Persuasive speeches

For my paper I decided to choose a very moving, life changing speech that was delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28,1963. Martin Luther King Juniors “I Have A Dream” speech is full of persuasive material that was intended to give African Americans their freedom, which they felt they greatly deserved. In this paper I plan on using the human nature perspective, the pathos perspective, demographic perspective, and last the use of motivational appeals. Through the use of these concepts I plan on showing how Martin Luther King Juniors speech was persuasive enough to change history.
I decided to analyze the “I Have A Dream” speech because it is a very popular speech that changed history and the way we live forever. I consider the speech to be very persuasive because it persuaded the white race to accept African Americans as a citizen to this country. It stopped the banding of “whites only” bathrooms; His spe...