50 Incredible, Historical Speeches You Should Watch Online You hope that your professors will be good speakers who can keep your interest for at least the length of a class period, but more often than not, you’ll have a teacher or two each semester who drones on and on and doesn’t make you feel passionate about the subject. They could take tips from these speakers who have inspired thousands or even millions of people around the world, some even long after they’ve died. Here are 50 incredible, historical speeches you should watch online. Commencement Addresses These commencement speakers include presidents, a professor, political strategist and industry leader. John F. Presidential Speeches Presidents are natural and practiced leaders and give some of the most impressive speeches. Barack Obama Election Night Speech: Moments after being elected the first ever African American President of the United States, Obama addresses the nation live from Chicago. Society and Culture War and Peace Politics
POWERS AND COUNTERPOWERS Screenwriting Lessons: "The King’s Speech" — Part 5: Moments [Note: This was originally posted February 11, 2011.] As I watched The King’s Speech recently, I was struck by how many screenwriting lessons could be gleaned from the movie. So I decided this week and next to analyze The King’s Speech and The Social Network, the most likely winners of this year’s Academy Awards for Best Screenplay (Speech for original, Network for adapted) to see what takeaway we could derive from both movies and their excellent screenplays. Today: The King’s Speech — Moments. I think it was Hollywood’s first great movie producer Irving Thalberg who said [paraphrased]: “You give me five great moments, I’ll give you a hit movie.” In David Seidler’s script for The King’s Speech, there are numerous movie moments. * The opening speech at which Bertie fails miserably, a set-up for the glorious payoff scene at the end where Bertie gives The King’s Speech. * The intimate but telling scene where Bertie responds to his daughter’s request by telling a silly story about penguins.
Malala, the Muslim feminist In 2007, Somali-born Dutch author Ayaan Hirsi Ali published "Infidel," an autobiography that documented her journey from repression in Muslim East Africa to the freedom of the Netherlands. To be free, Hirsi Ali claimed, Muslim women must renounce their faith and their cultures. Rife with awestruck veneration of the empowered West, Hirsi Ali's recipe for liberation for Muslim women was eagerly consumed. The book became a New York Times best-seller and its author a celebrity. In 2013, the world is getting to know Malala Yousafzai, a schoolgirl from Pakistan who has become a champion for girls' education and was a favorite in betting parlors to win the Nobel Peace Prize. For Muslim girls and women around the world, however, the story is more than just a tale of survival. In the renunciation narrative of ex-Muslim women like Hirsi Ali, persecution is a justification for abandoning culture and homeland, deeming those contexts too stubbornly patriarchal to be the venue of empowerment.
Strange Fruit, chanson qui dénonce les lynchages couramment pratiqués dans le sud des États-Unis | Strange Fruit (en français : étrange fruit) est une chanson. La chanteuse afro-américaine Billie Holiday l’interpréta pour la première fois en 1939, au Café Society à New York. Ce poème écrit en 1937 par Abel Meeropol compte parmi les réquisitoires artistiques contre les lynchages couramment pratiqués dans le sud des États-Unis ; elle est en outre considérée comme l’une des premières manifestations du mouvement pour les droits civiques dans ce pays. Le « Strange Fruit » évoqué dans le morceau est le corps d’un noir pendu à un arbre. Strange fruit (Les fruits étranges) Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black body swinging in the Southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees Les arbres du Sud portent un étrange fruit, Du sang sur les feuilles et du sang aux racines, Un corps noir qui se balance dans la brise du Sud, Étrange fruit suspendu aux peupliers. .. for the sun to rot/for the tree to drop/Here is a strange and bitter crop.
Screenwriting Lessons: "The King’s Speech" — Part 4: Shadow [Note: This was originally posted February 10, 2011.] As I watched The King’s Speech recently, I was struck by how many screenwriting lessons could be gleaned from the movie. So I decided this week and next to analyze The King’s Speech and The Social Network, the most likely winners of this year’s Academy Awards for Best Screenplay (Speech for original, Network for adapted) to see what takeaway we could derive from both movies and their excellent screenplays. Today: The King’s Speech — Shadow. In almost all movies, key characters — especially the Protagonist — have a Shadow looming over them, some aspect of their personal past, psyche, or attachments. In The King’s Speech, David Seidler makes great use of the Shadow hanging over the story’s Protagonist Bertie (Colin Firth): his father King George V (Michael Gambon). We get an inkling of the father’s role in Bertie’s life in the opening scene where the Prince tries to make a public speech: LIONEL Did David tease you? He exits quickly.
