Responsible commerce was a completely strange concept for me before I learn this subject. A literary understanding of responsible commerce is that a company‚ a corporate‚ an organisation or individuals should take responsibility for whatever they do during commercial activities‚ not only for their customers‚ but also for themselves. The bottom line for all the commerce activities is that they must make sure that all of their activities are legal. Only under this premise‚ we can talk about what is
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In Letter from Birmingham Jail‚ Martin Luther King Jr. writes to his fellow clergymen about the turpitudes he feels are taking place in Birmingham. He aims to make his audience aware of things he feels are being swept under the carpet. King uses a variety of religious references to get through to his readers. Since religion is sacred to so many‚ it is a powerful piece filled with emotion and logic. King’s expert use of pathos invokes the emotions of his readers. Since the topic he is writing
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Hick‚ backwards‚ redneck‚ stupid‚ bumpkin. These are all fine names given to persons that work to feed and clothe the world by certain persons who have no idea what they are talking about. However‚ there are some people that know very well what it really means to live the life of an agriculturalist. Those that know the best are the ones that have grown up on farms. Being a farm kid means that I know everyone within five miles of where I live. It also means knowing all of their quirks‚ and the quirks
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Nation Murray 1/5/11 Period 1 Letter from Birmingham Jail Assignment 1. Identify a list of biblical allusions King uses in this essay. Explain how these allusions to biblical figures and events appeal to both ethos and pathos. “Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their thus saith the Lord far beyond the boundaries of their home towns‚ and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners
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While Langston Hughes questions his identity in his 1951 poem‚ “Theme for English B”‚ the piece closely relates to Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” considering that both works relay the authors underlying values of equality. King uses his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” to promote the efficacy of integration and address the tensions present between races in the United States. After the courts failed to appease King by restricting his ability to hold protests in Birmingham
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Alabama. During his sentence‚ he wrote a letter‚ “Letter from Birmingham Jail‚” to counter the criticisms of his actions from the clergymen by claiming that “An unjust law is no law at all”(par. 12)‚ “Injustice everywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” (par. 4)‚ and “‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never’” (par. 11). Throughout the story‚ he uses many rhetorical devices‚ mainly allusions‚ to emphasize and develop his claims. King stated in his letter that‚ “‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never’”(par
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Martin Luther King’s inspiration for writing his‚ “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was mainly to appeal to an undeniable injustice that occurred during his time. His letter was in response tos eight white clergymen‚ who objected to King protesting in Birmingham. Dr. King effectively crafted his counterargument after analyzing the clergymen’s unjust proposals and then he was able to present his rebuttal. Dr. King effectively formed his counterargument by first directly addressing his audience‚ the clergymen
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In Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail‚” he shows that nonviolence is the way to get the positive attention that his plight deserved. He believed that to use violence was negative on a couple of points. First‚ violence always gets negative attention. Second‚ violence was the way the Klu Klux Klan went about their business. He wanted to expose unjust laws and do it in a fashion that conveyed his beliefs without causing other problems. In Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail‚” he is
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December 14‚ 2013 Dear Suyuan Woo‚ Oh mother‚ why did it have to be you? I love you with all my heart. What could have caused you to die from a cerebral aneurysm anyway? You were always good at taking care of me‚ so I’m pretty sure you took good care of yourself. I’m just so sorry mommy I wish you could be here to listen. You were very strict and hard on me but now that you’re gone I see why. Before you left china you had to leave my two half sisters on the side of the road and I know that was extremely
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a vicious cycle of poverty and unemployment. The combination of unbalanced asset distribution‚ and severe market crashes. Gave birth to the greatest economical disaster of American history. At the start of the 1920’s‚ the U.S. began disparately transferring large unequal sums of wealth. These transfers included parties from the rich and the middle-class‚ the U.S. and Europe‚ and also between industries and agriculture. This large imbalance of wealth caused our stock market to artificially climb
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