Great Speech Analyses

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Great Speech Analyses Delivery

• Doris L. W. Chang

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Definition of an A Speech (Fletcher)

• An A means
• superior content,
• outstanding organization, and
• distinctive delivery.
• An A speech
• gets almost everyone in the audience thinking,
  excited, concerned, really wanting to hear more,
  read more, and do something about what you said.
  
• And most in the audience remember most of what
  you said.

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Presentation Outline

• Def. of a Great Speech
• Requirements
• 8 Parts to Be Included
• Sample Speech Structural Analyses
• Sample PS Skills
• Application
• Reference
• Lesson Review
• Sample Student Analyses

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Requirements

• 1.Choose a speech you think is great
• You can consult the URL on page 2 of our reader
• Key in speech or great speech on Google to
  search for a speech to analyze
• 2.Prepare for your presentation
• Read the speech, analyze it, discuss, and prepare
  a Power Point presentation of your analysis
• 3.Total Presentation Time 1015 min.

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Sample Presentation Outline

• Title and speaker of the speech
• Intended audience and occasion
• Purpose of the speech
• Main message(s)
• Organization (structure) of the speech
• How does the speaker achieve his/her goal
• Highlight passages that impress you
• Analyze why (famous quotes)
• Practice delivery of the passage(s)
• List skills you can apply to your own speech

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Sample GA Manuscript Analyses

• CONTROL OF ATOMIC WEAPONS
• By Bernard Mannes Baruch, American elder
  statesmen (1870-1965)
• A speech given at the opening session of the
  Atomic Energy Commission of the United Nations,
  in New York City, on June 14, 1946

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Sample Speech Analyses

• Title Control of Atomic Weapon
• Speaker Bernard Mannes Baruch, USA elder
  statesman
• Intended Audiences UN delegates in the Atomic
  Energy Commission (AEC)
• Occasion AEC meeting
• Purpose to persuade the delegates to initiate an
  international law that can effectively control
  the use of atomic weapons

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Organization

• I. Introduction
• Attention GetterShocking Intro. 1-3
• II. Body
• Key IssueInternational Consensus 4-6
• Call for actionan Intl law with teeth in it 7
• Possibilities and Advantages 8-9
• III. Conclusion
• Lasting peace to be done only by understanding
  agreement fortified by sanctions
• Review
• Punch line that leaves the speech on a high note

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Sample Manuscript (Copeland )

• We are here to make a choice between the quick
  and the dead.
• That is our business.
• Behind the black portent of the new atomic age
  lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can
  work our salvation. If we fail, then we have
  damned every man to be the slave of fear. Let us
  not deceive ourselves We must elect world peace
  or world destruction.

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• 4. Science has torn from nature a secret so vast
  in its potentialities that our minds cower from
  the terror it creates. Science, which gave us
  this dread power, shows that it can be made a
  giant help to humanity, but science does not show
  us how to prevent its baleful use. So we have
  been appointed to obviate that peril by finding a
  meeting of the minds and the hearts of our
  peoples. Only in the will of mankind lies the
  answer. In this crisis we representthe peoples
  of the world. We must answer their demands we
  must answer the worlds longing for peace and
  security.

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• 5. In our success lies the promise of a new
  life, freed from the heart-stopping fears that
  now beset the world Only by a lasting peace are
  liberties and democracies strengthened and
  deepened. War is their enemyThe peoples of the
  worlds democracies gathered here have a
  particular concern with our answer, for their
  peoples hate war

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• 6. The basis of a sound foreign policy, in this
  new age, for all the nations here gathered, is
  that anything that happens, no matter where or
  how, which menaces the peace of the world, or the
  economic stability, concerns each and all of us.
  That, roughly, maybe said to be the central theme
  of the United Nations. It is with that thought
  we gain consideration of the most important
  subject than can engage mankindlife itself.

