There he stands atop the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial, in the nations’ capital, at a podium, speaking to the world. The crowds faces full of hope. Ears opened wide and clear, for the Dr. is speaking today. He is speaking from the heart and telling the nation that he has a “DREAM.” Dr. King had a dream and as most people think that it is geared towards blacks and whites, it’s not. Dr. King wanted equality between everybody. He wanted freedom from racism and prejudice throughout the nation. He was very good in getting the emotional perspective of persuasion across to his audience. King was a very inspirational man; his words were so true and full of meaning. He spoke to everyone and got everybody involved. This is why people followed him and why I think this is the most persuasive piece we have read. He not only implies his wants but he carries along with him the wants and needs of every man or woman ever treated poorly because of the color of their skin or their beliefs. There is a certain unexplainable meaning and feeling when a man like King steps up in front of the world and says, “I have a Dream.”
I chose King’s speech because it has so much more meaning and history behind it than the others. He pulled me into his world and showed me the way God intended it to be. His constant uses of virtually every form of persuasive writings are some of the best that can be used to pull an audience in. It has a greater meaning to it than say, Ginsberg and/or Shakespeare, these are more or less poetic displays of writing and in Shakespeare’s case this is a fictional story. King has grown up in a society that has been raised to hate anything that isn’t the same color as them. King exclaimed it wonderfully when he said, “I have a dream one that one day my children will not be judged be the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” These are such powerful words that really make a person think. They make you think about how you’re conducting your life right now. Are you treating everybody with the same courtesy and respect, or are you singling out certain races because for some reason or another you have a negative view towards them?
Dr. King announced the “I Have A Dream” speech in front of 200,000 African American families and to a few Caucasians who were at the scene of his speech. Dr. King’s speech was mainly addressed to the African Americans, to explain one day there will be equality in all Caucasians and other ethnicities such as; Hispanics, Native Americans and Asian Americans. Therefore at the time of his speech, his audiences were to the 200,000 people who attended the speech but he was also referring to all other ethnicities as well. To his audience for example, he said as the future years pass, the hardship they are going through would pay off for the future children. For example, 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 jugged by the color of their skin but by their content of character.
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It is important to include cultural issues in the helping process to be more effective. We also need cultural competence because the U.S. is becoming more diverse. Therefore with diversity comes different beliefs, norms, and values. Eurocentric values dominate sciences and began cultural universals which puts the clash of dominate and non-dominate cultural behaviors in motion. In 1996 the NASW Code of Ethics increased the recognition of cultural competence. It is important to know diversity exist within ethnic and cultural groups because social workers need to know that relationships between helping professionals and clients may be strained. This happens because of the distrust between groups. Another important aspect is that the professional realizes their own values, biases, and beliefs. The reason for this is because they must value diversity to start with and understand the dynamics of difference. Culturally competent practitioners have to go through developmental process of using their own culture as a starting point to meet all behaviors. Striving for cultural competence is a long term process of development. The literature on cultural competence is theoretical and conceptual. They have not been evaluated in a systematic way. Roughly there are 2 million Native americans in the U.S. Which survive decimating disease, over-repressed in child welfare system, suffer from health problems, and are among the poorest people in the United States. Working with them clearly falls within the social work clearly mandate to serve vulnerable and oppressed clients. However, we do not know how many people from this group is actually receiving help from social workers. Even though it is important to train social workers to provide care in th...
Dr. KING: "My goal was to draw on traditional American values and deep traditional Christian values in the cause of civil rights and to use the mass media. I knew that television was now putting daily events right into people's living rooms every single day, and if I could shape the way the black movement was presented it would have a powerful effect on public opinion. I used television, in effect, to force white America to think, to face up to what it really wanted the country to be. I knew that Americans are not willing to stand by with all this injustice existing?
For example, whites had sympathy for African Americans and parents had sympathy for their children. The way that King tells his speech takes the focus off of race and reestablishes it on the aspiration of a world without racism. “.by making his audience no longer hate Negroes and instead hate racism and wish for a new, better world.” (L., Anson). Dr. King made the audience sympathize with African Americans, helping the audience realize that racist people and biased ideas caused the true dilemma of discrimination.
