How Did Martin Luther King Influence The Future

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Throughout history, the past will always influence the future. Because of wars, reforms and movements, the future always reflect history. Martin Luther King. Jr, a famous historic leader in the Civil Right Movement, greatly changed the present through his actions and, even now years after his death, still influence the present and future of the world. Shown by the new memorial in Washington D.C., King proves that his legacy will last forever as his dream touched many lives. While he is physically not here today, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial itself depicts an element from the King life that still affect today’s world: incompleteness. Unlike all the statues around, memorial is not fully carved out from the stone, appearing half completed, representing an important element: injustice in the past and present; while providing a rallying force. …show more content…

The statue's composition is of granite blocks from China that Lei Yixin carved (Margolin 405). The quality of the carving is astounding, however, the carving was never finished or rather King never emerges fully out of the stone; to the contrary, the others statues are American made and fully carved. King’s back is still attached to the stone and his feet are not even visible. From King's knee down, everything is engulfed in granite. King's body is more than 75 percent completed with only the bottom remaining incomplete. However, the Martin Luther King Foundation recorded the state of the statue as completed as they deemed Yixin able-bodied to "complete such monumental work" (Bruyneel 85). The incompleteness of memorial is part of the finale. It is unknown why memorial remains incomplete and whether it will ever be fully carved. However, this aspect of incompleteness is brings up a question of whether this is hinting about the present in correlation to the

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