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    Speaker Dalton Sherman Title Do you believe? Venue Dallas Independent School District Teachers Conference Notable Elements 10-year-old 5th grader Dalton Sherman delivers an inspirational speech to 20‚000 teachers about the importance of believing in each other. How can you inspire your audience? Ask 10-year-old Dalton Sherman. by Andrew Dlugan Nov 6th‚ 2008 [pic] Is fifth grader Dalton Sherman the next Barack Obama? Of course‚ it’s far too early to tell‚ but that’s how he refers

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    A Manipulative Speaker: Marc Antony’s Funeral Oration George Bernard Shaw once said “Words are the postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.” After the death of Caesar‚ Brutus and Antony give a funeral speech for Caesar. Both are excellent orators‚ and convince the crowds very well. However‚ Brutus made Antony promise that he “shall not in your funeral speech blame us‚ but speak all good you can devise of Caesar.” (pg. 106-7‚ 247-8). Marc Antony uses many persuasive devices such as

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    to city-state. Athens practiced democracy‚ Sparta practiced oligarchy‚ Athens in the early time practiced Aristocracy‚ Mycenae practiced monarchy‚ the people of Mycenae are satisfied with their king as supreme leader while tyranny was practiced by Hyppias in Athens in early time before Athens embrace democracy but not without repercussion. To cut the long story short‚ differences between these form of governments are given in the table below: Direct democracy Athens at about 500 BC was an important

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    What do you believe about writing‚ and why? What do you believe about writing‚ and why? I believe that writing can be a great tool for everyone in order to express themselves freely. Not everyone is a writer; some people have to work at putting their thoughts and words together‚ before putting them to paper. We are all unique in how we express ourselves; some are just more creative than others. How do we as individuals‚ get to that point to be able to expand or elaborate further on paper

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    had turned into an empire. This empire was governed by Athens. As peace and harmony was restored in Greece‚ the city of Athens was about to experience it’s greatest epoch. A time filled with power and great social and political wealth. All of which was the product of a great man’s work. His name was Pericles. Pericles was born in the year 495 B.C. into a very noble family. He was the nephew of Cleisthenes who founded Athenian Democracy. Pericles lived his whole life in a political environment. When

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    Pericles‚ and His Influence on Athens Pericles became the leader of Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War and was responsible for the rebuilding and reconstructing of this city. He became very powerful and well known through out the age of the 5th century‚ so powerful that this became known as the age of Pericles. He was the son of Xanthippus and Agariste. His father‚ Xanthippus was a military leader during the Peloponnesian Wars and was the victor at the Battle of Mycale. He would later

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    Pericles Pericles was an ideal leader. Not only was he a prominent general‚ he was also known for being a legislator‚ speechmaker‚ and an armed chief. “’Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance‚ our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.’” What this quotation is telling us explicitly is that Athenians are strong and they don’t succeed just because of love and beauty. Implicitly what Pericles means here is how he views the Athenian polis. The Athenians do not

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    democracy has been the cause of wars since the days of Pericles. Pericles states that "Our constitution does not seek to copy the laws of our neighbors; we are an example to others‚ not imitators of them". During his time there was usually one ruler that had the power over life and death‚ the mass of people did not matter. In Athens this was far from the case. Athens created its own government‚ one that was for the people‚ and benefited the people. Pericles said with conviction‚ "As far as public life is

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    Pericles was born in Athens in about 495 BC to a family of wealth and position. His father‚ Xanthippus‚ was also a statesman‚ and his mother‚ Agariste‚ was a member of the politically powerful Alcmaeonid family. Pericles was one of the best known statesmen that Greece ever had. He studied under the Sophist and master of Music Damon‚ and the philosopher Anaxagoras as well as Zenon of Elea. Pericles was a very patriotic man as well as dignified and upright‚ that was why he got so much recognition

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    PericlesFuneral Oration: The Ignored Arrogance In a while after the Peloponnesian War had broken out‚ Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate those troops who had already fallen in battle. Recorded‚ and probably rewritten by the historian Thucydides‚ it is one of the primary sources on which our understanding of ancient Athens is based and provides a unique insight into just how Athenian democracy understood itself. In the speech Pericles relates the special qualities of

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