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• 7. Now, if ever, is the time to act for the
  common good. Public opinion supports a world
  movement toward security. If I read the signs
  aright, the peoples want a program, not composed
  merely of pious thoughts, but of enforceable
  sanctionsan international law with teeth in it.
• 8.We of this nations, desirous of helping to
  bring peace to the world and realizing the heavy
  obligations upon us, are prepared to make our
  full contribution toward effective control of
  atomic energy It must have a guarantee of
  safety, not only against the offenders in the
  atomic area, but against the illegal users of
  other weaponsbacteriological, biological,
  gasperhapswhy not?against war itself.

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• 9. If we succeed in finding a suitable way to
  control atomic weapons, it is reasonable to hope
  that we may also preclude the use of other
  weapons adaptable to mass destruction. When a
  man learns to say A he can, if he chooses,
  learn the rest of the alphabet, too.

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• 10. Let this be anchored in our minds
• 11. Peace is never long preserved by weight of
  metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made
  tranquil and secure only by understanding and
  agreement fortified by sanctions. We must
  embrace international co-operation or
  international disintegration.

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• 12. Science has taught us how to put the atom to
  work. But to make it work for good instead of
  for evil lies in the domain of dealing with the
  principles of human duty. We are now facing a
  problem more of ethics than of physics.
• 13. The solution will require apparent sacrifice
  in pride and in position, but better pain as the
  price of peace than death as the price of war.

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Organization Review

• I. Introduction
• Attention GetterShocking Intro. 1-3
• II. Body
• Key IssueInternational Consensus 4-6
• Call for actionan Intl law with teeth in it 7
• Possibilities and Advantages 8-9
• III. Conclusion
• Lasting peace to be done only by understanding
  agreement fortified by sanctions
• Review
• Punch line that leaves the speech on a high note

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• 12. Science has taught us how to put the atom to
  work. But to make it work for good instead of
  for evil lies in the domain of dealing with the
  principles of human duty. We are now facing a
  problem more of ethics than of physics.
• 13. The solution will require apparent sacrifice
  in pride and in position, but better pain as the
  price of peace than death as the price of war.

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Detailed Structure 1

• 1.Brief, yet powerful openingkey decision
• 2-3.Punch line
• 2.significance of meeting
• 3.Choice between world peace or war
• 4.Backgroundwhat science can cant do
• 5.Consensuspeoples hate war
• 6.Consensusanswer opposite opinion
• Sound foreign policy is based on the consensus of
  the inter-connectedness of all peoples and all
  nations

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Detailed Structure 2

• 7. Consensus to Action
• an international law with teeth in it
• 8.Possibilities Advantages
• Effective control of atomic weapons prevent even
  war itself
• 9.Future Prospects
• 10. Lasting peacethe only choice
• It can only be secured by agreement fortified by
  sanctions

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Detailed Structure 3

• 12. Reviewwhat science can/cant do and the
  meetings key task
• 13.Conclusion
• Understanding of difficulties (pride position)
• A better choice vs a worse choice
• Pain as the price of peace
• Death as the price of war

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Style Analyses 1--Brief Statements with
Contrasts

• Highlight Samples
• We are here to choose between the quick and the
  dead.
• We must elect world peace or world destruction.
• We must embrace international co-operation or
  international disintegration.
• We are now facing a problem more of ethics than
  of physics
• Better pain as the price of peace than death as
  the price of war.
• Effects
• Highlight the consequences of causes, effects,
  and importance
• Lead to the intended choicepeace
• Repetitions with variations

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Sharp and Vivid Images Metaphors

• 1. Sharp image
• .the peoples want a program, not composed
  merely of pious thoughts, but of enforceable
  sanctionsan international law with teeth in it
• 2.Effective metaphor
• effective control of atomic weapon must have a
  guarantee of safety, not only against the
  offenders in the atomic area, but against the
  illegal users of other weaponsbacteriological,
  biological, gaswhy not?against war itself.
• When a man learns to say A, he may, if he
  chooses, learn the rest of the alphabet, too.

