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Rhetorical Analysis Of Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech

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The Great Orators of any generation, era or age share common threads that make their words compelling. This is true in both literature and real life. In Henry V’s St. Crispin’s day speech he effectively unifies his troops when he exerts his position of power with powerful war rhetoric just as Martin Luther King Jr. changed a nation with his I Have a Dream Speech. Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry V share a high position of power. Their obtaining of this authority, however, was at very different approaches. Henry V had an absolute control at the head of this troop. It was in his best interest to maintain this order through his use of ethos. Martin Luther King Jr. gained his source of power by engineering a massive social change. He uses his
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