Speech

The movie Just Mercy and the book To Kill a Mockingbird each share similar themes, as well as events that occur. To begin, in both of the works there are lawyers seen defending convicts who are believ…

Sojourner Truth, an African American woman, a strong dedicated women's rights activist was the author of a powerful and moving speech " Ain't I a Woman" that caught the attention of many. Truth's spee…

All the best books have this one similarity: they use the power of words to inflict certain emotions on their readers. Much like eyes are the windows to the soul, words are the windows to emotion. A s…

In "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death," Patrick Henry builds an argument to persuade his audience that Adapted from Patrick Henry's Speech to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23rd,1775: "Give Me…

In Carl Sagan's speech, Pale Blue Dot, he shows how so many different types of people live on the same planet, from "every saint [or] sinner" to "every hero [or] coward" (Sagan 1). We all live on this…

In his letter, Andrew Mellon, the secretary of the treasury, writes to the congress to lower the taxes on the rich as he believes that they are not going to help the federal government in any way, dur…

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech "Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation'' was one of the famous speeches of the 1940's. On December 7,1941 President Roosevelt delivered the address to Congress in…

Patrick Henry's speech, commonly referred to as Give me liberty, or give me death, was spoken in St. John's Church in an attempt to convince his peers that war preparation was more than necessary. He'…

The LGBT community had been misrepresented and denied their rights in America, most notably, in the late 1970's. Around this time, Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California, was…

Actor, writer, producer, comedian and director Mindy Kaling, in her commencement speech of Dartmouth's class of 2018, congratulates and prepares the students for the present and future. Kaling's purpo…

The morning of September 11 2001 already felt odd enough for president George W. Bush. Instead of a normal day in his office, he visited an elementary school to talk with some of the students. Everyth…

In a speech by John F. Kennedy entitled, "Poetry and Power," Kennedy says, "The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a…

At Brother Todd Clifton's funeral, the Invisible Man presents a eulogy focused on the police brutality that caused his death. The Invisible Man uses verbal irony in his eulogy speech to encourage the …

In fifteen short minutes, Margaret Chase Smith publicly condemned the political villain, Joseph McCarthy, in a fashion that all other politicians had been afraid to do. While standing in front of con…

In Benjamin Banneker's critical letter to Thomas Jefferson he criticized Thomas Jefferson's change in point of view, challenged his hypocrisy, and tried to change his point of view to urge justice for…

Members of the court. My client did kill the old man by suffocating him with a mattress, dismembering the body and rid of the body by putting him under the floorboards. But, would a sane man claim to …

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, in his speech delivered to the Commencement Ceremony in 2005 at Stanford University, argues that life is precious and the work someone…

David Brooks uses specific rhetorical strategies such as repetition, rhetorical questions, syntax and structure of his word selection. This is all to further the overall purpose of making sure that th…

A commencement speech is a speech that is given to those who have just graduated. Commencement speeches are most commonly used during college and university graduations. The purpose of a commencement …

On September 11, 2001, the United States of America had been attacked. The terrorist group Al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial airliners. Three of them were headed to Los Angeles while the other one was…

Elie Wiesel is an incredible survivor of the indifference of emotionless humans. He was born in Sighet, a memorable Holocaust location, in 1928; he was forced and evacuated out of his home at the age …

In 2007, Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch was invited to give a speech in the series "The Last Lecture," which entails sharing one's knowledge and experiences with students and other audience me…

Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech in 1963 that had a sad, but powerful tone. In the speech, King wanted to impress across the audience that segregation is wrong, and that all men are created equal.…

With time many commencement speeches have been given to many colleges all over the states, and possibly the world, but one that has been different to them and has touched the hearts of many was the 20…

I have chosen to watch the speech on Ergotism and Salem Witch Trials. The purpose of this speech is very clear. The speech was meant to inform the audience of the ties between ergot poisoning and witc…

The article starts with Clare Boothe Luce, a member of the Women's National Press Club,journalist, and American politician. She stated that the American press has a habit of sacrificing integrity in f…

In 1905, Florence Kelley gave an emotional and convincing speech regarding child labor and the conditions of working women. Her speech was a cry for change and reform to a corrupt system. The emotion …