Precis A psychology professor from Carleton University, Timothy A Pychyl in his article, “Don’t Delay”, argues that procrastination is a form of escape and self-deception among people. He develops his claim by first defining that self-deception is what leads people to procrastinate by lack of action. Then, he provides examples to connect with the audiences how people deny responsibility for their own choices. Finally, he implies that people living in procrastination can suffer from the anguish that defines existentialist thoughts. Echl 's purpose is to persuade people to take responsibility for the choices they made.
In paragraph 14, King pulls from his personal experience to describe the constant discrimination Black people have to face on a day to day basis: “Living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of “nobodiness”- then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait” (King, paragraph 14). When King describes how Black people have to deal with feelings of being outsiders and not knowing what life would throw at them next, King appeals to pathos and successfully triggers an emotional response from the readers. In his quote, King also writes “then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait” (King, paragraph 14) emphasizing his argument that the present segregation laws need to be changed now, and that the Black people cannot wait for justice any longer. A sense of anger and impatience can also be seen in this quote, in which King explains that the oppressors do not know and will never know what it is like to go through life as a Black person, and that they will never know how difficult it is to wait because they have not been through the same hardships. The overall tone of paragraphs 13 and 14 is somber as well as angry, which King uses to amplify the hardships of an African American in
King’s main focus in Why We Can’t Wait is the breakthrough year, 1963, as the beginning of the Negro Revolution,
He constructs explicit images for the reader so that they understand exactly the point he is communicating. King argues that time “is neutral” and uses the following metaphor to explain why the supporters of civil rights must take advantage of time, in the passage,“We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels on inevitability.” Another angle which King adopts to dispute the remarks that blacks must wait for rights is to show the deplorable conditions in which the average black individual had to endure in society. King's metaphors jump to life in lines such as “...when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society...” as he portrays what life is like for african americans and why waiting is not an option. Martin Luther King Jr. does an excellent job, through the device of metaphors, of putting his thoughts into action for the reader to clearly see the purpose of immediate direct
King persuades the clergymen to accept the black American’s strive for independence by pulling on America’s heartstrings and its love for freedom. Using this idea of independence, he tells the clergymen that it is time for black Americans to attain freedom, similar to America’s path of sovereignty from Britain’s cruel control many years ago. Essentially, King expresses meaningful, yet tragic events and injustices along with common desires between black and white people to explain the circumstances as to why he advocates for
He points out that he has always heard the word wait when talking about “their” freedoms, but he thinks that the wait means never. King uses emotional appeal again to persuade his readers, he uses pathos to touch the emotions of the audience as he reminds them of a personal event. He says, “hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters” (6). King writes words that appeal to the reader’s emotions. In his words, he uses “brothers and sisters”, to help those men remember the principles of the
He writes, "It is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation" (King, 1963). The repeated assertion that change must be made in the present and not left to some uncertain future creates a sense of immediacy and responsibility for the audience's part. In summary, King's letter from Birmingham Jail is a masterful display of rhetorical strategies that successfully convinced people to join the Civil Rights Movement.
This ‘wait’ has almost meant ‘never.’ It has been a tranquilizing thalidomide, relieving the emotional stress for a moment, only to give birth to an ill-informed infant of frustration.” (King,803) King continued, “that some have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say ‘wait.’ But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim: when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters impunity: when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothers in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society.”
In our cultural the task of gaining freedom is never easy to obtain. Stephen Rose, in his poem ‘The Stones Cried Out’, states, ‘How long will it be till a voice of liberty can speak so free’. The quote reflects on how long will it be till a brave prophet of the African- American community will testify their freedom with a voice of no chains or restraints openly without regard. This poem relates to the historical activist Martin Luther King Jr who was above all else a voice of liberty within the American-American community aiming for his people to have Equal rights. Furthermore, the journey during the Civil Rights did not go without tears and blood.
As many of us have read, it is stated in Dr. King’s speech, “But one hundred years later, the Negro is still not free.” (King 1). By reading this,
As a result, Black children, especially boys, are following their father’s footsteps and ending up incarcerated too. It’s a hard cycle to watch, but it’s happening every day in America. Since the 1970s, the number of prisoners in the world multiplied 800 times to 2,400,000 people. Meanwhile, the young black community is busy fighting and killing each other instead or helping, healing and building one another up. Black people are so capable and inspirational, but they don’t always see it in themselves to be great.
“...when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of “nobodiness”- then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience.” (MLK, 276). King uses this strong sense of appeal to emotion to engross his readers and let them know how hard it is for them.
In Martin Luther King’s “ I Have A Dream”, in paragraph two he states “One hundred years later, the life the Negroes is still crippled by the mandates of segregation and the chains of discriminations.” To clarify, one hundred years later from when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed to the very day Dr. King gave his speech, the Negro were free but lack their civic rights. The Negroes were still struggling with segregation and racial discrimination. In the same paragraph, Dr. King illustrates, “One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and find himself an exile in his own land.” Dr. King supports the argument that the American society is basically turning against them.
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.
King also states “[t]here will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.”, in this King informs everyone that the equal rights movement will not give up and will persevere until they are granted their rights that they were promised. King also explains that it would be detrimental for America to ignore the importance and determination of the movement. King uses these phrases to empower the movement and forewarn the opposers of the coming “... whirlwind revolt ...” to “... shake the foundation of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.” (600), this message being central to his point of equal justice and equal rights, for everyone, which I believe gave the movement a boost in strength and endurance to power through adversity and gain the suffrage and rights they
