Summary Of IVe Been To The Mountaintop

On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. gave I’ve Been to the Mountaintop, a speech concerning the Memphis sanitation strike at the Mason Temple church in Memphis, Tennessee. The purpose of the speech was to persuade;calling for people to

Lincoln used Ethos a great number of times in his address to the people of America. One example that stood out about Ethos is when he said, “The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all.” In this quote, Lincoln assured his audience that he is sure about what will happen in the future and he wants them to know that fact. He also wants his audience to know what he thinks will happen in the future of the country. This relates to Ethos, or ethics, because it shows

One way King uses ethos is by quoting multiple historical figures in his speech in order to get to the point across that being an extremist is not necessarily evil. Some historical figures he lists are Peter, an extremist for the Gospel, Abraham Lincoln, an extremist for liberty, and Thomas Jefferson, an extremist for equality. These men were great, and through seeing how these men were extremists, you can see how the clergymen were wrong in saying that extremists are bad. Kings list of historical figures is effective in ethos because it made people believe that extremist can be very powerful and right.

Ethos is being used in this sentences Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation." This shows that Martin Luher King knows about a president that fought for equality. Abe Lincon is a role model for many people.

Ethos is a strategy used to assure the audience of the author’s integrity and character. To begin the speech, Wiesel says “Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends”, he is putting himself and the listeners who were not specifically specified onto the same level, to connect better with them (Wiesel, 1999/16, p. 76). He is showing the audience that he is human and respects everyone, but furthermore does not want anyone to

Ethos is a persuasive language that is an appeal to authority and credibility. President Richard Nixon uses ethos in “The Great Silent Majority” speech when he says “As president, I hold the responsibility for choosing the best path to that goal and leading the Nation along it”(Nixon). President Nixon is saying that by him being President, it is his job to put the whole nation on a good path. This fits the definition of ethos because when people hear Nixon say “As President,” they immediately feel a sense of credibility of what he is going to say. By President Nixon saying this makes the speech more

Used as an appeal to emotion, logic and a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader by reason, Martin Luther King clearly used ETHOS throughout his article in a series of multiple ways. With this in mind, after many readings of King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, I was able to identify countless examples of ETHOS. Quoted, “ I hope will be considered, patient and reasonable terms” (para1), King was wanting to express his feelings towards others, as well as, the use of appropriate language by using words such as patient and reasonable. By using these terms, these two words shows a professionalism that

King uses different elements to show his audience that he was a credible source. He sounds fair and sets up his own credibility by tapping into the authority of Lincoln and his view of the civil rights when he said: “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the emancipation proclamation.” and invoke authority in his cause when makes reference to the constitution where it says “black men as well as white man-would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” He also uses the bible to provide confidence in what he is saying for example when he says “And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it

Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the Civil Rights Movement, was arrested and placed in Birmingham jail after leading a non-violent march to protest racism in the streets of Alabama- a highly segregated state at the time. There he received a newspaper containing “A Call for Unity,” which was written by eight white Alabama clergymen criticizing King and his movement’s methods; this prompted King to write a letter in response to the critics. Martin Luther King Jr. employs ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade and demonstrate to the critics and other readers the many injustices of segregation.

Ethos means credibility. In this speech there are a lot of things Martin Luther King Jr. used to make it credible and trustworthy. He uses the Bible, the Gettysburg Address, and

On the fiftieth anniversary of the events on “Bloody Sunday”, Obama gave a speech filled with encouraging words about how far American has come. Throughout his speech he included various pathos examples. For instance, he states, “[…] All of us need to recognize, as they did, that change depends on our actions, our attitudes, the things we teach our children. And if we make such effort, no matter how hard it may seem, laws can be passed, and consciences can be stirred, and consensus can be built” (Obama). He addresses the people as one, as if each and every one of us has as much responsibility as the next, and rightfully so. Ethos is another rhetoric analysis, it defines someone’s character or identity and Obama does just that when he says, “[…] who serve in elected office from small towns to big cities; from Congressional Black Caucus to the Oval office” (Obama). Obama refers to himself when speaking about the oval office because he was the first African American to be elected president, which is him talking about his own credentials.

Despite his original intent to motivate a crowd of striking sanitation workers, Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” served as his final words of support and encouragement to a nation still struggling with social problems and to future advocates of social justice and change. The rhetoric behind “Mountaintop” reveals King as a humble yet forthright and intelligent speaker whose convincing arguments and powerful voice directed his listeners to action. Under the “five canons of rhetoric”-invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery- “Mountaintop” is truly a captivating speech and an essential piece to understanding King’s legacy.

During the 1900s, racism was a major problem in the United States. Many protests and violent crimes were implemented because of this growing problem. One man, Martin Luther King Jr., began doing speeches and non-violence protests all over America in hopes to end racism. Dr. King was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights movement and a minister. He traveled around to speak wherever there were protests or injustice (“Martin”). “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” was a very powerful speech given by him on April 3, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. He spoke for the Memphis Sanitation workers being treated unequal and pushed for a non-violent protest. He was able to effectively communicate with the audience by his use of metaphors. This speech was

In his speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” Martin Luther King Jr. reminds his audience of the agony, strength, and resentment they feel due to racial discrimination through personification, imagery, equivocation, and anaphora. In doing so, King persuades his audience of protestors to apply nonviolent methods of reform to gain equality while propelling a newfound sense of energy and motivation into the movement. King begins his speech by integrating personification and imagery to emphasize the pain and destruction that such unfairness creates in order to unify and convince his audience to make a change in the world. Through equivocation, he stresses the strength in the unified force of the African American community to demonstrate that passive resistance enough to achieve success. King alludes to the audience's anger in order to rally the protesters and incite energy in their tedious journey of reform. The rhetorical strategies of highlighting the various pathetic appeals works for the intended audience of demonstrators because this movement for equality has a very emotional origin.

In the introduction of this story that discusses the numerous translations it has, the line “Will such a text inevitably have to be loose paraphrase or imitation or re-composition because the complex connotations of the original cannot be understood?” really stood out to me. I know this isn’t the main point of the story, but it’s definitely a question I feel is appropriate for stories that are transformed into other forms of media (plays, movies, TV shows, etc) or is translated into other languages. The fact that there are no fewer than eight different translations of this story definitely emphasizes the idea that some of the emotional context may be lost in some versions. It was definitely intriguing to see the common denominators between the numerous versions, and the fact that there are so many, yet, each version sounds completely different which is interesting.