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Monday, February 1, 2010
Last month’s issue included a transcript of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s launch presentation. Across the planet, feedback coming in from people in all walks of life really helping us think about and improve and make Windows 7 and Windows 7 PCs what our customers, I think , will really, really want. Upgrade fixes problems.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other." Full transcript of Obama's speech is here.). Yesterday, Barack Obama was a senator from Illinois. Today, he's our president-elect. It belongs to you."
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Monday, March 2, 2009
For students of speech delivery, listening to a speech while reading the script can be a useful and revealing exercise, especially in learning how pauses can be used to express emotion, and you can check the transcript against Mr Brown's delivery here. Politics can sometimes divide us.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
The following transcript and video clips provide a nice illustration of how rhetorical techniques (including contrasts, a puzzle-solution format and a three-part list) and imagery can be used to discuss the ongoing financial crisis. King: [1] The nice decade is behind us. B] Now it’s over a hundred and ten dollars a barrel.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
official transcripts, statement of teaching philosophy, sample publications [yeah, who's going to pop for that postage], and three letters of reference [Hey, Joe, Jane, and Jason, would you do one of those recommendations they penned in the 1970s]." 0160; Here's my version: "Please tell us about yourself.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
His reply drew my attention to the fact that the situation is even worse than I had realised: ‘Your concern about us using real-life speeches less and less is a very valid one. If you have a look at the Hansard website , you can see a verbatim transcript of all the 165,000 words uttered in the House of Commons yesterday.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
She shares her feelings, moving us with quick but powerful descriptions of how she loved, then loathed the sweater as a child and a young woman. Bringing the audience quickly through her story and telling us how it informs her work today brings us to the real point of her talk--something you, too, should plan into your presentations.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
So I looked it up on YouTube, dug out the verbatim transcript from the US State Department's website and am still working on it. When I first saw this this statement on the news, it fascinated me enough to want to hear it again. In the meantime, it would be interesting to see what others made of it.
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Monday, February 22, 2010
0160; Third, most people who are going to hire us for jobs or assignments could care less about grades. 0160; In fact, they might hold them against us. 0160; They are hiring a person who can get results and fit in, not a transcript. There are many challenges associated with going to college.
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
We've got to have a better historical memory as a country that allows all of the players to be there and all of us to have a place at the kind of table of American history. It's a reminder of the power of speech, and, I hope, an encouragement to keep speaking publicly for all of us.
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