Have you ever looked up at the night sky? Have you ever noticed the patterns, the constellations? They’re so beautiful. Yet, the sky looks so much prettier when you just see it as a mess. It looks like a toddler splattered black all over dark jeans. It doesn’t sound so appealing when I put it like that though. Look around you, what do you see? Do you see patterns in the people you’re friends with, or the people you’re sitting with? If they all look like you and all are from the same culture as you, you’re just another constellation. If you’re all different from each other, you’re like the night sky. The night sky is diverse, diverse in the sense it’s all so different, different features, different ages, different distances. They orbit each other and rarely collide. This was how Martin Luther King Jr wanted people to be like, just a beautiful mess, all equal and diverse.
“We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers,” he said, he is Martin Luther King Jr, a person who wanted diversity, equality and peace. He reminded people on how it was so simple for them to learn things that could be unnecessary, yet found it so difficult to learn from other people and to be accepting of them. You
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Peacemakers are the ones who fight with their fist in the air, screaming equality at the top of their lungs. They are the bullies and you can be a peacemaker. Though remember that discriminating a race, a religion, a gender or a sexuality will do nothing, discriminating only keeps the hatred alive. People need to let go of the hate and replace it with a new love and appreciation. Hate is for those who live in the past and can’t move forward. This is what Dr. King preached and I think the most important thing he ever said was not “I have a dream,” but “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to
He follows it by comparing the night sky in his youth to the night sky of today’s youth. This helps emphasize the extent at which the night sky has become less dark in only a few years and displays his deep concern
Is the answer to discrimination violence, or is peace the way to go? During the 1960s, African-Americans were being discriminated against and wanted a change. They created the Civil Rights Movement to help gain their equal rights. Two main Civil Rights leaders of the 60s were Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Dr. King believed that African Americans could receive their rights by peacefully protesting. Malcolm X believed that in order for African Americans to receive equality, they had to take it by force using violence.
Martin Luther King’s historic I Have a Dream speech has a similar goal to Atticus Finch’s closing argument in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Both speeches use rhetorical devices along with ethos, pathos, and logos to support and defend their points of view in the situations in which they exist. Through each of their wording and literary methods, they defend racial equality for their fellow humans. Both Martin Luther King and Atticus Finch have similar styles over conveying their views.
Bigotry may run through the American grain, but so too does resistance. We know the world we are fighting for” (277). Ahmed introduces the importance of peace in a crowd filled with hatred. People have the power to destroy hate before it transforms them into ugly and regretful individuals. In the end, it comes down to whether individuals are willing to help themselves and others control themselves under the influence of
“I Have a Dream” is Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s extremely remarkable speech, even though he expressed many other encouraging and inspiring speeches. I chose the speech entitled “Loving Your Enemies”. Given on 17 November 1957 Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama for these reasons. Firstly, it 's one of his many inspiring speeches that is even being brought up in society now. Furthermore, “Loving Your Enemies” is something that is immensely complex, however utterly possible and crucial for humankind to exist harmoniously in this corrupt life.
Stargazing 101: Gemini, the Twins It’s exciting to see many of these stories start to intertwine! The Gemini brothers, as I mention later on, have been involved in many adventures throughout Greek mythology. They rescued their sister, Helen of Troy, the first time she was abducted (a separate abduction from the Trojan War.) I’m also really enjoying these cover images by Sidney Hall.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that ". Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes this quote because throughout American history discrete groups of citizens have strived for rights the American Constitution provided them. African americans did not have the same rights as other white people because of their skin color. In the late 1950s blacks stood up to fight for social justice and the public authorities who have reprehended their rights.
Anna Mow once said, “’Peace is an attitude, the kind that doesn’t create dissension. We create hostility when we turn away from what the other person is saying instead of listening to understand. The primary task is to perceive the perspective of those who differ with us’” (Long 146). Anna Mow covers a great point.
(366). The sky is an indistinct image and can be thought about in two different ways by the reader. In one way, there is something bleak and grim about the cloudless, sunless sky because it 's empty. You could see this emptiness as a reflection of the family 's extreme circumstances at the end of the story: they 're being killed by the Misfit in the middle of nowhere, without anyone to help or hear them. The family also probably felt empty themselves as they start to lose their lives one by one realizing what was actually happening.
People thought that the north star was the brightest star in the universe. When we had slavery the slaves would follow the north star which was quite noticeable, considering people thought it was the brightest. Although, people may have gotten the North Star confused with other stars, people still believed it was the brightest. People believed that the north star was the brightest star because they got it confused with the dog star, (Alpha Canis Majoris). Stars have different magnitudes, so if the north star had a magnitude of below -1 it would be brightest then a star with a magnitude of above 0.
“ I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear” - Martin Luther King Jr. (Garland). We all know and learn about the famous Dr. King and what he did, but do we actually follow up his role in our own lives? Martin Luther King Jr. is famous for his non-violent protests and teachings inspired by Ghandi.
Similarly, she describes how she only pays attention to the stars, but not the sky. Using metaphors, she compares dirt to the things we pay no mind to such as the sky that hold stars, but in truth it's essential to making everything else special as the sky makes stars special. In addition, Olds understands how we are made
Living in hope, with our beliefs, and with little expectation of others is the way forward. My parents, simple and honest human beings, have high expectations of me, wishing that I too, like them, grew up to be an honorable person. Martin Luther King’s life inspires the determined and I agree that to give up on life or stop is deplorable. Irrespective of the hurdles, to push ahead with all one’s might is the only way to succeed. Living this philosophy, my father, a genuine rags to riches story, altered my life, leading by example and encouraging me to follow the path of righteousness.
“ Some people think the Milky Way is a long line of stars, but it isn’t. Our galaxy is a huge disk of stars million of light-years across, and the solar system is somewhere near the outside edge of the disk” (Haddon, 9). Christopher wants his life to be filled with absolutes but finds trouble managing and maintaining a purely logical life. The subjects he enjoys have an a order and stability that Christopher doesn’t have in his own
In the 18th century, another one of the greatest artist of all time, Vincent Van Gogh illustrated a very personal painting. The Starry Night is now one of the most widely known paintings in the world, but the story and meaning is not. Both artist used dark and grim themes when it came to their creations, and that is what draws the public to them. In today 's society we are able to relate to the deeper and more mentally touching symbols of these pieces of art. Andrew Wyeth’s painting, Christina’s World shows a young woman in a empty field looking up at a grim farmhouse on a rustic summer day.