There were threats against me and my family and even out-and-out attempts at physical harm to me.”This quote explains how it was hard for him to be the first Afican American to play in the MLB.these events challenged Robinson by forcing him to face racial slurs, snubs, and physical threats from fans, teammates, and opponents who did not want a black man to play in the major leagues.This quote explans that he had to go through a lot beacause he was the firstto play in the MLB.these events caused him to grow and develop by making hime proud of his accoplishments and helping him to appreciate the courage and love that the team owner and his wife showed him.In paragraph 13,sentence 4 and 5,”Rachel shared those diffcult years that led to this moment and helped all the days there after.She has been strong, loving, gentle, and brave, never afraid to either criticize or comfort meThsi quote explains how he grew during all of his accoplishments.Robinson responded to these life-changing event by continuing to play baseball because he felt he owed it to the fans, both black and white, who supported and encouraged him.In paragraph 12 it states,¨But also there were people—neither black nor young—people of all races and faiths and in all parts of the country, people who couldn’t care less about my race.This quote explains no matter what he was still going to paly baseall because he felt that he owed it to his fans.Robinson’s reactions to the events impacted his society and country by paving the way for more black athletes to play professional sports. In paragraph 10,it states,¨Suppressed and repressed for so many years, they needed a victorious black man as a symbol. It would help…
Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter from Birmingham Jail was written on April 16, 1963 while he was incarcerated in the Birmingham City Jail. This letter addresses the criticism that a group of white men had thrown at him and his pro-black American organization about their non-violent actions against racial discrimination and injustice among black Americans in Birmingham. He notes that he doesn’t usually respond to letters of criticism but he thought that they were “good willed people and their criticism was sincerely set forth.” King writes this letter to defend his organization's actions. King's letter talks about…
Towards the end of the letter, King states, “Never before have I written a letter this long (or should I say book?) (6). The letter is so long because he has so much to say about this issue. Finally, King utilizes allusion to make them remember the past. He says, “For more than two centuries our fore parents labored in this country without wages” (2). He is referring to slavery and how African Americans were treated so poorly in the past. He then goes on to say, “Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth we were here” (2). King is saying that it is unfair that they were here first and are still treated badly. King’s tone persuades the audience to rethink the way they treat African…
In his public letter, "Lynching in the South: A Protest Against the Burning and Lynching of Negros," Booker T. Washington asserts that African Americans were unjustly lynched or another form of murder because they were not put to trial yet. He states that the ruling is unjust because "The laws as a rule made by the white people and their execution is in the hands of the white people." He also says, "If the law is disregarded when a Negro is concerned, it will soon be disregarded when a white man is concerned," which shows that there will be equality in the end. The author's purpose was to state just how unjustly they have been treated in order to show the ones causing the injustice the wrongdoings they have committed; those of which that cannot…
These are one of the most powerful words this letter has to offer, he emphasizes what a negroe has to suffer day by day. King mentions this to make the clergymen see what it feels like to be segregated, to make them see how unjust it…
What I think Jackie Robinson is trying to say in his quote is that if you are someone that sits around and lets everything happen in life without doing anything about it. Then basically you are watching big things happen, when you can be doing big things yourself. In my opinion I feel that somedays I am somebody who watches what happens, and on other days I am the person who makes things happen. Like for example if I'm having a bad day I will usually let it unfold. But on other days I might find ways to not let my day get worse by hanging out with a friend or playing hockey. Another example is on my hockey team I am always trying to make big plays, even when we are having a bad game. But if I'm the one having a bad game I'm the one who…
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail” from jail in Birmingham, Alabama in response to a public statement issued by eight white clergyman calling his actions “ unwise and untimely”. African Americans have been waiting to have there civil rights of freedom, but the social courts has requested them not protest on the street but to take it to court. Dr. King wrote, “This wait has almost always meant never.” This is why Dr. king addresses this matter in a letter about the battle of segregation. He hopes that this letter will stop this injustice matter, and show what the African American desire. Furthermore, Dr. King had four steps to achieve his goals by collecting facts, negotiation, self-purification, and direct…
