Friday, September 25, 2015
Great Leaders, Great Speeches
In my Writing 150 class our next assignment is to write a rhetorical analysis on any speech in history! It's hard for me to get started because there are hundreds of incredibly moving speeches. One of the things I realized is that the greatest of the great speeches come during times of peril. They come from a leader that is able to rally the people to do something, when their instinct is to lie down and fold. It makes me thankful for the countless number great leaders America has had in its history. Without them, we would not enjoy the many freedoms we have today.
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So true! It seems to me that some of the most moving speeches came out of the WWII era. You had multiple powerful, moving leaders on very opposite ends of the spectrum, from Churchill and FDR, to Hitler and Stalin. I too am grateful for the number of good leaders we have had in America.
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