SUMMARY LETTERS FROM RIFKA November 30‚ 1919 Warsaw‚ Poland Mama‚ Papa‚ Nathan and Saul go to America‚ but Rikfa can´t go. Rikfa can´t go beacuse she has ringworm in her head. She stays and her family leaves. I think this is really bad beacause she´s only 12 years old and they can´t leave her alone in a big city. She has to go with her family. December 1‚ 1919 Warsaw‚ Poland Rikfa has to go to another country and leave her family. She will go to another family like immigrant
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Letters from Rifka is the story of a young Russian-Jewish girl and her family who leave their homeland in 1919 to travel to America. Persecuted in Russia by the soldiers and others who dislike Jews‚ Rifka’s family makes their way across Russia to Poland and the U.S. However‚ Rifka encounters many difficulties along the way. Initially worried that they will not make it out of Russia‚ the family runs into guards on the train on the way out (whom Rifka successfully distracts)‚ and unkind guards at the
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King‚ in "Civil Disobedience" and "Letter from Birmingham Jail‚" respectively‚ both conjure a definitive argument on the rights of insubordination during specified epochs of societal injustice. Thoreau‚ in his enduring contemplation of life and its purpose‚ insightfully analyzes the conflicting relationship between the government and the people it governs. He considerately evokes the notion that the majority of people are restrained by the government and society from making decisions with consideration
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Letters from Rifka The genre of my book is fiction. The setting begins in a train station on September 2‚1919 in Berdichev‚ Russia where the sun rose above the trees at a train station and Rifka stood outside a boxcar. Rika is the main character and she is a 12 year old jewish girl from Berdichev who is trying to flee with her family to America. The main characters of the story are Rifka‚ her mother and father and her two brothers Saul and Nathan. Her and her family are trying to escape from
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Civil Rights advocate‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ in his ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’‚ discusses the cruelty and unjust consequences black people endure while acknowledging the inequity of their undying patience in chapter fourteen. King’s purpose is to address the atrocious situations that African Americans undergo in order to establish a strong argument while defending the importance of civil rights. King creates a different perspective for the clergymen. In addition‚ King adopts a skeptical and
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Martin King and Henry Thoreau both write persuasive expositions that oppose majority ideals and justify their own causes. While this similarity is clear‚ the two essays‚ "Letters from Birmingham Jail" by King and "Civil Disobedience" by Thoreau‚ do have their fair share of differences. Primarily in the causes themselves‚ as King persuades white‚ southern clergy men that segregation is an evil‚ unjust law that should be defeated through the agitation of direct protesting‚ and Thoreau‚ writing to a
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In a document associated with chapter twenty eight; Martin Luther King writes a letter in Birmingham to inform the clergymen of the reasons for his actions. Throughout this document there is a reoccurring theme of dedication‚ determination‚ and enlightenment. Martin Luther King illustrates the themes of dedication and determination when describing how Birmingham is enslaved and how he wants to be the one to change it. King is very aware that some tactics he uses are considered inappropriate‚ but
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whose symbolic shadow we stand today.” He and his audience stood in Lincoln’s shadow metaphorically and figuratively. He orated his speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial‚ where the statue of Lincoln is situated. King utilizes imagery and diction from the metaphor‚ “This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.” The “momentous decree” he refers to is the
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An analogy employed by Jean De Crevecoeur in “Letters from an American Farmer” compares European oppressions to the struggle of “useless plants‚” strengthening the idea of American superiority in freedom and equal opportunity. “Letters from an American Farmer”‚ a series of pro-American letters authored by Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur‚ pronounces the great governmental disparities between Europe and America. In the introduction of the document‚ an analogy is used to invoke emotional awareness
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these laws and establish civil rights for all Americans‚ protests‚ demonstrations‚ and marches took place across the country. However‚ as not everyone supported this movement‚ substantial backlash was inflicted upon many by those opposed to change. Birmingham‚ Alabama‚ a city of the south‚ became a focus for the civil rights movement and several marches and protests took place in its streets – where even children marched for equality. But when four young girls died in a church bombing by white supremacists
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