The workshop covers the below poems in a twelve-hour (12) series of one and a half hour (1.5) classes. We will explore, examine, and compare these poems.
President Theodore Roosevelt
President Theodore Roosevelt at the Grand Canyon, Arizona, May 6, 1903
Excerpts from the Campaign Speech that saved President Theodore Roosevelt's life, October 14, 1912
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"The Four Freedoms" Speech, January 6, 1941
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933
Lou Gehrig
Farewell to Baseball Address
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
First Speech as Prime Minister, May 13, 1940
Douglas MacArthur
Speech aboard USS Missouri at Japanese Surrender, September 2, 1945
Albert Einstein
Nobel Prize Speech Anniversary Dinner, 1945
Eleanor Roosevelt
Statement on the Adoption of the Universal Deceleration of Human Rights, December 9, 1948
President John F. Kennedy
Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
Rudolph-Wilde Platz Speech, June 26, 1963
Dr. Martin Luther King
"I have a dream" Speech
Speech in "Support of the striking sanitation workers", April 3, 1968
Barbara Jordan
Statement on the Articles of Impeachment
Robert F. Kennedy
Speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edward M. Kennedy
Tribute to Senator Robert F. Kennedy
Barry Goldwater
Speech accepting the Republican Presidential nomination
Malcolm X
"The ballot or the bullet" Speech
President Anwar Sadat
Speech at the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty, March 26, 1979
Tenzin Gyatso
Nobel Acceptance Speech, December 10, 1989
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Request for Declaration of War after Bombing of Pearl Harbor, december 8, 1941
President George Herbert Bush
State of the Union Address, September 26, 2001
