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Jenni Young

I have a dream speech: Martin Luther King Jr - the anatomy of an inspiring speaker - 0 views

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    What was it that made the I have a dream speech by Martin Luther King Jr one of the greatest speaking moments of all time? Public speaking expert Sarah Lloyd-Hughes analyzes King's legendary "I have a dream" speech.
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Martin Luther King's speech: "I have a dream" - 0 views

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    from American Rhetoric - top 100 speeches
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Shaping a Speech, 50 Years After 'I Have a Dream' - 0 views

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    President Obama will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington with a speech at the Lincoln Memorial, and the comparisons to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. seem inevitable.
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King's speech - 0 views

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    Playwright Katori Hall spins theatre from a moment in history, MLK's final speech
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Victory Speech - 0 views

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    New Yorker article discussing the language of Barack Obama's victory speech in 2008
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Like, Degrading the Language? No Way - 0 views

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    Casual American speech is becoming more polite and more subtle.
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    Casual American speech is becoming more polite and more subtle.
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    Casual American speech is becoming more polite and more subtle (Opinion from NY Times)
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Conversations with a teleprompter - 0 views

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    Bill Clinton's skill in making speeches
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Forty-five years ago: Martin Luther King - 0 views

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    Playwright Katori Hall discusses her play which images ML King's last night. Based on his last speech, I've been to the mountain top.
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Its brilliance was in its simplicity - 0 views

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    Guardian article about MLK's speech
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Virginia Woolf: Shakespeare's Sister - 0 views

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    Speech on women and fiction delivered at Cambridge University 1928
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The Rhetorical World of George W Bush - 0 views

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    Paper by Jan Blommaert analyzes Bush's speeches
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Annals of Biography: Angels and Ages : The New Yorker - 0 views

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    Adam Gopnik looks at the Gettysbury Address, Lincoln's language and its legacy (discussion of the language of the speech is in second half of article)
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Like, if You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em? - 1 views

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    Letters to the editor in response to article, "Like, Degrading the Language? No Way", about the increasing use of "like' and 'totally' in everyday speech (NY Times opinion pages)
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    Letters to the editor in response to article, "Like, Degrading the Language? No Way", about the increasing use of "like' and 'totally' in everyday speech (NY Times opinion pages)
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Caitlin Moran: Should my tweets be on the A-level syllabus? - 0 views

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    Writing in the Times, Caitlin Moran says she was initially horrified to discover that her Twitter feed, along with speeches by Russell Brand and the lyrics of Dizzee Rascal
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    Writing in the Times, Caitlin Moran says she was initially horrified to discover that her Twitter feed, along with speeches by Russell Brand and the lyrics of Dizzee Rascal
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'Yes we can' - Barack Obama's lesson in American rhetoric - 0 views

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    On the fifth anniversary of Barack Obama's acceptance address, David Edgar explores what unites - and divides - the great American speeches of the last 150 years (Guardian)
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Brown Brother - 0 views

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    Spoken word performance given as speech at school assembly.
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I am an emotional creature by Eve Ensler - 0 views

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    Video. TED speech: "Embrace your inner girl" by Eve Ensler
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How Code-Switching Explains The World - 1 views

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    In linguistics, "code-switching" means mixing languages or patterns of speech in conversation.This NPR blog interprets code-switching more broadly, as a dialogue that spans culture, race and ethnicity.
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Code Switch - 2 views

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    In linguistics, "code-switching" means mixing languages or patterns of speech in conversation. But this NPR blog looks at code-switching a little more broadly.
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An impassioned call to action - 0 views

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    Novelist Kate Mosse considers Virginia Woolf's speech on Women and Fiction
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