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2006: Chocolate City speech by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, concerning race politics in the city several months after Hurricane Katrina. 2007: The Last Lecture , delivered by Randy Pausch , a terminally ill computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University , which became an Internet sensation and gained major media coverage.
Friendship Day (also known as the International Friendship Day or Friend's Day) is a day in several countries for celebrating friendship.It was initially promoted by the greeting card industry; evidence from social networking sites shows a revival of interest in Friendship Day that may have grown with the spread of the internet, particularly in India, Bangladesh, and Malaysia.
On July 20, 1958, while out to dinner with friends in the town of Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay, Dr. Ramón Artemio Bracho proposed the idea of a World Friendship Day to his colleagues. On that night, the World Crusade of Friendship was founded, as an activist organization that would promote the idea of celebrating worldwide friendship on July 30.
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In Carmen Perez-Sabater's 2012 study of Facebook users, [27] she discusses the use of English by native and non-native speakers on university Facebook pages. The researchers categorize these posts as a model of " computer-mediated communication ", a new communication style that combines features of writing and speech.
Friendship Day is one of the most popular event after New Year which is celebrated all over the world... but not as important as national festivals — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.206.56.129 10:05, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
[1] [4] [5] One of her most famous speeches which appears in the book is "Our House Is on Fire". [6] [7] [8] The first edition was published on 30 May 2019. An expanded edition was published on 21 November 2019 with five new speeches. [9] In November 2019, Thunberg was named author of the year by Waterstones for No One Is Too Small to Make a ...
"Friends, Romans": Orson Welles' Broadway production of Caesar (1937), a modern-dress production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare.