bureauista » great speeches in history http://bureauista.com/blog This is my blog. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:58:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 History today (title stolen from Tim) http://bureauista.com/blog/2009/01/history-today-title-stolen-from-tim/ http://bureauista.com/blog/2009/01/history-today-title-stolen-from-tim/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:25:00 +0000 bureauista http://www.bureauista.com/blog/?p=52 For the most part I loved O-bam-bam’s inaugural speech, and will probably watch it again. I especially liked the part about ‘honesty, hard work and courage’ being ‘the quiet force of progress’ through history. Not bad for a twenty-seven year old speech writer. I’ll be pushing my team of writers to develop a lesson around the [...]]]> For the most part I loved O-bam-bam’s inaugural speech, and will probably watch it again. I especially liked the part about ‘honesty, hard work and courage’ being ‘the quiet force of progress’ through history. Not bad for a twenty-seven year old speech writer. I’ll be pushing my team of writers to develop a lesson around the speech soonest.

If you liked it, or if you hated it, I recommend Learn out loud’s ‘Great speeches in history’ podcast, downloadable free from here. It includes Nelson Mandela’s address on release from prison, JFK’s inaugural (which is interesting if you want to compare and work out the formula for all Presidential inaugural speeches) and Newton Minow’s ‘Television is a vast wasteland’. ‘Ask not what broadcasting can do for you. Ask what you can do for broadcasting.’

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