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    Ballad of Birmingham

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    Dudley Randall’s poem “Ballad of Birmingham” refers to the bombing of a church in Birmingham‚ Alabama in nineteen sixty-three. His poem illustrates what it was like during the sixties; all the turmoil and destruction there was. Randall takes a real life‚ devastating situation that occurred on the day of this terrible explosion‚ and turns it into a beautifully written poem that expresses just how awful it was during the Civil Rights Movement. He describes a circumstance in which a little girl asks

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    & Logos in “The Letter from Birmingham Jail” Some varieties of inspiration come as passionate love while others appeal as injustice as did Martin Luther King in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Martin Luther King Jr. effectively crafted his counter argument by first directly addressing his audience‚ the clergymen‚ and then using logos‚ pathos‚ and ethos to refute his opponent’s statements and present his own perspective. After stating the general purpose of his letter‚ Martin Luther King

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    Letters of an Ex-Slave Freedom is a very loose term which is interpreted differently by people of diverse heritage and culture. In the 1800’s and earlier it was believed by some that it was their "freedom" to be able to buy and sell fellow mankind on an open market‚ to be used as property for the betterment of the slaveholder’s own fortune. In this essay I will look at a letter from Frederick Douglass‚ an ex-slave‚ to Thomas Auld‚ his former master. The correspondence was in the form of an open

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    firdaus throughout the novella ’woman at point zero’? Woman at point zero is a novella written by feminism activist Nawal El Saadawi. It focuses on the life of an Egyptian woman‚ Firdaus. She is throughout the book oppresses by life‚ society and most of all‚ men. As she grows as a character we see how Firdaus’ views on life and her own view of herself develops‚ turning her into the hollow shell of a woman she is at the end of the narrative. In this text‚ the main staged of the protagonists life will

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    painting that speaks"‚ this relates to the poem A Letter from Phillis Wheatley by Robert Hayden through his abstract approach of using the character Wheatley as the speaker. The role of Wheatley is vital to the poems point of view‚ by using Wheatley he demonstrates the view of an enslaved African American who is also is the first African American poet to be published (O’Neale). In Hayden’s technique‚ he uses the character Wheatley as a spokesman‚ this point of view places emphasis on the literature cultural

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    Reading Response: “Letter From Birmingham Jail” In the “Letter From Birmingham Jail” Dr. King’s thesis is to answer other peoples criticism in what he hopes will be patient and reasonable terms. The reason he provides to support his thesis is that the people that criticism him see to be “men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth”. This is his reasoning to answer their criticism for what happened. Dr. King explains that he is in Birmingham because there is injustice

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    To My Dearest Elsie‚ I know this is my 5th letter in 3 days but I need to tell the truth. I joined the army for adventure and the chance to see new places but instead I am living in a mud hole‚ freezing under constant fear of death. You may laugh and say that I am but whingeing and that I am probably the only scared man here but it’s not true. All 5‚000 of us are terrified of what may come if we so much as lift our heads into the view of the enemy. Every day I have spent in this trench‚

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    keeps the morale of his men up with a great speech before the battle. The battle was surely lost before it had started‚ but through the sheer force of will that his speech gave his men they came out victorious in the end. Henry expresses three main points of virtue in his speech that inspire his men. Henry holds a great value for the lives of all his men. He does not discriminate against men based things like class or upbringing‚ and believes that all of his men should have certain privileges. And

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    Lyndsay E. Dyer 10/11/2012 HIS 131-01 Writing Assignment #1 Document Set: 4-4 Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania Summary: The letters described in the document set were not‚ in fact‚ actual letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania‚ but from a well educated lawyer named John Dickinson. The document set highlights the first of this series of articles published in a Philadelphia Newspaper between 1767 and 1768. Dickinson recognized that the British rule over the colonies was growing ever-tense

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    The imposing Gate House or the Main Gate Tower Block ofKuala Lumpur’s Pudu Jail can be seen ifone passes through Jalan Hang Tuah. There is nothing romantic or appealing to this bastion of law and punishment. Thousands ofprisoners have passed through the 116 year old prison‚ and hundreds have been executed within the walls‚ for crime such as murder‚ kidnapping‚ drugs and firearms possession. The structure was built by the BritishColonial masters in 1895‚ on the sight of a former Chinese cemetery in

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