Friday, July 13, 2007

elocution

Nice articles:

35th President - John F kennedy's Inaugural speech:
Friday, January 20, 1961
"...ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkinaugural.htm

Swami Vivekananda's Speech - The World Parliament of Religions, Chicago
WELCOME ADDRESS - Sept 11, 1893
http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/extra/bl-sv1.htm
http://www.theuniversalwisdom.org/hinduism/welcome-address-vivekananda/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxUzKoIt5aM

Public speaking is both a science and an art. The content of your speech is the science part. How you memserise the audience is art.

Video gallery of famous speeches -History Channel

Avalon project -Yale.edu

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