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    their trust also led to the connection with Dr King and the audience. The audience members felt like they knew him even though they did not recognize him personally all these traits combined with the powerfulness in the compassion of his voice you could literally feel the Holy Spirit. All of these things combined allow Dr King the ability to move the audience in a way no one has ever been able to manage it. By the mid-1960s both Malcolm and Martin believed that societal conditions in the black ghettos

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    MARTIN LUTHER KING JR

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    MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. “I Have a Dream” I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago‚ a great American‚ in whose symbolic shadow we all stand today‚ signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon of hope to millions of negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering

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    Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech to thousands of protestors at the March on Washington D.C.‚ in 1963. The objective of King’s is to motivate people to stand against racial discrimination. In order to achieve this purpose‚ the author employs the rhetorical techniques of metaphor‚ symbolism and anaphora‚ which are clearly illustrated in his fourth paragraph of Norton Sampler 8th edition by Thomas Cooley no page 635-636. The most frequently used rhetorical

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    pond. Who would choose a life like this? Henry David Thoreau did‚ and he enjoyed it. Who was Henry David Thoreau‚ what did he do‚ and what did others think of his work? Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord‚ Massachusetts on July 12‚ 1817 ("Thoreau" 96)‚ on his grandmother’s farm. Thoreau‚ who was of French-Huguenot and Scottish-Quaker ancestry‚ was baptized as David Henry Thoreau‚ but at the age of twenty he legally changed his name to Henry David. Thoreau was raised with his older sister Helen

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    Henry David Thoreau "Simplify! was Thoreau ’s motto" in his life (Stanley 20). He showed people how to live simple life by living a simple life in Walden. Due to Thoreau ’s efforts and works on nature people considers a nature an important part in their lives‚ as a result nature became one of the top topics in 21st century. Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12‚ 1817‚ in Concord‚ Massachusetts (Meltzer 11). His parents were John Thoreau and Cynthia Dunbar Thoreau (12). Henry had three siblings

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    right is Martin Luther King Jr. and David Thoreau. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail” is about MLK Jr.’s experience with civil disobedience. MLK Jr. himself‚ committed an act of civil disobedience and stood up for what was right. As did David Thoreau in “From Civil Disobedience”. These men knew the law and the consequences that would follow‚ but they understood what would benefit from their act of disobedience. Anyone can be disobedient to the law‚ just like MLK Jr. and David

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    Alex Luu “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.‚ The Autobiography of Martin Luther KingJr. A Baptist minister….. A civil-rights activist? He was many things. We all know him. Family? Textbooks? The internet? Whatever it was‚ we knew him. It wasn’t because of his job. It wasn’t because of his role. It wasn’t because of his color. It was how he was as a person. Out of many‚ he impacted the United States greatly. He brought us understanding

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    Martin Luther King Jr and Malcom X had very different ideas on how to approach the Civil Rights Movement Act. MLK decided to do it in a calm manner and a peaceful protest about it and wanted the race to come together and stop the hatred and violence and see if everyone could be peaceful with one another. Malcom X has a more different view than MLK did he felt that integration would destroy the black and white man. He felt that American Blacks should be more concerned about helping each other.

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    There was no unity‚ no one to rally the hearts and minds of blacks and whites alike. But then a pastor from Montgomery Alabama leaded the largest civil rights boycott against busses to date. Through his soothing voice and outstanding charisma‚ Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the strongest and most influential civil rights activists. But he was not alone in his drive for equality. There were others fighting for the same cause. One of those zealots was a man named Malcolm Little (later ditched his “slave

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    Walden‚ written by Henry David Thoreau is highly cyclical text in nature. This cyclical structure contributes to prominent themes in the book such as nature‚ simplicity‚ and independence‚ and enhances the motif of the individual versus society. The aim of this paper is to examine the ways in which the text is cyclical‚ and analyze how this structure supports greater themes present in Walden. Ultimately‚ the cyclicality of the text manifests itself in concepts of time and seasons‚ the rhetoric

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