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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 ...
By this time it was no longer billed as a speech, but as a letter from Chief Seattle to President Pierce. The editor of Environmental Action had picked it up from Dale Jones, who was the Northwest Representative of the group Friends of the Earth. Jones himself has since said that he "first saw the letter in September 1972 in a now out of ...
An Intergovernmental Working Group was established in the committee's second session. The consensus was for the Declaration to be "inspirational and concise", and to be easily comprehensible by the public as a means for education, public awareness, and community participation to protect the environment. [7]
Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech at Dartmouth College in 1962 is sometimes forgotten, but it's a great example of the reverend's powerful rhetoric.In the talk, he first explains the sociological ...
1940: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat, a phrase used by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in 1897 but popularized by Winston Churchill in the first of three inspirational radio addresses during the opening months of World War II. 1940: We Shall Fight on the Beaches, from the second radio talk by Winston Churchill, promising to never surrender.
The portion of the speech quoted on the left begins at 9:03. On September 12, 1962, a warm and sunny day, President Kennedy delivered his speech before a crowd of about 40,000 people, at Rice University's Rice Stadium. Many individuals in the crowd were Rice University students. [9] [11] The middle portion of the speech has been widely quoted:
He ended the speech using his famous tag line: "However, political will is a renewable resource." [ 26 ] During Global Warming Awareness Month , on February 9, 2007, Al Gore and Richard Branson announced the Virgin Earth Challenge , a competition offering a $25 million prize for the first person or organization to produce a viable design that ...
Jelly Roll. Jelly Roll's CMA Awards acceptance speech deserves its own award.. The breakout country star was honored with the award for New Artist of the Year at the 57th Annual CMA Awards on ...