A. Your Main Claim / Thesis Statement (State in three to five sentences what you are going to prove in your paper. Be sure to specify the two readings which you will be examining.)
When it comes to living the good life the meaning is to live life with no regrets and develop positive relationships with those around you. Throughout life, one searches for the true meaning of living the good life. However, it is easier to understand how not to live the good life. Through Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” and the Mike Webster Sports Injury Series, it is clear through the readings that the white policemen in the Birmingham Jail and Mike Webster did not live the good life because of their unhappiness and poor relationships with others.
B. Claim about Reading 1 (state what is the claim that you will be making about your first reading.)
Martin Luther King demonstrates in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,”
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He explains this by discussing the unjust law system. He states, “One may well ask, "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer is found in the fact that there are two types of laws: there are just laws, and there are unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "An unjust law is no law at all” (3).
C. Claim about Reading 2 (state what is the claim that you will be making about your second reading)
In the Mike Webster Sports Injury Series, Mike Webster demonstrates how one does not live the good life because of his unhappiness with his internal struggles.
Proof/Point 1 (Evidence in text to support claim. Cite specific section)
Mike Webster was not living the good life because he lost control over his body. The article stated that, “after 17 seasons in the National Football League, Webster had lost any semblance of control over his once-invincible body”