Persuasive Essay : Women Are People Too?

In his “Letter to Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King employs the use of logos and allusions to strengthen his point and get others to see his stance on advocating for civil disobedience. King uses logos in the quote, “So the purpose of the distraction is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitable open the door to negotiation (King, page 7). The logos in this text is persuasive because his logic follows a clear path and makes sense to the vast majority of people. Most can understand the reasoning behind what King is saying and how it relates to the matter at hand. The logic also gives the impression that King knows what he’s talking about when he makes this sensible and rational statement.

Pathos and Logos Martin Luther King Jr. effectively uses pathos and logos in his “I have a Dream” speech and “letter from Birmingham Jail” to persuade the specific audience for each occasion. To begin with, Martin Luther King Jr. appeals to his audience about the racial acts, and discrimination. He uses pathos to show his emotions throughout his “I Have a Dream” speech. He talks about how everyone should be given freedom “from every mountainside, let freedom ring”. This shows how passionate he is about equal rights, and the emotions he puts into his speech.

In the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Martin Luther King uses logos and alliteration to advocate for civil disobedience. This is shown on page seven in paragraph thirteen when MLK says, “All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality… Hence segregation is not only politically, economically, and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and awful”. This quote displays MLK’s intense use of logos because he explains that segregation is unjust and gives reasons as to why this is true. Martin Luther King describes distortion of the soul and personality to reason that segregation doesn’t make sense in our society. He logically explains why segregation is toxic to people and the country as a

In the speech he compares white man to black man and he says that we can all be kind and all come together as one. Today in the future people will still remember this speech and remember how great it was and how it really changed the future kids and everyone else. He used logos by using logical ideas about MLK and his family. He used logos towards the end of the speech because he wants us to know that no matter what the skin color of the person they should all be treated equally. “Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.” “Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.”

Laila Romero Rachel Christie Advanced English 9 February 29, 2024 Dr. Martin Luther King's Use of Pathos and logos Martin Luther King effectively uses pathos and logos in his “I Have a Dream” speech and “Letter From Birmingham Jail” to persuade the specific audience for each occasion. This is my first piece of evidence and it’s explaining his use of logic in the first half of his I Have a Dream Speech. “Five score one years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon of light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity” (I

Dr. King’s Use of Pathos and Logos Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., effectively uses pathos and logos in his “I Have a Dream” speech and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” to convince his different audiences for each occasion. Dr. King uses logos to convince the clergymen to agree with his opinions on equal rights. Dr. King uses logos in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by discussing the differences between just and unjust laws: ”The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust... A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law” (15-16).

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. uses a combination of pathos and logos in his “I Have a Dream” speech and ‘’Letter from Birmingham Jail” to effectively persuade these different audiences for the specific occasion. First, in “I Have a Dream,” King uses logos: “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.” King’s use of logos is effective because it helps to justify his cause and further motivate the audience into supporting the cause. Later, King uses pathos: “Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.

In Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s I Have a Dream speech and his Letter from Birmingham Jail, he uses Pathos and Logos to communicate his ideals of freedom and justice to his audience. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. uses Logos consistently throughout both his speech and letter. One example of Logos in his writing is in paragraph 2 of Letter from Birmingham Jail, in which he responds to the claim from the clergymen that he is an outsider. He explains his credentials and who he is, which both relate to why he was invited to the city. “So I, along with several members of my staff, am here because I was invited here.

The first indication of Ethos that I noticed in Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech is within his statement, which began, "Five score years ago a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation" (King, M.L.). Within the syntax of the statement, the phrase "Five score" directly references to one of the most famous speeches ever given by a President, the Gettysburg Address given by Abraham Lincoln, whom Martin Luther King Jr. is referencing. An example of logos is when Martin Luther King Jr. compares the reason for the “March on Washington” to “cashing a check” (King, M.L.). This comparison throughout the beginning of the speech, seen as an analogy, helps to ensure a logical structure for the argument.

For example, in lines 69-76, King answers the critics questioning of his use of direct action and marches to protest against segregation. He states that “nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored” (71-73). This explanation is so broken down and easy to understand that it would not make sense to disregard it and agree with the critics. Another instance in which King uses logos is when, as mentioned above, he references the Holocaust and Hitler’s mistreatment of Jews in lines 181 to 185. He discusses how the definitions of “illegal” and “legal” were skewed during that horrific time period. King connects how the definitions in Germany during the Holocaust are similar to the definitions during the Civil Rights Movement about segregation. This appeals to the critics and readers logos because it forces them to think about how terrible the Holocaust was and the treatment of Jews, and realize that the Jews and the African-Americans were being treated in a similar sense. The way King uses logos, is very effective because he makes his ideas and points have sound reasoning while politely diminishing the reasoning of the

Logos means reason. Martin Luther King Jr. uses logos to show why he is delivering this speech and why he wants things to change. He is delivering this speech to show how many blacks and other races, that weren’t being treated equally, really didn’t have freedom like they should. “It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro.” (King, M. L. Jr. (1963, Aug.28) Para 6) “Instead of honoring the sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’” (King, M. L. Jr. (1963, Aug.28) Para 5) These quotes are just a couple of the logos quotes Martin Luther King said in his speech.

Today I have chosen two speeches which are critical to the growth and development that our nation has gone through. Two men from different backgrounds and different times with one common goal, equality for all. The Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” and Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” both address the oppression of the African-Americans in their cultures. Though one hundred years and three wars divide the two documents, they draw astonishing parallels in they purposes and their techniques.

Many women suffer around the world and have trouble gaining equal rights. Countries such as: Iran (where women have to cover their face and legs), Saudi Arabia (where women can not be in public without their face covered), and France (where you can not cover your face in public), have strict rules about what clothing women can wear (Bruce-Lockhart) (Kim). Women have been suffering and fighting for rights around the world for centuries. Some of the many major issues that they fought for or are still fighting for now are the right to vote, the political and economical power the women are limited to, and the right to and education.

As many know, Hillary Clinton has been exchanging confidential emails on her private email domain and private server for years. Clinton is not fit to be the president of the United States. There have been many scandals such as the Benghazi issue with Clinton in the past. She may as well be lying about her whole entire campaign. These are not new, they have been going on for many years.

Successful women have to fight against so much. Taking care of ourselves, chasing our dreams full force, finally getting to the top spot and then realizing that something’s missing. Too often, we build up the lives around us and forget that we didn’t make time to build a family. Now we begin to rush against the biological clock and other factors that come into play when you try to have a child at a later age. Infertility being one of them. A word that used to be considered ‘taboo’ has almost become, dare I say it a ‘hot topic’ in Hollywood. Something that women are no longer sweeping under the rugs or hiding in the closets. Celebs are being very open and honest with issues such as IVF, pregnancy, adoption, getting a surrogate mother and more.