After seeing these two famous speeches presented in the original and modern day fashions i must admit i enjoy the older versions. Johnny Cash, not my thing. there is something about hearing the originals, or reading them. In doing this one can see the authors political strategies, in these cases, and really gets to read all the details of the document.
i also thought it was interesting to read about how even Abraham Lincoln and the Declarartion of Independance had several edits done to them. Every great speech or policy document has been under the eyes of several critics and editors. Even the President had his speech changed and drafted, to add words to relate to the audience in front of him, and inspire people to believe in what they are talking about. This is seen in modern day times with President Obama in the speech edit we reviewed and blogged about in class monday. Speech and document editing is common and always has been apparently.
it was also interesting learning a little bit more about the history of both of these historical happenings. it was a nice refresher of some of the facts about why these took place, when, and how we recognize these events.
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