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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Site Search

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the search engine for American Rhetoric, a site that offers thousands of primary source speeches. Just type in the name of the speech or the speaker and select from the choices.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Ronald Reagan: Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate

For Students 9th - 10th
This is Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down the Wall" speech delivered on June 12, 1987, at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin. It is offered in YouTube video, mp3 audio, and text. [4:52]
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Woodrow Wilson: The League of Nations

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of Woodrow Wilson's speech explaining the content and purpose of The League of Nations.
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American Rhetoric: News and Information Index

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website is a news and information index that offers links to news sources, newspapers, magazines and journals, search engines, polling data, legal resources, and citation guides.
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Teaching American History

Teaching American History: Malcolm X: "Message to Grassroots"

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of Malcolm X's speech "Message to Grassroots" delivered November 10, 1963.
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American Rhetoric: Aaron Swartz: Address at F2 C: Freedom to Connect Conference

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a speech by Aaron Swartz "How We Stopped SOPA" delivered on May 21, 2012, at the Freedom to Connect Confence. He explains their efforts to stop the passage of the COICA: The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeit Act. It...
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American Rhetoric: Huey P. Long Radio Speech: "Share Our Wealth"

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a radio speech "Share Our Wealth" delivered by Huey P. Long on March 7, 1935, by the National Broadcasting Company, New York. Long was in opposition to Roosevelt's New Deal.
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American Rhetoric: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Statement at the Smith Act Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the testimony of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a member of the USA Communist Party, who spoke in her own defense at her trial for being a Communist on April 24 1952, in New York.
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American Rhetoric: Jimmy Carter: "A Crisis of Confidence"

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a speech by Jimmy Carter addressing the country about uniting the country to solve the Engergy Crisis on delivered July 15, 1979. It is offered in YouTube video, mp3 audio, and text [4:16].
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm: The Equal Rights Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of Shirley Chisholm's speech to the House of Representatives on August 10,1970, supporting the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Elie Wiesel: "The Perils of Indifference"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the audio and text of Elie Wiesel's speech "The Perils of Indifference" delivered on April 12, 1999, Washington, D.C. He discusses his experience in German concentration camps during the Holocaust and the dangers on indifference.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Gerald R. Ford: Address Pardoning Richard M. Nixon

For Students 9th - 10th
This is mp3 audio and text of Gerald R. Ford's speech to the nation pardoning Richard M. Nixon for his part in the Watergate coverup. It was delivered on September 8, 1974, Washington D.C.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Lyndon Baines Johnson: "Let Us Continue"

For Students 9th - 10th
This is Lyndon Baines Johnson's speech "Let Us Continue," on the occasion of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 27, 1963; it is offered in a You Tube Video, an mp3 audio, and in text. [6:11]
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Eleanor Roosevelt: Adopting the Declaration of Human Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
This is Eleanor Roosevelt's address to the United Nations on its adoption of the Declaration of Human Rights on December 9, 1948 in Paris, France; it is provided in a YouTube video, mp3 audio, and in text. [3:30]
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Robert F. Kennedy: Day of Affirmation at Cape Town University

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the audio mp3 and text of Robert F. Kennedy's speech on June, 6, 1966 on the occasion of Affirmation day for South Africa.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: John Kerry: Statement at Senate Foreign Relations Committee1

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a video and transcript of John Kerry's testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the topic of the horrors committed by American soldiers in Vietnam and the resulting anger and suffering their participation in the war...
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American Rhetoric: Communication Associations

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an index of communication associations including links to the associations' websites
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American Rhetoric: Communication Journals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an index of communication journals and their publishers with links to the journals.
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American Rhetoric: Rhetoric & the Story of Corax vs. Tisias

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
After reading the arugments of each of two lawyers in court, decide who wins.
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American Rhetoric: Scholarly Definitions of Rhetoric

For Students 9th - 10th
This is collection of scholars' definitions of rhetoric; these include Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Francis Bacon, Henry Ward Beecher and many more.
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American Rhetoric: Selected Moments From Aristotle's Rhetoric

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a collection of excerpts from Aristole's Rhetoric.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Selected Moments From Plato's Gorgias

For Students 9th - 10th
This is excerpt from Plato's Gorgias which illustrates the Socratic (Q&A) Method of Division and Classification and claims about rhetoric.
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American Rhetoric: William Jefferson Clinton: Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address

For Students 9th - 10th
This is President Clinton speaking at the prayer memorial for the bombing of Oklahoma City delivered on April 23, 1995, in Oklahoma City, OK. It is offered in YouTube Video, mp3 audio, and text [9:11]
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American Rhetoric: Cesar E. Chavez: "The Mexican American and the Church"

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a paper that was prepared and presented by Cesar E. Chavez and presented in March 1968 at the Second Annual Mexican Conference in Sacramento, California. In it, he discusses the lack of support from the Catholic parish for the...