81. Effective Speech Writing Techniques for writing an effective speech, including choosing a theme, including quotes and other resources, effective closings. http://7-12educators.about.com/education/7-12educators/library/weekly/aa050900a.

zWASL=1;zGRH=1 zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') zDO=0 Home Education Secondary Education Secondary Education Search Secondary Education Back to School Teaching 101 Educational Issues ... Share w(x2+zWl+'?p=1" zT="18/1[N" rel="nofollow">Print') Free Secondary Education Newsletter! Sign Up Discuss in my Forum By Melissa Kelly , About.com Guide See More About: speech writing graduation writing resources zSB(3,3) Writing speeches for graduation, class assignments, or other purposes consists of a lot more than finding a few inspirational quotes and possibly a funny story or two. The key to writing good speeches lies in using a theme. If you always refer back to this theme, the audience will respond positively and remember your words. This does not mean that inspirational quotes are not important. However, they should be integrated into your speech in a way that makes sense. Choosing a Theme The first task that a public speaker needs to focus on before they do any actual writing is the message they are trying to convey. My inspiration for this idea came from the speeches of John F. Kennedy. In his Inaugural Speech , he chose to focus on freedom. He addressed many different topics, but always came back to this idea of liberty. When asked to be the guest speaker at a National Honor Society induction recently, I decided to focus on how an individual's daily decisions add up to reveal that person's true character. We can not cheat in the small things and expect these blemishes to never surface. When the real tests in life occur, our character will not be able to withstand the pressure because we have not chosen the harder path all along. Why did I choose this as my theme? My audience consisted of Juniors and Seniors at the top of their respective classes. They had to meet stringent requirements in the areas of scholarship, community service, leadership, and character in order to be accepted into the organization. I wanted to leave them with one idea that might make them think twice. If you would like to see the actual speech

82. Davy Crockett's Speech To Congress Colonel Davy Crockett Delivering His Celebrated Speech to Congress on the State of Finances, State Officers, and State Affairs in General http://www.towson.edu/~duncan/crockett.html

Colonel Davy Crockett Delivering His Celebrated Speech to Congress on the State of Finances, State Officers, and State Affairs in General "The broken fenced state o' the nation, the broken banks, broken hearts, and broken pledges o' my brother Congressman here around me, has riz the boiler o' my indignation clar up to the high pressure pinte, an' therefore I have riz to let off the steam of my hull hog patriotism, without round-about- ation, and without the trimmins. The truth wants no trimmins for in her clar naked state o' natur she's as graceful as a suckin colt i' the sunshine. Mr. Speaker! What in the name o' kill-sheep-dog rascality is the country a- comin' to? Whar's all the honor? no whar! an thar it'll stick! Whar's the state revenue? Every whar but whar it ought to be! "Why, Mr. Speaker, don't squint with horror, when I tell you that last Saturday mornin' Uncle Sam hadn't the first fip to give to the barbet! The banks suspend payment, and the starving people suspend themselves by ropes! Old Currency is flat on his back, the bankers have sunk all funds in the safe arth o' speculation, and some o' these chaps grinnin' around me are as deep in the mud as a heifer in a horse-pond! "Whar's the political honesty o' my feller congressmen? why, in bank bills and five acre speeches! Whar's all thar patriotism? in slantendicular slurs, challenges, and hair trigger pistols! Whar's all thar promises? every whar! Whar's all thar perfomances on 'em? no whar, and the poor people bellering arter 'em everywhere like a drove o' buffaloes arter their lazy keepers that, like the officers here, care for no one's stomach, but their own etarnal intarnals!

83. Speech And Writing According To Hegel Excerpt from Jacques Derrida s 1971 consideration of Hegel. http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/derrida1.htm

Jacques Derrida 1971 Speech and writing according to Hegel Source G W F Hegel, Critical Assessments , edited by Robert Stern, Routledge 1993 Introduction to Hegel's semiology Since real difference belongs to the extremes, this mean ( Mitte ) is but an abstract neutrality, their real possibility, the as it were theoretical element of the existence, process, and results of chemical objects. In the corporeal element water has this function of being medium; in the spiritual element, in so far as there is an analogon of such a relationship in it, we must seek this function on the side of signs in general, and more precisely ( ) in language. [ Science of Logic In the Encyclopaedia (§ 458) Hegel regrets that in general 'signs and language are introduced as an appendix in psychology, or even in logic, without any reflection on their necessity and their enchainment in the system of the activity of the understanding'. For the moment let us see here the indication or the incitation to recognise that the essential place of semiology is at the centre, not on the margin or as an appendix to Logic. In determining Being as presence (presence of the present being [ ] in the form of an object, or self-presence of the present being in the form of self-consciousness), metaphysics could only consider the

