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Yeah
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this is my a fast author discussion and I am Ryan Rhodes
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from my introduction for my first slide.
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My name is Ryan Rhodes and my author just my author discussions about the speaker,
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author and civil rights activist martin Luther King Jr and
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in this presentation I'll be talking about his early life,
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his career and some of his achievements.
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Then I will be analyzing and talking about some
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readings and themes that really stuck out to me.
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Yeah.
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Um some things that happened in this early in family life.
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Um he was born on 15 January 1929
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and um he was born um a victorian house on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta Georgia.
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Um in Atlanta,
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martin Luther King sr worked odd jobs and studied
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and I slowly uh developed a reputation as a preacher
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and while preaching at two small churches outside of Atlanta.
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King, Sr was a member of the N. A. A. C. P.
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And in the N A N A A C. P.
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He has led a successful campaign to equalize the salaries
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of white and black teachers in Atlanta and that was
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one of his main priorities and he really want to go
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preach about that.
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Um Some more, a little bit more about his early in family life. Um
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as a child Kings encounters with a racial discrimination where
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they were mild but they definitely occurred and happened in their formative.
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Um King's first encounter was when he was in grade school and
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when he was in grade school, these white playmates of his where
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um they were to attend different elementary school
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visits since they were a different color skin.
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Then once the year began,
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their parents no longer allowed um martin Luther King to come over and play play,
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play play with them.
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Um, It was,
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it was this instance of injustice that first led king,
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martin Luther King's mother to explain to
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him the history of slavery and segregation.
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All right.
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Um, also, um,
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martin Luther King was in high school and
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he attended a oratory contest in valdosta Georgia
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and King took second place and he was very stoked about
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that happy and his victory was great and they celebrated.
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However, um, by the long bus ride back to Atlanta,
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it was segregated and the black people and martin and them had to stand
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up so that the white people could sit down even after just winning.
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Um, something that meant a lot to them or not winning came in second.
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Yeah.
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Um, this, this is the phenomenal woman. Um, and it was written by my uh, angelo.
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And this is a reading that spoke out a lot to me. Um, I read it before countless times.
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I've read in grade school, middle school or not grades, grade school, high school.
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And um, I'm reading, I read it again in college.
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Um,
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it is a message about conforming to the way that society says a woman should look or
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act and this piece tells us how white women are seen in the superior in their beauty
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and this is a theme of racism and how people
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people see part of this idea of like of beauty
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and how there are many different forms of it.
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There's not just one form of beauty.
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This put this poem gets off inspiration,
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encouraged women understand and reassure the true strength of being a woman and you
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must keep your head up and keep your confidence up to make that happen.
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Okay.
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Then the second piece I want to talk about is called the Bluest eye by Toni Morrison.
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And then um yeah, exactly.
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The Blue aside by african american either at Toni Morrison on
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the novel is set in the 19 forties and focuses on a
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On a 10 year old African American girl
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named Piccola Piccola is living in a foster child
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and she's trying to find herself while living
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in her
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in her white neighborhood
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because blue eyes which makes her continues to prey on as
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white people in their own community called her ugly constantly.
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And in the novel,
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her blue eyes symbolizes the white the whiteness of America and
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how white people are treated differently than the african americans,
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then there is piccola being treated terribly because
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she is african american with blue eyes obviously
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and piccola believes that if she had the blue eyes that
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should be treated the same and live a perfect life.
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Um just like everyone else,
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but they're just like the white people and that was obviously not what happened
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then lastly, I just want to talk about both pieces of work really quick.
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Um these pieces both focus on african american women and
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the way that society treats them different so differently.
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Um They brought up which way the society makes them feel insecure because they
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are african american with and it seems that they are expected of women,
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especially with the way that they look.
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Um martin Luther King preached about equality countless
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times and took multiple consequences for it and later
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ended up dying for what he truly what he truly wanted,
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which was really inspiring to me.
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I really, really look up to that when I was a younger um
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I had the opportunity to talk to my friends dad who
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um who his great uncle was martin Luther King.
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His,
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my friend's name was timothy King and I just thought I talked to him about
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it sometime in grade school just like because
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I always thought it was so interesting,
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I,
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he was just really, really cool
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and then finally this theme was
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importantly emphasizes the way that african american
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women were made to feel like they were beautiful because they are not what
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and then lastly this is uh we're excited and I had four sources
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and thank you so much