Lydia Montes De Oca

1/26/18
English 11

The common purpose to Martin Luther King Jr’s, “a letter from Birmingham jail”he
wanted nonviolent resistance of racism.,Eleanor Roosevelt’s “On the adoption of the universal
declaration of human rights”. And on Malala Yousafzai's “address to the united nations youth
assembly” she wanted education rights for children and everyone and still continue fighting after
she got shot in the head.. They fought for human rights and what they believe is right.

` “Address to the United Nations Youth Assembly” by Malala Yousafzai, the purpose of
this text and central claim is that Malala is fighting for human rights. Throughout the text Malala
Yousafzai uses various forms of rhetoric to advance that purpose. One example that Malala
uses Pathos when she says “In the name of god, The most beneficent, The most Merciful”. This
is an example of pathos, because it appeals to the audience’s sense of emotion by saying
something religious like “god”. Furthermore, Malala Yousafzai uses repetition to advance their
purpose when they she says “Their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity,
their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated”. This specific example of
repetition advances the speaker’s purpose because, Malala reptities multiple times in her
speech trying to tell the people to fight for their rights, equality, live in peace.

“On the Adoption of the universal declaration of human rights” by Eleanor Roosevelt the
central claim of the test is fighting for human rights. Throughout the text the Roosevelt, uses
various forms of rhetoric to advance the purpose. One example of this is when she uses ethos
when she says “I shall not burden the assembly, and particularly my colleagues of the third
committee with restatement of that position here”. This is an example of ethos because it
appeals to the audience’s sense of credibility by the third committee is a good organization
convincing the readers is saying is a respectable organization. Furthermore , Eleanor Roosevelt
uses repetition to advance their purpose when they say “ Declaration of human rights”. This
specific example of repetition advances the speaker’s purpose because Eleanor wanted human
rights for humans and repeats these during the document.
 “A letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr.’s the purpose of the text is for
human rights. Throughout the text Martin Luther King uses various forms of rhetoric to advance
that purpose. One example of this is when he uses logos when he says “Was not jesus an
extremist for love…. Was not Amos and extremist of justice….was not paul an extremist for
christian gospel… and Abraham lincoln and thomas jefferson”. This is an example of logos
because it appeals to the audience's sense of logic by he proves this isn't something discredit
and should be looked as a negative thing in his counterargument persuading to the reader.
Furthermore, the author uses repetition to advance their purpose when they say “
demonstrations taking place in birmingham”. This specific example of repetition advance the
author’s purpose because in birmingham demonstrations happen for human rights.

In conclusion, King, Roosevelt, and Yousafzai all fought for human rights for everyone
and what they believe was right for them. Reaching justice and human rights, an example today
in the real world is LGBT rights people today still fight for their rights of their own like getting
marrying being gay etc.