letter is directed to the white clergymen who had criticized these demonstrations and also called him an outsider and troublemaker. Chronological and Topical Scope: Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and imprisoned for participating in these nonviolent demonstrations. Thesis and Main Points: In the letter Martin Luther King Jr.’s says‚ “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here.” His thesis is that there is injustice and injustice has seized the civil rights movement. Because of
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The movie‚ Luther‚ explains the early years of Martin Luther’s life‚ from him being a monk to the Augsburgs Confession. Martin Luther is an intelligent young man who is studying law in the 16th century Germany when all of a sudden he was faced with death during a lightning storm. After this incident‚ he promised to God that he will follow a spiritual path and join a Catholic ministry to become a monk. With the help of his father‚ Hans Luther‚ Luther became a member of the monastery. Johann seemed
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only “linked the past more strongly to the present” (Couvares 1). Before‚ historians –mostly white male- used to report only about “male” topics but since then‚ different issues have transformed the way history used to be. Over the last 400 years‚ the four different stages that have reshaped the writing of American history have been the providential‚ the rationalist‚ the nationalist‚ and the professional. Late- nineteenth-century historians‚ usually called “historicists” or “positivists” believed that
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Martin Bormann was an outstanding Nazi serving as a Private Secretary to Adolf Hitler who had managed to gain considerable power within the Nazi Party. Nobody knew him outside of the Party elite since he had worked in the shadows of Hitler. Bormann became the Head of the Party Chancellery by 1940. He was imprisoned for murder in 1920s and didn’t posses any prominent skills but despite this fact‚ he had managed to rise through the German ranks and gain an enormous power in Hitler’s administration
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Lydia Martin is 13 years old when the writing first shows up. Slanted words with overlapping letters appear across the palm of her hand. She hates it. She hates it because he is Lydia Martin and Lydia Martin does not do soulmates. She refuses to belong to anybody and really‚ soulmates are just suggestions. Lydia is 13 and ½ when she becomes fed up with her soulmate. Everyday she wakes up to to terrible handwriting on the palm on her right hand. It’s always a list. She can sometimes make
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The Founding Father’s views on government were influenced by both the classical republican and the natural rights philosophers. The two groups of philosophers held very different views on how a government should run. The classical republicans believed that the individual should sacrifice his or her personal freedoms in order to gain the greater good. The natural rights philosophers‚ on the other hand‚ held that a person’s individual freedoms out to be preserved at all costs. The two greatest
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In the middle of the chaos of political weakness and constant warring of the Zhou era‚ arose many creative thinkers that brought such a knowledgeable impact in politics‚ religion and philosophy. Confucianism became the primary school of thinking. Later important philosophies such as Daoism and Legalism gained great respect as well. Each party had their own plans for creating a dreamlike political society where many problems they faced in their everyday lives could be eliminated. All three approaches
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The Sign of Four takes place in London in 1888. It started with the circumstance in which Edward Watson watches Sherlock Holmes inject cocaine three times a day for the past several months. Edward Watson is afraid to ask Holmes to stop using them. Finally‚ he got the courage and told him to stop taking them but Holmes simply told him that it elucidate his lethargic mind. Then Ms. Morstan comes to Sherlock Holmes and explains her unusual situation. Her father was in India. He sent a letter to his
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The passage I have selected from Nineteen Eighty-Four is from pages eighty-three to eighty-four‚ and is written as the main character’s thoughts and commentary on the Party. It discusses the absolute control of the party‚ and how powerful their influence is on the citizens of Airstrip One. This passage contains the famous lines “In the end the Party would announce that two plus two is five‚ and you would have to believe it ”‚ and “The Party told you to deny the evidence of your eyes and ears. It
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Martin and the Hand Grenades: Narrator: Teacher Scene: Class room (History lesson) Meanings of - ’..the class pauses/for history..’ has two Specific Quotes: meanings/definitions. The first‚ more literal one means the class is stopping to listen to a history class. The second‚ more deeper meaning‚ is one where the class stops to experience the past - The word ’bleak’ in the sentence‚ ’his
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