As for the northerners, they focus more on the…

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    Banning A Streetcar Named Desire from the High School curriculum Society has a responsibility to protect the minds of the innocent within the world’s corrupt culture. However, some would argue that banning books takes away the freedom of the youth and divulges more about the censorship than if it were not banned at all. As it stands, the matter of sheltering students versus indulging them in inappropriate subject matter has always been of the utmost importance. The line of censorship is…

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    Rhetorical analysis Is unpaid internship worth it for students? The author Anya Kamenetz, wrote “Take This Internship and Shove It”, published in 2006 in the New York times. In this article, Kamenetz claims that unpaid internship is not beneficial for college students. This essay will show how well Kamenetz wrote her article by using rhetorical strategies which are the ethos that builds on credibility, logos that can convince readers with the fact and statistics and pathos that draw the…

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    The Civil Rights Movement began shortly after the end of World War II. The United States took their largest stride with the Supreme Court’s decision in the Brown vs. the Board of Education case. This decision deemed separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. This decision sparked a revolution that would change America forever. Once the movement began there was stopping it, and Martin Luther King Jr. realized this. He preached a change that the African Americans…

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    James Howe, the author of The Misfits, is in support of the allowance of books: “Banning books is just another form of bullying. It’s all about fear and an assumption of power.” James elaborates that banning books is a different articulation of bullying. The definition of bullying and censorship do not differentiate abundantly. Bullying is using superior strengths to use force upon someone for their struggle of power. The definition of censorship is using superior strengths to condemn the…

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    upcoming events. After the May 10 book burning, many Jewish professionals saw what would be happening in the near future and took this as an opportunity to leave Germany. Mainly writers, artists, and doctors fled and tried to immigrate to the United States. Certain immigration…

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