THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING SPEAKING TO PERSUADE

With the growth of big business came business evils just as great. It is these evils of big business that hurt thepeople and injure all other business. One of these wrongs is over capitalization which taxes the people's veryliving. Another is the manipulatio[r]

eye which sees the things later to be described−−that makes description so interesting in public speech. Givena speaker of personality, and we are interested in his personal view−−his view adds to the natural interest ofthe scene, and may even be the sole so[r]

The Art of Public Speaking That is settled. You may call it secession, or you may call it revolution; but there is a big fact standing before you, ready to oppose you−−that fact is, freemen with arms in their hands. THEODORE ROOSEVELT INAUGURAL ADDRES

The Art of Public Speaking with appeals to the people, attributing the decline of the birth rate and increase in the death rate to the widespread use of alcoholic beverages. The experience of the German Government has been the same. The German Emperor has

We see here that a change of tempo often occurs in the same sentence−−for tempo applies not only to singlewords, groups of words, and groups of sentences, but to the major parts of a public speech as well.QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES1. In [r]

Belgium famous, is wrought by women who fulfill the tasks of the household fulfilled by American women,and then begins their task upon the exquisite laces that have sent their name and fame throughout the world.Their wages are low, their work hard, but their life i[r]

I thank whatever Gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud; Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of[r]

that suggest this lesson: the same well−calculated, restrained, delicately shaded force would simply rivet yourideas in the minds of your audience. An air−gun will rattle bird−shot against a window pane−−it takes a rifleto wing a bullet through plate glass and the oaken w[r]

12. Read the followIng observantly:
The strikers suffered bitter poverty last winter In New York. Last wInter a woman vIsiting the East Side of New York ClIty saw another woman coming out of a tenement house wringing her hands[r]

(d) The gusfafory image 1S common enoupgh, as the Idea of eating lemons will testlfy. Sometimes the pleasurable recollection of a delightful dinner w1ll cause the mouth to water years afterward, or the "Imag[r]

In the early part of the eIghteenth century the South Sea Company was formed In England. Britain became a speculative crowd. Stock In the South Sea Company rose from 128§—1/2 poiInts 1n January to 550 in May, and scored[r]

Twenty years ago a poor 1Immnigrant boy, employed as a dish washer in New York, wandered Into the Cooper Union and began to read a copy of Henry George s "Progress and Poverty." His passion for knowledge was
awakened, and he beca[r]

THE GREAT BELGIUM PLAIN IN HISTORY
But the Institutlons of BelgIum and the 1ndustrial prosperity of her people alone are not equal to the explanation of her unique heroism. Long ago, 1n his Commentfarles, Juli[r]

7. Give a list of subJects you heard discussed during any recent perIod you may select. 8. What 1s meant by "elastic touch” in conversation?
9, Make a list of "Bromides," as Gellett Burgess calls those threadbare expressions which &#[r]

the visible presence of death--and he did not quail. Not alone
for the one short moment in which, stunned and dazed, he could
gIve up life, hardly aware of 1ts relinqguishment, but through days of deadly languor, through week[r]

11. THE ECONOMY OF ORGANHLZED CHARITTY. The other side of the picture.
12. FREEDOM OE THE PRESS.
The true forces that hurtfully control too many newspapers are not those of arbitrary governments but the[r]

Argumentation 1s the process of producIng convictlon by means of reasoning. Other ways of producing conviction there are, notably suggestion, as we have Just shown, but no means 1s so high, so worthy of respect, as the ad[r]

The laws of narratlon are few, but 1ts successful practIse 1nvolves more of art than would at first appear——so
mnuch, 1ndeed, that we cannot even touch upon 1ts technique here, but must content ourselves with an
examinaflon of