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  2. Farewell speech - Wikipedia

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    Napoleon saying farewell to the Old Guard at the Palace of Fontainebleau, after his first abdication (1814) A farewell speech or farewell address is a speech given by an individual leaving a position or place. They are often used by public figures such as politicians as a capstone to the preceding career, or as statements delivered by persons ...

  3. Valedictorian - Wikipedia

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    Valedictorian (VD) is an academic title for the highest-performing student of a graduating class of an academic institution in the United States. The valedictorian is generally determined by an academic institution's grade point average (GPA) system but other methods of selection may be factored in such as volunteer work , scholastic awards ...

  4. Twelfth grade - Wikipedia

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    A 12th grade visual arts class in Scott County, Virginia in the United States. Twelfth Grade (also known as 12th Grade, Grade 12, Senior Year, Standard 12, 12th Standard, Class 12 or 12th Class) is the twelfth and final year of formal or compulsory education. It is typically the final year of secondary school and K–12 in most parts of the ...

  5. Valediction - Wikipedia

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    A valediction (derivation from Latin vale dicere, "to say farewell"), [1] parting phrase, or complimentary close in American English, [2] is an expression used to say farewell, especially a word or phrase used to end a letter or message, [3] [4] or a speech made at a farewell. [3] Valediction's counterpart is a greeting called a salutation.

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    An amputee and his son with cerebral palsy were among the 27 deaths in the fires raging around Los Angeles.The father was found at his son’s bedside. One victim told a relative that he did not ...

  7. Academic graduation by country - Wikipedia

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    The principal's speech is followed by the head of the PTA. At junior high school an underclassmen may give a speech thanking the graduating students for things like being good senpai. And this is followed by a student speech from the student president. Students may give set group speeches, as if a dialogue between the lower class and upper class.

  8. The most famous author from every state - AOL

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    Du Bois died in August 1963, the day before the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech. MICHIGAN: Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Eugenides.

  9. List of speeches - Wikipedia

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    1858: A House Divided, in which candidate for the U.S. Senate Abraham Lincoln, speaking of the pre-Civil War United States, quoted Matthew 12:25 and said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." 1858: American Infidelity, an anti-slavery speech delivered in the United States Congress by Joshua Giddings; 1859: Abolitionist John Brown's ...