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
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Spent in Jail Study Questions 1. Thoreau has a unique perspective on even something like the alphabet. What is that perspective? How does it relate to Emerson’s ideas about conformity? Thoreau believes that you shouldn’t be forced to say the alphabet one particular way. Say it backwards‚ or start in the middle. Emerson had said‚ “Cast conformity behind you.” Conformity is doing things just like everyone else. Obviously‚ Thoreau doesn’t do things like everyone else. 2. What does Thoreau
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tinfoil‚ was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard. We were waiting outside the condemned cells‚ a row of sheds fronted with double bars‚ like small animal cages. Each cell measured about ten feet by ten and was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot of drinking water. In some of them brown silent men were squatting at the inner bars‚ with their blankets draped round them. These were the condemned men‚ due to be hanged within the next week or two. One prisoner had been brought
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Filinvest wins contract to redevelop site of old Cebu City jail By Doris C. Dumlao Philippine Daily Inquirer 4:47 pm | Tuesday‚ February 28th‚ 2012 1 72 5 MANILA‚ Philippines—Filinvest Land Inc. has bagged a deal to redevelop a 1.2-hectare property owned by the government that was the site of the old Cebu City jail on Salinas Drive in Lahug to turn it into a business process outsourcing complex. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange on Tuesday‚ the property developer announced
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First Martin Luther King effectively makes use of logos throughout his letter. He clarifies all of the reasons for his arguments and supports them well. His arguments are also logical in their appeal. For example‚ in the beginning of his letter he gives a response to the clergymen’s claim that the demonstrations were unwise and untimely. He states that the Negro community had no alternative except to prepare for direct action. He supports this claim by saying that the Negro leaders sought to negotiate
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A jail is a place of confinement for anyone who commits a crime‚ and they can be held there for up to one year depending upon the nature of their crime. The Wabash and Miami County Jails both hold their inmates to keep them out of their communities. However‚ the Wabash County Jail and Miami County Jail have many differences that set them apart from each other‚ such as the building designs‚ the rights of visitation‚ and the differences in capacities between the two facilities. Starting off‚ one of
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There for they should have received some type of sentence in jail to be held accountable for their irresponsible actions. The commissioner even stated “we should of have probably asked for paramedics sooner.” That did not happen and that resulted in Gray’s death. Another case involved a man named Eric Garner killed July 17‚2014. He was killed by an officer using excessive force by a choke hold. Mr. Garner was not armed and did not show any signs of violence‚ other than the fact he was upset from
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To jail break an iPhone 3g you will need iTunes and access to the internet. The first thing you will need to do is back up everything on your iPhone 3g using iTunes. There are many different ways to jail break. Once you’ll backed up your iPhone 3g you have to restore it. To restore it hold the shift key and click the “Restore” button. iTunes will launch a file dialog for you to select the firmware file. You will need to download the newest firmware (ios 4.0.1). Once your iPhone 3g is updated to firmware
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In Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”‚ Mr. King uses many rhetorical situations and persuasive appeals. King writes this letter‚ in my opinion‚ to the audience of the American people. I feel the persuasive techniques‚ the structuring of the sentence and the content expressed was intended to force the American white middle class’ eyes open to the blatant disregard of the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 - outlawing segregation in public schools. A short minded
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lives around the world and it needs to stop. A negative impact on lives can be seen as a class not reaching their potential because of a person’s point of view or beliefs. In the play‚ The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail‚ Henry David Thoreau was a spectacular teacher who believed in Transcendentalist views. Henry was to teach his students directly from the textbooks‚ but because of his views‚ he disregarded
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