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"You hope that your professors will be good speakers who can keep your interest for at least the length of a class period, but more often than not, you'll have a teacher or two each semester who drones on and on and doesn't make you feel passionate about the subject. They could take tips from these speakers who have inspired thousands or even millions of people around the world, some even long after they've died. Here are 50 incredible, historical speeches you should watch online."

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Don't depend on someone else's interpretation of a document. Read it yourself and draw your own conclusions. Listen to speeches and hear for yourself, who said what. Document based questions (DBQs) are a major focus in schools today. To be answered correctly, students must be adept at analyzing and synthesizing the information provided. They must be able to write coherent and logical essays. This site is meant to provide students with resources to develop the skills needed to effectively respond to DBQs. Great listing of resources for Primary Source Documents

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This website has been created to provide resources and materials for classroom teachers, reading and resource specialists, speech therapists, parents and students in the area of language arts.

Odiogo's media-shifting technology expands the reach of your content: It transforms news sites and blog posts into high fidelity, near human quality audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.

Martin Luther King Jr. was undeniably the most significant individual of the civil rights movement. An iconic and tireless leader, he was also a uniter, steadfastly committed to humanity, community, and justice. Stanford's King Institute is the Web's best resource for researching the life and work of Dr. King. Find text and audio of his speeches, sermons, and papers in the King Papers Project or learn about his life in the King Encyclopedia.

"Import text from a document or Copy / Paste text to convert it to a MP3 file that can be downloaded and used in your favorite MP3 Player. "

"Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurence within the body of text."

"Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere."

Buzzwords are frequently used in news media. These are words that do not typically occur in everyday speech, but are common among newscasters, talking heads, and pundits on cable news.

A really cool visual dictionary, thesaurus, vocabulary website that gives results as a web/mind-map. Users can click to find different parts of speech, synonyms, antonyms and more.

Convert any text to MP3 audio for use in your iPod or mp3 player.