Something from Martin Luther King Jr.

[Camilamazed]

I do need your help. I've got to write a composition on this following saying:

" Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

I understood what it means but I've no idea from where to start. I must confess I suck at compositions, and I would very much appreciate your help. Some clues would really be enough.

Thank you in advance.
:)

[Sin Studly]

Martin Luther King Jr was a nigger, a troublemaker, and a very intolerant man, who could not accept differences in opinion. He believed that if people disagreed with him anywhere he had to stamp them out because they were a threat to him.

That should be a decent first sentence.

[Camilamazed]

That'd be okay if that was what my teacher expects from me.;)

[Preocupado]

O Sin Studly te deu uma boa estrutura pra introdução: Duas frases fortes que passam a essência do que vai ser discutido.

Daí em diante, é so fazer uns três novos parágrafos de desenvolvimento discutindo as idéias e o porquê da frase sobre o Luther King. Por fim, mais um ou dois parágrafos de conclusão, e era isso. Uma redação perfeita.

Eu não entendi bem se é isso que tu queres, ou o próprio texto já escrito. Também não sei se "composition" é redação. De qualquer forma, o esqueleto de uma redação prática e funcional é esse:

-Título

-Introdução: Duas frases de efeito fica legal.

-Desenvolvimento: Uns dois ou três parágrafos de discussão das idéias.

-Conclusão: Um ou dois parágrafos concluido as idéias.

Se no total tiver de 25 a 30 linhas, tá perfeito.

[ilovellamas]

" Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

May not be any help, but whatever you do, DON'T start your paper with:

The quoted sentence

or

The definition of the word "justice" or "injustice" according to any dictionary.

I'd recommend starting the paper with either a question or a metaphor of some sort. Maybe something along the lines of "a chain's only as strong as its weakest link"...

[Jebus]

I'd recommend starting the paper with either a question or a metaphor of some sort. Maybe something along the lines of "a chain's only as strong as its weakest link"...
There's nothing worst than starting a paper with a cliche. Stuff like that just looks just trite meaninless bullshit to a reader. It's just filler if you will.

[ilovellamas]

that's pretty false. It totally depends on how you use it. The one that I listed is obviously not a very good one. But starting your paper with something really catchy that will get the reader interested... if they know they're reading a paper about MLK, and read a first line that is something they've heard before, but seems to have nothing to do with him, they're going to be intrigued.

[Jebus]

But starting your paper with something really catchy that will get the reader interested...
Yes, starting off a paper with something catchy is a good idea like you said. In fact, I even agree with you about using a metaphor as a possible opening line. That's only if you make one up yourself though. Using stupid clichés like that just makes it sound like you ran of ideas and had nothing else to day so you settled with a line someone else said. Teachers could see right through that type of bullshit. Using "a chain's only as strong as its weakest link" is just as bad as "The definition of the word "justice" or "injustice" according to any dictionary."

[ilovellamas]

not really, cause defining justice is exactly what the paper is about, in a very boring manner. a quote even as bad as the chain one atleast intrigues the reader as to what the hell this might have to do with MLK and justice.

[the_GoDdEsS]

Why write? Weren't you out of school?

I hated when I was forced into writing. Assigned topic and genre. I'd have hated a writing class even more or how it'd try to modify your own unique style into trying to fit some writing norms. Too good we never had anything that "creative".

[Jebus]

I don't know. "A chain's only as strong as its weakest link" does not intrigue me at all. I've read it a billion times and I wouldn't want to read it again.

[ilovellamas]

god damn it, I already said atleast twice that obviously that's not a very good example of a metaphor. Plus you're missing the point of putting something that's completely atypical of something you'd expect. but whatever, this isn't worth arguing.

[Jebus]

Using an atypical cliche, is still a freaken cliche. Boring!

but yeah, lets drop it.

[Endymion]

if you want to draw the reader in, start the paper with "three jews and a nazi walk into a bar... i'll tell you the rest in the last paragraph"

[ilovellamas]

haha. while you're at it, make the next sentence, "martin luther king was a stupid dumbshit goddamn motherfucker! he was not trupunx."

[Sin Studly]

Include this part somewhere.

"Martin Luther King Jr. was a great civil rights leader of the 1970's, who rejected the angry anti-white rhetoric of his contemporary rivals and strove for peace and equality between all races, both in America, and all over the world. His teachings dramatically changed the face of the United States of America and brought about massive reforms that improved the lives of many of the most impoverished citizens, no matter what color they were, and greatly improved the race relations between blacks and humans."

[Duskygrin]

I do need your help. I've got to write a composition on this following saying:

" Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

I understood what it means but I've no idea from where to start. I must confess I suck at compositions, and I would very much appreciate your help. Some clues would really be enough.

Thank you in advance.
:)

Since justice & injustice are abstract concepts with practical applications, you could start by exemplifying that statement. Then you could move on to the more general picture, assuming you feel in the philosophical mood (how about "the merest encroachment on justice threatens to destroy the whole edifice, therefore what needs be achieved is a proactive stance on justice, namely the building of a democratic state abolishing every kind of discrimination etc etc"?

Springs to mind what has been drilled into us at school: Rosa-Park-and-her-refusal-to-get-intimated-on-the-bus if you need an example.

Insert a teeny bit of religion in your essay. Protestantism obvouisly, but put in perspective.

And good luck.

[Camilamazed]

Sam, então. Eu tenho que entender o que o tem aquer dizer e desenvolver a redação. A questão é que eu não sei por onde começar. Eu tenho pavor de redação, desde a época de vestibulr e tals. Eu só preciso dfe um punta pé inicial para escreverr esta meleca. Mas valeu pelas dicas. Mas na verdade o que me pega é que não sei por onde começar com o tema.

Ilovellamas, I didn't think about starting my compositon like that. Using cliches is horrible.

Sim, I was, but I'm taking a course on British and American Lit, Grammar and didatics, I actully applied for it because I'm trying to get over this fear of compositons. I also hate when I have to write. It makes things even worse.

Maria, thank you very much.

[Duskygrin]

You're welcome.

Incidentally, portuguese really is close to spanish, so close I can grasp the meaning of your above sentence! Though I can't actually speak portuguese...