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    at Caesar’s funeral‚ and both of them swayed the crowd. Another case was when Cassius first convinced Brutus to join the conspiracy. Finally‚ it was shown again when Caesar was convinced to go to the Senate meeting‚ where he was later killed. The power of language‚ speech‚ and written words is displayed in these examples and several other times throughout the play. The best example of the power of speech in Julius Caesar was when Brutus and Antony gave their speeches at Caesar’s funeral. When Brutus

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    uses his skilled rhetoric in Caesar’s funeral oration to stir the crowd to revolt against the conspirators. Brutus and Cassius have flaws that lead to their own destruction‚ while Marc Antony proves strong in all the ways they prove weak. Brutus flaw is rigid idealism. For example‚ he ignores Cassius’s advice when he says that the conspirators should kill Antony along with Caesar and ignores him once more when he allows Antony to speak a funeral oration over Caesar’s body.

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    Julius Caesar makes extravagant expressions of being firm and harsh unlike the old sympathetic‚ flexible Caesar that we know from Act 1 and 2. I think that these expressions will for sure change the way that the audiences used to think about him‚ people used to love Caesar for his kindness acts-sympathetic‚ but now he has turned into a nastier person‚ whom he indicates that he’s strong like the star and immovable in his decision of banishing Cimber. I think that Brutus revealed a lot of dishonesty

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    Julius Caesar Essay In Julius Caesar‚ a play written by William Shakespeare‚ a character by the name of Mark Antony makes a funeral speech after his “friend” Brutus allows him too which would become Brutus’s undoing. While Brutus’s speech focused on using loyalty to Rome and Logos‚ Antony uses mainly Pathos to gain the crowd’s favor. And extremely effective it turns out to be‚ Antony manages to have the citizens of Rome revolt and mutiny against the ones they almost cried Caesar against. Antony

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    Heidi had a hard time deciding what she shelled say in the oration but all she came up with was At Heidi’s mother’s funeral Bernadette asked Heidi to come up with something to say for the oration. All heidi came up with was. “Who she was” “Sophia Lynne Demuth” “So B. It” “Precious Bouquet” “Mama” “Soof.” I think that she should’ve said more since She finally found out about

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    Ancient Greece The Greeks become one people Greek myths Pandora’s Box In ancient Greece they had myths about gods in one of them Zeus asked Hephaestus to make him a daughter. They made her out of clay. Hephaestus made a beautiful woman named Pandora. Zeus sent Pandora to earth so she could marry Epimetheus. Zeus wanted Pandora to marry Epimetheus so he could get even. One of the brothers‚ Prometheus gave people fire without asking Zeus for permission. Zeus sent Pandora to earth with a box. The

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    Senate‚ Lincoln’s 186 “Gettysburg Address” orated during the Civil War and Keating’s 1993 “Funeral Service of the Unknown Soldier” given at the Australian War Memorial. Along with universal values of patriotism and loyalty despite difference in time and context‚ all three speeches are timeless and allow us responders to interpret them according to our context and ways of thinking. In Cicero’s oration he exposes Catiline to the Roman Senate and attacks him for attending the Senate’s meeting

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    sector and harped on its achievements. Mr. P.N. Haksar‚ the then Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission‚ addressing the annual session of the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry termed Mr. Tata’s speech as a ’funeral oration’ and said that this oration would be justified if mixed economy was really dead. He said that the problems of the country could not be solved by "composing lyrical passages on the death of mixed economy‚ raising ’macabre’ vision of the hold of communists".

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    DESTINED FOR WAR Jarod Bleibdrey‚ M.S.C.J January 20‚ 2013 As humans have evolved into vast‚ complex civilizations‚ a growing trend became notable to mankind‚ which was corruption. Speculating that Herodotus was the first true historian‚ and Thucydides was the second‚ then the Peloponnesian War would be the first form of government corruption in which war became inevitable. At this point‚ the war varies in perception of the two great alliances‚ and why the war was even fought. This essay will

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    Antony delivers one of the most powerful lines of the play saying‚ “He only in general honest thought and common good…” (5.5.78). Even Antony‚ who ironically turned the general public against Brutus in his funeral oration for Caesar‚ understood the pure intentions of Brutus and praised him in his funeral

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