Alex McMahon AP English Language Mrs. Silveira Due Date: 10/15/2014 “...we are now confronted by a series of demonstrations by some of our Negro citizens‚ directed and led in part by outsiders…” In this quote‚ from the third paragraph of the letter written by eight Alabama clergymen‚ the term outsiders is used. Early on‚ this creates a label for Martin Luther King‚ outsider. Throughout his Letter From Birmingham Jail‚ King is able appeal to ethos in order to refute his title of “outsider” and generate
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”’ With this quote‚ King is telling the clergymen that he did not care if they labeled him as an extremist. He felt that‚ just Jesus was an extremist for love; he was an extremist for ending racism and gaining his rights. Secondly‚ King mentioned‚ “I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference‚ an organization operating in every southern state‚ with headquarters in Atlanta‚ Georgia.” By mentioning this‚ he has established his credibility to a greater extent
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The Negro Speaks Of Rivers Proud to have endured some of the most powerful challenges mankind has ever witnessed‚ he Negro spirit has grown through time with its people. In Langston Hughes’s poem‚ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers‚” the speaker uses devices such as anaphora and allusion to convey pride in the Negro spirit. The anaphora present in the poem is seen in phrases such as‚ “I bathed‚” (4) “I built‚” (5) “I looked‚” (6) and “I heard” (7). Each of these phrases has a declarative feeling‚ in
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father is “jobless” and his mother is a “sleep-in domestic.” The girl must take on the “role of [a] mother” because her “mother died.” What reader can help but feeling sorry for a young child who has no hope? They still live in fear and desolation and have no hope‚ for their race is sinking. Once‚ their people worked with “George Washington” and “shed blood in the revolution.” But‚ they fell from higher hopes and were put on “slave ships... in chains.” The reader can’t help but feel sorry for a race
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funds.” But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. 3. So we have come to cash this check‚ a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. B. I think the document was written to specifically address not just black Americans but to people of all faiths‚ colors and persuasions. Martin Luther King Jr. knew that they were all in need
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In his letter from a Birmingham Jail‚ Martin Luther King Jr. employs many rhetorical techniques in order to persuade his audience to understand his ideologies. MLK uses diction and pathos‚ as well as allusions to solidify his arguments throughout the letter. Martin Luther King Jr. makes careful choices in his diction which strengthen his arguments. He makes an effort to not offend or criticize his readers. He begins the letter with‚ "My Dear Fellow Clergymen." (p261‚ ¶1) This not only establishes
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Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury‚ we are gathered here today to talk about the case of Martin Luther King Jr vs. Birmingham Jail. On the year of 1963 Martin Luther King Jr was protesting with many others outside the streets of Birmingham‚ Alabama. These men and women were protesting against the treatment of blacks in this specific city. Then police officers came and arrested several people including King. They were not arrested for the sake of it‚ but because a court in the city ordered that King
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Proposal The poet that I am willing to grasp the knowledge of is Jimmy Santiago. Santiago‚ a former inmate of a maximum security prison altered his life through the power of poetry and writing. The reason why I chose to delve into his philosophies is because he was a former prisoner. His life is inspirational due to the fact that I work at a local jail and witness the obscenities of the system and inmates. To dramatically change one’s life in prison‚ like Santiago‚ I would like to present his
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shown: ”But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse‚ kick‚ and even kill your black brothers and sister;…” This is only a part of the lengthy sentence that shows very powerful emotion in vivid detail of all what black people face every day they walk out there home. King develops the use of pathos by starting out in the paragraph stating that black people have waited for over 340
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Allusion is the literary device of referencing famous people‚ places‚ things‚ or other works-such as a novel‚ poem‚ play‚ song‚ or piece of art—with the expectation that the reader will understand the reference. While readers may have to educate themselves in order to understand the full meaning of allusions made in texts written in previous eras‚ it is assumed that contemporaries of the author would be able to discern such references. The use of allusion is particularly important in historical
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