Public speaking (redirect from Orations)
primary form of oration through the mid-20th century. After World War II and the increased use of film and television, the Latin oration style began to...
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"Pericles's Funeral Oration" (Ancient Greek: Περικλέους Επιτάφιος) is a famous speech from Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. The speech was...
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The Catilinarian orations (Latin: Marci Tullii Ciceronis orationes in Catilinam; also simply the Catilinarians) are four speeches given in 63 BC by Marcus...
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Olympic Oration or Olympian Oration may refer to: Olympic Oration, a mostly lost speech by Gorgias Olympic Oration (Lysias), Oration 33 by Lysias Olympic...
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oration or Funeral Oration may refer to: eulogy funeral sermon, funeral address structured around exposition of a text from the Bible Funeral oration...
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Isthmian Oration may refer to: Diogenes or the Isthmian Oration, Oration 9 by Dio Chrysostom Isthmian Oration on Poseidon, Oration 46 by Aelius Aristides...
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Gettysburg Address (redirect from Gettysburg Oration)
public oratory, it was Everett's oration that was slated to be the "Gettysburg address" that day. His now seldom-read oration was 13,607 words long and lasted...
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Rigdon's July 4th oration was a speech delivered by Mormon leader Sidney Rigdon during a 4th of July celebration in Far West, Missouri in 1838. Rigdon...
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closing words of the graveside oration of Patrick Pearse at the funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa on 1 August 1915. The oration roused Irish republican feeling...
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University of Sydney (redirect from Charles Perkins Oration)
Dr Charles Perkins Oration has been held by the university, in honour of its first Aboriginal graduate, Charlie Perkins. The orations have been delivered...
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