I have a dream

ARGUMENT AND

PERSUASION

I have a Dream

By: Omar Alzoubi

American Civil War

• The American Civil War, widely known in the United

States as simply the Civil War as well as other sectional

names, was fought from 1861 to 1865.

• The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery,

especially the extension of slavery into the western

territories.[

• After four years of bloody combat that left over 600,000

Union and Confederate soldiers dead, and destroyed

much of the South's state, the Confederacy collapsed,

slavery was abolished, and the

difficult Reconstruction process of restoring national unity

and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves began.

It was Jubilee Day, Jan. 1, 1863. In Washington, President Abraham

Lincoln was expected to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.

• It declared that slaves held

• in the rebel states “shall

• be then,

• thenceforward, and forever

• free.”

Slavery in America in 1950s

Slavery in America in 1950s

But the speech as a whole repays close study and

raises interesting questions.

The speech begins (and ends) by emphasizing freedom:

- What does King mean by freedom, and in what sense does

he regard African Americans as “still not free”?

The speech then moves to speak about justice:

Can you say what he means by “justice”—equality of rights,

equality before the law, equality of opportunity, equality of

economic and social condition, or something else?

adj. sticking together; consistent.

Writing: having its parts related in

an organized and reasonable way:

The president has not presented a

coherent plan for dealing with it.

Coherent

• to show or find the difference between one thing and

another, or between things that are compared:

• What differentiates wheat from other crops is that it

is almostexclusively used as a food product.

Differentiate

• easily seen or understood; obvious:

• It quickly became evident that someone had broken in.

Evident

• related to a subject or to something happening or

beingdiscussed:

• We turned over relevant documents to

the investigating team.

Relevant

• a way of performing a skillful activity, or

the skill needed to do it:

• New surgical techniques are constantly being developed.

Techniques

Can a DREAM change the world?

Can a DREAM change the world?

Can a DREAM change the world?

Pay It forward

Arithmetic progression

default

• to fail to do something, such as pay a debt, that

you legally have to do:

• The company defaulted on a $133 million loan.

legitimate

• allowed according to law,

or reasonable and acceptable:

militancy

• Militant: active, determined, and often willing to

use force.

• The group has taken a militant position on

the abortion issue and is refusing to compromise.

inextricably

• unable to be separated, released, or escaped from.

• In the case of King Arthur, legend and truth are often

inextricable.

• His name was inextricably linked with

the environmental movement.

Emancipation

The act of freeing a person from another

person's control:

emancipation from slavery

The Emancipation Proclamation, made by

President Abraham Lincoln in

1863, freed slaves in

the southern Americanstates during the US

Civil War.

• a public announcement, or the act of making it

proclamation

• an event in which

a group of peoplemarch or stand together to show

that they disagree with orsupport something or

someone:

• Students staged a protest demonstration in

the school gym.

Demonstration

• very important, esp. because of

the effects on future events:

• a momentous decision/event

Momentous

Decree• an order or statement of an official decision:

• He refused to carry out the board’s decree.

Beacon• a light that acts as a signal or warning:

• A beacon is also

a device that sends a signal or information:

• FIG. a beacon of hope

Sear• To have a strong unpleasant effect on someone's feelings

or memories.

• to burn the surface of something with very high heat,

or to cookmeat quickly at a

high temperature to keep in the juices andflavor:

• He seared the steaks

• on the grill.

Withering• expressing strong criticism:

• She delivered a withering attack on

the book and its authors.

Captivity• captive

• a prisoner, esp. a person held by the enemy during

a war.

• Most animals bred in captivity ould probably not survive in

the wild.

Cripple• to make something much less effective; damage:

• Economic sanctions have crippled the country’s economy.

• to cause someone to be unable to move or walk in

the usual way because of an injury or illness:

• The accident crippled him.

Manacles

• handcuffs

• two metal rings, joined by a short chain, that

are locked around a

prisoner’s wrists to prevent free movement:

• She was taken away in handcuffs.

Midst• middle: Long Beach is in the midst of a revival.

Prosperity• to be successful, esp. financially:

• As the company prospered, we prospered.

Languish• to exist in an unpleasant or unwanted situation, often

for a longtime:

• Members of Congress have introduced plans, but those

have languished.

Exile• to send or keep someone away from his or her

own country orhome, esp. for political reasons

Republic• a country that

is governed by electedrepresentatives and

an elected leader

Constitution• the set of political principles by which

a place or organization is governed, or the

written document thatrecords it:

• The Constitution of theUnited States is

a document that establishes the basic rules andlaws

of the American government.

Declaration• an official, public, usually written statement:

• a declaration of principles

• the American Declaration of Independence

Promissory Note

• a legal document that contains a promise

to pay a stated amountof money to

a stated person either on a fixed date or when

themoney is demanded:

Heir• a person who will receive or already

has received money orproperty from

another person at the time of that other

person’sdeath:

Unalienable• Rights that may not be taken away.

Ghetto • a very poor area of a city in which people of the

same race or religion live, or a part of

a society or group that is in some way set apart

Vault• To vault is also to move someone suddenly to a

much higher or more important position:[T]

• The speech vaulted him into the national spotlight.

Tranquilizer

• a drug that makes people or animals calm:

• he veterinarian who examined the horse gave him a

tranquilizer to calm him down.

Threshold• a point at which something starts:

• We are on the threshold of a new era.

• the part of a floor at the entrance to

a building or room:

• It’s traditional for a man to carry his bride over the

threshold.

Devotee• a person who strongly admires a particular person or

is extremely interested in a subject:

• Devotees of jazz won’t want to miss this!

Racism

• the belief that some races are better than others, or

the unfair treatment of someone because of his or

her race

•discrimination

• the treatment of

a person or particular group of people differently, in a

way that is worse than the way people are

usually treated:

discrimination

• Some immigrants were victims of

discrimination.The law made racial discrimination

in employment a serious crime.She claims she is

a victim of age discrimination.

• Discrimination is also prejudice against people and

a refusal to give them their rights.

•By: Omar Alzoubi