Persuasion is very important. All kinds of people use it. It's a big part of business. One of the most common places we see it is in advertisements. In the article Advertising it says: “Advertising encompasses any activity or effort intended to attract public attention to a product or service. » There are all kinds of techniques used to get people to buy a product. Persuasion is also an important element in winning a campaign. You have to convince people to vote for you. You have to give them a reason. Many may not agree with you at first, but many will eventually give in. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech is a work of rhetorical persuasion through its use of analogy, parallelism, and allusion. much of the persuasion rhetoric in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Martin Luther King uses an analogy when he talks about "coming to the nation's capital to cash a check." He explains that the promises of certain rights contained in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence have not been kept. In the article Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, it says: “Segregation on the basis of race is claimed to violate the Constitution because conditions in schools for African-American children are not equal to those in schools for white children. » In his speech, Dr. King said: “America has given the black people a bad check. » This is true in many ways. It wasn't fair. Many ask why? Why did white people think black people were so inferior to them? The answer is simple. It was like that. It's the way they were raised. It goes back to Aristotle's pyramid. The gods at the top, the men at the bottom, the women and at the bottom there were the blacks. It wasn't something that was really supposed to change. Many were upset because...... middle of document...... Global issues in context. Internet. March 19, 2014. Title: Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.Series: Essential DocumentsPublisher Information: Great Neck PublishingIpswich Massachusetts 01983United States of AmericaBibliographic Records: 01/14/2009 to 01/31/2009Full Text: 01/14/2009 to 31/ 01/2009Publication Type: Primary Source Document• Garrow, David J. "The King the Man, the Walk, the Dream." American History (Leesburg, VA) August 2003: 26-35.10. Center for History Studies. Internet. March 19, 2014.• Lyon, Courtney. “The Biblical Epic of Martin Luther King: His Last and Great Speech.” The Journal of Southern History 79.2 (May 2013): 552. Center for History Studies. Internet. March 19, 2014.• Rose, Chanelle. "King's Dream: The Legacy of Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' Speech." History: New Book Reviews, October 2010: 126-127. Center for History Studies. Internet. March 19. 2014.