King peacefully pleads for racial tolerance and the end of segregation by appealing to the better side of white Americans. His attempt to persuade America about the justice of his cause, and to gain support for the civil rights movement, was emotionally moving. He spoke to all races, but his rhetoric was patriotic, and culturally similar to, and focused on African-Americans. He was able to make practical use of a history many Americans are proud of. The use of repetition reinforced his words, making it simpler and more straightforward to follow.
Overall, Martin Luther King’s purpose of this speech was to unite African Americans and Caucasians to fight together for the same cause, equal rights for all people no matter the color of their skin. To successfully convey this purpose, King employed several tools of persuasion in his speech. He did indeed present an example of what could qualify as the "greatest demonstration" of arguments for true freedom for all Americans. He employed the techniques of ethos, pathos and logos with such skill that his audience likely was only aware of a single steering man towards a national unity.
In his speech, he proclaimed a free and better nation of equality and that both races, the blacks and the whites, should join together to achieve common ground and to support each other instead of fighting against one another. King’s vision is that all people should be judged by their “personality and character and not by their color of skin”(‘I Have a Dream”). All points he made in his speech were so strong that lots of people were interested in his thoughts. He dreamed of a land where the blacks could vote and have a reason to vote and where every citizen would be treated the same and with the same justice. He felt that all Americans should be equal and that they should forget about injustice and segregation. He wanted America to know what the problems were and wanted to point out the way to resolve these problems.
Dr. Martin Luther King persuades the american public to do something, rather than nothing with loaded language, appeal to emotion and cause and effect. King is amazing at public speaking and speech writing and this speech exemplifies
When most people hear the name Martin Luther King Jr., they automatically think of his famous speech, “I Have a Dream.” A major reason his speech is so popular and well-liked is because of how influential it was. In this persuasive speech, Martin Luther King Jr. passionately expressed his thoughts about equality to the public in order to unite everyone through equal rights. Due to the strong points he made, his rhetorical context, his use of appeals, and the tone he used, this speech became one of the most persuasive and effective speeches ever conducted.
Dr. King uses many emotional appeals throughout his speech. For example, in paragraph eight on the back, he states, “ 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 is an example of emotional appeal because it is getting to the minds of his audience. Every parent’s dream is for their kid to grow up in a safe community because they will not be around forever to help and guide their children. Dr. King, being a parent, can connect to all of the parents. Not only is his direct quotes emotional, but his repetition of the words “I have a dream”. These words are very powerful for his audience to hear. It reaches out and touches his audience, showing them how
Throughout the speech, King’s common message was to achieve racial equality. He stresses this when he explains, “This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality-1963 is not an end but a beginning” (King 2). This quote supports the message by stating that this is a movement that is not short lived, and they will fight for equality. King’s tone is part of what makes this speech so iconic. He is very optimistic and inspirational. This is illustrated when he begins his speech with, “I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation” (King 1). As one can see, Dr. King started this speech using many motivational words and his optimistim certainly shines through. This speech is also inspirational thanks to the sentence structure. He uses compound complex sentences to thoroughly get his point across. This is shown when he discusses, “When we allow freedom to ring-when we let it ring from every city and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last,
King Jr. spread his opinions using words. His “I Have a Dream” speech is still recognized as his most impacting speech, studied, taught, and looked at as the major turning point for racial equality. Through his peaceful methods, his opinions on racial and gender equality were spread to thousands, resulting in giving African Americans today rights they otherwise might not have ("About").
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech is one of the greatest speeches to in American history. The way he is able to unite his audience at the end of the March on Washington against social injustice with references to the past, present, and his aspirations for this country is inspirational and moving. King utilizes many rhetorical devices to create a logical, ethical and emotional appeal to persuade his audience through his culture.
His argument is very reasoning to his defence and he eats so many reason to why the work works in its evil ways of discrimination. He wants everyone to that, it's very easy to not be very discriminated by the way you look but the way your skin color. Mr. King is very descriptive of his words and his meaning for them. He can really make the world change if everyone really did follow. King's reason for the speech is because he is trying to make a difference, he is a very good well taught speaker and he speaks with so much enthusiasm and nothing could really stop him from anything he's