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    Oratory skills are the primary reasons on how people become leaders; Hitler had exceptional oratory skills, which is the main reason why he was elected chancellor in January 30th 1933. Hitler used his oratory skills, gaining votes to rise to power; he expressed his crucial and excellent oratory skills in public speeches, courtrooms and conferences. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJ_1Ct1jpk , This video shows at 1:41 Hitler’s significant oratory skills cause crowds…

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    the main subject was oratory, the art of public speaking. They also learned reading…

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    Argument, which represents a departure from the traditional physicality of oratory to one of philosophy, promises Strepsiades that after a short while at Socrates’s school, the Thinkery, he would “receive [Pheidippides, his son] back a skilled sophist.” Strepsiades goal in the play is to become a skilled orator so that he may appear in court and con his way out of his debts. Therefore, he is enamored with the power of oratory, not for the good that can be negotiated by its use, but with selfish…

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    Lyndon Baines Johnson: “We Shall Overcome” A great speaker once said, “The art of oratory is not truth, but persuasion”, Lyndon B. Johnson was not praised for his oratory skill but for the eloquence of his speeches. Lyndon Baines Johnson, born and raised in Texas Hill Country grew up in a racially prejudiced society. This did not encourage him to be an advocate for equal racial opportunity. Johnson’s lack of racial consciousness lessened as his presidency progressed, he began to be known to…

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    The Athenian democracy operated differently from today’s democracy, but not necessarily more effectively. Finley seems to argue that although the basis of democracy was a good idea, it had many flaws, and was a utopian system, designed for “perfect” people. It was not representative, as it is nowadays, but direct, meaning that all the male citizens over the age of 18 could participate on the decision making, as long as they had not lost their civil rights. However, people could very easily…

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    Socrates Pros And Cons

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    “There have been a few times this past week when all I wanted to do was just to curl up with a good book or our dogs and never leave the house again.” In her first speech since losing the 2016 Presidential Election, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton perfectly summarized the feelings of millions of Democrats, who, after volunteering countless hours for Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, were left in complete despair when they saw the results of the 2016 Election: Republicans controlled both…

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    Weimar Republic

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    So basically Germany was upset for being constantly mistreated. Hitler then arrived on the scene. He was very intelligent at oratory and was able to get into the anger the German people felt. He also was able to bring back their dreams of empire and the German greatness that had led in part to World War I. His power of oratory and electoral intelligence was in a very big and important a reason for the fall of the Weimar Republic. He won election and the Weimar Republic. The…

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    Nazi Propaganda Analysis

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    payments, to give all Germans jobs and food, and to make them proud to be German again (Smith, 2008). The Nazi Party used several psychological tactics to indoctrinate the German people to its ideology. These included the clever use of propaganda, the oratory skills of Hitler, the education and Hitler Youth systems along with the Nazi police force: the…

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    Indigenous oral history and its comparison to modern Western culture. The Sense of Art introduced the wide variety that art has to offer, as well as its different meanings to several societies. Likewise, Decolonizing the Lens of Power discussed oratories and film, along with contrasting them and explaining the significance of the two. Although When Science Meets Aboriginal Oral History was written in a different type of narration from the former two pieces, the article stated the…

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    In similarity to most aspects of ancient Roman society, the process of political appointments were based on longstanding tradition, or at least the impression of tradition. With an importance stressed on the individual, rather that political affiliations, the way that a Roman would prepare himself for office was with the building of his public reputation. Much of the identity for the elite Roman man was based on deep rooted ideals of honor and masculinity, but these were arguably not the most…

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