Letter from Birmingham City Jail Response Paper Prepared by L. Michelle Price-Johnson January 25‚ 2013 Ethics: Personal and Professional MHR-4510 My first thoughts in reading the Letter from Birmingham City Jail‚ was how striking the similarities were between this letter and the letters that the apostle Paul wrote while imprisoned. In “Paulian” style‚ Dr. Martin Luther King opens with addressing the clergymen with honor‚ clarifying their concerns of his being an “outsider” and
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our society and effectively relates to the ideas presented in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Women’s rights are rights that women and girls are entitled to such as‚ the right to vote‚ the right to live free from violence‚ and so on. However‚ it is evident that women are not able to enjoy these rights to their full extent as many of these rights are manipulated and taken away from them. They are not treated equally and are often taken advantage of due to the widespread
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School Declaration of Independence When in the course of student events‚ the school has taken away some of our natural rights as scholars. The school has taken our right of dressing how we please. The security guards treat do not treat us with kindness. They are feared by my fellow students who are too afraid to speak up against such cruelty. The teachers who don’t reach for our full potential have added to our rebellion. Our voices and suggestions are not heard by the principal or his
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The Declaration of Independence was very much a way for the colonists to air some of their particular grievances with British rule. The different complaints that are represented in the Declaration of Independence are also very valid in terms of what they were dealing with‚ and these are the key reasons that this document was written in the first place. When looking at the arguments in the Declaration of Independence‚ these arguments have one key theme: the tyrannical rule of the British king. This
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The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in American history. This document‚ written by Thomas Jefferson and the colonists‚ was their explanation for why they were unhappy with the way things were going in England at the time and how they planned on fixing it. It was written to be persuasive and to get the reader‚ King George III and his government‚ to understand why they felt the way they did. His argument was very effective because of the way he set up this document
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The reason for the Declaration‚ or how it came to be‚ was a myriad of issues and slights against the colonists by the British government. Delegates from every colony met to decide how to liberate themselves from Mother England. They had already been at war over the “taxation without representation” issue and it continued to escalate. The colonists were convinced that Parliament didn’t care about them‚ proven by the fact that they were not allowed to represent themselves. As a result the Second Continental
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From Behind Bars. On Good Friday in 1963‚ Rev. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. led 53 blacks on a march in downtown Birmingham to protest the cities segregation laws. The Birmingham police arrested all of the demonstrators‚ including King. This caused the clergymen of Birmingham to compose a letter pleading with the black population to end their demonstrations. This letter appeared in The Birmingham Newspaper where the imprisoned Martin Luther King read it (Amistad Digital Resource). In response‚ King
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controlling the teen’s life and to let them be who they want to be and let them decide on their life on their daily lives. This lead to us teens to write our declaration to let us teens decide choices in our lives‚ then having our parents and grandparents choose for us. This declaration shall be read to the world and help us gain independence from being over controlled by our parents‚ grandparents‚ and adults. I hold these truths to be self-evident‚ that all teens are created equal and are given unalienable
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the same educational rights‚ same extra curricular activity rights. As students we are exhausted of restrictive rules. We have a variety of rules forced upon us since pre-school. We come together to rebel these rules and create our own declaration of independence. We hold these truths to make every student have the same rights. To maintain the rights we want our guardians and teachers to do what we wish for. As time goes by teachers will want to start controlling us again‚ but we shall not let
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Repetition in "The Declaration of Independence" Thomas Jefferson used various techniques in writing "The Declaration of Independence." He was very careful about what he wrote‚ which turned out well for him‚ because the outcome was tremendous. With his use of repetition‚ Jefferson caught the eyes and ears of many Americans and emphasized his opinion about the government. Jefferson started by explaining the rights that all men have: "Life‚ Liberty‚ and the Pursuit of Happiness." These rights are
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