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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. links are arranged alphabetically by first name and checked for errors at least once every two weeks. see also a special issue: the rhetoric of the 9-11 attacks on america.

 

gettysburg address

chief red jacket

george w. bush: 9/11

c. heston: cultural war

jim valvano: espy

halle berry: oscar award

200+ short audio clips from well-known speeches, movies, sermons, popular songs, and sensational media events by famous (and infamous) politicians, actors, preachers, athletes, singers, and other noteworthy personalities. clips are designed to illustrate various rhetorical devices used in specific rhetorical situations to induce an audience to cooperate with a speaker's persuasive purpose(s). clips are arranged alphabetically by last name.

epistrophe w/ nicholson

scesis onomaton w/ sting

simile w/ seinfeld

alliteration w/ clooney

hyperbole w/ hepburn

anaphora w/ rfk

complete index to and partial database of the 100 most significant american political speeches of the 20th century, according to 137 leading scholars of american public address, as compiled by stephen e. lucas (university of wisconsin-madison) and martin j. medhurst (baylor university). find out who made the cut and experience the power of rhetorical eloquence in this provocative list of "who's who" in american public address.

mlking: "i have a dream"

reagan: challenger

jfk: inaugural address

mx:"the ballot or the bullet"

gehrig farewell to baseball

cuomo: 1984 dnc

jordan: impeachment articles

fdr: pearl harbor

nixon: checkers

 

full text and audio mp3 database of over 50 hollywood movie speeches, as selected by audiences of american rhetoric. a new movie speech is added every 2-3 weeks. included are military movie speeches, sports-oriented movie speeches, forensic movie speeches, and social-political  movie speeches, among others.

braveheart

gladiator

patton

wall street

a few good men

network

remember the titans

good will hunting

       
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