The power of speech

-----The impressions after reading I Have a Dream

Do you believe the power of speech? Recently, I read a famous speech, and I was moved deeply. Now, I share my feeling with you.

When Martin Luther King wrote his 'I Have a Dream 'speech, it was with the impression that there was something American that belonged to the Negro. Something that had been denied him. A discrepancy King addressed as a 'shameful condition'. Today, I am writing to dramatize an equally shameful condition. That of ignorance and complacency. There is little question that in Dr Martin Luther King's 'I have a Dream' speech his intent and goal was equal treatment for blacks under the law. Dr King was influenced by the segregation of a period known as the Jim Crow South and considered the Negro 'an exile in his own land', despite ancestral slave history. I make this distinction to address the ignorance I mentioned, but not to the detriment of Dr. King's legacy.

When the European Settlers first arrived on the shores of the Americas, these lands belonged to a people depicted by them as barbarian and warlike 'savages', a tribal people called 'Indians' because the Americas were referred to as the 'West Indies'. When the white man arrived in Indian Territory, there was no way the natives could have been prepared for what would befall them. It was not until the Colonists began to expand westward did the Natives find reason to be hostile. What was

once ignored, and since 'forgotten', is that the European 'settlers' were invaders from the perspective of Native Americans. Invaders now depicted as a benevolent and cultured race. 'The leaders of the free world'. I totally agree with his opinions and I hope his dream will come true.

A Service of Love.
It's one of O.Henry's masterpieces and yesterday I came across it. I appreciate the top sentence said that "When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard." As we know, art is the certain thin for which we can devote o!rselves or even o!r life to. "evertheless love is more precio!s. Love is o!r #asic demand for livin $ love is the chicken so!p for o!r so!ls$ love is endless, love is eternal, love is everlastin . In one word, when one loves another, no service seems too hard, incl!din ivin !p o!r ideals. In the story, %oe Larra#ee and &elia, the two main characters, are newlyweds and they first met each other in an atelier. %oe was a eni!s for pictorial art while &elia was cra'y for m!sic. (oth of them were ifted with art. (!t after their marria e, they fo!nd that life was not as easy as they have tho! ht #efore. Life wo!ld not #e perfect when it )!st maintained the #asic livin demand. *hey need a lar e n!m#er of money to pay for %oe's professor and it was really a pro#lem. At last, it was O.Henry's typical endin . *hese two #oth told lies in order to let the other o on with his+her st!dy. &elia told %oe she had ot a p!pil to teach her m!sic and %oe tole &elia he sketches in

the park and sold them o!t. *hey #oth thro! ht that altho! h they had droped o!t of st!dy, #!t they were sitll with their ideals, m!sic and paintin . I was totally moved #y their love. *he same as another O.Henry's famo!s short story, called "*he ,ift of -A,I", a air of warmness h! ed me. Lovers were en!ine and they all cherished their co!nterparts and re arded them as the most val!a#le treas!re. -oney is imortant. However it is not everythin in o!t precio!s lives. *here are many thin s more val!#le than it.

.What's followed is )!st the short story of O.Henry. I wish yo! co!ld en)oy it./