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    In Martin Luther King’s “A Letter from the Birmingham Jail‚” he states "In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action. We have gone through all these steps in Birmingham." Despite advocating for equal rights‚ treatment‚ progression‚ and peaceful protests King was considered an “extremist” at the time. Extremism is something that has a negative connotation‚ but he demonstrated

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    The Modest Proposal In the modern China‚ the food that we are having is helping us to get closer to health. It gives us the chances to have a try to get many kinds of illnesses. The technology of production is developing sharply‚ there are a plenty of kinds of chemical way to make our food taste better and look more addicted. But not all of the addictive are OKAY for your bodies. For example‚ there was a piece of very famous news about milk powder. Sanlu milk powder was the hottest topic in 2008

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    Johan Swift wrote a “modest proposal" to acknowledge the fact the rich people of Ireland were living comfortable while the poor were struggling and had to beg in the streets and so on to surive. Swift takes a jab at the rich by stating how they should feed the poor children to the rich. Now he speaking of this in a comical way to get people to acknowledge the suffering of the poor and how it divides the people in Ireland. The article I found revolves around todays campaign for president. My article

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    Letter from Birmingham Jail” Rhetorical Analysis Emotion. It is what‚ as the soulful creatures we are‚ holds us together‚ tears us apart‚ sets our very heart on fire with rage‚ or love. Our emotions seep through our bodies like lava‚ slowly cascading and melting into every part of us until it covers us whole with all of its feeling. Day by day we seem to live and make decisions that are based immensely on our emotions of the moment. In Martin Luther King Junior’s‚ “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

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    election. Although‚ I did explain the distinctiveness of Wong’s nonviolence style of protest and rebellion against the established rules‚ still I failed to illustrate the reasons why nonviolence is better than a violent one. After reading the Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King and doing my research about Hong Kong localism protest‚ I developed a better understanding of nonviolent protest. Wong’s nonviolent protest is indeed a preferable option of rebellion in Hong

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    Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most influential civil rights activists and paved a path for many African-Americans in his lifetime. In “A Letter from Birmingham City Jail”‚ Minister and Civil Rights activist‚ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. conveys the unequal treatments of African-Americans and how he and the African-American community are trying to change it. King Jr.’s Purpose is to explain how the African-Americans are working towards racial equality and to explain the racial inequality that

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    Comparison Essay: Letter from a Birmingham Jail and Resistance to Civil Government Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry David Thoreau both write about why everyone should have the right to disobey authority if there is social injustice taking place. Martin Luther King Jr. tells his audience that the laws of the government against blacks are not right and that civil disobedience should be used as an instrument of freedom just like how Henry David Thoreau says its the responsibility of the citizens to

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    Jonathan Swift’s 1729 satirical pamphlet‚ “A Modest Proposal from Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland‚ from Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country‚ and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick” under the pseudonym of Dr. Swift‚ has been regarded as an important historical text‚ exploiting the conditions of Ireland in the 18th century. In “A Modest Proposal”‚ Swift proposes to the Irish public that to lessen the burden of poverty in Ireland they must sell their children as food

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    disobedience acts without the use of physical violence. “The Letters from Birmingham Jail” and “The Negro is Your Brother” by Martin Luther King‚ Jr was an open letter. It ultimately backs up the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. It stated that blacks had the moral duty to break up these Jim Crow laws. Such laws at state and

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