worked with Mohandas Gandhi and India’s pursuit for independence. It worked with Nelson Mandela’s quest to be rid of apartheid. It worked with Aung San Suu Kyi and the fight for Myanmar’s democracy. These heroes understood that they were breaking the law‚ and they took the punishment that was dealt to them. Nelson Mandela was in jail for 25 years. Kyi was under house arrest for 15 years. But what’s astounding is that they were able to see the positive impact they created. They saw how much better their
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SPEAKING BY WAN HIZAM BIN WAN HASSAN Speaking in Public An English proverb says “talk is cheap!” But nowadays a good talk “can be very expensive” indeed. There are people who travels between cities town to town‚ delivering speeches as a form of entertainment or information to paying audiences. Example: Oprah Winfrey – The Oprah Show David Letterman – Late Night with Letterman (50K per speech) Do you know who „them‟? A few are “naturals” who seem born with
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About Myanmar [pic] Facts about Myanmar Location Climate Geography Natural Resources Neighbouring Countries General Info Location Myanmar is situated in southeast Asia and is bordered on the north and northeast by China; on the east and southeast by Laos and Thailand; on the south by the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal; and on the west by Bangladesh and India. It is located between latitudes 09°32’N and 28°31’N and longitudes 92°10’E and 101°11’E. The country covers an area
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President- Mr.Emomali Rahmon. * World’s most competitive economy‚ 2012- Switzerland. * RGESS- Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme. * Chairman‚ PTI- Mr.R.Lakshmipathy. * Highest US Civilian Award- Congressian Gold Medal‚ 2012- Ms.Aung San Suu Kyi. * Switzerland Business Excellence Award‚ 2012- Dr.K.C.Abraham (MD‚ Kunnath Pharmaceuticals). *
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of persuasion; ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos‚ which takes into account the relationship between the speaker‚ audience and subject (subject statement). This will be demonstrated by analysing the rhetorical techniques being skilfully utilized in Aung San Suu Kyi’s speech‚ ’The keynote Address to the Beijing World Conference on women". Aung‚ the leader of the National League of Democracy in Burma and globally known as a political activist for democracy and human rights‚ has been awarded several prizes
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Introduction Women in religion are so often swept away by the more prominent achievements of the male members of their order. This does not mean that these women did not play a formative role in their religion‚ but their stories are often unrecorded or ignored and their contributions are devalued. It is easy to believe that this is isolated to one religion that we might feel particularly uncharitable towards‚ however my research has shown that this happens in almost all religions around the world
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these two concepts has the most ability to corrupt‚ but we can recognize the way in which each’s ability influences the other. This requires an awareness of the past and present in order to prepare for the future. As the Burmese diplomat‚ Aung San Suu Kyi‚ reasoned; “Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.” Corruption is not purely a convention in which blame can be assigned‚ but an issue that comes from the unbalance between
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Rewrite Final Essay In 1997 Madeleine Albright gave a speech to the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College Women’s College in Massachusetts. She told her audience the appeal of using logic‚ emotions‚ religion and good stories Madeleine uses logic and how that is adapting to NATO and that helps her audience understand that there is a memory she talks about the states of women she says “against a glass ceiling or rising from a dirt floor one standing up spreading the word that we are ready to claim
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civil rights movement here in America and Nelson Mandela used Gandhi’s non-violent methods to help end apartheid in South Africa. These weren’t the only situations where non-violence succeeded either‚ Khan Abdule Ghaffar Khan‚ Steve Biko‚ Aung San Suu Kyi and Benigno Aquino‚ Jr. used Gandhi’s non-violent tactics to win out over their enemies. Aquino even succeeded in freeing his Philippine people from the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. All of these victorious situations show us that non-violence
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(“A Month and a Day”; 318) and never giving up is what made the big difference. Even though he didi’n get to finish what he started he achieved really important things and motivated others to continue what he started. Just like Saro-Wiwa‚ Aung San Suu Kyi spoke out and made a difference‚ she returned to her native Burma and put herself through everything in order to gain the autonomy for the citizens of her beloved country. She “founded” (“Icon of Hope”; 445) the National League for Democracy and was
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