HAVE A DREAM SPEECH” ASSIGNMENT Identify the following: THEME Speech Type Main Points Sub Points/Support Evidence Style of Speech/Delivery Language Delivery Martin Luther King’s I have a Dream Speech provides you an opportunity to use “Critical Thinking” in analyzing the dynamics of the speech and what makes for an outstanding speech. MLK’s Dream speech is one of the top 5 speeches in the History of speech making. You may do this assignment in essay form or in
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Critical Thinking 1 Martin Luther King Jr. I Have a Dream Speech The 1960’s were a changing time for America. Soon to be gone were the conservative fifties as many post-war baby boomers became young adults. The youth of American was no longer content to continue with traditional thinking‚ it was a time for a revolutionary change. The changes would affect values‚ laws‚ education‚ lifestyles and entertainment. All of this would take place during a turbulent time for our country. The Civil
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Martin Luther King is renounced world wide as a leading member of the American civil rights campaign‚ his speech ’I have a dream’ (1963) which brought together roughly a quarter of a million people (of which about half were white) is seen as his leading act of his civil rights campaign. His change of focus from ’de jure’ in the south to ’de facto’ in the North however led to huge failures and criticism of his tactics as well as the forever growing in popularity more extremist civil rights groups
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Analysis of MLK’s I Have a Dream Speech The famous “I Have a Dream” speech delivered by Martin Luther King‚ Jr. at the historic March in Washington in August 1963 effectively urged the US government to take actions and to finally set up equality between the black and white people in America. Although there were many factors that contributed to the success of the speech‚ it was primarily King’s masterly use of different rhetorical instruments that encouraged Kennedy and his team to take further
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MLK in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the histmy of olw nation. Five smre yeag ago a great American in whw sp- Imlic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proshation. This momen~tous deoree is a great W n light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It cmm ais a joyous d:tybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But 100 years later the Negro still is nok free. One hun- dred yearn later the life of
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Dr.King and Old Major’s speeches are very similar and different in some ways. Old Major’s speech is mainly talking about the animals being equal with man‚ and he feels that animals aren’t respected as they should be because they produce all the food and milk and etc. He felt as if man was getting everything and animals weren’t getting credit for everything they were doing for man‚ and in my opinion he is right because I wouldn’t like it if I was doing all the work and I wasn’t getting any credit
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What was the purpose of the Martin Luther King Jr. Speech? The Martin Luther King Jr. speech was simply about hope and faith. He was portraying the message of hope‚ in attempts to reach out to the folks in America that were arguably making America an unjust land. He simply wanted whites and blacks to be able to live together and be equal. He wanted all of America to know that the land was supposed to be equal because Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and the American people
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Summary of Martin Luther King’s speech “I Have a Dream” On 28 August 1963‚ Martin Luther King‚ Jr. chose the steps of Abraham Lincoln’s memorial to deliver the speech “I Have a Dream”. The location chosen could have not been more appropriate as Lincoln was the one who had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Luther King starts his inclusive speech (’I am happy to join with you today...’) by contrasting and comparing the history of black people in America and their reality in 1963 (100 years
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“On the 24th of August‚ 1963‚ Martin Luther King Jr. had given his legendary speech.” (https://www.archives.gov/nyc/exhibit/mlk.html) MLK’s speech had a huge impact on today and on its time period. Without Martin Luther King Jr. we might have still been segregated‚ or not treated equally because of our race and ethnicity. Look at us now we have an African American President‚ we are truly equal. The March. The march was a very important part of the desegregation process. Without the march nobody
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In this essay I am going to analyse three contrasting speeches. The first is one of the most famous speeches of all time‚ Martin Luther King’s "I have a Dream". This speech was delivered on the 28th of August 1963‚ on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. It has gone down in history as one of the greatest demonstrations for freedom‚ against the merciless environment that black people of America were put in. The second speech is Bill Clinton‚ "This has hurt to many innocent people"
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