Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy both had a way of getting the society 's attention by using a certain emotion. Each Kennedy and King used pathos and logos. King was raised around around a baptist church that gave him that powerful voice and emotion. King 's use of pathos in “I have a dream” speech is impeccable. King did such a good job of making the people feel apart of what he was talking about and it motivated them. King referenced the past much more than Kennedy did. King says “One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.” (King 371) As king uses pathos he brings up issues like the past that affect the audience in an emotional way and
COLLAPSE Dr.King was a real king, especially when he stand among 200,000 African-American to announce the ''I Have A Dream speech. The way Dr. King Incorporate pathos in his famous speech is by putting a lot of emotions in his speech while he was announcing it in front of everyone. The way Dr. King kept say ''I Have A Dream'' The people who were standing among him felt all the strength king had in his speech. Dr. King also showed in his speech how he did not like the way they treated
Who is well known for his “I have a dream” speech. Which was given on the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” in 1963. In this speech Mr.King used symbolism, metaphorical imagery and strong diction. These strategies shows pathos, ethos, and logos to help the audience understand his message and
Dr. King utilizes pathos by relating his speech to his own dreams and family. In his speech he said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” This quote in particular brought tears to many members of the audience. Making the speech personal and bringing in his own family was able to help establish a relationship between Dr. King and the people around him. This is just one way that pathos is expressed to an audience and it worked because of the way the audience reacted (Manfredonia).
Both of these influential speeches have successfully used ethos, pathos, and logos to incite emotion and persuade their audience. In Martin Luther King’s speech, he is attempting to instill hope and a desire to change the current state of affairs. Giving his speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, MLK addresses the social injustice and discrimination of African Americans and calls on them to peacefully demand equality. In Shakespeare’s play, Mark Anthony uses Julius Caesar’s assassination to persuade the crowd against Caesar’s killers.
Description of Martin Luther King Day It is a federal holiday that celebrates the achievements of Martin Luther Junior who was an American civil activist best known for his fight against racial segregation. It started in 1971 when people in various states in the U.S decided to celebrate Dr. King. However, it was made a federal holiday in 1986. Dr. King fought for the rights of the minority black people to see a country where all persons –black and white- had equal rights.
In April 1968, Martin Luther King on the night before his assassination had told a group of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee: “We’ve got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point in Memphis. We’ve got to see it through”. On 1 February 1968, two Memphis garbage collectors, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were crushed to death by a malfunctioning truck. Twelve days later, frustrated by the city’s response to the latest event in a long pattern of neglect and abuse of its black employees, 1,300 black men from the Memphis Department of Public Works went on strike.
“The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends for justice” Wise words of the one and only Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King was born on January 19,1929. He was assassinated on April 4,1968 in Memphis,TN. James Earl Ray is not responsible for Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination as Dr. King’s wife, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, and many others think likewise.
King also discusses his personal life, along with his family and children, to show the crowd that he is fighting for the same things as them. In his I Have a Dream speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. used ethos to increase his credibility with his audience, pathos to appeal to his audience’s emotional side, and logos to appeal to his audience’s logical side. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s use of ethos begins in the first few lines of his I Have a Dream speech. He begins the speech with a direct reference to Abraham Lincoln and his Gettysburg Address. King speaks of Lincoln as an admired figure in the Civil Rights Movement when he states “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation” (King 84).
Martin Luther King Jr successfully appealed to this audience by using metaphors, logos and pathos. This is very famous speech and a big part of history that this speech will still
The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King was a very established civil rights leader who not only stood up for the equality of blacks, but also for the issues of poverty throughout our country during the mid 1900s. Throughout this paper I will be summarizing and comparing the differences between two articles on Martin Luther King. These articles were originally published in historical journals. The articles I will be using include “The Death of Martin Luther King” by Richard Cavendish and “”Now that He is Safely Dead”:
On June 11th of 1963 President John F. Kennedy gave his Civil Rights Address to the citizens of the United States of America. In President Kennedy’s speech, he shows and expresses his thoughts, feelings, and truth with supporting facts regarding his claim to expand equal rights to African Americans. The entire speech is structured in a way that he can really explain how he feels He goes from point to point to express his logic and emotions towards the unfair treatment of African Americans . In Kennedy’s Civil Rights Address, he used multiple examples of inequitable situations regarding people of color expressing how “every man should be treated equally”. Like Martin Luther King Jr, President Kennedy believed that African Americans deserved
Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s remarks on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. was a very persuasive and effective speech. The speech was delivered on April 4th, 1968 in Indianapolis Indiana. The speech was given on the same evening that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Also, the speech was delivered during the 1968 presidential election; Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was on the campaign trail initially making a routine campaign stop (NPR, “Robert Kennedy: Delivering News of King’s Death).
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s, legacy is remembered today for his commitment to non-violence, civil rights, justice, equality for all; also through his many speeches, boycotts, monuments and memorial that were built in his honor. In memory of Dr. King, travelers from across the United States visit his memorial sites, as well as the different literature that is provided in textbooks to educate themselves about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. legacy. I. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr is remembered throughout society in many ways. A. Dr. King is honored throughout the world, in small communities, as well as, the White House each year, and the Federal Government (Carson, 1987). 1.
Martin Luther Kings “I have a dream speech” was such a success for three reasons. First, he understood his audience. He prepared a speech for a politically oppressed people and carved in into an empathetic masterpiece that really defined the struggles him and those that suffered alongside him. Second, MLK constructed a message for the fellow oppressed that did not end on a pessimistic note. Although he played on the struggles and really worked the imagination to what horrors transposed, he finished his speech with a hopeful disposition that with peaceful protest comes positive change.
This poem is about the end of the world. I know this due to the lines “The whole human population Waited with anticipation, Fearing evaporation, From a nuclear conflagration... Belt out in fear of earth's demise.” This shows that humans are afraid of dying, and the earth is about to be ruined. I think this poem could be masculine or feminine, but stereotypically I believe it is more masculine due to the bluntness and harshness of the way its written.