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Speeches That Changed The World: DVD Edition

With over a million copies already sold this is the newly updated edition of the definitive collection of great speeches ancient and modern From calls to arms to demands for peace and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians rebels and tyrants soldiers and statesman placing them in historical contextThis revised edition includes speeches that have shaped the modern world from Aung San Suu Kyi on freedom to Al Gore on the environment and from Malala Yousafzai on the education of women to Pope Francis on peace A biography of each speechmaker reveals how they came to stand at the crossroads of history and each speech is accompanied by an introduction explaining its historical context and how it influenced the
momentous events of the day - as well as those that followedMoving and thought-provoking this new edition will continue to inspire and enlighten readers offering them a fascinating perspective on historical milestones through the power of the spoken word Contents include Nelson Mandela Malala Yousafzai Barack Obama Pope Francis Martin Luther King Elizabeth I Oliver Cromwell George Washington Napoleon Bonaparte Abraham Lincoln Emmeline Pankhurst Mahatma Gandhi Adolf Hitler Joseph Stalin Franklin D Roosevelt Charles de Gaulle General George S Patton Mao Zedong Malcolm X Vaclav Havel Mikhail Gorbachev Indira Gandhi and Winston Churchill to name a few

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DVD - Digital Versitile Disc - an optical storage media

Martin Luther King - A prominent leader in the American Civil rights movement. Born 1929

Education - A term used to describe the act of learning a new skill or information

History - Anything that happens in the past. An acedemic subject.

World - A physical grouping, commonly used to describe earth and everything associated with ti

King - The figure head of a monarch

Day - The time it takes a planet or other space objects to complete one rotation.

Environment - The conditions and surrounding area.

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