Essay

In the third paragraph, Martin Luther King made a couple of metaphor. In his comments, first of all, Martin Luther King compared “A Promise” to “check”.

In general, what is check? Nothing but using personal credits in exchange of money. It’s very similar to bond, which uses national credits exchange of money from public.

Next, however, his second metaphor is more interesting. He created a bank of “justice” to cash the check. Constitution and Declaration of Independence indicated the promise of everyone would be guaranteed the right of life and liberty, and more important, the equality. But people didn’t want to pay off it, why? It assumed an injustice sense rooted in human evil nature. So there is nothing better than the saying that it is our goodness and justice is “insufficient”.

Finally, he said that American defaulted its check. Imagery suddenly appeared in my mind; is it the United States defaults the duty? Or we everyone should be blamed to this. Some deep-rooted bad habits existed in our mind, just like every time we every single one should be responsible for the economic crisis which results from humanity’s greed and fear.

Almost half a century passed, Martin Luther King’s dreams have already come true, in terms of rights of ethnic minorities. But to the broad extent, it never realized. We saw the crisis appeared one after another, no matter economic or moral.

As an accounting student, I asked myself over and over again; why always people are trying to break our ethic codes which we learned when the first time we touched the business textbook?

I guess we might all bear one dream that is finally one day, we could figure out this problem. The market and the economic have the confidence to achieve steady and healthy development without any “insufficient” fund of humanity’s justice and ethic.

In that day, we might