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5 pages in length. Orators have a single objective: to persuade their audiences that what they have to say holds the greatest value and righteousness than any other opinion. As one of the nation's supreme wordsmiths, Martin Luther King, Jr. utilized his oratory talent as the conduit between racial inequity and the potential for building new cultural attitudes. His life cut short before realizing his dream, King nonetheless infused society with some of the most influential speeches whereby his use of ethos, logos and pathos worked in a synergistic fashion to both empower and persuade; "Letter from the Birmingham Jail" stands as the epitome of those efforts. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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they have to say holds the greatest value and righteousness than any other opinion. As one of the nations supreme wordsmiths, Martin Luther King, Jr. employed his oratory talent
as the conduit between racial inequity and the potential for building new cultural attitudes. His life cut far too short before realizing his dream, King nonetheless infused society with
some of the most influential speeches whereby his use of Aristotles rhetoric theory - ethos, logos and pathos - worked in a synergistic fashion to both empower and persuade; "Letter
from the Birmingham Jail" stands as the epitome of those efforts. [The essay] clearly illustrates the narrative focus in invitational rhetoric to elucidate personal understanding, but insofar as King
used it to justify his means and/or win converts in his search for social justice, we suggest he was using reciprocal empowerment. In the Birmingham essay, King intended to
move the hearts and minds of both his immediate audience (Birminghams clergy) and the country at large (Darlington et al, 2002, p. 139). II. ETHOS
Martin Luther King possessed a leadership quality that set him apart from myriad other leaders of this or any other time. The concept of leadership is
a rather easy notion to define, however, it is not as simple a task to execute; King was not only able to routinely recognize the inherent demands of being black
in America, but he also consistently rose time and time again to the overwhelming challenge of supporting his peoples inherent rights as human beings, a duality that created a character
to which the people were drawn. Indeed, King possessed a certain charisma and charm that will always be related to his peaceful quest for racial equality and harmony, which
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