What constitutes a great and memorable speech? Following the recent results of the October 19th federal election in Canada‚ two major speeches were delivered – Justin Trudeau’s victory speech and Steven Harper’s defeat speech. Just as with President Barack Obama’s 2008 victory speech ("Top 10 Presidential Addresses of All Time")‚ people with political preference may rank one of the two speeches more highly solely due to the identity of the speaker. Thankfully however‚ Lifehack provides some invaluable
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Martin Luther King‚ Jr. are both great men known for their dignity and love of country. Through comparison‚ Jose Rizal was proponent of institutional reforms through his writings‚ while Martin Luther King‚ Jr. used his charismatic personality through orations and sermons to cry out the need for change. Both of them used peaceful means instead of violent revolutions to attain their heroic purpose. Through Rizal’s perspective‚ during the Spanish occupation‚ the Filipinos started to lose their own
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have an instantly negative reaction upon seeing someone dressed similarly to Hitler‚ even before they hear what it is the person is saying. This is not surprising‚ but it shows that the effectiveness of Chaplin’s juxtaposition between outfit and oration has lasted even down to our day. Chaplin and Hitler had many things in common. They were both born within a week of each other in 1889. They both had a tough upbringing. Most famously‚ perhaps‚ was the similarity of their trademark toothbrush
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advertising are modern professions that employ rhetorical practitioners. Cicero’s Rhetoric The first master rhetorician Rome produced was the great Cicero. During his career he wrote several treatises on the subject including On Invention‚ On Oration‚ and Topics. His writings on rhetoric guided schools on the subject well into
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secret police. Instead of the desired effect of sabotaging the labour campaign‚ the new public respect for the ministers that had won them the war meant the speech had the exact opposite outcome‚ and instead lost Churchill votes. The timing of this oration exacerbated the problem it caused as it was broadcast on 4th June 1945‚ just a month before the voting started on 5th July. Another cause was the different reactions of the parties to the Beveridge Report. This encouraged the creation of a welfare
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of being independent and self-reliant. In the Renaissance‚ humanism heavily influenced thinkers’ views. Humanism focuses on Greek and Roman influence‚ secularism‚ and the individual. Pico de Mirandola‚ an Italian Renaissance philosopher‚ in his “Oration of the Dignity of Man” states that man can cultivate and grow what he chooses. (Doc. 2) Pico shows that choice is important and can lead to individual achievements‚ which was vital to the view of the humanist toward man. Also‚ Francesco Petrarch‚
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Williliam Shakespeare’s tragic play‚ Julius Caesar‚ builds around the conflict among a group of conspirators and the person they are conspiring against. Julius Caesar tells the story of the assassination and downfall of an influential leader in Ancient Rome‚ named Julius Caesar‚ and the people responsible for his death. The story depicts the multifarious conflicts that arise between the conspirators after Caesar’s death. Shakespeare develops plot through internal and external conflict to illustrate
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Comparative Essay on the speeches of Mark Antony and Brutus Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare’s greatest works. It is about a group of conspirators in Rome who kill their king‚ Julius Caesar. The play follows the life of Brutus (at the time) - a conspirator yet an honourable man. His rival throughout the novel is Mark Antony- Caesar’s good friend. The pair’s likeness and unlikeness becomes clear at Caesar’s funeral where both make a speech justifying what one another is doing. Brutus appeals
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like "I Have a Dream" and the Gettysburg Address seize their readers with intense language and release them with powerful motivation. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 "Great Society" speech directed the American mindset for decades with his potent oration. Somehow‚ his speech to that University of Michigan crowd remains relevant today. How can a speech made by a barely-remembered president continue to affect American culture fifty years later? Johnson employs a structure of encouragement‚ warning‚
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When arguing‚ do you often keep talking until your opponent realizes they’re wrong? Or do you give examples in Logical‚ Ethos‚ or Pathos relation? Jay Heinrichs‚ author of Thank You For Arguing : What Aristotle‚ Lincoln‚ and Homer Simpson can teach us about the art of persuasion demonstrates and teaches the basics of arguing by showing Ethos‚ Pathos‚ And logos. Ethos meaning credibility‚ “Pathos” as in emotional‚ persuasion‚ And lastly Logical arguing. Jay Heinrichs has a total of seven books published
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