I am amazed at King's powerful use of pathos throughout the letter. The very beginning of his letter, "while confined here in the Birmingham City Jail" (King, 1963, p. 1), makes the reader feel empathy for him because he has been imprisoned, but is still trying to do the difference. in his country. King's statement that "whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly" (King, 1963, p. 1), also resonates with me and really allows me to see the emotional appeal behind his words. I felt that this is my personal life through the social phenomena of New York Humans. In it, the creator posts a portrait of a person, along with a short story that the individual shares with him. Although the project began in New York, the creator travels around the world to share stories globally. When he published the series of photo stories involving Syrian individuals trying to escape, it broke my heart. There were stories of children watching their mothers die, of wives watching their husbands suffer, of families torn apart; these humans are trying to escape to a different country, to try to preserve what life their families have left. Some of the people commenting on these stories are heartless and lacking in compassion. Leaving those countries is a matter of life and death for them, and for Western society to be so ignorant of the plight and suffering of