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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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Struggles for Equality in Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail

being Thomas Jefferson) gathered to write their objections down on paper. Among the objections were what were termed "self eviden...

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...

Jefferson, Lincoln, and King

of the United States today. It speaks of the soul of the people and their dreams and desires and the foundations of their beliefs,...

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 ...

Reviews of Declarations

of the American Revolution. The list goes on and on when it comes to the kings faults - Jefferson notes that "The history of the p...

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...

Equality Dream of Martin Luther King, Jr.

This paper consists of five pages and considers the equality dream of the legendary Martin Luther King Jr. Four sources are cited...

Martin Luther King, Jr. Had a Dream

This paper consists of five pages and examines Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial equality. Four sources are cited in the b...

A History of Blacks in America From the Oppression of Slavery to the Civil Rights' Movement

direction that this country would ultimately take. They were also critical elements in determining the ultimate fate of the Afric...

1776 to 2000 Concept of Liberty

In eleven pages this paper discusses how Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson perceived liberty and then discusses its evolution with...

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...

Analysis of "I Have a Dream" Speech by Martin Luther King

presenting a sensible argument. Burke proposes that rhetoric should be analyzed according to five crucial factors, which he refe...

Jefferson & Contradictions

and a pragmatic one. From its inception, the Constitutional Convention was more concerned with economics than ideals. The majori...

Comparative Analysis of the Vietnamese and U.S. Declarations of Independence

In one page these 2 countries respective independence declarations are contrasted and compared....

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 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 ...

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 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...

Martin Luther King Jr.: Life and Works

they did not, by and large, take the lead in challenging the racial caste system. As Daddy King recalled, Instead of championing t...

Life and Times of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin was educated in schools in Georgia that were segregated (Nobelprize.org, 2009). He graduated high school when he was 15 and...

Rhetoric in Letter from a Birmingham Jail by King

to; "two Catholics, a Rabbi, two Methodists, an Episcopalian, a Presbyterian, and a Baptist" (Seckrater, 2003). In relationshi...

Martin Luther King Jr.

only try to make changes in the secular world where it involves converting people. King was a man of his faith and his word and he...

The Life and Works of Martin Luther King Jr.

went to Booker T. Washington High School and Atlanta University Laboratory School (The King Center, 2008). He had incredibly high ...

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...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass

of the newly established Southern Christian Leadership Conference" (The Black Republican Magazine, 2008). He then led a ma...