What exactly is oppression? Is it being seen as a lower people or just being made fun of? Is it something that minorities receive from a so-called higher class? For instance, in "The Ways of Meeting Oppression," Martin Luther King, Jr. states that Moses tried to lead the children of Israel from the slavery of Egypt to the freedom of the Promised Land. Only too soon did he discover that slaves do not always welcome …showed first 75 words of 1249 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1249 total…long that down don't bother me" (463). This is a good example of how the oppressed deal with being held down all their lives. After looking at these elements of writing in the two essays, I've decided that Desmond Morris's essay "Territorial Behaviour" is the most effective. This being because Morris has shown me more in his essay, than King did in his, by using better organization, development, and far more explanations throughout the whole essay.