Summary: As Maya Angelou points out in The Power of Speech, "If the words and delivery are powerful, they echo down the centuries. To emphasize the point, Angelou and other writers and orators examine the moving oratory of 14th-century tax protester John Ball, 19th-century slave Sojourner Truth, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Each speaker's technique is examined within the context of why the speech is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The U.S. is on orange alert, and the citizens of Midburgh are on the lookout for “suspicious activity.” What should they do when circumstantial evidence indicating a potential terrorist plot points to two people of Arab ethnicity? This Fred Friendly Seminar, produced as part of Columbia University’s 250th Anniversary, explores the balance between national security and civil liberties in the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005