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No, Einhard’s Life of Charlemange is not a hagiography. A hagiography is writing about saints, Charlemange was not a saint. Einhard’s story was about the life and death of Charlemange as an emperor. The story talks about all the wars that had taken place under the rule of Charlemange. Charlemange had began a war on the Lombards and did not end the war until he made their king surrender and also running the king’s son out of the kingdom and Italy. Charlemange then put his son Pepin in charge of…

Being happy is the definition of the good life for me. Personally, if you are happy then you are doing what you want to be doing. There are many factors that can lead to being happy. Some of my factors are being free, healthy, and successful. I honestly believe that being free can be interpreted in many ways. But for me, being free is a key to having a good life. If you are trapped in jail or even in someones property, is that a good life? It is not. Having freedom is one factor that everyone…

Dr. King once said, “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” Dr. King emphasizes the need for people of all races to stand together, and the need to strengthen brotherhood. One must see the greater need of the world and empathize with others’ needs before his own. Take every opportunity to live and practice what Dr. King stood for. I would like to express my thoughts, feelings on…

As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “ If you can’t be the pine on the top of the hill, be a shrub in a valley. But be the best little shrub on the hill.” This means that you should always be the best person you can be your height, size, shape, or race isn’t what really matters. There are many parts to someone so they shouldn’t focus on the exterior but just be the best of whatever they have to offer. Martin Luther King Jr. had four principles that might help you be the best you. The first…

Patrick Henry and Dr. Martin Luther King both used persuasive rhetoric that was well written and worked with their respective audience. In this day and age, Patrick Henry's would be the most successful in persuading the society because of his use of rhetorical questions, figurative language, and appeal to logic. First of all, Henry's usage of Rhetorical Questions. In the speech, Henry used many rhetorical questions and it made his speech very straightfoward. An example of his use of rhetorical…

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail in response to eight white clergymen who did not approve of his nonviolent protests against racial inequality. He was arrested and wrote to them from jail about why he did what he did and why he wanted them to care. Dr King’s I Have a Dream speech moves chronologically through the history of black people in the United States. He points out that 100 years after the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation, black people were still mired in…

Martin Luther King is a great person who helped end segregation. He also is a very smart person who is strong and is good at using his knowledge. He’s especially mentality strong because no matter how bad the African American race is getting treated. King still gets through it all. He’s also and strong leader who fought for his race and to help end segregation by participating in speeches and developing equality for all individuals that have been mistreated in the Civil Rights movement. He was a…

Martin Luther King was a civil rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s and led a non-violent protests to fight for the rights of all people including African Americans. He is considered one of the great public speakers of modern times, and his speeches still inspire many to this day. He was born on the 15th of January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia and was assassination on 4 April 1968. He went to Booker T. Washington High School and skipped two years due to the fact that he was so smart. He then…

The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, Jane Elliot knew that simply telling and preaching to her third-graders against discrimination was not enough. According to Elliot, ”the shooting of Martin Luther King . . . could not just be talked about and explained away. There was no way to explain this to little third graders in Riceville, Iowa” ("A Class Divided" 1985), so she conducted a two-day experiment. On the first day of the experiment, the students were told that blue-eyed people are…

“And Finally, in your life’s blueprint must be a commitment to the eternal principles of beauty, love, and justice” (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) These incredible words are from Dr. King’s “What Is Your Life’s Blueprint” speech. This speech was given at Barrett Jr. high school in inner city Philadelphia in October of 1967. This was only six months prior to his assassination. Dr King was an amazing orator and played a large role in the Civil Rights movement. He had many ideas that were far ahead…