'The Concept Of Default Setting'

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is a key factor in the end of segregation. Dr. King establishes a frustrated tone throughout his letter to persuade his audience. Dr. King uses a multitude of rhetorical strategies to get his point across. Dr. King uses his position as a clergyman to establish a position using imagery, tone, and word choice. To begin, Dr. King uses imagery to demonstrate the everyday hardships the average African American goes through.

He addresses their feelings on the issues that are surrounding Birmingham, helping them to come to the realization that this was in fact what they were thinking and saying, and that they need to act on it for anything to change. He goes on to say ?We bring it out into the open, where it can be seen and dealt with?(King 563).

“It’s Not about You” is very clear and comprehensive to an extent that after reading the text two or three times, the audience is able to connect the dots and establish some sort of “network”, or connections, to experiences they’ve either felt or heard during their life. In order establish these so called “network”, the reader has to set the claim as main point of focus, as if a radiant spotlight inside a theatre were shining upon the claim, and read it with an open mind in order to accept the message of Brooks, which is that life is not self-centered, life is about helping others who are around

One of the finest commencement speeches was given by David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College. Wallace’s speech can be viewed as enlightening to those who are often blindly single-minded. It forces the audience to take a look at the way they approach everyday situations, rather than being self-centered, consider others before yourself. However, many overlook Wallace’s impeccable rhetorical maneuvers, focusing on the constant clichés and fictional anecdotes used. What people don’t realize is these clichés and fictional anecdotes are what make Wallace’s speech effective and reinforce the basic principles we were taught as a child, to share and think of others before ourselves. Overlooking Wallace’s flawless technique is doing a disservice to

Through proving that we are not always correct, and reminding the audience that different people can have different views of reality, Wallace is able to use logical reasoning to show that humans have the ability to change their perspectives.

Huxley’s protagonist of the novel is the individual; yet, no character in the brave new world is capable of having a unique identity because of the World States’ perversion of the positive values of identity. A mix of hereditary and environmental factors creates individuality. The World State controls all these factors when producing its citizens, therefore it is impossible to have a true individual. Conditioning in how to think and act eliminates free will, which endangers the stability of the government. The World State controls every aspect of their citizen’s lives beginning at conception. The World State conditions to no be effective individuals and instead conform to the ideals valued by the World State. The Controller explained to John that the World State’s purpose is stability and happiness. Individuality and free choice are not compatible with a stable and happy society, therefore they must be abolished for the survival of the World State. If this way of life is threatened by anyone who is, “too self-consciously individual to fit into community life,” they are sent away from society as to not “contaminate” the others who conform. This is demonstrated when Bernard and Hemholtz are to be deported because of their beliefs that conflict with the World State. The World State conditions their citizens to believe that their way of life is superior so that the people will willingly conform to The World State’s way of life. The importance of the group rather than the importance of the individual is emphasized by the World

Wallace asserts that the best approach to the banality of everyday life is to accept that it is not unique an individual and that one should steer away from the “natural default setting” of being self centered. Wallace conveys that “everything...supports my belief that I am the absolute center of the universe”, and strongly imparts his belief that the

He tries to persuade the government that segregation is not a good thing for the country and it should be stopped. He says that his fellow African Americans have been “veterans of creative suffering”(King Jr. Martin Luther). He attempts to get in the emotions of former president John F. Kennedy. and all of the other government officials.

We are all connected and the same but what makes us different is how the “world starts in on us.” We are all so alike but how the world changes around us and how we view and deal with these changes is what makes us different, it is what defines us. The novel shows us this in the story of Marie and Werner. They seem so different, so far apart. They deal with the war is such different ways.

The scene where the director is ‘educating’ the future generation of the World State, he emphasizes the importance of this propaganda technique as, “The greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time.” These influential phrases are presented to the youth during sleeping hours. In addition to the way the overlord, Hitler, would give his most moving, promotional speeches in the late hours of the day to increase the authoritative power of the address onto the individuals who were viewing. Discrimination inside the World State occurs in few forms. Huxley prioritized the elimination of colored skin inside of the upper class generation of the World State citizens. Similarly, Hitler performed mass extermination of Jews during his reign, resulting in the ‘pure’ race. Another form representing the resentment against individuals with non-pure skin, demonstrating totalitarianism. John, a prime specimen of savagery, grasps the reasoning behind his stay in the World State, to be observed. In this scene, he refuses to be objectified by a crowd of paramount individuals. “The men were furious at having been tricked into behaving politely to this insignificant fellow with the unsavory reputation and the heretical opinions. The higher their position in the hierarchy, the deeper their resentment.” (Pg. 173). These

Wallace elaborates by stating that most individuals know these truths on a certain level. These truths have been continuously ingrained in us through old wives tales and cliches. These truths are the "skeletons" of these pieces of literature. The reason for which the ingrained stories seem to not be performed in the real world is due to the fact that the truths behind these codified versions of the truth are not kept at the forefront of our minds. The truths hidden within these stories are what must be kept at he top of our conscious instead of the codified truths.

The fourth “paragraph” of the speech ends with an example of anaphora. A short hopeful phrase of “now is the time” is repeated four times back to back to back to back in the last four lines of the paragraph. These rhetorical devices have a powerful impact and add a decisive, hopeful feel. Martin Luther King Jr. in this conclusion also makes another metaphor with saying racial injustice is “quick sands” and brotherhood is a “solid rock.” These metaphors also link the intangible with the tangible creating a contrast. Apples and bananas are different but the difference of good and bad is harder to see. When attached to real life objects the visualization is made.

In this paper I will tell of similarities between the short film, “Connected,” and the Einstein book, “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible.” In the beginning of “Connected” the narrator states how “it's impossible for us as a society to live without growth.” I see this as a similarity to the chapter “Science” because the chapter tells how we must build on the old story and that's exactly what growth is. We are growing as a society and that means we are building on our old story. When the film talks about change I see a connection in that with the book because several times throughout the book I read that if we're facing something we don’t like or is hurting us, we must change and make a new story. Not keep getting hurt by following

This shows how one’s perception of a commonly known idea, can be shifted just because of one’s state of mind. This can be related back to the idea of freedom and it starts to be easy to tell why there are so many ways of interpreting a commonly known idea, like freedom. This can be shown in America as well, with the segregation protests all along America. In Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter from Birmingham jail. Martin Luther is addressing fellow clergymen from different church denominations in Alabama, to tell them why his acts of protest are the correct way to bring an end to discrimination. Luther’s fellow clergymen also believe that an end to discrimination is needed, but they believe trying to negotiate with the governors would be a better way to end it. This shows how Luther and his fellow activists believed that there wasn’t freedom in America because of the segregation by color. This may be true, but however the politicians of America believed that the constitution stated that segregation of color was the way to have freedom in the states. They believed this because of their own interpretation of what freedom actually

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