Water and Air Pollution in Birmingham‚Al SCI 270 Environmental Science Jeffrey Snider November 2‚ 2005 Water and Air Pollution According to the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy website (2005)‚ Birmingham ranks #15 in the United States for haze pollution. Obviously this indicates that there is a very serious problem here. Birmingham is somewhat located in a valley coming off of Red Mountain located nearby. The location here leads to temperature inversions and therefore worsens the smog
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B”‚ the piece closely relates to Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” considering that both works relay the authors underlying values of equality. King uses his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” to promote the efficacy of integration and address the tensions present between races in the United States. After the courts failed to appease King by restricting his ability to hold protests in Birmingham‚ Alabama‚ he was sent to jail for conducting non-violent protests. While imprisoned
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Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail‚” he shows that nonviolence is the way to get the positive attention that his plight deserved. He believed that to use violence was negative on a couple of points. First‚ violence always gets negative attention. Second‚ violence was the way the Klu Klux Klan went about their business. He wanted to expose unjust laws and do it in a fashion that conveyed his beliefs without causing other problems. In Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail‚” he is trying to
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On Good Friday in 1963‚ 53 blacks‚ led by Reverend Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ marched into downtown Birmingham‚ Alabama‚ to protest the existing segregation laws. All were arrested. This caused the clergymen of this Southern town to compose a letter appealing to the black population to stop their demonstrations. In response to their letter‚ King wrote back in what would be titled "Letter From A Birmingham Jail". Especially prevalent in the letter are Aristotle’s appeals‚ which include logos‚ ethos and
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Martin Luther King’s inspiration for writing his‚ “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was mainly to appeal to an undeniable injustice that occurred during his time. His letter was in response tos eight white clergymen‚ who objected to King protesting in Birmingham. Dr. King effectively crafted his counterargument after analyzing the clergymen’s unjust proposals and then he was able to present his rebuttal. Dr. King effectively formed his counterargument by first directly addressing his audience‚ the clergymen
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Langston Hughes has penned a protest poem in The Ballad of the Landlord . The protest is in the form of a tenant’s fight against a landlord who is only interested in earning the rent on the leased out property and is not interested to participate in its maintenance cost. The poem talks of social protest literature that can be traced back to the African American literature tradition which prevailed during the Harlem Renaissance ( 1920-1929) of which Langston Hughes was a practitioner. The poem reflects
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Dr. King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail was written in response to the violent racist terrorist attacks toward the African Americans in Birmingham‚ Alabama‚ as well as to respond to the criticism he received about his work in a respectful‚ yet powerful way. He was arrested and sent to jail while participating in a non-violent anti-segregation march because he had no permit. Treatment of African Americans were unfair and un-American and Dr. King had enough of the way African American’s were treated
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Constructive Reasoning Clergymen‚ In a statement recently issued by yourselves concerning Mr. King’s behavior in Birmingham Alabama describing him as an outsider and extremist of his ways was inconsiderate as well as rude. Mr. King’s extremist ways‚ as you have put them‚ are an effort to better improve the physical and emotional consequences of segregation. I am writing in hopes that you might reconsider the current stance you have taken up regarding the issues at hand. The letter you have received
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Stephanie Ford Professor Nelson English 100 October 15‚ 2012 “Letter From Birmingham Jail” Summary Response In "Letter from Birmingham Jail" Martin Luther King strives to justify the need for nonviolent direct action in order to end all forms of segregation and helping the civil rights movement. He wrote there are unjust laws and just laws. He believes segregation laws were unjust because it damages the personality and makes African American lives below the standards given to them by the
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Statement by Eight Alabama Clergymen” it has stated that the law was handling this situation in a “calm manner”. Saying that they will remain calm and continue to protect the city from violence. In the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Martin Luther King says that the statement on how the Birmingham police “warmly states that they are keeping order and preventing violence”. He said that they have “dogs sinking their teeth into unarmed‚ nonviolent Negros”. The treatment of Negros by the police was “ugly and
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