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Possible Applications

• We are now facing a task of how you say it than
  what you say.
• To speak, or not to speak, that is a question!
• We must choose between suffocating silence and
  interactive eloquence!
• Public speaking is not only about what you say,
  but more importantly, about how you say it!
• We refuse to be drowned in the sea of silence
  when effective communication is in every way a
  better solution.
• If one can learn the basics of public speaking,
  he may, if he chooses, learn the rest kinds of
  speech applications.

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Reference

• Copeland, Lewis, and Lawrence W. Lamm.
• The Worlds Great Speeches. Third Ed. Mineola,
  N. Y. Dover, 1973.
• Fletcher, Leon. How to Design and Deliver a
  Speech. 6th ed. New York Longman, 1998.

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Lesson Review 8 Items to Include

• 1.Title and speaker of the speech
• 2. Intended audience and occasion
• 3.Purpose of the speech
• 4.Main message(s)
• 5.Organization (structure) of the speech
• How does the speaker achieve his/her goal
• 6.Highlight passages that impress you analyze
  why (famous quotes)
• 7.Practice delivery of the passage(s)
• 8.List skills you can apply to your own speech

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Sample Student GA
Great Speech Analyses Delivery
Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good? by
Congresswoman Barbara Jordan
Presented by Bella, Carolin, Denise, Helen
Melissa Sherry
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Presentation Outline

• About Barbara Jordan and Her Speech
• Occasion Audience Analyses
• Structural Analyses
• 4 Skills We Learn from Her Speech
• Q A
• Parallelism
• Sympathy
• Framing Quotation in Conclusion
• References

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• Title Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good?
• Speaker Congresswoman Barbara Jordan
• Intended Audiences members of the Democratic
  Party.
• Occasion the 1976 convention of the Democratic
  Party in New York
• Purpose to call on the members of the Democratic
  Party to lead the way for upholding the common
  good.

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Overall Evaluation of the Speech

• Strengths (Why we consider the speech as a great
  speech for analyses)
• Its effective introduction conclusion
• The four skills we can learn and apply
• The Instructors Comment
• How does the speaker tailor her speech to the
  occasion and how effective is the speech in
  delivering her message and persuading about
  equality (upheld by Democratic Party)?
• How effective is her delivery (if any audio
  materials is provided)?

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Parallel Contrast ? Proposal

• I could list the many problems which Americans
  have.
• I could list the problems which cause people to
  feel cynical, angry, frustrated problems include
  lack of integrity the feeling that the grand
  American experiment is failing or has failed.
• I could recite these problems and then I could
  sit down and offer no solutions.
• But I dont choose to do that either.

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Quotation for a Memorable Conclusion

• Now, I begin this speech by commenting to you on
  the uniqueness of a Barbara Jordan making the
  keynote address.
• Well I am going to close my speech by quoting a
  Republican President and I ask you that as you
  listen to these words of Abraham Lincoln, relate
  them to the concept of national community in
  which every last one of us participates

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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a
master. This expresses my idea of Democracy.
Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the
difference is no Democracy.

---Abraham Lincoln
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Thank you for your attention!
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Reference

• A Tribute to Barbara Jordan1936-1996
• http//www.elf.net/bjordan/default.asp
• --with her photo,
• -Opening of Barbara Jordan's address to the
  Judiciary Committee considering impeachment of
  then President Richard Nixon.
• This led to Barbara Jordan's Keynote Speech at
  the 1976 Democratic National Convention.

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Assignment

• 1.Choose a speech you think is great
• You can consult the URL on page 2 of our reader
• Key in speech or great speech on Google to
  search for a speech to analyze
• 2.Prepare for your presentation
• Read the speech, analyze it, discuss, and prepare
  a Power Point presentation of your analysis
• 3.Total Presentation Time 1015 min.

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Let's Learn from
Great Speeches