Trayvon Martin's Limitations

Trayvon Martin was a 17- year- old African America from Miami Gardens Florida. He was born Feb, 26, 1995 in Florida and he died Feb, 26, 2012 in Sanford, Fl. He was 5’11 and he had 3 siblings.

On the night of his death, February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin was in Sanford, Florida on a visit to his father's fiancee and her son at The Retreat at Twin Lakes. As Zimmerman noticed him he called the police non-emergency number to report a suspicious person in community, describing Martin as a very suspicious guy reporting that he had his hand in waistband and was walking around looking at homes. Also, Zimmerman is quoted saying that “he is just walking around looking about in the rain”, and “This guy looks like he is up to no good or he is on drugs or something”(Wikipedia). Although the way he described him led to think of what view Zimmerman had of innocent, unarmed Trayvon who seemed like any other teenager walking about on the way

Did you know that unarmed black men are seven times more likely to die than white men? Racism is as old as human society itself. As long as human beings have been around, people have always seemed to have hated or feared people with a different skin color. Racism is just a part of the human nature. Trayvon Benjamin Martin was just 17 when he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, in Sanford, Florida on February 2012. The murder of Trayvon Martin affected many people. The death of Martin was just the first of several deaths where a white person killed a black innocent person. Since the deaths weren’t stopping the #BlackLivesMatter movement began.

How do people perceive others’ limits when they've never had a chance to prove themselves? Miles Corwin, a newspaper reporter from the gang roaming streets of South Central, wrote And Still We Rise to enlighten the lives of the children who, despite the challenges they face around them, are madly driven to finish high school and seek better lives. The author wrote about twelve gifted students at Crenshaw High School, filled with hidden potential, to show that the neighborhood wasn’t just a place full of gang activity, but rather a place filled with students who wanted to grow up and make something of themselves knowing education was key. The targeted audience of the book were individuals who had similar problems to the students; Corwin

Black on white or white on black crime will always happen until black and whites can come together as a whole and not individuals. After slavery there was a group formed name the Ku Klux Klan also know as the “KKK”. The KKK were very known for riding around on horses with whips or guns hanging others particularly blacks and burning down crosses and churches. Around the 1920’s the Ku Klux Klan was ended but the crime between blacks and whites did not. February 2012 a black teenage boy named Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a white neighborhood watch participant while walking back home from the store carrying a bag of skittles and a sweet tea. Since the Trayvon Martin shooting, multiple white police shooting amongst black victims have been

In 2012, President Obama secured his 2nd term in the oval against his opponent Mitt Romney. The voter turnout was not as high as it was in 2008 but minority voters turned out in voted in such high numbers again. According to pew research, minority votes determined the 2012 election.

Words have the ability to spark change in the world around us; the way one conducts and organizes his words can start an innovation among a world of blind people. In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. was imprisoned in the Birmingham Jail for being a participant in a non-violent demonstration against segregation. While imprisoned, he wrote the infamous “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in response to a public statement of concern issued by eight white religious leaders of the South. King brings hope for positive change that the white clergymen will understand the underlying problems and the necessity for an alternative mindset . He stresses on the need for action and acceptance of colored people with his influential words, rather sooner than later. By inspiring sympathy through emotional and credible appeals and demonstrating an obvious logic through sophisticated syntax, King effectively argues the need for a civil rights movement.

Obviously, again my primary motivation for writing my Rhetorical Analysis of Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” is that this is a requirement for my English Composition Class. My heartfelt motivation for writing my Rhetorical Analysis is the respect I have for Martin Luther King’s intelligence and commitment that he displayed for the equality of the African American population. In analyzing “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, I developed an even stronger understanding of the dedication Mr. King had for the disadvantaged poor black population and the injustice that victimized them on a daily basis.

In “Apology” and “Crito”, stories of Socrates’s case against Athens written by Plato, he accepts the death penalty for a crime he did not commit. Whether people accept his response or critique it, many concepts such as civil disobedience, democracy, and obligation are highlighted. Through the analysis of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, and Obligation to the state by Howard Zinn, dismantle Socrates reasoning to accept the death penalty as a way form of activism. Socrates believes “one should never do wrong in return, nor do any man harm, no matter what he may have done to you”(Plato. Crito. 52). This statement questions the concept of civil disobedience as a form of activism and represents the way Socrates views accomplishing

In the year of 2015, more than 102 unarmed African American people were slaughtered by police officers, making it nearly twice every week. Trayvon Martin was the first people to influence the Black Lives Matter Movement creating a guide to end police brutality regarding African Americans. Although some people believe the Black Lives Matter Movement was successful because of their huge exposure, it was not successful because many unarmed African Americans who were murdered did not receive justice, prejudice people towards Blacks are still stereotyping, and there is still police brutality.

Defeating Limitations For many years’ people have been challenged by limitations set against them. The darker your complexion the harder it is for you to be successful. Over the past decades’ people have come along to help break limitation and to remind people of the works done by the people before us. There are many people that have created a since of integrity, pride, and accomplishment through their works such as Alice Walker, Zora Hurston, and

Ralph Marston’s quote “There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don’t allow yourself to become one of them” is unreasonable when someone struggling with self-limitations roots their beliefs in people don’t believe they are capable of doing things, and begin believing it about themselves, while creating a “hurdle” that is seemingly impossible to vault over; however, this quote is valid in juxtaposing situations where someone struggling with self-limitations root their beliefs in people who support them, consequently vaporizing those self-limitations and preventing them from showing up for at least a short while. In the few instances that Ralph Marston’s quote cannot always be applied to real-world situations, it is often because

Imagine the feeling of sitting in room isolated from the rest of the world, left alone with your thoughts and kept guarded away from freedom. What would one with their spare time? Would one contemplate escape? Would one sit alone with their thoughts and fixate on what has led to such a lonely end? Would one compose a letter to those who detained them? Perhaps these are the same thoughts that inspired the words of Socrates, in Plato’s Crito or the emotional words that were spewed on paper by Dr. Martin Luther King while detained in Birmingham Jail. The philosophy of Socrates and Dr. Martin Luther King are grounded in peace. Both philosophers are faced with conflict from the laws put in place by the society that they are in. The purpose of this essay is to compare how each philosopher discusses the concept of law. The fictional tales of Socrates was inspiration to the belated Dr. King as he strived to challenge the status quo set for society. Throughout Plato’s poems Socrates constantly stretched the mental capabilities of those who conversed, and at times even challenged him. Dr. King was not fearful of “Causing tension to the mind” of those around him. In particular Dr. King challenged his ideals of those who opposed his approach of nonviolent protesting. In “The letter from a Birmingham Jail” Dr. King response to a clergyman in form of a letter. This letter expresses the many obstacles put in front of Dr. King as he strives to create an equal society for African-American or

The State of Florida v. George Zimmerman was a criminal prosecution of George Zimmerman on the charge of second-degree murder stemming from the shooting of Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012. This case has been regarded as one of the most controversial in a long time, sparking riots and new movements along with an opening of greater conversations about this country’s gun laws, legal system and racial profiling.

Action must take place in order for improvement and change to occur. When those who have the ability to stand up against what is wrong and make a positive change do not, terrible actions continue to take place and inflict pain. In Chronicle of a death foretold, Marquez demonstrates that serious, negative consequences often follow when people remain bystanders.