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Persuasion is very important. All kinds of people use it. It is a big part of business. One of the more common places it is seen is in ads. In the article Advertising, it says “Advertising encompasses any activity or effort designed to attract public attention to a product or service.”There are all kinds of techniques used to get people to buy a product. Persuasion is also a big part of winning a campaign. You have to convince people to vote to you. You have to give them a reason. Many may not agree with you in the beginning but many will eventually give in. Martin Luther King Junior’s “I Have a Dream” speech is a work of rhetoric persuasion by its use of analogy, parallelism, and allusion.
The use of analogy is a big part of the rhetoric persuasion in Martin Luther King Junior’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Martin Luther King uses analogy when he talks about “coming to our nation’s Capital to cash a Check.” He talks about how the promises of certain rights in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence have not been met. In the article Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, it says, “It is argued that segregation based on race violates the Constitution because conditions in schools for African American children are not equal to those in schools for white children.” In his speech Dr. King says, “America has given the Negro people a bad check.” This is true in many ways. It wasn’t fair. Many ask why? Why did whites think that the black were so beneath them? The answer is easy. It was just the way it was. It is the way they were raised. This goes back to Aristotle’s pyramid. Gods at the top, men below, women, and at the bottom was blacks. This wasn’t something that was really supposed to change. Many were upset becau...

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Title: Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.
Series: Essential Documents
Publisher Information: Great Neck Publishing
Ipswich Massachusetts 01983
United States of America
Bibliographic Records: 01/14/2009 to 01/31/2009
Full Text: 01/14/2009 to 01/31/2009

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• Garrow, David J. "King the man, the march, the dream." American History (Leesburg, VA) Aug 2003: 26-35,10. History Study Center. Web. 19 Mar. 2014.

• Lyons, Courtney. "Martin Luther King's Biblical Epic: His Final, Great Speech." The Journal of Southern History 79.2 (May 2013): 552. History Study Center. Web. 19 Mar. 2014.

• Rose, Chanelle. "King's Dream: The Legacy of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech." History: Reviews of New Books Oct 2010: 126-127. History Study Center. Web. 19 Mar. 2014.

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