I have a DREAM the speech By Martin Luther King JR.

1. ARGUMENT AND
PERSUASION
I have a Dream
By: Omar
Alzoubi

2. 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.

3. It was Jubilee Day, Jan. 1, 1863. In Washington, PresidentAbraham
Lincoln was expected to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.
• It declared that slaves held
• in the rebel states “shall
• be then,
• thenceforward, and forever
• free.”

4. Slavery in America in 1950s

5. Slavery in America in 1950s

9. 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?

10. 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

11. • 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

12. • easily seen or understood; obvious:
• It quickly became evident that someone had broken in.
Evident

13. • related to a subject or to something happening or
beingdiscussed:
• We turned over relevant documents to
the investigating team.
Relevant

14. • a way of performing a skillful activity, or
the skill needed to do it:
• New surgical techniques are constantly being developed.
Techniques

15. Can a DREAM change the world?

16. Can a DREAM change the world?

17. Can a DREAM change the world?

18. Pay It forward

19. Arithmetic progression

21. 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.

22. legitimate
• allowed according to law,
or reasonable and acceptable:

23. 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.

24. 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.

25. 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.

26. • a public announcement, or the act of making it
proclamation

27. • 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

28. • very important, esp. because of
the effects on future events:
• a momentous decision/event
Momentous

29. Decree
• an order or statement of an official decision:
• He refused to carry out the board’s decree.

30. 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

31. 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.

32. Withering
• expressing strong criticism:
• She delivered a withering attack on
the book and its authors.

33. 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.

34. 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.

35. 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.

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

37. Prosperity
• to be successful, esp. financially:
• As the company prospered, we prospered.

38. Languish
• to exist in an unpleasant or unwanted situation, often
for a longtime:
• Members of Congress have introduced plans, but those
have languished.

39. Exile
• to send or keep someone away from his or her
own country orhome, esp. for political reasons

40. Republic
• a country that
is governed by electedrepresentatives and
an elected leader

41. 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.

42. Declaration
• an official, public, usually written statement:
• a declaration of principles
• the American Declaration of Independence

43. 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:

44. Heir
• a person who will receive or already
has received money orproperty from
another person at the time of that other
person’sdeath:

45. Unalienable
• Rights that may not be taken away.

46. 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

47. 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.

48. Tranquilizer
• a drug that makes people or animals calm:
• he veterinarian who examined the horse gave him a
tranquilizer to calm him down.

49. 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.

50. 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!

51. 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:

52. 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