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The Content of Their Character

The Content of Their Character

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Paul Crenshaw
Jan 20, 2025
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For close to 20 years as a college professor I taught Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have A Dream” speech to first-year composition classes. King’s speech is a compositional masterpiece, full of rhetorical devices, historical and geographical references, and biblical allusions, so I sent students to find the meaning beneath the meaning—the why of it? Why hi…

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