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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…

In the speech King tries his hardest to make the audience feel a certain way, to dislike …show more content…

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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