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handcuff: shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs
He was kept prisoner bound in manacles of makeshift metal chains and leather handcuffs with a bag over his head for 50 days, before he was rescued by a team of elite commandos. - more at www.wordstowisdom.com
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What did Martin Luther King Jr claim that even 100 years after slavery ended the life of the Negro was still sadly crippled by the?
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What is the meaning of manacles of segregation?
Let's dissect the statement. "Manacles" is another word for Handcuffs. Segregation is the practice of keeping ethnic groups separated from one another in society (ex. White and Colored Only Bathrooms). What MLK was saying in that particular statement, is that black people were still not free of racial persecution and discrimination. In a sense, black people of the mid 20th century felt they were not free, although they were free from slavery. I bet being able to see that historic speech when it happened would have been absolutely electrifying.
Two examples of statements that show imagery in martin Luther king's speech?
"The life of Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination." The image of people still chained up.. etc. There are many more if you look at the last parts of the speech.
The life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination?
There are two distinct answers that are applicable to this question. One is that the figure of speech is imagery. The vision of a black person in chains and manacles conjures up the selling of the person. It speaks of enslavement and, in very visual terms, the concept of lack of freedom. It was a very shocking reminder to the white people that the black person did not enjoy the same level of freedom that the white person did.When Dr. King made the speech, obviously the physical enslavement of the black person had ended with the Civil War. But the Jim Crow laws he was protesting did indeed make the black person enslaved by law as a second class citizen. He could not go where he wanted, he could not have the job he wanted, he could not interact with white people on an equal footing.The other figure of speech is metaphor. Indeed at that point in time, the only people who actually were restrained that way were those who were in prison. Literally, the black person (the negro, a proper word at the time) was not bought and sold as a slave, but the economic circumstances surrounding his life made it seem as if he were still in chains.When Dr. King made his speeches, it was common practice...and accepted...that the black person "had their place", meaning that while he was technically a free man, he could not actually do and say as he pleased. Dr. King pointed up in his speech the very real problems with segregation by this graphic and dramatic figure of speech.
Five score years ago the opening phrase of King's speech is in reference to what or whom?
That phrase is in reference to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."How old bush is:p
What does manacles mean?
Manacles are a type of handcuffs.
How do you use the word manacles?
Houdini had quite a collection of manacles. This is where the guard manacles his prisoners to the wall.
What is a sentence with the word manacles?
Houdini had several sets of favorite manacles. Please help me out of these manacles.
How can you put manacles in a sentence?
Handcuffs used to be called manacles.
How do you use manacles in a sentences?
As a noun: Manacles prevent the bear from roaming beyond a very small area.As a verb: They had to manacle the prisoner to the hospital bed because he wasn't to sick to run away.
Are there real life manacles?
Your racist
What are the arm chains called in dungeons?
manacles
What is a five letter word for manacles?
Chain.
What is another name for handcuffs with the word man in it?
Manacles
What is a other name for handcuffs benginning with m?
Manacles?
What starts or ends with the word man in handcuff?
manacles!
How do you spell shackels?
The correct spelling is "shackles" (manacles, chains).
