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    Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech has served as inspiration to multiple generations in the 52 years since his words were spoken. Individuals and groups have rallied behind his message of equality and peace and quoted this speech countless times in an attempt to further Dr. King’s dream of bringing racial injustice to an end. In this speech, which was delivered as the culmination of the March for Jobs in 1962, Dr. King addressed nearly 250,000 people to bring awareness to the injustices

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    powerful speeches were given. It was called, “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr. His speech fueled the movement towards racial equality. His speech pulled at the hearts of everyone listening and watching him. His speech made everyone aware of the pain and suffering those of color were feeling. King used words that helped shape America. He used phrases from the song "America,” the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation to drive his dream of racial equality home. In his speech

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    Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. showed their hopes in their choices. These two leaders, both wished to achieve racial equality. Dr. King’s message in his “I Have a Dream” speech was that the only way to achieve racial equality was by integration. In his speech, he used long, eloquent sentences with very vivid imagery to show his tone of hope and optimism and to aid his message of brotherly love, hope, and integration. This message could have possibly been affected by his background. Dr. King was raised

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    Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a dream" speech has been marked as one of the most powerful of all time; He was able to include political, biblical and academic elements in his speech. In Dr. King's speech as it is more of an argumentative genre, his arguments for the speech are: racial justice, promote awareness in economic injustice, and to restore the American dream. As he is presenting his speech at the Lincoln Memorial, there were 200,000 people who supported these hopes and dreams. Dr

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    Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech in 1963 emphasized the idea that the founding of the United States entailed a promise of equality for all citizens. This, of course, would have been a very important idea in the mind of Dr. King and his followers as they sought to end racism in the United States, and gain civil liberties for blacks across the nation. Although that movement was turning point regarding civil liberties and racism in the United States, the work was certainly not finished

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    Martin Luther King, Jr, the author of the famous speech “I Have a Dream” brings the reader a powerful argument which make it clear that his beliefs were built upon the firm foundation of God: “Now is the time to open the door to all of God’s children” . Although God was the foundation of his moral reasoning, he also made it clear that morality, faith and the issue of segregation at hand were closely related. The component of the essay that I would like to discuss and analyze is "The marvelous new

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    Equality of Some A little over 50 years ago, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I have a Dream Speech” in front of thousands addressing the racism in America. Though racism was a big issue in the United States during the 20th century, and may still be in a few areas today, he was not only addressing the problem of it, but the equality of men. In his speech he quoted words directly from the Declaration of Independence stating, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out

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    because Martin Luther King and his speech “I have a Dream”. Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin Luther King played a pivotal role in the ending of the segregation between African-Americans and white Citizen in the United states. Martin Luther King even received the Nobel peace prize in 1964 among other prizes because of his fight against segregation. Martin Luther Kings famous speech was held on August 28, 1963. It was held at the

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    Have you ever wondered why or how politicians, motivational speakers, ministers, teachers and even parents get their message, lesson, or point across? The reason why is rhetoric, the way people chose to convey their message in a persuasive way. The use of different methods to get a message across is what makes politicians, speakers, minister, teachers and parents so successful in what they want people to think or do. When a certain person uses rhetoric they use what they know the people in the audience

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    Rhetorical Analysis: “I Have A Dream” speech, by Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King was the leader of civil rights and he has brought the revolution to United States in the mid-20th century. He has dedicated his life to struggle for the racial equality of African American or the people who being refer as Negro. In August 28th, 1963, Martin Luther gave the most influencing speech ”I have A Dream.” The speech brought revolution toward civil rights movement and without it, his opinion of

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