The Two-Minute Speech Lasting roughly over two minutes‚ the Gettysburg Address is one of the best known speeches in American history. In the Gettysburg Address‚ author Abraham Lincoln puts hope into the hearts of Americans of a new nation brought up from the ashes of the American Civil War and the noble men that fought to preserve its belief in liberty and the equality of all men. Lincoln’s words deliver a sense of unity and wholehearted purpose among Americans in his Gettysburg Address. In
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SPEECHES - 2001 The value of great speeches is that they continue to speak to us. How do they do this? In your answer‚ refer to at least TWO speeches. It is certainly true that the value of great speeches is that they continue to speak to us. They are admired by responders over many years and have an ability to speak to us‚ hence stimulating many different responses as time goes by. This value is present in speeches such as “Among us you can dwell no longer” delivered by Cicero in 63 BC in
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Evaluate how TWO speeches you have studied employ rhetorical devices to represent visionary ideas Powerful speeches affirm universal values which remain prevalent in human nature’s aspiration to productively approach the future. Noel Pearson’s speech “An Australian history for us all” (1996) and Anwar Sadat’s “Statement to the Knesset” (1977)‚ through effective use of rhetorical devices‚ creates textual integrity to explore visionary ideas: establishing the need for change by examining “the past
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I HAVE A DREAM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DELIVERED 28 AUGUST 1963‚ AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL‚ WASHINGTON D.C. CONTEXT SOCIAL CONTEXT This speech was Martin Luther King Jr.’s most iconic and influential speeches. Delivered to a large gathering to civil rights marchers‚ this speech’s purpose was to press the US government for racial equality. At this point in history‚ "black" Americans were strongly racially targeted particularly in the southern states. Laws in these particular states forcibly segregated
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"The completedness of a speech relies on the contribution of the parts to the whole" Choose TWO speeches and argue how the structure of each contributes significantly to your understanding of the speech as a whole. An orator’s ability to utilise speech structure permits them to not only convey their ideas efficiently‚ but also to help achieve a social change and improvement. This notion of social change is at the heart of any successful speech. The idea of “parts to the whole” is shown in both
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MAKING FORMAL SPEECHES Often this is the most difficult part of oral communication for many people. Selection of the Topic This is the first step in formal speechmaking. You may be assigned a topic‚ such as to introduce a speaker. Here‚ you are likely to be assigned a topic because you have some knowledge of the subject matter (the speaker). In other cases‚ you will have to choose a topic by yourself. Do this using 3 basic factors: 1. background and knowledge (you need some knowledge of the
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CHELSEA PITCH OWNERS PLC MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF DIRECTORS HELD AT THE GROSVENOR HOTEL‚ VICTORIA ON THURSDAY 14 JUNE 2012 Present: Mr S J Frankham Mr R J Sewell Mr R Glanvill Mr G Smith Mr D F Wise Apologies for Absence: The meeting convened at 9:00 am. 1. The minutes of the previous meeting of 14 March 2012 were read and agreed. 2. The CPO website has been updated and is being monitored by RG in order to implement any improvements that can be made. 3. Following our informal meeting (not
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Hate Speeches: Where to Draw the Line India’s overly broad definitions of “hate speech” provide scope for arbitrary application of the law. While the goal of preventing discrimination based on race‚ religion‚ sex‚ class‚ caste etc. is important in a diverse country like India it must be done in ways that restrict speech as little as possible. Prosecutions under the hate speech laws‚ as under the “insulting religion” laws‚ can be initiated by the individuals or interest groups who dislike or disagree
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raise or let the team know something important all at once when everyone is available. 1.2) organisational requirements that apply when taking minutes are that they should reflect everything important issue discussed in the meeting. Also we have a template to use when typing up any minutes which follows the list of items on the agenda. In order to take minutes in an efficient manner‚ you need to have the template ready based on the agenda items. Leave plenty of space to write down notes as the meeting
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KHALiD MAJEED G.R # 252034 Submitted to: Mohammad khurshid khan SUMMARY OF MINUTES OF MEETINGS: Minutes of meetings are very important for any business it does not matter the business is small or huge. We should remember some points whenever we decided to arrange meeting. There are some points‚ which are very necessary to take into consideration. • Tool whatever we used in meetings should not be mind diverting. • Tool must be helpful for the purpose of the meeting
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