Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Winston Churchill is the Man

So for my project I chose to do Winston Churchill's timeless classic speech, "Never Give In." Its considerably shorter than I expected, only being a little over a page and a half. I sure hope that's enough! He does do some pretty cool stuff throughout the speech that I've noticed. What stood out the most was his repetition. He repeats his themes over and over again to prove his point. For example, if you read it and look for words like 'learn,' 'teaches us,' etc, you'll see what I mean.
Yep. There's the man of the week/this blog-post! Peace to you too Winston Churchill! I also was able to learn a lot of the background to the speech. I didn't know that he was speaking to a school, or that they had written a song in his honour (the 'u' is intentional) right before he gave this speech. Historical references are fascinating!

So we'll see how my paper goes. I'm gonna do a big-ol'-chunk-o-writing it tonight. So far I'm probably behind, I've got it pretty well planned but I only have like a sentence of it done. It should be fun!

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