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“Letter 55”

Wilkins, Emma. "Margaret Cavendish and the Royal Society." Notes and Records: the Royal

Society Journal of the History of Science 68.3 (2014): 245-260.

This letter in the author’s preliminary sentiments, outlines with no any form of conceals

the fact that peasants subscribe to an open free and joyous life that is absolutely free of worries

and concerns with wealth or any other given form of issues that have a correlation to richness.

she puts it clearly that this s much the situation since a large part of the countrymen work

extremely hard for whatever that they own or possess .They really have no any form of

apprehension as they work hard to put any form of food to table. Basically the primary message

brought out by “Cavendish “is the fact that most of the wealthy people barely have a joyous life

compared to a countryman as they are described with not subscribing to working hard to get

anything.

Cavendish continues to shower praise to countryman stating how they tend to have more

fun life, noting that even in the events that are organized by the rich man, they will always look

to enjoy more than the organizers of the event (Wilkins, 250). At the social gatherings the

aristocrats will always be carried away by the drinking spree which makes them in most cases

end up misbehaving more than the manner in which peasant could be deemed to. At last she

concludes that if a single royal family gets happy, then there is possibility that numerous more
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other peons are likely to be more enjoying. Thus it’s very hard for an affluent man however

much wealth they possess will enjoy life than a country man.

“Letter from a Birmingham jail”

Apsel, Joyce. "Martin Luther King, Jr.,“Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and Nonviolent

Social Transformation."  Great Books Written in Prison: Essays on Classic Works from Plato

to Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015): 230.

In this letter, he (King) is addressing the churchmen and he state so much to them, and

primarily outlines to them that the main reason he was in detention is due to the inequities that he

has been exposed to. He expresses his much care for Birmingham and as such he does not feel

any comfortable being just there in the Atlanta and watch Birmingham suffer. King is very clear

in his articulations about the inequities when he say that inequity that is being conducted

anywhere is just but not any different from it being perpetrated everywhere. And this is not just

an in stabilizing factor to one person or region but rather everyone and everywhere.

At start king had tried to politely engage different business people who he had proposed

or rather urged them to have the ethnic profiling stickers that had been placed on display on their

places of business pulled down as he would in that favor help in ending the demonstrations that

were interfering with their businesses (Apsel, 230). To his disappointment the businessmen never

kept their part of the deal, and this left king with limited options to help. King continues and

states that it should be crystal that those people who are oppressed at the moment ill not forever

remain inn oppression, the need for them being freed will eventually manifest and that is what

will become the spirit of the black-American. Generally, king is trying to make it clear that the

black people in America are with each passing period getting fed up with being sidelined. They
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need to be accorded equal treatment and they will remain firm of this decision until when they

shall see this transformation.

“To M. Talleyrand-Perigord, Late Bishop of Autun”

Wollstonecraft, Mary. "To M. Talleyrand-Perigord, Late Bishop of Autun." Masters of

British Literature  (1997): 147-148.

Wollstonecraft drafts this letter to Maurice De Talleyrand who is a churchman as well as

a scholar, she is clearly trying to request the clergyman to put in consideration everything that

she is addressing. She is very convinced that women need to be provide with sufficient education

which will help in creating a conducive and a peaceful community (Wollstonecraft, 147). She

notes that in France women are going through hard times, as they are being oppressed day in

day. And that all this she is doing it for the sake of a woman, whom she believes that if they do

not get educated the nation is likely to result into one that has a people who cannot in anyway

promote the morality in the manner that decisions are made and thus unable to benefit the state.

Furthermore, she looks at the policies being commissioned and she is not able to

understand their motives. In addition to this, she argues that it’s not fair in any way that male can

be the sole determinants of how their female counterparts ought to behave or deciding on their

behalf on when they need to be happy. Women as well can make their own decisions and stand

for themselves without being judged or directed by the males. She goes on to criticize the

statutes of the state on weakens that it contains which are possible to be amended and make a

conducive environment for all the genders. She argues that the constitution is just but a

representation of inequities that are driven at women and as such all women need to come

together and fight these kinds of laws. Farther more she accredits France as being one of states

that really grown in terms of intellectual when compared to other nations in terms of the
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freedoms that women have been given. In Conclusion she outlines that there is need for the law

to be looked at once more so that women are accorded more equality rights.
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Work Cited

Wilkins, Emma. "Margaret Cavendish and the Royal Society." Notes and Records: the Royal

Society Journal of the History of Science 68.3 (2014): 245-260.

Apsel, Joyce. "Martin Luther King, Jr.,“Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and Nonviolent Social

Transformation." Great Books Written in Prison: Essays on Classic Works from Plato to Martin

Luther King, Jr. (2015): 230.

Wollstonecraft, Mary. "To M. Talleyrand-Perigord, Late Bishop of Autun." Masters of British

Literature (1997): 147-148.