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Strength “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 15:58. At first I chose my steps carefully, but soon I gained confidence and quickened my pace. As I did so, I lost my footing and slipped, barely catching myself before I fell. Grabbing hold of a tree branch alongside the trail, I continued my ascent. A group of friends and I, under the direction of our boys’

segregation, saying that it does distort the soul and damages personality of an individual. He gives Biblical examples of how Christians did break the unjust laws secondary to their beliefs in God. For, example, he quotes the case of Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego, and how they faced Nebuchadnezzar courageously. He also reminds them of Hitler’s acts in

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was a prevalent leader in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. He was imprisoned several times for speaking out against injustice and hatred faced by the African American community. In the Letter from Birmingham Jail, King uses biblical allusions and diction to create bonds between himself and popular religious figures to inspire the local clergymen to join the Civil Rights movement. An allusion is an indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea that holds literary

Inspiring Change In the midst of the civil rights movement, Doctor Martin Luther King found himself in a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama, one of the most segregated cities in the United States at the time. While in that jail cell, King wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail in response to the city’s religious leaders. Through his use of ethos, pathos, and logos, King made a thought-provoking and powerful argument for the civil rights movement which continues to inspire change in the hearts of his audience

feelings for Jim. In the story of Robin Hood, the protagonist steals from the rich to give to the poor. While he is stealing, Robin Hood sees the injustice of the rich consistently taxing the poor. In the notable Bible story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, the three young men would rather be thrown into a fiery furnace than worship something other than God. All of these show resistance to conformity - behavior in accordance with socially accepted convictions. What society deems as moral is not always

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the most recognized person during the Civil Rights Movement. During the mid 1900's, African Americans were protesting the Jim Crow Laws and the racial violence happening around the south. Most importantly, Alabama. On April 16, 1963, Dr. King wrote a letter to clergymen arguing for a change in society and to justify his actions from the Birmingham jail. While writing this letter, King uses rhetorical devices and appeals to develop his argument. In Paragraph 4, King

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s book Why We Can't Wait was published in 1963 when Dr. King was a civil rights leader in Birmingham, Alabama. As a minister from Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. King went to Birmingham where he successfully organized and led a 382-day boycott of that city's segregated public busing. Along with other African-Americans, Dr. King was jailed for his political actions. His book is both an analysis of the events in which he was involved in Birmingham, as well as his thinking on the overall

another saint, St. Thomas Aquinas, who like St. Augustine builds King’s ethos through his own. What King is doing is nothing new, as the idea of civil disobedience had been “practiced superbly by the early Christians” like “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,” three men who were ordered to worship a statue of their king but refused, for it went against one of the ten commandments, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” When it was revealed to King Nebuchadnezzar that they had defied him, they

the personality” (para 16). After this begins King’s use of examples of how Christians broke unjust laws because of their beliefs in God. He reminds readers that civil disobedience “was evidenced sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar”(para 21). He then goes on to another instance saying civil disobedience “was practiced superbly by the early Christians, who were willing to

across Babylon and also see visions. It was indeed the interpretation of the dream that Nebuchadnezzar had that saved Daniel and his three friends from jail. The king went ahead and built a gold idol that was to be worshipped but Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refuse to