Famous Speeches

[brendan]

"The Spirity of Liberty" by Judge Learned Hand
http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/ENews/2002e67?opendocument
In the critical year of 1944 a vast “I Am an American Day” ceremony was held in Central Park, New York City, on May 21. Many thousands of people were present, including a large number of new citizens. Learned Hand’s brief address was so eloquent and so moving that the text immediately became the object of wide demand. It was quickly printed and reprinted and also put into anthologies. The impact was so great that the speaker was invited to address a similar gathering the next year.

"I have a dream" by MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

The Berlin Address speech by John F. Kennedy
http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/John_F_Kennedy/



Post your own famous/inspirational speech. Should help out students with their Oral.

[Collin Li]

Martin Luther King uses good rhetorical techniques in his oral presentation. If your oral presentation permits taking an aggressive stance on an issue, then you should use his repetition:

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

...and I love this: "the tantalising drug of gradualism." However, I believe in gradualism has an important role to play in transition to new economic policy (the problem is nothing will happen).

[brendan]

yeah repetition is everywhere

"There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin."

[Matt The Rat]

We did a brief stint in Year 11 Lit this year on speeches. I did my presentation on Churchill's "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/usa/winston-churchill-fight-beaches.htm

[abcat]

I love Churchill s Iron Curtain speech, he speaks so eloquently, even when being deliberately specific about details.

http://www.nationalcenter.org/ChurchillIronCurtain.html

[dcc]

This is a personal favourite of mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnjMSlTGQ_c

[brendan]

Ronald Regan - A time for choosing
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1777069922535499977

[kido_1]

Um, There is some interesting speeches on those links.
"We Shall Fight Them On The Beaches" was put in this beach cricket ad.

[brendan]

Arnold Schwarzenegger - 2004 Republican National Convention Address
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/arnoldschwarzenegger2004rnc.htm

"terminate terrorism"  :2funny:

[brendan]

As a general rule if you are going to use repetition, do it in groups of 3, example:

"all we need is a dream, a dream that we can do better than before, all we need to have faith, and that dream will come true, all we need to do is act, and the time to act is now."

[/0]

Thankyou everyone, this is just in time for an assignment. I need to pick a war speech to analyse for my oral

(btw this is a class oral, not vce)

[enwiabe]

DO FDR'S!!!1 I did his one on Pearl Harbour in year 11. It's a pretty rousing speech. Either that, or anything Churchill's put out.