Blog Assignment Five. Dr. King Speech

In this blog I will discuss the strategy that Dr. King used in his speeches, "How long? Not Long" and his Last Speech,  videos from youtube that demonstrates Kings power over the people and his frustration.  It is so effective the way Dr. King took the fear out of the people, he did not only bring out the fear but he also brings God into them. This was a success in Kings speech because he spoke in a confidence tone of voice, he used the language to express and send out the message out to the people. The things he said and the way he uses gesture to catch the people attention, it was incredible. While preaching he raises his hands out to the crowd a sign of blessing, you in power, he brought faith into the people hearts "We going to be okay no matter what", he basically is saying we will face obstacles and we shall be prepare for this but we will make it. Cheering and repeating after him How long? not long, with these words he had the people full of happiness and joy. He made sure to let them know that non-violence was the strategy, constantly repeating from the Bible " My eyes are seeing the Glory of the coming lord", he is saying I've seen the future lets walk tors it. He enlightened the crowd. In his Last Speech King tone of voice changed  after three years he sound angry, fed up. He tells the people "we have difficult days ahead of us" he never lied to the people about what was coming up, but he was not afraid of what was coming, he did not fear, and that even though it was hard to get there God will bring it. Once again he repeated "my eyes are seeing the Glory of the coming lord", bringing faith and confidence to the people, leaving the stage with  the loud crowd full of joy, happiness and clapping for him.

Dr.King

In this blog I will discuss Dr. King ideas on The Most durable Power, his belief of the most durable power is love. The type of love that was instead of being aggressive you will hug another. It was not the regular typical love, it was being the bigger person to walk away and being able to do this you would have to have alot of power. To support this idea Dr. King says "It is not a do nothing method it is not a weak tactic. The power to resist is just as or more stronger than actually fighting" (King,10). to connect this idea the use of justice was a practice of showing kindness and not injustice toward the opponent.

Contradiction

         Benjamin Banneker, a free African American and an astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, almanac writer, wrote a letter to form U.S President Thomas Jefferson that reflects on Benjamin point of view of slavery and challenged Jefferson’s suppositions of the inferiority of blacks.Contradiction are statements that assert claims that cannot really be true, is a conflict of opposite. In this blog, I will discuss the contradiction of Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence have on one another with the continued existence of slavery.

The most devastating of Jefferson's contradictions were those that involved the issue of slavery. This man was a hypocrite when it comes to slavery, he supposedly disliked slavery and in his political career, he made some attempts to end slavery in the United States. Jefferson most importantly document  in  The Declaration of Independence immoral and fundamentally inconsistent with his lines and ideas about natural right in American History. Jefferson says "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." (2) this is important and explains that Banneker despite Jefferson’s misgivings about the slave trade, he continued to believe in the moral and social superiority of whites over blacks. Jefferson owned and sold numerous of slaves. It was also discovered that one of the female slaves he owned, Sally Hemmings, was the mother of at least one of his child. Jefferson contradictions were proven that he was not human, but he was a hypocrite. Banneker often reminded Jefferson of the language of religious humility that he had used the idea that the blessings of liberty come from a Supreme Being, rather than a human being having the decision  over another.

Blog Assignment three "Lynch Law in all its phases"

Eventhough the end of the Civil Was brought freedom to African American slaves in the United States, it did not bring safety. During Lynching, was a harsh reality for former slaves in the south, is the practice whereby a mob and usually several of hundred whites takes the law into its own hands in order to punish and kill African American. Although the brutal act committed by one race on another the lynching was not stopped. In this blog I will be discuss Southern Horror and other Writings, edited by Jacquelune Jones Royster with text introduced Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900. Ida B. Wells is a African American women journalist, public speaker and newsletter editor introduce lynching of African Americans. Discussing lynching law and the effect that it had on the Afro American.

Whites accused, arrested and lynched African American before any hearing could determine their guilt or innocence. In the text "southern Horror" by Jacqueline Jones Royster, Wells says, "If southern white are not careful, they will over-reach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women"(Wells,52), the author uses the keyword public sentiment, meaning emotion and belief of the people. What Afri-American feel. We should pay close attention to this because this means that afri-American will start acting opon their emotions and reveal against the whites.The African American felt that what the white were doing to them,  accusing them of raping white women it was unreasonable and unfair to them. If whites did not react fast their reputation and wifes reputation would be ruin because men weren't actually raping their woman, but actually sleeping with them.

Freewrite on the language of human rights.

Human rights are right we are born with, As human we have our rights to protect and we are all created equal. The connection i find in language with human rights is the way we address and express ourselves to something we are approaching. theres different way of language we can send a message out and for it to be interpret. Language is use in human favor, or against, it just all depends on what we are addressing and how we sending the message. My intensive proposal would be how i contribute to the book and the way i am going to interpret how language is connected with human rights, in a form of a poem i will be expressing why do i think it relates to eachother and how it is used. 

Drama and Bullying

The author claims that the people would rather use the word drama because they thought drama was more like joking around, minor skirmished between friends, break up, make ups, and gossip.

My JOurney

For as long as I can remember, language has played an important role in my life. My relationship to language has been quite a journey. Both my parents are from the Dominican Republic and the language they speak is Spanish. Therefore, my native language is Spanish. I am most fluent in both Spanish and English. Knowing both languages has been difficult when it come to writing proper English and sometimes speaking with others. The way I communicate with the language whether I’m in school, work, or my peers it all depends in the environment and the people around me. There’s certain structure one uses to address others, when speaking with friends I constantly find myself speaking both languages in one sentence. In my world I consider that the way I speak it all depends on the comfort you have with the communicator.
 
            I cannot recall the time I encounter with the language but at the age of 2 my parents and I moved to Puerto Rico and the language spoken there is Spanish. I went to school in P.R for a few years and finally learned English when I came back to the United States at the age of 7. I felt very comfortable with the Spanish language and very confident in myself until I had to go back to school but now in New York City. My parents said I would have to lean English, not knowing any better I refused. Why should I learn another language?, why is it necessary? But deep inside, I was terrified. Questions will constantly replay in my head. How will I communicate with the other students? I was afraid of what others may think of me, and I thought going to school with the rest of the students they will tease me and look at me weird. Attending school I came to realize it was not what I thought it would be, they offer a bilingual program where there were other students with the same situation. We were all there to learn English. From that moment on my journey speaking, writing, reading, and well understanding English began.
 
            I can say that language defines me in many ways. At times I can be very shy because I find myself looking for the perfect way to respond to something/ someone. Even though I know English theses few years I have struggled expanding my vocabulary, and writing it proper. Because of these reasons I feel more comfortable with my native language. But it’s something that I try not to let it over power me and I see it as a Gift. What do I mean by a gift? I am very lucky to have the opportunity of knowing two languages. I appreciate the fact that I am able to explore both languages. Knowing two languages have been beneficial. I’ve had the chance to help others translate and explaining in different ways what the other person is communicating.