Oratory

According to O'Hair, Rubenstein and Stewart (2016) “Words are the public speaker’s tools of the trade…” (p. 117) In the fifth-tenth chapter of A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking, the authors write about which oral style to use, use of concrete language and vivid imagery, words that build credibility, and those that create an impression. I will summarize these areas in the following paper. When speakers are preparing speeches, they must remember that listeners only have one chance to hear the…

Upon reading through the selection of indigenous writers, Lee Maracle’s short essay “Oratory : Coming to Theory”, presented an incredibly unique and powerful point of view. For me, this piece was particularly impactful due to it’s perspective, her relation of theories to stories, and the deconstruction of language used in traditionally european theories. For generations, students of many different disciplines encounter theories that they must come to know intimately. Despite these disciplines…

Super Eight Oratory Henry Yao (Sj) May 2016 BE AMBITIOUS When I was at kindergarten, playing with play dough and learning to write my name, I dreamt of creating a machine that could whiz me from one side of the world to another in no time at all. When I was at primary school, I enjoyed playing chess every single lunchtime, and I dreamt of becoming a world famous, world conquering chess champion – obviously the coolest role ever. When I was at my intermediate school, I enjoyed every science fair…

Ever since Invisible Man was published in 1952, readers and scholars have recognized its many oratorical components and also its interest in democracy. What we so far have missed, however, is the fact that what brings oratory and democracy together in the novel is the narrator’s relentless testing of rhetorical ethos and consubstantiality. In the novel’s inner frame, this testing takes place through embodied speeches that the narrator delivers to sizable audiences; in the outer frame, the…

wants] to convince [his] auditors of the reasonableness of [his] crimes-to make [his] audience understand that these things are comprehensible according to ordinary motives of human behavior and psychology”, as stated in the article, “Frantic Forensic Oratory: Poe 's "the Tell-Tale Heart”” (Zimmerman, 39). By trying to persuade his readers that he is not crazy, the madman actually proves is insanity. Yes, this is irony, however, it also leads into a deeper portion of the madman’s speech. (add…

community; such as doctors, lawyers, and mathematicians. On the other hand, Socrates states a knack was something done for pleasure in day-to-day life, such as pastry baking, cosmetics, and oratory. Within the text Socrates converses with Polus about whether oratory is or is not a craft. Socrates states oratory is a knack because it “produces a certain gratification and pleasure.” Socrates goes on to give an example between a pastry baker and a doctor, identifying whose word to take under the…

superficially concerned with defining oratory in its core. However, the debate between Socrates and the sophists breaches into matters of the common good, the corruption of evil, and justice. Socrates, being a one who is devoted to philosophy, raises a standard on these subjects and must effectively uphold them against barrages of questions from sophists whose view may be skewed by position or previous party affiliation. By agonistically analyzing the good of oratory, Plato successfully divorces…

Steven Wells Great Buildings in Architecture Prof. Price 3/9/15 Dome of the Rock Jerusalem (687-691) vs. Oratory, Germigny-des-Près (806-810) There are many differences between the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and the Oratory at Germigny-des-Près. There are also many similarities between them as well. Before I can get to the comparison between them, I would like to talk about them individually. Both buildings are used for religious purposes to this day. The Dome of the Rock is a temple shrine…

an oratory way than in a conversational way. The government wanted the deliberation to be more conversational between the representatives from the states, making them believe they had a say in decisions. The ratification of the Constitution was more told, than making a decision inn a conversational method among the representatives. The representatives and Congress did talk and decide, making it seem like the decision was made during a conversation but actually, it resembled more of an oratory.…

Plato distinguishes an orator from a philosopher in Gorgias by using Chaerephon and Polus’ discussion, or rather, Polus’ avoidance of the profound topic Chaerephon introduced. He also utilizes the debate between Polus and Socrates to illustrate that Socratic discussion--not an oratorical method of speech--is the only legitimate philosophical path of discovering the truth. Plato, through this debate, later shows the importance of Socratic discussion as a way to comprehend abstract ideas more…