Can you give me an ORATION [w/ full text of it ] that will probably last for 4 mins when orated in public?

Question

I needed ideas for my oration. Please help me. I need an oration piece that will last for 4 minutes when publicly orated. Please no abraham lincoln's getterburgs address or the one from shakespeare, Brutus' speech. No short oration. I need an oration that is not too short but also not too long like Everrett's Getterburg Address.

for mr. hamster, I'm not asking you to do my homework. I'm posting here in Yahoo!answers for advice or FOR MORE IDEAS about my "going to be oration". Don't post if you don't have any idea.

Nevermind. I had done my oration already. Thanks for your concern, I guess.

Answer 1

Miss Sleepy One...

While I cannot give a complete dissertation, maybe an idea such as how important tonal inflection and facial expression is for communication vs. just the printed word; where these characteristics need to be assumed, or the sentence constructed well enough for them to be "understood".

That is why it is difficult for some to deceive the sighted, easier to fool the blind that can hear, easier to fool the deaf and blind... (The ones that can read Braille) and the written word can deceive most of all.

Just remember, you will need 100 - 150 words per minute depending on your speed of speech.

Answer 2

Online Speech Bank

Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm

http://www.speech-topics-help.com/good-persuasive-speech-topics.html

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm

http://library.albany.edu/usered/dr/speech.html

http://www.history.com/media.do

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/school_bell/social_studies/history/speeches/


SpeechTips

Looking for Good Persuasive Speech Topics?

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http://www.goodpersuasivespeechtopics.com/persuasive.htm

http://www.leeogle.org/byron/bhs/library/persuasion.htm

This is a very good site with very easy to follow step by step instructions.

SpeechTips.com Your free guide to speech writing and public speaking for eulogies, graduations, best man, father of the bride and any other public speaking engagement.

http://www.speechtips.com/index.html

http://www.speechtips.com/preparation.html

FREE Articles on Public Speaking
This site has so many tips that I was unable to pick any, you will need to see for yourself and see which, if any are useful to you.

http://www.public-speaking.org/public-speaking-articles.htm

This site seems OK but once again see what is useful.

http://members.shaw.ca/toasted/services.htm

I liked this one.

The fear of speaking to a group of people is one of the most common forms of social phobia. Here are several suggestions for working with this fear.

http://www.rpeurifoy.com/anxiety/pubspeak.htm

Public speaking do's and don't's

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/feature/public-speaking-dos-and-donts-161531.php

Good luck.

Kevin, Liverpool, UK.