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injustice. Thoreau argues that the only obligation he has "is to do at any time what I think right." He expands on this thought, w...

Martin Luther King is considered one of the greatest American leaders of all times. His accomplishments were indeed phenomenal....

Luther King wrote a long and moving letter from his cell in the Birmingham, Alabama, jail. In 2007, Barack Obama gave a very movin...

This essay offers summation and analysis of Dr. King's famous letter. Three pages in length, no other sources are cited. ...

presenting a sensible argument. Burke proposes that rhetoric should be analyzed according to five crucial factors, which he refe...

the slaves. Slavery was legal, but it was not right and it was not conducive to freedom. For King, freedom was about equality and ...

In six pages James I's True Law of Free Monarchies speech is contrasted and compared with On Papal Power, Justification By Faith a...

gets. If anything Thoreau gives us an emotional warning, He who gives himself entirely to his fellow men appears to them useles...

In five pages this paper examines the similarities and differences in the peace teachings and writings of Thoreau, Gandhi, and Kin...

was shortly afterwards involved in the cause begun by civil rights activist Rosa Parks when she refused to follow the citys laws m...

was always ready to rush to a city or scene to help demonstrate the power of nonviolence ("King," 2000). In March of 1963, a New Y...

that fight. Black manhood to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. seems to be equivalent to standing up for individual rights. T...

in his critical assessment of Where Do We Go From Here, "If you stand with the poor, if you experience their homes and their house...

the "promissory note" that was made to each and every American when the Constitution was written (King, 1963). He and the group ha...

In eight pages this paper discusses how Western culture has been affected by religion in a consideration of such powerful figures ...

Dr. King does indeed work to build his credibility during his speech although it was probably not as necessary in his particular s...

Alabama because he was "invited here" and because of his "organizational ties" to the area (King). Statement of Understanding: H...

was while he was there that he was able to earn a "baccalaureate and masters degrees in the shortest time allowed by university st...

to; "two Catholics, a Rabbi, two Methodists, an Episcopalian, a Presbyterian, and a Baptist" (Seckrater, 2003). In relationshi...

thinkers in American history, including Andrew Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luth...

to your six year old daughter why she cant go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see te...

concerned about. But, he clearly was not a "good" leader in the sense that his leadership improved the condition of humanity. ...

garnered from the ideals of Thoreau as well (Scholastic). In light of these facts it is clear that King was not only influenced di...

justice of victims and their families, while allowing perpetrators who confessed to experience forgiveness and reconciliation" (So...

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

This paper reviews the book A Young People's History of the United States. Written by Howard Zinn, this book provides an interest...

This essay begins by describing the moral and political philosophies of John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Benito Mussolini...

This paper discusses the important qualities that define great leaders. The persuasive ability of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Ro...

Today in America there is a great but subtle poison that has worked its way into the minds of those who recline nightly in their c...

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...