Martin Luther King's Influence On Society

There have been many heroes throughout the decades. Some have educated us to become greater people; others have taught us to go with our gut feeling and live life to the fullest. Hero’s come in all shapes and sizes. You would think that hero’s have to be big and strong, in all reality they can be the smallest person on the planet and have a strong voice everyone listens to. Helen Keller was the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a prominent man, who aided the fight for civil rights. Due to the unjust treatment of African-American, the Civil Rights Movement was formed to create a new outcome for the future. During the battle, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. became imprisoned in Birmingham city jail due to his participation in a nonviolent demonstration against segregation. While imprisoned, he wrote a letter on August 1963, called the "Letter from Birmingham Jail;" he expressed his concerns as to why there has been no advancement for the civil rights movement. While dissecting and analyzing his letter, his moral theory from this letter describes him to be a virtue ethicist.

Martin Luther King’s Universal Influence As Martin Luther King once said, “an individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity” (King, Coretta 17). All his life, King has been trying to make this world a better place. He is known mostly for his work in the Civil Rights, but he has been of influence on a far wider scope. He opposed “racism, imperialism, poverty, and political disfranchisement in increasingly radical terms” (Jackson 1).

What is a hero to you? Is it someone like Superman, Batman, Spiderman or maybe even Wonder Woman? Does your hero save lives or fight crimes? A hero could be anyone, just a regular person. It does not have to just be someone who fights crimes on a daily basis or put bad people away.

It may not be noticeable in a tiny town, or even in a large place, but there is heroism everywhere. Heroism can be seen during the Depression everywhere, it can be seen in children through the elderly. The African Americans during this time are going through hard work and inequality, but they still went through it, hoping they could make a change for future generations. The whites were also heroes by surviving through the Depression too. Being a hero does not mean a person wins, but they try for what that individual believes is the better situation.

Every past and modern culture over the course of history, has its hero’s. A hero is a person or figure that others look up to and use as forms of protection. Many cherish the hero’s, they make up who we are today. The Anglo-Saxon hero, Beowulf, and the postmodern hero/hero’s, the soldiers, both show the traits of bravery, selflessness, and loyalty. To have the trait of bravery you have to have lots of confidence in yourself and have courage.

The new Marvel Movie, Black Panther, just hit the market and everyone is raving about it already. This movie hero from modern times shares the same qualities as a hero from ancient Greece; the stories of heroes use the same concepts, just with different names and settings. For example, Odysseus from Homer’s epic poem the Odyssey, shares multiple characteristics with the Black Panther. The major difference between the two is that Odysseus is struggling to go back home while Black Panther is struggling to save his home, but both concern the battle against injustice.

Throughout history, people of all cultures and beliefs have created stories of great and mighty heroes containing the virtues admired in that age. In times long ago, when the Anglo-Saxons were at their height, one of these stories was the tale of the mighty hero Beowulf, depicting the very image of  the age's virtues and ideas.   Now, in this booming age of technology, we've turned to heroes such as Harry Potter and his friends Ron and Hermione.        Not only strong, courageous, and honorable, but also being the very mightiest of all warriors on the earth

The hero is one of the quintessential literary archetypes, found in nearly every work from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. Sometimes they are a paragon of human virtue, a shining and unattainable ideal. Sometimes they are broken and bitter. The latter's journeys assure us that even the most flawed person can better themselves, yet the standards we hold heroism to indicate society’s bias in our view of the ideal person. The classical traits of a hero are honesty and courage, and so a bias towards independence over obedience can be seen.

Martin Luther KIng A guy who died because his beliefs changed the world, who decide to fight for his rights and the rights of his people, A guy who changed the world using non-violence as the main attack but why he is most valuable person? Martin Luther King born in January 15, 1929 he is famous because he changed the world in a different way, he changed the world using protest non-violent and giving peaches around the United States, One of his most well known speeches s named “I Got A Dream”. In October 14 Martin LUther King won the Nobel Prize In the field of humans rights, this make him more famous around the world , and the impact that made in society was tremendous, 4 years later Martin Luther KIng wa assassinated by a white racist american.

When one hears the word hero he or she would most likely think of the fictional, comic book superheroes. However, heroes are not limited to just comic books and actually do exist in real life. They may not have laser-vision or shape-shifting abilities; but instead they possess valuable assets that label them as both inspirational and influential. Yet, overall, there is no clear-cut definition of a hero and, the definition varies for each individual. In actuality, heroes come in countless forms and generally speaking, have a positive impact in either one or numerous lives, and, A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines, demonstrates how everyone has the opportunity to be a hero.