first time dec

[torn]

Hey guys. I'll be a sophomore this year (I'm a guy) and want to give Dec a shot, but have no idea where to start.

Anyone have any ideas? Tips would be great too

[jeawagne]

Vital Speeches of the Day: - http://www04.mcmurry.com/product/VITAL/

[theatrix04]

Oratorical Declamation
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Graduation/Speeches

http://www.stpaulmp.org/4N6/


http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/index.html Speeches. (Unfortunatly this site has been retired. Some of the inve can be resurrected at archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040622223505/www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/index.html
But you may find a refrence to a speech and have to look for the speech itself somewhere else.)

http://douglassarchives.org/directory/General_Collections_of_Speeches_and_Historical_Doc s/ Lots of links to more speeches.

http://gos.sbc.edu/top100.html Index of the top 100 speeches of the 20th century and links to texts of those written by women.



http://www.wm.edu/news/index.php?id=3650

http://laurelin.wordpress.com/2006/05/10/a-speech-by-finn-mackay/

http://www.iowastatedaily.com/media/storage/paper818/news/2003/04/30/News/A.Place.To.Turn-1095400.shtml?

norewrite200609212105&sourcedomain=www.iowastatedaily.com

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm

http://library.albany.edu/usered/dr/speech.html

http://www04.mcmurry.com/product/VITAL/

http://www04.mcmurry.com/product/VITAL/


http://www.lib.msu.edu/foxre/speeches.html

http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/quick/index.php?display=print_items&item_id=170

_Major Speeches and Documents_
(http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/docs/docs.htm)

http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/WarZoneChaptIb.html

http://www.feminist.com/resources/artspeech/

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/artshumanities/history/historicalspeeches.htm

http://www.flc.losrios.edu/~jimener/subjects/communication.html

http://www.inquirylearn.com/speeches.htm

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm

http://www.history.com/media.do

http://gos.sbc.edu/

http://www.npr.org/news/specials/americatransformed/

http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/index.cfm

http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/Talks/CommArts675Fall2005.htm

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/king/speeches.html


http://www.nucalc.com/ron/Mills.html

http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/200209/omag_200209_beck.jhtml

http://www.curriculum.som.vcu.edu/m3/endoflife/Bombeck.html


http://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Godspeed-Greatest-Eulogies-Time/dp/customer-reviews/1400049466

http://www.oprah.com/spiritself/omag/ss_omag_200609_mbeck.jhtml
http://www.oprah.com/spiritself/omag/ss_omag_200608_mbeck.jhtml
http://www.oprah.com/spiritself/omag/ss_omag_200607_mbeck.jhtml
http://www.oprah.com/spiritself/omag/ss_omag_200606_mbeck.jhtml
http://www.oprah.com/spiritself/omag/ss_omag_200410_mbeck.jhtml
http://www.oprah.com/spiritself/omag/ss_omag_200403_mbeck.jhtml

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north192.html

http://www.whatkidscando.org/intheirownwords/GradSpeeches05.html

http://www.knox.edu/x12547.xml

http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2005/06/29/celebrity_graduation_speeches

http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/Relationships/Living.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14322930/site/newsweek/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9785746/site/newsweek/

http://www.amazon.com/Hold-Fast-Your-Dreams-Commencement/dp/059050956X


http://library.albany.edu/reference/speeches.html#Individual%20Speakers

http://www.thespeechsite.com/student-ushs.htm

http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/speech


http://davegustafson.com/speech/cheese.htm

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/wiesel.htm

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[torn]

wow, that's great. I'll be sure to look through all of that. thanks