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Greta Thunberg giving a speech in Berlin (July 2019) Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been noted for her skills as an orator. Her speech at the 2019 United Nations climate summit made her a household name. Prior to her speaking engagements, Thunberg had demonstrated outside the Swedish parliament, the Riksdag, using the signage Skolstrejk för klimatet (School strike for climate ...
The slogan became popular among those wishing to show their support for Quebec sovereignty. 1968: I've Been to the Mountaintop, the last speech delivered by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. 1968: The death of Martin Luther King Jr. by U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy. 1968: Robert F. Kennedy's speech, On the Mindless Menace of Violence.
On April 4, 1968, United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York delivered an improvised speech several hours after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Kennedy, who was campaigning to earn the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, made his remarks while in Indianapolis, Indiana, after speaking at two Indiana universities earlier in the day.
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The Associated Press called the presidential race around 5:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday after Trump won 276 electoral votes to Harris’s 223, although Trump declared victory at 2:30 a.m. ET during a ...
A Tale of Two Cities is a speech given by New York Governor Mario Cuomo on July 16, 1984, at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, California. The captured widespread attention and was viewed by nearly 80 million people on television. The speech boosted Cuomo's reputation and he became a national leader of the democratic party.
Bostdorff, Denise M. "Obama, Trump, and reflections on the rhetoric of political change." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 20.4 (2017): 695-706. online; Degani, Marta. Framing the rhetoric of a leader: an analysis of Obama's election campaign speeches (Springer, 2015). Gleason, Timothy R., and Sara S. Hansen.
In his speech, "A Time for Choosing", Reagan stressed the need for smaller government. The speech raised 1 million dollars for Goldwater [1] and is considered the event that launched Reagan's political career. [2] It also marked a shift of the Republican Party from a moderate to a "Western more politically charged ideology."