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Your introduction should include the following: An . attention getting device: a quote, a rhetorical question, a startling fact or statistic, an anecdote, a vivid image, an allusion to something important in literature or history. ... 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke out for equality for all races ... ................
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