Question

I Need Help But I Don't Want the Answers lol

i just want to know how am i suppose to do this it says something about an essay towards the Beginning. Do i Write an essay?

Answer 1

ha,ha lol may i see??

Answer 2

What stylistic elements does King use to influence his readers? After reading and analyzing "Letter from Birmingham Jail," write an essay in which you answer the question and analyze structure and language in his text, providing three or more examples to illustrate and clarify your analysis. What conclusion can you draw about the power of this text?

Answer 3

Write your Basic Thesis Statement in the space below.

Go through the Thesis Statement Essentials Checklist. It is okay if you are not able to check off some of these characteristics.

_ Is your thesis statement one sentence?
_ Does it answer the question?
_ Does it use specific words?
_ Does it take a stand? Could someone have a different interpretation?
_ Does it answer “Why does this matter?” or “So what?”

Based on the checklist above, revise your thesis statement so that it has all of the above qualities and include it here.

Answer 4

I was kinda looking for some help from people who did this im doing FLVS
but if you know it then please do help

Answer 5

oh okay this thesis statement is that sentence or two in your text that contains the focus of your essay and tells your reader what the essay is going to be about.
so yeah mostly like an essay :)

Answer 6

ok so they want me to write an essay about like the main point

Answer 7

of his letter?

Answer 8

yep btw i'll message u something :)

Answer 9

thanks

ok?

Answer 10

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Birmingham City Jail
April 16, 1963
My dear Fellow Clergymen,
1 While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling our present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom, if ever, do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine goodwill and your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I would like to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.

Feedback: This paragraph establishes King's purpose for writing the letter: he wishes to address the criticisms of his fellow clergymen.
2 In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: (1) Collection of the facts to determine whether injustices are alive; (2) Negotiation; (3) Self-purification; and (4) Direct action. We have gone through all of these steps in Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying of the fact that racial injustice engulfs (swallows up) this community. Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of police brutality is known in every section of this country. Its unjust treatment of Negroes in the courts is a notorious (well-known) reality. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than any city in this nation. These are the hard, brutal, and unbelievable facts. On the basis of these conditions Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good faith negotiation.

Feedback: This paragraph is a response to one of the criticisms. King explains the steps he and his followers had taken and establishes why they chose Birmingham for their protest.
3 I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say wait. But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity ; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an air-tight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people …—then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness of corroding despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience.

Feedback: This paragraph is a response to one of the criticisms. It depicts the many instances of inequality that individuals in the African-American community experience.
4 I was arrested Friday on a charge of parading without a permit. Now there is nothing wrong with an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade, but when the ordinance is used to preserve segregation and to deny citizens the First Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and peaceful protest, then it becomes unjust.

Feedback: This paragraph explains King's personal situation; he broke the law by parading without a permit.
5 I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

Feedback: King moves to a philosophical discussion of law and justice. He uses this paragraph to assert that an individual who breaks an unjust law (such as one that does not let people exercise promised rights) is actually respectful of law and justice.
6 We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. But I am sure that, if I had lived in Germany during that time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers even though it was illegal. If I lived in a communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

Feedback: This paragraph uses a historical example to show that sometimes laws that are "legal" are not just or right, and that they should be disobeyed for the good of the people.
7 I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and that when they fail to do this they become dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress … we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

Feedback: This paragraph reminds the clergymen that laws exist to establish justice for all. King reminds them that he and other activists are not causing the problems in society; they are merely showing that the problems exist so that something can be done about them.
8 We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy, and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Feedback: This paragraph challenges King's audience to act NOW.
9 I have travelled the length and breadth of Alabama, Mississippi and all the other southern states. On sweltering summer days and crisp autumn mornings I have looked at her beautiful churches with their spires pointing heavenward. I have beheld the impressive outlay of her massive religious education buildings. Over and over again I have found myself asking: "Who worships here? Who is their God? Where were their voices when the lips of Governor Barnett dripped with words of interposition and nullification ? Where were their voices of support when tired, bruised, and weary Negro men and women decided to rise from the dark dungeons of complacency to the bright hills of creative protest?"

Feedback: This paragraph directly addresses the Church. It points out the irony of the beautiful churches who were supposed to fight for justice but who were silent about racial inequality.
10 There was a time when the Church was very powerful … In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Wherever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators." Things are different now. The contemporary Church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch-supporter of the status quo. Far from being disturbed by the presence of the Church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the Church's silent and often vocal sanction of things as they are.

Feedback: This paragraph reminds the clergymen that the Church can be a powerful force in the community if they stop being silent about racial inequalities.
11 Never before have I written a letter this long (or should I say a book?). I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else is there to do when you are alone for days in the dull monotony of a narrow jail cell other than write long letters, think strange thoughts, and pray long prayers?

Feedback: This paragraph reflects on the length of the letter and the injustice of King's circumstances.
12 Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

Feedback: This paragraph closes the letter with King's hopes for the future.
13 Yours for the cause of
Peace and Brotherhood,
14 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 11

hey u got my message??

Answer 12

oh my gosh it's all about Jr.Luther ??

Answer 13

yeah i saw a post like this but it was kinda hard to read with all the text

Answer 14

there was like 40 responds i think and it was hard to read

Answer 15

she didn't use full sentences so i couldn't tell what they were talking about.

Answer 16

ha,ha u don't have to read it all lol take u're time and see what the girl is asking or maybe that was a guy lol

Answer 17

idk lol but thank you

Answer 18

yeah still u welcome i wish i could go there but still i have to be here....

Answer 19

i find it really easy i don't actually do Florida virtual school i do Marion virtual school but they use the same website.

Answer 20

i guess type it all in google the first thing

Answer 21

yep thats what i did first lol

Answer 22

oh okaii i see but i don't understand anything about flvs :) only my friends who go there lol
so u say u googled the first paragraph well then i got bunch of 'em..

Answer 23

oh no i didnt google the paragraph i just googled the question

Answer 24

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look then here then

Answer 25

lol duh maybe i should try that :)

Answer 26

okaii now i see oha,ha

Answer 27

thanks again lol

Answer 28

well i'm fine i was just making sure u'll get out of this situation lol

Answer 29

:)

Answer 30

ha,ha okay okay good luck..