Genre is the framework that the academic writing will be based on, and it is similar to a format where things can be expected to be appear at a certain point in writing. Genre is often determined by the rhetorical situation and can be change to increase the readability and complexity of an academic writing. Audience is part of a big rhetorical situation because rhetorical situation consists of many other factors like constraints, issue. Audience can changes the languages of the paper to adapt to the selected group of people. With restricted audience can sometimes affect the effectiveness of the paper. Rhetorical situation will the most important term to explain because it is the deciding factor for both genre and audience. Rhetorical situation is a situation where it demands a response according to Lloyd Bitzer.…
King stated in his letter that, “‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never’”(par. 11), so they must begin to take action in a lickety-split manner. This means that African Americans must demand their freedom now instead of waiting for it to be given voluntarily because ultimately, if they continue to wait, they will have to wait forever. This is evident because King stated, “It is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, ‘"Wait’"(par.11). This means that the whites have never been “Humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading ‘white’ and ‘colored’... Living constantly at tiptoe stance, knowing what to expect next, plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; Fighting a degenerating sense of ‘nobodyness’”(par. 11), meaning that the whites had never…
In “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, Martin Luther King Jr, responded to a letter by clergymen that were claiming Dr. King’s movement was untimely, extreme, and violent. In King’s response, he addresses their commentaries by quoting known religious figures to appeal to the clergymen's religious ties. He mentions that many talk about how this nonviolent movement is “untimely’, and that that has been the case for centuries. Dr. King alluded that for many years African Americans have been told to wait for their rights. White moderates being the greatest “stumbling block” for African Americans stride to freedom; not because they reject the idea of equality, but on the account that they believe they “can set the timetable for…
Martin Luther King Jr.s letter relates to the civil rights timeline are… he has unlikely changed that “To kill a Mockingbird” became popular and people’s most favorite. Then the year of 1964 after the academy award of the book “To kill a Mockingbird congress passes the civil right act,declaring discrimination based on race illegal”.…
King appeals to the black audiences but also to the white in his letter to show them all the effects of segregation. He understood that not everyone has experienced segregation so he described the emotions for everyone to understand. He used emotional stories and painted a picture for the audiences. “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 police curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can 't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental shy, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking: Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?; when you take a cross county drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated…
While reading this letter it almost left me breathless, I immediately felt empathy for everyone who had to endure such injustice. Dr. King writes the clergymen and places them into his reality multiple times. One emotional appeal stood out to me more than the rest, “when you finally find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children,” to only image the picture he has painted breaks my heart. The fact that the world was so unjust then to the point where it affected not only adults in the African American race, but children also, really hurt me. Dr. King states “when do you have to concoct an answer for a five year old son who is asking: ‘Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?’ ”. The emotional appeal in this letter was very strong and nearly had me in tears reading it that I almost felt guilty by the mere virtue of being part of what Dr. King describes as the “oppressor race”. The way Dr. King wrote this paper it really puts you into his role and has you support his unjust situation.…
1. The overall point that Martin Luther King is making in the letter is that in order for civil rights to be achieved, the act of non-violent protests must be allowed. King believed that if non-violent methods were prohibited then tension would keep building up, and would result people being much more violent in order to let their opinions be heard. King also believed that there was no better time than that moment to fight for their rights, rather than putting it off until a ‘more convenient season’ (line 12). He thought that they should use all the time they had to fight for their freedom and put across what they believe in instead of just waiting for time to pass, hoping that change will occur naturally.…
Dr King, if you could see us now – with a Black President in the White House and fifty plus years beyond your incarceration – what would you say? Would you praise God and retire to your church as an esteemed elder? Would you give Him thanks for the progress of your country, or would you judge us as you did in 1963? Would you believe we still weep for you 48 years after they killed you (you predicted your violent end, but death is still death even for a Christian)? Would you believe that universities still set your Letter in assignments (like this one) and that presidential candidates can be racist and not put in jail? You know your Letter is pretty good: every line so clear, every argument apposite (good reading for students). We think its brilliance comes from desperation and you having plenty of fee time in jail. Or, perhaps there was a good editor at The Atlantic Monthly.…