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How would people, yourself in fact, feel if a different colored person got treated differently than you? As many might say, they would get upset or mad and perhaps cause a fight to get the same rights as the other race, causing a scene or maybe even an outbreak. As many recall, Martin Luther King, Jr was a African American activist that gave a speech called “I Have A Dream” in 1963 which was about racism between whites and African Americans, where he was trying to get all colored people to have the same rights as white people. Throughout Martin Luther King’s rhetorical speech, he uses rhetoric and I am going to analyze his speech by breaking it down into ethos, pathos, and logos as well with giving it a summary of each part. King’s purpose from his informative speech is to inform surrounding citizens about racism in the United States, and why he thought that it needed to be stopped. Beginning in the middle 1960’s there was a …show more content…

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The genre is an argumentative speech because King is trying to make everyone believe that he is right. But, not everyone thinks he is right and by that it makes it an argumentative speech because people are arguing that he is not right. During his speech, he portrays the word “you” alot, meaning you as in the surrounding citizens, you as in the public, you as in the people involved and you as in everyone that is listening, trying to trigger answers from the audience. Whereas mainly, the purpose of his speech is to end racism in the US and wants new civil/economic

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Dr. King appeals more to the heart, although he appeals to logic he appeals to the heart more in his messages. In his big speech “I Have A Dream,” he used the what the black people went through to get to their hearts, he used terms they have been called such as dirty niggers, that hit there heart. In his other famous message “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” he uses terms of slavery, what the blacks went through to appeal to them, Chains of Discrimination… (King 282 paragraph 32). King often uses emotion to appeal to people. Such as in his letter “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” he refers to the term “dirty nigger lovers,” (King, 282 paragraph 32).

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In the letter “Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. writes to the Clergyman to express his idea on the racial discrimination and injustice going on in Birmingham Alabama. Martin Luther King Jr. writes his letter while being held in Birmingham Jail after being arrested for participating, in a non-violent anti segregation march. During this time violence against African Americans was so bad in Birmingham it needed to be addressed and taken care of. Martin Luther King Jr. uses rhetorical strategies in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” in order to convince the religious leaders of Birmingham that they could wait no longer for justice and that the only course was direct action.

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From the characteristics of an author’s writing, the reader can tell whether the author’s piece is effective. Despite how long ago they were made, Martin Luther King Jr.’s response to criticism from some clergymen in “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and James Baldwin's “If Black English Isn't A Language, Then Tell Me What Is” on the role of language, remain important pieces of writing today because they still relate to the ongoing internal separation between races in America. Their long time recognition has their writing being compared to give readers with insight on how to develop their own argument successfully. King’s essay is more effective than Baldwin’s because of their different style, character, and vocabulary.

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In 2 very different images created by the Southern Poverty Law Center, or the SPLC, the organization employs Pathos, Logos, and Ethos in an attempt to persuade the audience that their organization is one fighting for good, and that American government is flawed. Meaning that it isn’t conducive to an environment for equality encourages hatred, not adequately supporting civil rights, and teaching intolerance between races, and ethnicities. In these images, Ethos has a great impact on the impression the audience will form toward SPLC, as well as the mission, and goals of the organization. To start of, the Image 1 severely lacks credibility.

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“Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner. You must be eating some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American” (Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements) Malcolm X is recognized as one of the most influential speakers of the civil rights movement.

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Before we're born, our lives are foretold. We're woven through puzzles until we're placed correctly, and we wait till our time comes. Our choices, actions, and beliefs are predicted by the Gods. Our blueprints are engraved in stone -- destined to follow their paths perfectly. Every step is planned, and every future is known.

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Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the letter from jail, after he got arrested during a peaceful protest. At the time segregation was still a part of the culture in the United States and Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers were working diligently and peacefully to try and make a change in people’s hearts about segregation. In this letter MLK Jr. is writing to defend his strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, which he does effectively by using rhetoric. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference focused on Birmingham, Alabama to start a nonviolent direct action campaign with the goal to get the city to get rid of segregation laws.

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Each of these three rhetorical devices play to an overall theme of the speech. These rhetorical devices comforts the readers through logic, and a plan for their future as well as reminding them to have hope, so that the homosexual community is one day be treaty the same as any other communitie. Mr. King on the other hand, uses correction of erroneous views, emotional words, and allusions to get his point across. He first starts out correction of erroneous views by calling out those who criticize him, and explains that he is in Birmingham because of injustice. Next he uses emotion words when he is describing how he must tell his daughter out the outside world and how the fact of reality is that he will always be a “nigger” or “boy” despite his positions in life.

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King’s dialect showed the audience civil right issues, involving many rhetorical strategies using ethos, logos, and pathos, to a racially tempered crowd whom he viewed as different, but not equal. From the very beginning of it , King brings his crowd back to the origin of America when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, that freed all slaves and gave hope to the former slaves. But immediately after Dr. King speaks out on how after 100 years Blacks still do not have the free will that is deserved. He points out the irony of America because Black Americans were still not truly free.

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The main idea of his speech is that all people were created equal and, although this is no longer the case nowadays, King felt it must be the case for the future. He argued peacefully, yet passionately and powerfully. In preparation for the speech, he studied the Bible, The Gettysburg Address and the US Declaration of Independence and he alludes to all three in his address. The intensity of King’s speech is built through parallelism, metaphors, bold statements and rhythmic repetitions:

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To make the speech effective, King uses all three rhetoric concepts to make his speech stronger. Even now, his speech continues to make generations of people give up their racist beliefs and support social colorblindness. Without Dr. King, America would probably still be heavily

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King also use his speech symbol and personification. As a symbol he uses were mountain, valley and hill as a meaning in his speech. That one day they will have equal right as the white man but also their freedom. Like King said, “With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.” It can be seen that King has faith for a better future for his people.

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By using these rhetorical devices, King successfully inspired emotion in his audience and gave them hope for a possible bright future. We can see that Martine Luther King use several rhetorical devices within the speech to grab attention of the people who were engaged with the unjust oppression. First of all, in the beginning of his speech, he made a connection alluded to Lincoln’s speech ‘‘Five score years ago…’’ (Line 2.1, page1) this line referred to the Gettysburg Address, presenting by the United States president. King used it to enhance credibility primarily because of Lincoln’s high position related with civil rights.

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Racism in America has been around for centuries however it was in the 1960's that the attitudes of many Black Americans started to quickly change and they realized they wanted equality. Out of this, The Civil Rights Movement emerged which was a peaceful social movement that strove for equal human rights for black Americans. The leader of the Civil Rights Movement is no one other than Martin Luther King Jr. In his book, Why We Can't Wait, King tries to convince Black Americans to realize their reality, remember their roots and important and mainly, to seek changes to social conditions and attitudes.

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To achieve this, he used rhetorical strategies such as appeal to pathos and repetition. His passionate tone flowed through these strategies, increasing their persuasive power on the people and encouraging them to follow/listen to his message on racial injustice. While pathos elicits an emotional response from the audience to make them more accepting of King’s ideas, repetition structures the speech and emphasizes key ideas for the audience to take away from listening. These two techniques played a crucial role in furthering his purpose and in provoking a powerful response from the audience that made this speech memorable and awe-inspiring. To this day, King’s speech remains one of the most famous and influential speeches in

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