Mr Hrabowski Speech Analysis

Mr. Hrabowski began his keynote speech by telling the audience about when he was a young boy and his parents insisted that he go to a church service where a guest pastor was speaking. This guest pastor emphasized the need for the children to participate in a peaceful protest going on, proclaiming, “If the children participate in this peaceful march, America will know even our babies know the difference between right and wrong” (M. King). It was soon revealed that this guest pastor was Martin Luther King Jr. himself. From there Mr. Hrabowski described his experience in the march, his realization that he was not in fact a second hand citizen and that he could do anything he put his mind to. This realization put the strength of change behind him and he pursued his education. Personally, I took away from the speech that he felt that education was the key behind change. In parting words, he left the audience, especially the students, with these words: “Learn to ask questions… learn to listen… and learn to act” (F. Hrabowski). A system can be defined as “an organized whole made up of components that interact in a way distinct from their interaction with other entities and which endures over some period of time” (Anderson & Carter, 1990). A specific system that I identified in
I chose this because it identifies one of the many struggles that African Americans had to deal with fifty years ago. Anderson and Carter suggest that after identifying a focal system, you can then begin to distinguish subsystems such as public transportation for African Americans, public relations for African Americans or legal rights for African Americans (Shriver, p. 116). From there one can identify the suprasystem which in this cause I would identify as racism. I chose this specifically because of the direct impact it has on all of the smaller