Argument Technique in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech — Unit test Answers

Use the passages Silent Spring and "A Case for Waawaatesi” to answer the following question.

What kind of evidence does the passage include to support this claim? Select two answers.

Read the excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream” speech.The Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

Read the short speech made by a hopeful candidate for class president.The class of 2018 needs a president who will get every student involved in our activities. Last year’s class carnival was attended by only fifteen percent of our freshman class! If we continue at this rate, our prom will be the worst-attended event in school history. As a student athlete, environmental club leader, and honor society member, I am a candidate who represents a wide range of classmates. If you are frustrated because your ideas fall on deaf ears, then I encourage you to vote for me and allow me the opportunity to speak for you.

Read the excerpt from "A Case for Waawaatesi."Nocturnal animals sleep during the day and are active at night. Light pollution radically alters their world by turning night into day.

Look at this section from the Click It or Ticket Mobilization Media Campaign. What is the purpose of this section of the campaign?

Read the excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream” speech.In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country."America is an improbable idea. A mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts, it is held together by a notion, the notion that all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone. "Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image," the historian Daniel Boorstin wrote. That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal.The reality is often quite different, a great national striving consisting frequently of failure. Many of the oft-told stories of the most pluralistic nation on earth are stories not of tolerance, but of bigotry. Slavery and sweatshops, the burning of crosses and the ostracism of the other. Children learn in social-studies class and in the news of the lynching of blacks, the denial of rights to women, the murders of gay men. It is difficult to know how to convince them that this amounts to "crown thy good with brotherhood," that amid all the failures is something spectacularly successful. Perhaps they understand it at this moment [in the aftermath of 9/11], when enormous tragedy, as it so often does, demands a time of reflection on enormous blessings.

What is the most likely social effect of the Click It or Ticket Mobilization Media Campaign?

Read the short speech.Operating a motor vehicle requires a driver’s undivided attention. Navigating the roads, attending to road signs, and anticipating the behavior of others demands focus. Young drivers must ignore distractions that hinder their concentration, such as texting. Texting while driving is a blindfold that obstructs views and destroys caution. In the worst situations, it leads to destruction and can be fatal.

Which phrase from Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I have a Dream” speech contains the strongest emotional connotations?

Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country."Today the citizens of the United States have come together once more because of armed conflict and enemy attack. Terrorism has led to devastation—and unity.

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Which statement best represents a claim?

Which phrases best describe a person who is media literate? Check all that apply.someone who can understand why media was createdsomeone who can analyze different forms of mediasomeone who can evaluate the effectiveness of mediasomeone who can stand up for an unpopular idea in the mediasomeone who can circulate media with a specific effect