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    | |What did Abraham Lincoln actually say about education? In this special section‚ we gathered together a small sample of excerpts from his | |speeches and writings about this vital subject. Everything shown is from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln‚ a multi-volume series edited | |by Roy P. Basler and others. Documents which appear on this website are linked after the quotation.

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    Domestic Abuse Judith Ewing. Vital Speeches of the Day. New York: Dec 2006. Vol. 72‚ Iss. 26; pg. 793‚ 2 pgs Abstract (Summary) A speech by Judith Ewing‚ abuse counselor and deacon of Christ Episcopal church‚ is presented. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This year it was launched with the most tragic event people have experienced in many years: the murder of a wife and her four children by her husband. On the steps of the State House in Columbia‚ on Oct 2‚ 33 life-sized cutouts depicting

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    lives of everyone. December 7‚ 1941 “a day that will live in infamy‚” and 9/11 “a major attack on American soil‚” are the attacks that changed the lives of American citizens forever. The presidents present their speeches by their tone‚ purpose‚ and audience. Roosevelt’s and Bush’s speeches both have a serious tone. President Roosevelt’s tone was commanding since he called the attack “a day that will live in infamy.” Bush wants to bring “justice” to the terrorist that invaded and attacked America

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    Failure‚ Success‚ and Kindness Graduation commencement speeches are usually inspirational‚ not only to the graduating students but also to anyone who reads them. The speech given by J. K. Rowling at Harvard and the one by George Saunders at Syracuse University in 2013 are some of the best commencement speeches. Rowling and Saunders are both experienced speakers. Rowling’s speech focused on the benefits of failure‚ a subject she had first hand experience on. Saunders’ speech was on kindness and included

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    The Purpose of Revolutionary Speeches The “Crisis No 1” written by Thomas Paine‚ was one of the many great speeches written during the Revolutionary War. Speeches like “The Crisis” have inspired people even in this day and time to fight for their country. Speeches like Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis”‚ are some of the most important speeches of the Revolutionary War. Speeches during the Revolutionary War were used to persuade people‚ including the common man‚ of their beliefs‚ and to boost soldiers

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    Comparison of the two speeches ” I have a dream” and ”Yes we can”. The two speeches by Martin Luther King and Barrack Obama are similar in the way that they both talks about human rights‚ and they both have a dream that people in America can be free and equal treated. Both of them managed people who were important for them in the speech‚ like their family. Both of them want to see a change in the American society. They have a proverb they use. The two speeches are different in the way that

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    Michelle Barrow English 111-l4 Mrs. Louis April 11‚ 2014 Two Political Speeches‚ One powerful Message Two great inspirational political figures‚ hold audiences captive with their patriotism‚ leadership‚ and compassion speaking of our past‚ our present and our future. President Obama plays big brother with our youth‚ demanding they take responsibility for their education‚ embellishing that the future of our country depends on them. Sarah Palin in her Vice-Presidential speech‚ confronts

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    Respond to the following prompt: "There are 3 Rhetorical Devices (logos‚ ethos‚ pathos). Provide a quote from each of the two speeches that best represent the use of each of the rhetorical devices. Keep response to a minimum of 1000 words.” In the 1960’s‚ civil rights were becoming a very present and evident concern to the people of America once again. Issues were being brought up to leaders that could and had the authority to actually help out and do something about these said issues. John F

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    representation of ideas that captivates audiences.’ In compelling speeches it is not only the content‚ but the appropriate use of rhetoric techniques and structure which reveal and emphasise key ideas and captivate the audience. This has been shown in Margaret Atwood’s speech‚ Spotty-Handed Villainesses (1994) as well as Aung San Suu Kyi’s speech‚ the Keynote Address at the Beijing Conference on Women (1995). These two speeches focus on the role of women in society and effectively discuss it in

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    Every time you go through school you have new teachers. They all have different ways of trying to get to know you. But one thing they all have in common‚ they start by calling roll and sometimes saying someone’s name wrong. Then after that they ask you a ton of question‚ like who is your favorite person. I said “Martin luther king jr.” because without him the world would have never changed. This brings me back to my third grade class. Where I really started learning history and seeing how important

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