Drum Major’s Instinct” by Martin Luther King

Discuss three topics in an essay
Reexamine the three (3) essays you were asked to read-“Drum Major’s Instinct” by Martin Luther King, “Black Men and Public Spaces” by Brent Staples, and “Hook-ups Starve the Soul” by Laura Vanderkam. For each one of these pieces you should compose a list of 5 observations you have made of the text. What do you notice? What do you find most interesting or strange? How would you rank your observations in order of importance and why? Why does this observation matter? Where does it get us? What ideas are implicit in it? So what (how can we begin to generalize from the observation to the larger subject)? What kind of claim can be made from your observations?

Please keep any and everything you use to come to your conclusions, for I will ask for them when to submit your hard copies of this paper.

http://cf.linnbenton.edu/wed/dev/vanrast/upload/Black_Men_and_Public_Spaces_Brent_Staples.pdf

http://mlkkpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_the_drum_major_instinct/

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2001-07-26-ncguest1.htm