Bryan Dixon is a second year law student at the University of Oklahoma. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the same school in 2013. Though raised as the son of a judge, Bryan’s initial interest was not in law. Bryan was initially on the path to a career in civil engineering. However, Bryan’s creative mind and interest in solving problems between other people brought him back to the field of law.
Let's explore another case, where we have Ryan Ferguson, from Jefferson City, Missouri. Ferguson is accused of killing a popular sports editor, Kent Heitholt, from Columbia Daily Tribune, on Halloween night in 2001. Ferguson has been in prison now for eight years. The accuser is Charles Erickson, who claims that he and Ferguson agreed to rob someone for money to help them buy more alcohol. Erickson went in to the police station two years after the murder and gave the police suspicion that he knew some of what happened the night Heitholt was killed.
Walker has a militant approach, when provoking others to act. “How would they like for us to make slaves of, or hold them in cruel slavery, and murder them as they do us.” (David Walker 811). This excerpt displays David Walkers Hostile connotation, when attempting to persuade, his fellow citizens to fight for the cause of abolition. Imbedded in this statement is a touch of his militarized mentality.
specific evidence from the assigned readings to support your answer. David Walker and William Lloyd Garrison were prominent abolitionists during the 1830’s. Their antislavery arguments were similar because they both affirmed the need for immediate action. However, Walker’s approach towards abolishing slavery was more radical than Garrison’s. In Appeal, Walker specifically addressed his writing to African Americans, asserting that the power to bring change laid in their hands if they armed themselves and rebelled against slaveholders.
He believed that every man, even African-Americans should have the same chance and be able to better their lives. Even though, African-Americans may not be on the same playing field as Caucasian Americans in all respects, with national rights toward all Americans. Douglass thoughts on slavery, would be up to the local self-government as well as, an individual self-determination. He would go as far as to said, “That he would not force government involvement or make to free people who did not want it for themselves.” Douglass felt that it should be handle at the state government level, as what they decide to do with the departure of slavery (Fonder,
Martin Luther King was willing to sacrifice his freedom, and his life to obtain and justify racial equality all throughout America. In the “letter from Birmingham Jail” King writes about many terrible and violent acts the whites committed against the blacks. Dr. King also goes in further discussing about how tough it is for the black children to learn with all the discrimination. “When you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Fun town is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people….” Dr. King uses an effective use of appeal because it gives the reader an issue which most can relate too.
To further undermine the morals and values of the white civilians, Douglass calls into question how the white population can declare themselves human when they are demoralizing and abusing the vulnerable African Americans as if they do not carry any innate human ethics such as the fair treatment of others, pointing out the discrepancy in the white, American character. Therefore, this causes the white audience to reevaluate their stand point on the ethical righteousness of slavery, as their morality is challenged and the principles of equality and natural rights, embedded in the Declaration, contradict with their slave-holding
In 1829, the Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World by David Walker (Document J) is an attempt to stir the color people into an uprising which will grant total freedom. He goes on to remind the people that they are all American, and they shall be free under God. By referencing the Declaration of Independence, David Walker becomes very persuasive. He ends on an extreme note, “And woe, woe, will be to you if we have to obtain freedom by fighting. It a peaceful approach will not work, then they must turn to
In the autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Douglass discusses the hardships he encounters that transformed him from an unknowledgable slave to a powerful man who took a stand for the abolishment of slavery. He utilizes an assertive tone in order to grasp the attention of a primarily white audience because he believes they are the only ones who can penetrate moral judgement into the heads of slaveholders of the South. Douglass characterizes Christianity as the most influential source that encourages the continuation of slavery. The growing fear and brutality among slaveholders towards many slaves persists as long as slaveholders manipulate religion as a validation for their actions. Douglass uncovers
Frederick Douglass, a historic civil rights activist, was born into slavery and fortunately lived long enough to see it end. He may have outlived the enslavement however, equality and direct freedom was not a result of Americanized slavery’s extinction. Douglass lived his post slavery life during the time of Jim Crow laws, enforced segregation laws. He wrote a letter to an unknown recipient, briefing describing the negative impact these laws had on blacks. Although slavery was abolished, it was believed that the act on dominance still played a big part on how whites treated blacks and still does today.
Douglass points to the vast unwillingness from the group of whites that refuses to fully perceive and accept African-Americans as deserving and equal citizens of the nation. Based on his personal experiences as a slave, Douglass is abundantly aware that the battle to abolish slavery is not an easy task. For the first twenty years of his life, he witnessed firsthand the abject cruelty of that institution in our country. Tactfully, Douglass seizes this opportunity to publicly highlight the unmerited and coarse differences in the treatment between the whites as opposed to the blacks living in the United States during this time period. He makes a “powerful testaments to the hypocrisy, bigotry and inhumanity of slavery” (Bunch 1).
The letter shows the loyalty that African Americans gave to their owners, despite all of the suffering they put them through. The letter showed that Anderson was intelligent and that he was no longer property of Colonial Anderson, but a man replying to another man. Never before could a slave write to their owner in such a way. Mr. Anderson states that “surely there will be a day of reckoning” for what he experienced in slavery. Anderson expresses that he, like the rest of the freed American slaves, would never turn back and never give up their freedom.
He places the strong authority of the declaration on his side to show how the American people are in contradiction to their own “sacred obligation” and the Negros have gotten a “bad check.” A metaphor representing the unfulfilled promise of human rights for the African Americans. King skillfully evokes an emotional response from all races with the use of religion: “Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.” By doing this he finds a common ground that brings black and whites closer with a common belief in God they share, as well as the mention of
This reference in particular evokes the strongest emotional response from black people because many African Americans revered Lincoln for his decision to sign the revolutionary Emancipation Proclamation, and how the document symbolized a free future for slaves--the ancestors of the blacks in the crowd. But the next few lines following this allusion also persuades those ignorant of how little things have changed by highlighting the “manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination” that blacks still suffer from despite the hundred year gap. Here, he uses the connotations of “manacles” and “chains” to evoke a negative emotional response from the audience, especially from those unaware of the need to change, causing their opinion to match the speaker’s: against segregation. Additionally, King weaves biblical allusions into his speech to appeal to the Christians within the crowd. He uses the “dark and desolate valley of segregation” to illustrate the injustice African Americans have endured for centuries and juxtapositions it with the “sunlit path of racial justice” to exemplify a future where true freedom exists for
Coping Patients often go through many challenges especially at the end of life care. One of the problems is coping with the stress and stressors. Coping is an integral part of any treatment; therefore, the patient often needs to develop some managing mechanisms. These are learned although, at some point, the patient is only left with few or no coping mechanisms (Caswell et al. 2015).
