Orator

Fidel Castro was a very good orator; his voice was able to sway the emotions of the whole Cuban people. When he spoke the Cuban’s believed everything he said and didn’t doubt any of his actions. When he was rising to power, it was his oratory skills that got his a very high position…

Leaders). During her travels, she met people who were actively involved in the abolitionist movement and made it her new life’s mission to help free her people. When the war broke out in 1861, she was already well-known as “an electrifying public orator” and one of the most popular speakers for the abolitionist cause (Humanitarians and Reformers). At the beginning of the war, she helped gather supplies for the black volunteer regiments. Throughout the war, she traveled around the country, giving…

In many texts, as well as our real lives, a key theme is overcoming obstacles in order to achieve our dreams. In “Frederick Douglass” and “The Underground Railroad”, this key theme was in place. While these two texts both have a central idea of overcoming slavery to achieve the dream of freedom, the two shared differences in their author’s purpose, in effect causing them to have contrasting supporting details. Although "Frederick Douglass" and "The Underground Railroad" shared…

Many great speeches have been said by very good orators in last few decades, but few of them had the effect like Martin Luther King, Jr. had on his audience with “I Have A Dream” speech. But when he made the “Beyond Vietnam-A Time to Break Silence” speech on April 4, 1967, it was not recognized and given full appreciation but it was just as compelling as his “I Have A Dream”. The speech “Beyond Vietnam-A Time to Break Silence” was a conviction speech addressing about what was going on in…

Hitler was a great leader. If he wasn’t, he would never have managed to convince nearly the entire nation that the killing of Jews and any other “inferior” race was not only morally acceptable, but morally necessary. Hitler was a passionate, eloquent orator. He saw the opportunity provided by the Treaty of Versailles and took it to rise to power. Unfortunately, Hitler used his power for evil rather than good. This shows the great importance of integrity in a leader. Without integrity, or strong…

Frederick Douglass in the peak of his existence was a symbol of the abolitionist movement, as by writing the Narrative he writes to the people his life as a slave. His writing of his years as a slave stood out differently than other slaves autobiographies, because he wrote not of of pity, but in a since of informing on the irony of being an American slave, but not holding any the values of being an American. His writing showed such intelligence, as he brought deep questions to the table on what…

After the battle, Robert E. Lee, retreated to Virginia on July 4th, 1863. His army was severely weakened, with about 28,000 captured, wounded, or killed. The Union army also suffered about 23,000 similar losses (Benson). Lee’s army withdrew to the southwest through a driving rain in a wagon train stretching 17 miles (Aines). During the retreat, Lee repeated his remarks at the failure of Pickett’s Charge: “It is all my fault, I thought my men were invincible.” Robert E. Lee offered his…

Literary efforts in early American writing were mostly penned by Protestant English transplants who’d left England in search of religious freedom. These works were either written account of the rigorous toil that went into starting the settlements or the interactions that the settlers had with the Native Americans. This restrictive canon was expanded with inclusion of essays and speeches that gave voice to the Native Americans, like John Dunn Hunter’s account of a speech given by Tecumseh from…

There seems to be a hypocritical problem with Socrates’ defense to the Athenian Court during his trial. He claims to the Athenian Court that he was on a mission from the Oracle of Delphi and Apollo. The problem that came to be with his defense was, he recently criticized Euthyphro for claiming that being part of his father’s execution was the will of the gods. There is a seeming hypocrisy for Socrates to claim divine motivation in his defense but say it is not plausible when Euthyphro uses…

Fredrick Douglas was born in Talbot County, Maryland in approximately the year of 1818. He was born into slavery and later in his lifetime he gained his freedom and became an abolitionist. Douglas wrote an autobiography of his life, a book named The Narrative of The Life of Fredrick Douglas. According to Douglas, the slaveholders Christianity was oppressive for enslaved people through the white’s interpretation of the bible and their hypocrisy. The slaveholders interpreted the Bible in a way…