When I was about six years old I had only one thing that I wanted more then anything: I wanted to go to Disney Land. I knew, however, that my parents were against this wholeheartedly. I had a mission from then on. I had to persuade them to take me to Disney Land. I pleaded and pleaded and tried my hardest to convince them. Eventually I lost effort and more importantly patience (as most young children do) and gave up, but this occurrence brought a shred of truth into my life. An undeniable fact that people are stubborn. Whether it is their cherished way of life or something simple like a taking a trip, people would rather stay where they are, then to adapt and improve to something better. Peter Senge, a famed sociologist, wrote in 1985, " People don't resist change. They resist being changed." Which is true. The majority of people are willing to change if an argument is presented before them that they should. The problem that exists then, is how to address that public, and eventually how to bring about change. This has been the plight of many for ages. Reformers, from the Founding Fathers to Frederick Douglass, have always had the task of motivating the public. Most have laid out their complaints and arguments as a list, and left interpretation for the public, as in Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and Thomas Paine 's "Common Sense." Others, however, have a more difficult task, like that of Frederick Douglass'. Douglass did not have the communal support like Paine and Jefferson. Yet he still used the public's influence to his advantage in his narrative My Bondage and My Freedom. The overall purpose in these three works is to manipulate public opinion, but the methods that they employ are very different.
             In many cases finesse of public relations is really not necessary. Sometimes the crimes and injustices are just too great that any writing done to address the public does not n...