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    Can Jail or Prison overcrowding be alleviated? No! Alleviating jails and prisons because of overpopulation should not be the reason, only because it would cause more problems. When alleviating these facilities, people need to ask themselves these three main questions. Will alleviating jails and prison cause fewer crimes? Where are those, that is committing new crimes going to be placed? Lastly, which crimes should an individual go to jail for? These three questions may have people second guess their

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    Martin Luther King Jr Dr. Martin Luther King Jr has wrote many letters but the two most important and ones to remember were his “I Have a Dream” and “Letter to Birmingham Jail” he changed America by these speeches they both talked about segregation and equalities it talked about how bad it was people who were treated unfair because the color of their skin was different and they weren't the same as the rest, how it was unfair and blacks were treated with disrespect and hate the whites treated the

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    Birmingham Jail Criticism

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    “Letter from Birmingham Jail: A Neo Aristotelian Criticism” In August 1963, while confined to the Birmingham jail and serving a sentence for participating in civil rights demonstrations, Martin Luther King, Jr. received a letter from his fellow clergymen urging him to quit his campaign of nonviolent demonstrations and to allow the courts a reasonable length of time to act. In his response, King, Jr. wrote one of the most powerful documents against social injustice; an argumentative essay that focused

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    Letter to Birmingham Jail

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    The Letter from Birmingham Jail or Letter from Birmingham City Jail, is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr. King wrote the letter from the city jail in Birmingham, Alabama, where he was confined after being arrested for his part in the Birmingham campaign, a planned non-violent protest conducted by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference against racial segregation by Birmingham's city government and downtown

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    1. King begins his first paragraph responding back to the clergymen about the statements given towards him. 2. King describes thoroughly the organizations he is involved in as well as to which they are afflicted with in other areas. 3. In the third paragraph, King is presenting his reasons that he is present in the city of Birmingham and compares his risings to the Apostle Paul. 4. King states the importance of how the matter of Birmingham affects widely to other areas, creating a situation for

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    Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1965) is important from both historical and sociological points of view. It is an example of self-sacrifice as in idea for the of equality of all people. Formally, King addresses this letter that he wrote while in Birmingham jail at the clergymen who opposed his protests. In fact, he applies it to everyone who approves of racism, and considers the methods of nonviolent struggle to be too radical and far fetched from achieving an actual goal

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    most people of America. Many nonviolent protestors were arrested and put in jail, cramming 60 people in a jail cell, which was meant to hold 10 people. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to stop segregation and even went to jail due to a nonviolent campaign. While he was in jail, he received a letter from the minsters of Birmingham claiming his campaigns and demonstrations were unwise. King wrote the “Letter From Birmingham Jail” as a peaceful response. Martin Luther King Jr. uses logical appeal to catch

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    from Birmingham Jail-Rhetorical Analysis Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in order to address the biggest issue in Birmingham and the United States at the time (racism) and to also address the critics he received from the clergymen. The letter discusses the great injustices happening toward the Black community in Birmingham and although it is primarily aimed at the clergymen King writes the letter for all to read. In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther

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    very famous works, “I Have a Dream” and “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Each of these works had a different purpose and different audience. Both works utilize persuasive techniques such as pathos in “I Have a Dream” and logos in “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” The speech “I Have a Dream” Is meant to touch your heart and make you see the way African Americans be treated. He wrote it for the Civil Right Activists. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is the facts about why the African Americans are doing the

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    I will explain in great deatail how The letter that MLK wrote towaord the priest and pastures while he was housed in the Birmingham Jail. The main porpuse of Mr. King writing to the prest is to addres the fact of segragation and what the priest and pasters are doing to kill the Jim Crow laws and segragation in all states. This letter that King wrote while in Jail had a great effect in the future giving not only the Preist and Pasters a different point of veiw but also rascist white people. In the

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