The Good vs. The Bad

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To: dawnwalts@lewisu.edu
Subject: Class Absence


Good morning,


I hope all is going well this morning. I was contacting you regarding my absence in class today. Unfortunately I was experiencing car trouble this morning, which delayed my commute to school. I will be arriving later than usual on campus. I know you might be busy at the moment I just wanted to inform you of my absence. Thank you.


Very Respectfully,
Brianna Pelayo
10:00-10:50 Class




To: dawnwalts@lewisu.edu
Subject:


Hey I cant make it to class. See you later. Keep me posted on work.

Passage-Based Focused Freewrite for MLK

"Letter from Birmingham City Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr

 

"My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without legal and nonviolent pressure. History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and give up their unjust posture;"

 

 

Free write:

 

This part of the letter seemed so interesting to me. It may be a short paragraph but alone it says so much. I always seen history as mysterious and maybe unjust sometimes. For example, who says the events in history are all right? Can someone just make up certain events to make others look good while the rest are belittled? King is also right on the nonviolence point. There hasn't been any rule making in history that has been made by not using violence. There has been many events in history where the government intervened with violence or as to say using the "Big Stick" theory. Also history has been known to be dark. There has always been blood involved with certain types of groups fighting for their rights. Martin Luther King Jr, wanted  to keep the peace while changing the way people treated one another. Of course he was defending more the African American people, but he was also being very general with the usage of violence. Minimal use of violence was key for him and may have changed lots of things. I just always thought history was interesting to the extent to where who is right and who is wrong when telling their part of the story. 

 

 

 

 



Sentences from The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

Simple:

"He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."

Compound:

"He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures."


Complex:

"He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions between."


Compound/Complex:

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do , in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and the Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power if Ievy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do."