Beyonce Vietnam a Time to Break Silence

Asya Bridgett

4-8-16

“Beyonce Vietnam A Time to Break Silence” Essay

In “Beyonce Vietnam A Time to Break Silence” , Martin Luther King Jr builds an argument that American involvement in the Vietnam War is unjust because of the timing, using money for the poor for this war, and also taking away American resources. He does this by using word choice, , and pathos to strengthen the logic and persuasiveness of his argument

In the article Dr. Martin Luther King Jr uses pathos throughout his speech to strengthen his argument that American involvement in the Vietnam war is unjust. In the speech Martin Luther King says that the Vietnam war was unjust for many reasons one things that he said was that people were sending their brothers and husbands to go fight and die for others, as in the speech it says “It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population”. This is pathos because it is getting to the readers emotions, someone dying is a sad thing and isn't something that people take lightly. Another example of pathos is when he is talking about how

In the speech Martin Luther King Jr also uses word choice throughout the speech to strengthen his argument that American involvement in the Vietnam war is unjust. In his speech he repeats “poor people” a lot, by him doing this it makes him seem as if he is trying to say that the poor was impacted more and people feel bad for the poor but during this time they were taking everything away from them. This also ties into pathos because by him saying that they were taking away from the poor is emotional for some people.

The last thing that Martin Luther King Jr uses to strengthen his argument is ethos. Throughout the speech

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