84. John Wilkes Booth Encyclopedia-like overview of Booth s life along with excerpts from the speeches and writings of those who were acquainted with him. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACWbooth.htm

Home Email Search Author ... Index Page John Wilkes Booth was born in Bel Air, Maryland, on 10th May, 1838. He was the ninth of ten children born to the famous actor, Junius Brutus Booth Booth made his acting debut at the age of seventeen in Baltimore. He toured throughout America and soon became one of America's leading actors and was especially acclaimed for the work he did with the Shakespearean company that was based in Richmond Unlike the rest of his family, Booth was an ardent supporter of slavery . In 1859 he joined the Virginia militia company that assisted in the capture of John Brown at Harper's Ferry Although Booth had a deep hatred for President Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party , he did not join the Confederate Army on the outbreak of the American Civil War . Instead he worked as a secret agent and also helped to smuggle medical supplies from the North to the Confederate forces in the South. As a touring actor Booth had the perfect cover for this work. In 1864 Booth devised a scheme to kidnap Abraham Lincoln in Washington . The plan was to take Lincoln to Richmond and hold him until he could be exchanged for Confederate Army prisoners of war. Others involved in the plot included

85. Key Presidential Speeches Of Gerald R. Ford Collection of speeches and documents from Ford s years in office and the post-presidential years. Includes sound files. http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/speeches/listkey.htm

Key Presidential Speeches of Gerald R. Ford This page provides access to the full text of several key speeches from the Ford presidency. See the links below the list for access to additional speeches. Remarks Upon Taking the Oath of Office as President , August 9, 1974 (text and sound). Remarks on Signing a Proclamation Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon , September 8, 1974 (text and sound) Proclamation 4311, Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon , September 8, 1974 Remarks Announcing a Program for the Return of Vietnam Era Draft Evaders and Military Deserters , September 16, 1974 (text and sound) Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Economy , October 8, 1974 [WIN - Whip Inflation Now] (text and sound) State of the Union Address , January 15, 1975 Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress Reporting on United States Foreign Policy , April 10, 1975 Address at a Tulane University Convocation , April 23, 1975 (text and sound) Address in Helsinki Before the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe , August 1, 1975 (text and sound) State of the Union Address , January 19, 1976 Remarks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

86. Martin Luther King : Biography Biography, historical context of the civil rights movement, excerpts from King s speeches and writings, excerpts from contemporary news accounts, and an excerpt from an FBI memo about MLK. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkingML.htm

Home Email Search Author ... Index Page var addthis_pub = 'JSimkin'; Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta Georgia on 15th January, 1929. Both his father and grandfather were Baptist preachers who had been actively involved in the civil rights movement. King graduated from Morehouse College in 1948. After considering careers in medicine and law, he entered the ministry. While studying at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania , King heard a lecture on Mahatma Gandhi and the nonviolent civil disobedience campaign that he used successfully against British rule in India. Over the next few months King read several books on the ideas of Gandhi, and eventually became convinced that the same methods could be employed by blacks to obtain civil rights in America. He was particularly struck by Gandhi's words: "Through our pain we will make them see their injustice". King was also influenced by Henry David Thoreau and his theories on how to use nonviolent resistance to achieve social change. After his marriage to Coretta Scott , King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama . In Montgomery, like most towns in the

87. From Revolution To Reconstruction: Presidents: George Washington Thorough list of Washington s speeches and papers. Washington s Farewell remains (as do most of the revolutionaries speeches and writings), an integral part of American Literature. http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/gw1.htm

FRtR Presidents George Washington George Washington (1732-1799) 2nd president of the United States: 1797-1801 George Washington First inaugural address Second inaugural address Farewell Address ... The Life of George Washington by David Ramsey (1808)

88. Office Of Innovation And Improvement (OII) The agency s entrepreneurial arm that makes strategic investments in promising education practices, and coordinates the public school choice and supplemental educational services. Portfolio of grants, speeches, writings, and events are highlighted. http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oii/

U.S. Department of Education Search Advanced Search Funding Money for college Grant opportunities ... Contacts Offices ED Structure Offices Initiatives Publications ... Web Survey OFFICES Home Publications Programs/Initiatives Choice Office Contacts ... News Welcome What's New The Education Innovator , Volume IX, No. 8 The Office of Innovation and Improvement is a nimble, entrepreneurial arm of the U.S. Department of Education. It makes strategic investments in innovative educational practices through two dozen discretionary grant programs and coordinates the public school choice and supplemental educational services provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as amended by No Child Left Behind. It also serves as the Department's liaison and resource to the nonpublic education community through the Office of Non-Public Education . Additionally, OII administers a number of teacher quality programs including the Teaching Ambassador Fellowship initiative which brings teacher leaders from our nation's public schools to the Department to participate in a national dialogue about public education. The Office helps to develop guidance on provisions and programs related to its work under No Child Left Behind. OII also created the

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