It was a great speech because of all the writing techniques that he used and ethos, pathos, and logos, used in the speech. This speech does not only bring us emotion, but authority and reasoning also it brings us face-to-face with the problems that our country had. This speech woke many people and urged them to change their ways. Of course, the problem continued and really still has not been solved completely, but we seem to have taken a big step since the last “March on Washington”. Martin Luther King is watching to see if we succeed his
Jayan Bhaila Shrestha African American Literature GLL 237 Prof. Elsie Colon 06/06/2013 It is Malcolm X, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, freedom fighter, warrior-priest and prophet, opener of a new way to understand ourselves and the world, who taught the indispensability of an effective knowledge of history which in turn becomes both an invaluable resource and worthy reward. Indeed, he said “of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.” History, he taught, is not only a resource necessary to understand the past, i.e., “the origins and causes of things” and their development thru time. It also enables us to “understand the present and be prepared for the future.” Malcolm also understood history as a necessary corrective for
He was such an important figure in the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, which was a huge test of his presidency. He had to deal with massive social revolution both about the Vietnam War and Civil Rights. He had a determination to succeed, run over or around, whoever or whatever got in his way, he didn’t care who he rubbed the wrong way just as long as he felt he was doing the right thing. His drive resulted in new hope for thousands of Americans for generations to come. A good quote I found in Indomitable Will displaying Lyndon Johnson’s character is the following words from LBJ “What we wanted to do for the country is what we did… I really wanted a country where the Congress and the Government would provide education for every kid from Head Start to adult education by ’75, and we got those going…This is what I wanted to see done in Civil Rights and this is what we have done about it.
Learning from history means to learn from the mistakes of the past. By analyzing what has happened and what went wrong, the same errors can be prevented from happening again. In all of history, World War II and the Holocaust hold some very valuable lessons. They teach of the importance of equality, of aiding others, by being aware of world activities, and of education. Well over half a century has passed since the end of the war, allowing a great amount of time for a nation to showcase how it has learned lessons from such an atrocity.
The Little Rock crisis had another outcome as well. While it assured Governor Faubus’s reputation in history as an uncompromising racist, it also spurred him to action in other areas of education policy. As historian Elizabeth Shores has noted, Faubus was much more progressive in related areas of educational reform. For example, in the mid-1950s, he pushed hard to expand opportunities for mentally, physically, and emotionally handicapped children in Arkansas, and his deputy, David Ray, later went to Washington, D.C., where he played an important role in shaping federal policy around this issue. 16 As Shores explains, Faubus supported government aid to the handicapped in part to show the world that his state was not totally backward in the realm of education.
In considering the process of America changing to become a powerful federal nation state in the period 1870-1981, how far could the New Deal be seen as the key turning point? Since the American Civil War in the 1860s there have been several turning points in changing the US into a powerful federal nation state. Many people feel that it was the New Deal during the 1930s which helped change America the most. Using information from historians I will analyse whether the New Deal was the key turning point; or whether Reconstruction from 1865-1877 or the Great Society from 1964-1968 were in changing the status of the American federal nation state. I believe that the New Deal was a key turning point in terms of United States as a powerful nation.
The Ages of American Law by Grant Gilmore: An Overview Law, just like every crucial aspect of American culture; from fashion to technology, has had its drastic changes through time. In Grant Gilmore’s book “The Ages of American Law”, he describes and assesses the crucial ages that eventually developed into the law as we know it today. This book is a recollection of the Storrs lectures on Jurisprudence at the Yale Law School; Gilmore gave in 1974 as a tribute to the school’s one hundred-fiftieth anniversary. The lectures give a perspective on several crucial movements and history-shaping individuals. Gilmore also reveals how these people and events left their mark on history and formed important aspects of the law.
Name: Course: Instructor: Date: “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond The key theme of Jared Diamond’s book “Guns, Germs, and Steel” is the history of societies and cultures as well as their place in that history. In 1998, it won the prize for a nonfiction book and became the national best seller that year. Diamond caught the attention of the public by his book with a fascinating account of more than 13000 years of human evolution and development. He contends that the lapses in power and technology in the human societies originated from differentiated environments. The author argues that while cultural or genetic make-up has favored Eurasians regarding resistance to endemic diseases and development of writing earlier than on the other
Benjamin Franklin Jason M Walter HIUS / 221 4/3/2011 Professor Long Benjamin Franklin, without doubt is a remarkable person in American history. What makes him such an icon of history is his passion to influence those around him. "Perhaps the most interesting and potentially useful part of Franklin's autobiography is his description of his self improvement project" (Murphy 2009). Benjamin Franklin made it a point to understand his weaknesses as well as the weaknesses of people he witnessed by their failures. He also had a clear goal of observing habits that led to success.
President Obama’s speech, “A More Perfect Union,” pulls in the reader or listener because it is full of emotion and history of independence and culture. The themes that Obama addresses in his speech are centered on history: the history of American independence, personal growth, black culture, and his political campaign. Obama begins and ends his speech by quoting the Declaration of Independence. He suggests that the document was “signed but ultimately not finished (699) to lead into his goals for his presidency. He addresses the current issues that the United States is facing, such as poor health care, awful education, and a growing war and terrorist threat (700).