Prelim handout Public Speaking * Public speaking is the process of speaking to a group of people. It is one of the most valued skills that a person can possess. * The aims of public speaking are to inform‚ convince‚ influence‚ persuade or entertain. * Good public speaking skills are required from teachers‚ business people‚ TV reporters‚ politicians as well as representatives of other professions. * Effective public speaking skills can be developed by studying the art of speaking
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mistakes that cost him much: wanting to curtail violence‚ he ignores Cassius’s suggestion that the conspirators kill Antony as well as Caesar. In another moment of rampant idealism‚ he again ignores Cassius’s advice and allows Antony to speak a funeral oration over Caesar’s body. As a result‚ Brutus forfeits the authority of having the last word on the murder and thus allows Antony to incite the shocked Roman crowd to riot against Brutus and the other conspirators. This is similar to when Regina George
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Bradley Myron 8/15/15 Summer Assignment Mark Antony Speech Analysis In Mark Antony’s funeral speech for Caesar‚ we can find one of Shakespeare’s finest examples of rhetorical work. The speech itself could serve as a thematic synopsis to the play Julius Caesar. Perhaps more than any other of Shakespeare’s works‚ Julius Caesar is a play that relies on rhetoric—both as the art of persuasion and as an artifice used to veil intent. Already distrusted by the conspirators for his friendship with Caesar
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and the hill. This clever policy broke up the old factions as well as the powerful influence aristocrats had over the system. These subdivisions (demos) joined together and their populations made up the ten tribes. In the late 460s Ephialtes and Pericles presided over a radicalization of power that shifted the balance decisively to the poorest sections of society. This was the democratic Athens that won and lost an empire which built the Parthenon‚ that gave a stage to Aeschylus‚ Sophocles‚ Euripides
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Sparta has two kings came from the Agiads and Eurypontids. The government was Gerousia which the elder council consists of people at the age of sixty‚ and Ephors which have five magistrates. Athen leader is governed by a statesman Pericles. Besides the difference in the hierarchy of the Sparta government‚ male citizens formed an assembly arrangement in the organization. These powers are chosen by assembly annually to support the kings. Ephors deal with judicial‚ military‚ and foreign
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WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE As ancient Greek history has played such a pivotal role in subsequent cultures throughout time‚ that to learn about women in this society enhances our understanding of western civilization. Ancient Greece was not a united nation‚ but a collection of individual sovereign communities with a common language‚ and similar religious rituals and beliefs. Communication was difficult due to the numerous islands and mountainous terrain that bisected the communities of people. Democracy
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response of the colonies to British encroachment on their rights. The meeting of Virginian representatives in March of 1775 would prove to be a fruitless affair; that is‚ until a young‚ ardent lawyer by the name of Patrick Henry delivered an impassioned oration‚ with the intent of elucidating upon the reality of the situation: that the then-colonies were being driven to militant opposition of their royal overlords‚ and that to continue on passively would be to “retreat...[into] submission and slavery.” In
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Death Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird‚ meaning Death Marina was #29 in Eliot’s series of ”Ariel Poems‚” first published in September‚ 1930. It was based on the Jacobean play‚ Pericles‚ Prince of Tyre. Shakespeare is credited with the last acts of the play‚ the story of Pericles’ separation from‚ and reunion with‚ his daughter‚ Marina (most scholars believe the opening was
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renaissance. One was humanism. Humanism is the study of classical texts and ideas. Some very famous Humanists were Petrarch‚ Plato (whom was inspired by Petrarch‚ gave himself a positive view of the human “potential”) Plato is famous for writing the oration on the dignity of man. Renaissance artists were the most important and influential people during that time period. Artists include‚ Leonardo Davinci and Michelangelo. The both had very natural and exquisite painting styles. One point perspective was
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1 Antonio Halabi AP English 2/16/2011 Analytical/Expository Essay Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington‚ considered today as one of the most influential and respected African American figures‚ was born into slavery and was later freed by the revolutionizing effects of the Emancipation Proclamation. His charismatic and peaceful personality along with his role in philanthropic acts‚ politics‚ and negotiations soon turned him into a source of admiration shortly after the end of the
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