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    where is there a better place to write a long letter than in a jail cell? Optimistic and bitter‚ Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail” inspires the audience to come together to make a change and defends the people involved. King expresses his hope to the nation through his tone‚ rhetorical appeals‚ and rhetorical tools. Kings optimistic and bitter tone inspires and defends the audience throughout his letter. Martin begins his letter with optimism about the future for him and his

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    Passage A of Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter to Birmingham is composed of specific stylistic strategies that effectively convey his central idea that the black community’s protests against segregation are justified as it has suffered from widespread societal restraint for centuries throughout history. King’s argument in this passage is facilitated by means of a syntactical structure composed of a long list of the abundant struggles that have faced blacks as well as an appeal to the legal and moral

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    In this letter‚ Martin Luther King utilizes both the rhetorical field of religion‚ and the rhetorical element of audience as a combination to support his arguments against the clergymen and the white moderate’s view of the civil rights movement as a whole. \ By using religion in various points of the text‚ King uses the clergymen’s own knowledge against them to prove his cause just. He provides examples of lesser known stories to place a metaphorical spotlight on the clergymen in particular. The

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    I feel like Martin Luther King Jr. was mainly direction his letters to the people in Birmingham‚ Alabama. But as a whole he was talking to everyone in America‚ dealing with racism. He was talking to people of the churches‚ explaining that is not okay to call themselves Christians‚ but still being involved with racism‚ slaves‚ judgment‚ and hatred on colored people. I believe that the occasion for Martin Luther King Jr. letter was his was of protesting while he was in the Birmingham Jail. King was

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    1. Martin Luther King Jr. used a lot of ethos in the Birmingham letter. For example when he says “But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth‚ I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms. He is showing that he cares about what they think and see their criticisms as being genuine and sincere so he wants to answer their questions in a reasonable time and manner. Another form of ethos he uses

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    The Pyramid of Gaza

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    THE PYRAMID OF GAZA Strayer University White Marsh Campus Nadine Mandevu Professor: Peter LENYEE HUM 111 –World Cultures I February 03‚ 2013 Assignment 1: The Pyramid of Gaza THE PYRAMID OF GAZA The Great pyramids of Egypt are as appealing and alluring‚ as they are wonderful. There have been various debates‚ suggestions and speculations historians and researchers of Egypt about who built the pyramid and why it was built (its purpose). Over the years‚ quite a number of theories in relation

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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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    Martin Luther King was a civil right activist and Christian preacher who expressed the reasons behind the reasons of why african americans were protesting for their civil rights through a letter to the clergymen in Birmingham. King goes on to express his argument by giving an idea on what african americans go through in a society where police brutality and denial of freedom is present in the everyday lives of african americans in Birmingham. He pushes his purpose even further by getting the clergymen

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    this technique very well to write what we know now as the Letter from Birmingham Jail. In the beginning of Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail‚ King quickly establishes his role by directing the letter to “my dear fellow clergymen” by stating that

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    The Attacks in Gaza

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    How many of us are aware of the ongoing situation in Gaza? What’s the root cause of this inhuman conflict between Israel and Palestine? and why is the US supporting the Israel? I am going to talk about all this‚ at the end of this i know each one of us will go back and pray for our brothers and sisters back in Palestine. During the late 1800s‚ a movement known as Zionism arose to establish a Jewish state in Palestine‚ then a territory under the Ottoman Empire. As a result of World War I‚ the Ottoman

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