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A 7 page essay that examines the persuasive rhetorical skills displayed in Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and Malcolm X's The Ballot or the Bullet. The writer argues that where the two texts differ, naturally, concerns variations in style between the two authors, but also that the texts reflect the fact that King's text was a written reply to remarks made by black leaders in the Birmingham newspaper, while Malcolm X's text was a speech that was delivered to an assembled audience. No additional sources cited.
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both address the needs of the African-Americans in the US in the early 1960s. Both texts combine a variety of appeals to support their arguments. Where the two texts differ,
naturally, concerns variations in style between the two authors, but also that the texts reflect the fact that Kings text was a written reply to remarks made black leaders in
the Birmingham newspaper, while Malcolm Xs text was a speech that was delivered to an assembled audience. Therefore, each author not only tailored his thoughts for his intended audience, but
also in a manner intended to utilize the persuasive potential of the medium that the writer was using. Malcolm X first engages the attention of his audience by stating
his topic, which concerns the direction that the Civil Rights movement should take at that particular juncture in time in 1964. The student researching this topic should endeavor to see
both texts in relation to the events of that era. As Malcolm X mentions at the end of this speech, at that precise time, Southern Democrats were staging a
filibuster in the Senate for the precise purpose of thwarting Civil Rights legislation. At the same time, conservative voices, both black and white, were urging Civil Rights activists to be
patient, sending more or less an overt message that black Americans should be "grateful" for any small concessions that were metered out. Both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King rejected
this rationale, but they did so in distinctively different ways. Malcolm X presented the alternative paths facing black Americans quite succinctly as "the ballot or the bullet," but having
throw out this potentially incendiary idea, he doesnt immediately explain what he means by this, or which course he favors, rather he slips easily into an appeal to reason (logos)
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