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Jonathan Swift, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, and Martin Luther King Jr. on Responsibility and Freedom

In five pages the historical definitions of responsibility and freedom and how they have changed are featured in the works 'A Mode...

Martin Luther King and Thomas Jefferson on Freedom

the slaves. Slavery was legal, but it was not right and it was not conducive to freedom. For King, freedom was about equality and ...

An Analysis of I Have a Dream

the "promissory note" that was made to each and every American when the Constitution was written (King, 1963). He and the group ha...

Where Do We Go from Here Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.

in his critical assessment of Where Do We Go From Here, "If you stand with the poor, if you experience their homes and their house...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Style of Leadership

"I Have a Dream" speech (Gardner and Avolio 32). He also did this with "free at last" as a catch phrase which echoes in many peopl...

Five American Thinkers and How They Employed the Declaration of Independence into Their Writings

thinkers in American history, including Andrew Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luth...

An Assessment of the Statement 'All Men Are Created Equal'

In five pages this paper agrees with Thomas Jefferson's 'declaration.' There are three bibliographic sources cited....

Speech Analysis / King's 'I Have a Dream'

Dr. King does indeed work to build his credibility during his speech although it was probably not as necessary in his particular s...

Martin Luther King/”Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

as his overarching rationale, as he is also in Birmingham "because "injustice is here" (King). In analyzing the situation in Bir...

Western Culture and the Effects of Religion

In eight pages this paper discusses how Western culture has been affected by religion in a consideration of such powerful figures ...

M.L. King/Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Alabama because he was "invited here" and because of his "organizational ties" to the area (King). Statement of Understanding: H...

Martin Luther

was while he was there that he was able to earn a "baccalaureate and masters degrees in the shortest time allowed by university st...

Thomas Jefferson: Contradiction

associates in Europe" he would refer "to blacks as lazy, slow, unable to reason, lacking in imagination and even spoke against the...

Thomas Jefferson by Joyce Appleby

the United States. The book begins around the time he was elected as President, which took place at the end of the 18th century. I...

Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water

Thomas King's novel Truth and Bright Water and its thematic duality are discussed in five pages....

Freedom Issues

"I Have a Dream" speech, in which King lambasted the United States for forbidding the Negroes to be free people (King). "We can ne...

1963 News Magazine Views of Martin Luther King Jr.

In eight pages this paper examines the August 1963 Freedom March led by Martin Luther King in a consideration of how he was portra...

Freedom, Liberty, and Justice According to Martin Luther King Jr., Cicero, and John Stuart Mill

what the concept of rights truly meant to the populace as a whole, with his general consensus reflecting the respect for and appre...

'Dream' Speech of Martin Luther King Jr.

In five pages this paper examines the famous 'I Have a Dream' speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 in terms of its m...

Reflections on Nelson Mandela

justice of victims and their families, while allowing perpetrators who confessed to experience forgiveness and reconciliation" (So...

Martin Luther King Jr.: Helping the White as Well as Black

and take notice of the horrible injustices around them. Making a society take note of their oppressive nature and the injus...

Marxism and the Superiority of Martin Luther King's Equality Concepts

In three pages King and Marx are contrasted and compared with the writer ultimately concluding that Martin Luther King's notions o...

Common Ground Stood on by Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X

law is no law at all" (King, 2001). Dr. King also refers to the Bible and how Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Book of Daniel...

Journal Entry: Martin Luther/Martin Luther King

a Baptist minister and he became a minister himself in 1947 ("King, Martin Luther Jr."). He was educated Morehouse College; recei...

Thomas Jefferson and the Slavery Question

people smoke cigarettes and eat buttered popcorn today even though they know these things are bad for human health. Similarly, Jef...

Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King Jr.

In five pages this paper discusses the boycotting of Montgomery buses that inspired this 1958 text and led to the civil rights mov...

Comparative Analysis of Works by Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine

will be examined and compared and contrasted. Paine insisted, in his "Common Sense" that "Securing freedom and property to all men...

Ethics and Morality According to Martin Luther King Jr. and William Blake

him from within and turns him into a murderer. Blakes Songs of Experience have been described as an "unforgettable condemnation of...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Spiritual Disciplines

And then, in 1960 he became co-pastor with his father of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, a position he retained until his murder (Bro...

King’s Premise of Non-Violence: Applications to the Women’s Movement

By the 1960s blacks and women alike, of course, had freedom in a technical sense but they each had a long...