What is wrong with our leadership, or lack thereof? Why must he need a teleprompter, and if that fails, why hasn’t he prepared himself for actually reading verbatim by rote the speech planned?

Explores formal speech (‘oratory’) in Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.

How I spoke in Hyde Park London daily as this was the only voice we had.

In western thought until 1600, speech played a vital social role. Here is an essay that analyzes speech in The Bible, The Iliad, and Gorgias.

In order to protect students from high stress, fatigue, substance abuse, and cheating, a complete overhaul of the public education system’s homework policy may be required.

With few exceptions humans are a visually oriented species. Sound has been neglected in almost all communities. Yet sound has power from the power of infrasound to cause sickness or ultrasound to treat kidney stones or cancer through the power of music to change mood, to the power of orators to whip crowds into frenzy and the ability of poetry to reach beyond the conscious mind. Here a few aspects of the power of sound are discussed.

For many years I experienced the ultimate fear of public speaking; truly someone who would have chosen death, lions, or ravenous snakes over giving a presentation.