Malala Yousafzai Biography Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani school pupil and spokesperson for women’s right to education. In retaliation for her high profile campaign for education and criticism of the Taliban, she was shot in the head at close range by a Taliban gunman. She survived the gunshot wound and has become a leading spokesperson for human rights, education and women’s rights. She has received numerous peace awards, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 along with Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian children’s rights activist. Early Life Malala Malala was born (12 July 1997) in Mingora, the Swat District of north west Pakistan to a Sunni Muslim family. Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai is a poet, and runs a chain of public schools. During this period, the Taliban’s military hold on the area intensified. ” I don’t know why, but hearing I was being targeted did not worry me. When her father suggested they stop their campaigns for human rights, Malala replied “How can we do that? Response to Assassination attempt
Post-vérité: chacun choisit de croire ce qu’il a envie de croire – Ère numérique L’émission « 20h55 le jeudi » sur France 2 a présenté en exclusivité ce 15 décembre un dialogue entre Vladimir Poutine et Nicolas Sarkozy qui avait été enregistré lors du G8 en 2007. On découvre l’ancien président français sortant groggy de l’entretien après une conclusion peu diplomatique de son homologue russe : « Si tu continues sur ce ton je t’écrase […] » Deux jours après la diffusion de ce documentaire, je tombe sur une interview de Jean-David Levitte, l’ancien conseiller diplomatique de Nicolas Sarkozy. Ce cas anecdotique me paraît cependant symptomatique de l’ère post-factuelle: dans un premier temps le lecteur est attiré par une publication racoleuse (en l’occurrence diffusée par la première chaîne de TV publique française, à priori crédible). Cette année 2016 a vu le débat d’opinion basculer dans une contestation systématique des faits.
Screenwriting Lessons: "The King’s Speech" — Part 3: Talismans [Note: This was originally posted February 9, 2011.] As I watched The King’s Speech recently, I was struck by how many screenwriting lessons could be gleaned from the movie. So I decided this week and next to analyze The King’s Speech and The Social Network, the most likely winners of this year’s Academy Awards for Best Screenplay (Speech for original, Networkfor adapted) to see what takeaway we could derive from both movies and their excellent screenplays. Today: The King’s Speech — Talismans. It’s interesting to ponder the importance of objects in movies: Andy’s Bible in The Shawshank Redemption, Cobb’s spinning top in Inception, the box of chocolates in Forrest Gump. There is a terrific example of a talisman in David Seidler’s script for The King’s Speech. Frustrated beyond all measure by his stuttering, Bertie (Colin Firth) reluctantly goes to see Lionel (Geoffrey Rush) who has a reputation for helping people with speech impediments. What does the shilling represent at this point?
Fake news : peut-on répondre à la désinformation Depuis l’élection de Trump (voir nos deux précédents articles : « Trump : les 5 échecs des nouvelles technologies » et « Facebook, une entreprise politique ? »), la question de la propagation de fausses informations semble révéler d’une véritable crise de confiance dans notre système médiatique et politique, comme l’expliquait récemment le chercheur en science de l’information Olivier Ertzscheid. De partout, les esprits s’agitent pour tenter de trouver des réponses. Des solutions… concrètes ? Les solutions relèvent de trois grandes catégories synthétise-t-il : faire vérifier l’information par des éditeurs humains, avoir recours au crowdsourcing (c’est-à-dire à la foule des internautes pour classer le bon grain de l’ivraie en permettant à des gens d’avoir un statut de vérificateur par exemple), ou trouver des solutions techniques ou algorithmiques. Mieux comprendre la diffusion de la désinformation Plus qu’un problème d’éducation, nos biais cognitifs en question La solution ?
Screenwriting Lessons: "The King’s Speech" — Part 2: Metamorphosis [Note: This was originally posted February 8, 2011.] As I watched The King’s Speech recently, I was struck by how many screenwriting lessons could be gleaned from the movie. So I decided this week and next to analyze The King’s Speech and The Social Network, the most likely winners of this year’s Academy Awards for Best Screenplay (Speech for original, Network for adapted) to see what takeaway we could derive from both movies and their excellent screenplays. Today: The King’s Speech — Metamorphosis. It’s perhaps the single most universal narrative archetype of all and at the heart of The Hero’s Journey: Metamorphosis. A character begins a story in one state of being and ends up in a different one. While the entire movie does a superlative job tracking the arduous process of Bertie’s work with Lionel, both as therapist (stuttering) and mentor (psychology), we can see most clearly the scope of Bertie’s metamorphosis by comparing a few key scenes. Tomorrow: Talismans.