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    different. Nora seems to be completely happy at the beginning of the story. She finds out that Torvald feels that she is a “silly girl”. She feels like she understands the business related to the debt that she took out to help Torvald’s care. The way she was working on the low shows that she has determination and ambition to complete a mission. The fact that she went behind her husband back and borrowed the money to help him shows her courage. She feels like she can’t be herself because of the duties

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    against busses to date. Through his soothing voice and outstanding charisma‚ Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the strongest and most influential civil rights activists. But he was not alone in his drive for equality. There were others fighting for the same cause. One of those zealots was a man named Malcolm Little (later ditched his “slave name” and picked up X to signify his lost tribal name). Both men were similar in many ways‚ but yet at the same time were very‚ very different. in his speeches Malcolm

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    Martin Luther King Martin Luther King was born on January 15‚ 1992‚ in Atlanta Georgia. King grew up in in Atlanta where his father was a pastor at a small church. King had an older sister and a younger brother. Throughout school King was a good student and eventually attended College at only 15 years old. 4 years later King earned a sociology degree from Morehouse College. King married Coretta Scott and had 4 children. He became a pastor at a Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama. He completed

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    Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were the stars‚ so to speak‚ of Civil Rights protesting. They are the most famous‚ and are still heard of frequently throughout History text books and magazine articles. Though they died a while back‚ their legacy still lives on‚ to live in a world free of segregation‚ but they each had different ways of “getting what they want”‚ and some ways of getting what they want led to the bad memories that people rather not speak about. Although Martin Luther King Jr

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    Martin Luther King Jr- He began his career as a baptist preacher . He dedicated his life to achieving equality and justice for all Americans of all colors. King believed that peaceful refusal to obey unjust law was the best way to bring about social change. King was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi´s success with non-violent activism . on December 1‚ 1955 Rosa Parks ‚ an afrikan American woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man . here is when the Montgomery bus boycott

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    Speech”. The point is that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. does not try to appeal to people’s logical side. Minorities wanted the conflict to end. King is willing to take the fight to his grave. He protests even though he knows he will go to jail. He brought nonviolent conflict resolution to the United States of America‚ he fought for what was right. He talks about history in terms that everyone will have an emotional response‚ especially those who are protesting. King is using decades of trained skills

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    As one of the leading civil rights activists during the 1960s USA‚ Martin Luther KingJr. spent all his life striving to achieve civil rights for the Black Americans. Starting his role of leadership during the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ King won support from both the blacks and the whites through his non-violent tactics which were influenced by Gandhi. Throughout his life‚ King had to experience violence from opposing parties such as the Ku Klux Klan‚ but he reacted with calmness‚ still emphasizing

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    Privilege “ I look to the day when people will not be judged by the color of the skin‚ but by the content of their character ” - Martin Luther King Jr. This is a phrase heard by more than two million Americans on August 28‚1963‚ in the speech ‘ I have a dream’ and since‚ then it has travelled through millions of heads and thoughts in the world. Dr. king Jr. dreamed of America‚ a place where the colors of black and white would become so interwined‚ that the people will not be judged by

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    Martin Luther KingJr. was born on January 15‚ 1929‚ in Atlanta‚ Georgia. However‚ his birth name was Michael King. He was a middle child‚ between an older sister‚ Willie Christine King‚ and a younger brother‚ Alfred Daniel Williams King. Growing up in Atlanta‚ King attended Booker T. Washington High School. A precocious student‚ he skipped both the ninth and the twelfth grades and entered Morehouse College at age fifteen without formally graduating from high school. In 1948‚ he graduated from

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    Martin Luther King once said “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase”. Alike several others in this world Martin saw the potential each and every person in the world carried. But instead of sitting around he acted on this potential. He saw that he could make a difference in this world‚ achieve his hopes and dreams of a better future‚ and he took that opportunity. Unlike Martin Luther King many people in today’s society don’t act on their opportunities. Rather we

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