Cameron Delman English Composition II Professor Moreland 3‚ March 2015 The Productivity of Peace In two shining examples of rhetorical power “A letter to a Birmingham Jail” and “Malcom X’s debate at the Oxford Union” The two great leaders of the civil rights movement outline their platforms and justify their philosophies in regards to how the movement should go about achieving societal change. Although the civil rights movement was brought to national attention by the combined work of MLK and
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have been created that make society’s life better‚ and four devices stand out as the most useful: the jet airplane‚ the television‚ the laptop computer‚ and the cell phone. [This sentence is the most specific and it is the thesis statement.] BODY PARAGRAPH 1 The first most useful invention is the airplane‚ invented in 1903 by the Wright brothers. [‘invented in 1903 by the Wright brothers is an appositive. Appositives are reduced adjective clauses‚ and they give more information and context about
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that are being explained in the passage is how Herbert Hoover became president‚ his responsibilities‚ and how the community thought of him as a president. He helped during the Mississippi flood and helped with 120‚000 Americans in Europe. First Body Paragraph Herbert Hoover was born in West Branch‚Iowa and lived near the Mississippi River. But when he was six years old his father died‚but then when three years went by his mother also died as well. Then he had to move to Oregon with his aunt and uncle
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Introductory Paragraph Lead: Follow Up: Issue at Hand: Claim/thesis: in the puritan life they always follow the bible to help them with their culture Body Paragraph ( CEA RST) Method CLAIM - position The Puritan values affected us in a positive way because the bible is a map plan out for your life because if you do something wrong you can go to the bible and correct your mistakes by asking for forgiveness. EVIDENCE- Data: For example‚ when something goes wrong in someone’s life‚ people tend
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I. Introduction The Agricultural Revolution was or maybe still is one of the biggest impacts on religion‚ by the government and the laws‚ and even new technology advancements. II. First Body Paragraph: The Agricultural Revolution has advanced technology on the way we grow food and transport goods and made inventions that were created or greatly improved. The steamboat and the railroad enabled transportation to the West. Steamboats traveled all the larger rivers and the lakes. The railroad was growing
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Week 7 – Body Paragraphs - Assignment Each year‚ children are spending less time outdoors playing and more time indoors watching television. With all the time spent indoors‚ physical activity and exercise is greatly lacking in children today‚ which is contributing to the rise of childhood obesity. Instead of riding bikes with friends or playing sports in the street‚ children are sitting slumped on the couch‚ staring at the television‚ with no motivation to stimulate activity. This is in part to
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In response‚ Dr. King wrote a powerful letter to the “genuine” clergymen announcing his strong opinions and beliefs toward segregation‚ discrimination‚ and racism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. executed such an overwhelming piece of writing expressing the poor treatment of African Americans‚ the explanations of his actions‚ and his opinions regarding a true and better government. He expressed his desire and faith for the greater good and change in this letter with the use of emotional appeals such as
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"Permanence‚ Perseverance‚ and Persistence in spite of all obstacles‚ discouragements and impossibilities: it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak." A quotation from Thomas Carlyle of which is supportive in making the statement that Maya Angelou‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ and Malcolm X are all persistent. Maya Angelou’s "Graduation‚" chronicles an early stage in her life where she sought educational fulfillment‚ while facing the challenges that came along with white
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Persuasion in “Letter From Birmingham Jail” After being arrested and imprisoned in Birmingham Jail‚ Martin Luther King Jr. wrote one of his most famous works to the people of Birmingham‚ titled “Letter From Birmingham Jail on April 16‚ 1963. This piece speaks of the evils of the segregation laws and how the blacks had been treated unfairly in Birmingham‚ in an attempt to get the white people to support the desegregation of Birmingham. He had been imprisoned because of his
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Its yaps echoed from the jail wails. The prisoner‚ in the grasp of the two warders‚ looked on incuriously‚ as though this was another formality of the hanging. It was several minutes before someone managed to catch the dog. Then we put my handkerchief through its collar
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