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Rhetoric
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Undergraduate 1
05/09/2012

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Pericles
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Extols the glory that is Greece at the funeral of its fallen sons
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Lincoln
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Rededicates the union at gettysburg
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Mark Twain
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Celebrates the Fourth of July `
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General Douglas MacArthur
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Reminds West Point cadets of duty, honor and country
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Cataline the Conspirator
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Turns and Fights
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Pope Urban 2 `
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Launches the First Crusade
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Patrick Henry
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Ignites the American Revolution
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General Washington
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Talks His officers out of insurrection
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Cheif Joseph
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Surrenders
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President Woodrow Wilson
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Presents an ideal to the war congress
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Hitler
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Declares Germany's intentions
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Winston Churchill
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Braces britons to their task
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Winston Churchill
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Rallies British people after the miracle of deliverance at Dunkirk.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Asks congress to declare war on Japan
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Senator eugene mccarthy
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crystallizes dissent by denouncing the war in Japan
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Prime minister margaret thatcher
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acts to defend the falkland islands
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Mark Antony
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urges mourners to vengeance over the body of Julius Caesar
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Henry Lee
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Remembers George Washington
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Humanist Robert Green Ingersoll
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Speaks at his brothers grave
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John F. Kennedy
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In praise of Robert Frost, celebrates the arts in america
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Electric Journalist Eric Sevareid
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Remembers rocket scientist Wernher von Braun
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Lord General Oliver Cromwell
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orders the rump parliament out of the house
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Senator Stephen Douglas
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Differs with Lincoln on the popular sovereignty decision on slavery
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Senators Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen
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Clash on qualifications for the presidency
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Martin Luther
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Addresses the Diet of Worms
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Robert Emmet
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Demands that posterity be the judge of his irish patriotism
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Gandhi
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Defends his beliefs
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Defense Lawyer Clarence Darrow
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Answers a supporter of capital punishment
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Defense Attorney Johnnie Gochran
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wins acquittal for the accused killer O.J. Simpson
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Socrates
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Condemned to death, addresses his judges
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Revolutionist Robespierre
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Delivers his final speech
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President George Washington
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Delivers his farewell
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John Brown
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Has a few words to say about his death sentence
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General Douglas MacArthur
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Moves congress with his speech old soldiers never die
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The Buddha
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Urges a turning away from craving in his fire sermon
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Saint Francis
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Preaches to the birds
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Calvinist Jonathan Edwards
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Promises hellfire and damnation to the sinful
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Clergyman John Witherspoon
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Couples religion with politics
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Lincoln (Second Inaugural Address)
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Seeks to heal the spiritual wounds of war
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Evangelist Billy Sunday
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Preaches a revival sermon
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Bishop fulton John Sheen
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Makes a wartime plea
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President Ronald Reagan
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Inveighs against the Sinfulness of Communism
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Blasts ignoble ease and advocates the strenuous life
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Mark Twain
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Reveals stage fright
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General Patton
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Motivates the 3rd army on the eve of the invasino of europe
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Reverend Martin Luther king Jr.
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Ennobles the civil rights movement at the lincoln memorial
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Mark Twain
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Stuns literary world by spoofing emerson, longfellow, and holmes to their faces
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Broadcaster John Hilton
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Talks about talking
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British Salesman William Pitt the younger
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Urges abolition of the slave trade
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Susan b. Anthony
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Argues for women's rights
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Malcolm X
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Exhorts Afro-Americans to confront white oppression
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Holocaust witness Elie Wiesel
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Asks President Reagan to Reconsider a visit to a German cemetery
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Demosthenes
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Attacks his accusers
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Edmund Burke
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Makes a case for conciliation with america
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Karl Marx
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Calls for the dictatorship of the proletariat
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Bull Moose Candidate Theodore Roosevelt
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Gives the speech that saved his life
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Winston Churchill
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Warns the west of the soviet "iron curtain"
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Judge Noah Sweat
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Shows how to straddle a fence with satiric flair
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President John F. Kennedy (Inaugural)
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Takes up the torch for a new generation
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair
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Exhorts His party to fight terrorism
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President John F. Kennedy
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Prepared remarks at Dallas on November 22, 1963
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President Nixon
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Prepared Text in case the apollo XI moon landing ended in tragedy
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