I need to analyze a speech for my Persuasion class and I know everyone is going to choose MLK Jr's "I have a dream" or the Gettysburg Address so I want something different. I was thinking maybe "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"...
2007-01-26 16:07:50 · 16 answers · asked by Gorgeous 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Either that or Nixon's "I am not a criminal!" speech...
2007-01-26 16:17:45 · update #1
The Sermon on the Mount by Jesus of Nazareth.
2007-01-26 16:12:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Braveheart-William Wallace addressing the men who worked for the nobles to not turn and go home as they intended to do but to stay and fight for Freedom. It goes something like this..They can go home and live their days and have a long ,safe life but never free but then later when their lives were ending dying in their beds as old men how many would give all to have just one chance to go back in time to fight for their Freedom just one chance to live and die as free men. William Wallace was a Scotsman(played by Mel Gibson in the Oscar Winning Movie Braveheart) who challenged British Rule and after his wife was killed by the British to lure him out in the open devoted his life to ending the cruel and tyrannical rule of the British, which he accomplished and became a folk hero. Sadly he was also captured ,betrayed by Bruce a scots nobleman,quartered and beheaded, but his braveryis still remembered today in Scotland.You could speak on the theme that we , all human beings, were created with free will,created as free men and not meant ever to be dominated and live under the will over another and why all through history those enslaved, from the Greeks enslaved by the Roman and who ,led by Spartacus-a slave fought risking the cruel death of being crucified just to be free ,to the early Negroes of the Americas who would openly rebel not afraid of the whip demanding their right to live as free men .Human Beings were never meant to be be owned. It was by our original creation that this desire to be free, to live in charge of our destiny was imprinted into our spirit, our very soul.Whatever speech you pick you will be most successful and convincing if the one you pick inspired you,touched your soul and rekindled your passions.
2007-01-26 16:34:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First one I thought of was Gettysburg Address, but I like your idea.
2007-01-26 16:15:12 · answer #3 · answered by Cara Beth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can it come from a movie? I loved the FREEDOM speech by William Wallace in the movie Braveheart
2007-01-26 16:12:51 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tear Down this Wall... Donald Reagan
2007-01-26 16:13:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Washington's farewell speech in 1797.
2007-01-26 16:11:57 · answer #6 · answered by Judas Rabbi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are 100 speeches you can choose from.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html
2007-01-26 16:23:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I Have A Dream
2007-01-26 16:13:09 · answer #8 · answered by Nico 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Patrick Henry - Liberty or Death (1775)
2007-01-26 16:25:04 · answer #9 · answered by 4kids2pay4 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's the first thing that came to mind, "I have a dream". "I did not have sexual relations..." is good too though, use it!
2007-01-26 16:13:37 · answer #10 · answered by ღღღ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