I have a dream: Ces discours qui ont changé le monde
"Il y a des mots qui portent celui qui les prononce et ceux qui les entendent au-dessus et au-delà d'eux-mêmes. Il y a des discours qui changent le cours des événements, le destin d'un pays, l'histoire du monde, l'âme humaine ... Les hommes tombent et disparaissent. Leurs parole…
"Il y a des mots qui portent celui qui les prononce et ceux qui les entendent au-dessus et au-delà d'eux-mêmes. Il y a des discours qui changent le cours des événements, le destin d'un pays, l'histoire du monde, l'âme humaine ... Les hommes tombent et disparaissent. Leurs parole…
Professor Shutt delivers lectures on the great epics of literature, from Homer's Illiad to Milton's Paradise lost. He examines the stories and the characters, and considers the various styles represented, as well as the societies in which the epics were constructed. He explains …
Understanding the fundamentals of classical music
A music appreciation course for the development of listening skills. It analyses the fundamentals of sound, line, time and texture, as well as, formal schemes such as theme and variation, rondo, sonata, and fugue.
Rhetoric was once an essential part of western education. Aristotle wrote an important treatise on it and Demosthenes remains famous to this day for his skills as a rhetorician. But skill with rhetoric today is no longer admired. Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, …
This anthology ... contains the most famous or notorious speeches in English since 1899, as well as speeches in translation from world leaders, including Lenin, Hitler and Stalin ... Many helped to change the history of the twentieth century.-Back cover.
This is a general anthology of speeches. They range from the Sermon on the Mount to Kennedy's Ask not what speech, from the Gettysburg Address to Winston Churchill's war speeches, and from Adolf Hitler to Martin Luther.