... people," is the epitome of a personal story to gain emotional appeal. While he was not as exceptional in the "emotional appeals" section, Thoreau excelled in "logical appeals". His sentence structure varies on the topic he is discussing, but the entire essay has forceful diction, "I ask for ... his score for logical appeals. Meanwhile, MLK was also alluding to the Bible, and to Socrates too. His voice isn't as forceful as Thoreau's, which is probably why Civil Disobedience had a more long termstaying power than Letter From Birmingham Jail, eventually inspiring the very letter. King did ...

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... anger, selfishness and violent attitudes from the heart and soul in preparation for a nonviolent struggle. This is a fundamental aspect of Martin Luther King Jr.'s concept of active resistance/civil disobedience. The practice is deeply spiritual and philosophical and it it is not simply ideological. This is an important distinction as it differentiates this type of action from ... a government or of an occupying power without resorting to physical violence. It is one of the primary tactics of nonviolent resistance. Henry David Thoreau developed the modern theory behind this practice in h...

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... accomplish in the 1960's. There are other ways that these two years affected America but these are the major ones. In the 1840's Henry David Thoreau came up with an idea that is called "civil disobedience." Civil Disobedience is when someone breaks the law when they do not believe in something ... during the time of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. They used civil disobedience to eventually get what they felt is right. It was important to Thoreau to get the public informed about the concept of civil disobedience so, when war's broke out it would make people think maybe the war is wrong ... an...

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... our time" was "the need to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression" (Davis, 1974.) King had been impressed by the teachings of Henry David Thoreau and Mahatma Gandhi on nonviolent resistance. King wrote, "I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom" (Davis, 1974.) During ... ...

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