For this Final Assignment, you will write an essay based on the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail you can access it here (Links to an external site.)
You will write an essay that covers the following topics:
- Define the purpose of the letter
- Summarize three main points of the letter,
- Who is his audience?
- Analyze the letter and describe how it fits into the Rogerian Model.
- use explicit examples and the terminology (from your book) that informs the reader of the manner in which this letter meets the criteria for the Rogerian model.
- how does the letter achieve the following: (HINT : Build your thesis around these items)
- is non-confrontational, friendly
- respects the views of others and allows for multiple truths
- seeks to achieve some degree of agreement rather than absolutely convince
- Requirements:
- Must use MS WORD
- must be in MLA format (30 pts deduction for non-MLA format)
- 1250 word count
- use 3-5 quotes from the text
- Include a Works Cited
Answer preview
The last key point addressed by Dr. Martin Luther King in the letter was the clergymen’s idea of the untimely nature of the protest. In this section, he mentions that the black people had waited 340 years to achieve their rights due to the prolonged racism in the United States. Nonetheless, King addresses the conflict between a just and unjust law such as segregation, which brought injustice back to the community because it degrades human personality. For example, Dr. King states that “he has been arrested with parading without a permit,” but the purpose of such an ordinance was to facilitate segregation (King, pg.261). The message that he was portraying in this letter was that law could be just on its face but fail in its application since it denied citizens the right of a peaceful protest. King states that “freedom is never voluntarily granted by the oppressor and thus must be demanded by the oppressed” (King, pg. 262).
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