Need homework help ~ history buffs?

anna.oskar

So I'm doing a huge art project and have decided to take it in a historical reference direction.

Can you think of speeches that had a major historical impact? They don't need to be American or even in english.

I have:

JFK - Ask not what your country can do for you
Hitler - Address at the Reichstag
Susan B. Anthony - post arrest speech
Lincoln - Gettysburg Address
MLK jr. - Dream speech
Reagan - Mr Gorbachev tear down this wall
FDR - Day that will live in infamy

baystateapple

Winston Churchill -- We shall never surrender.

I'm trying to think of others.  I'm really intrigued as to where you're going with this!

Blueyed228

Do they have to be speeches or can they be correspondences?

anna.oskar

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[QUOTE]Winston Churchill -- We shall never surrender.
Posted by baystateapple[/QUOTE]

Brilliant!

I need to do 7 pieces so the more I have the better.  Then I can read them all and narrow it down to something I can work with.

Thanks!

baystateapple

Surrender and plea of peace of Chief Joseph, "From where the sun now stands, I shall fight no more forever."

Blueyed228

Reagans "Time to Choose" speech is pretty awesome.

anna.oskar

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[QUOTE]Winston Churchill -- We shall never surrender. I'm trying to think of others.  I'm really intrigued as to where you're going with this!
Posted by baystateapple[/QUOTE]

I'm going to use the speech on an individual piece as a background effect that may or may not be noticed by the viewer.  From 3ft+ distance it will just look like textured stripes in the background amid a watercolour wash.

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[QUOTE]Do they have to be speeches or can they be correspondences?
Posted by Blueyed228[/QUOTE]

Either will work

AllAboutTheBenjamin

JFK also did the Ich Bin Ein Berliner one.  LOL.

Do you think Obama's address about bin Laden's killing will have future historical impact?

baystateapple

Anna, that sounds like an awesome project!

If you didn't already have a LIncoln one, I'd say his second inaugural address, "A house divided", etc.

Blueyed228

If you can do letters, then MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail is a good one. 

anna.oskar

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[QUOTE]JFK also did the Ich Bin Ein Berliner one.  LOL. Do you think Obama's address about bin Laden's killing will have future historical impact?
Posted by AllAboutTheBenjamin[/QUOTE]

I'm debating.  I really am not sure yet although I do lean toward the no simply based on the energy it did or didn't cause in America.  I've been also thinking of adding GW Bush's post 9-11 speech but all the imagery I would use with that might be a tough one to work on.

AllAboutTheBenjamin

Also comes to mind, Bill Clinton's "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."

I suck at this, hehe.

kd.joseph

You should ping my husband on FB. He can probably tell you anything you need to know, and more. He's a huge Winston Churchill fan as well as Reagan.

And dont get him started on Grant! Anything relating to the  Civil war.

anna.oskar

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[QUOTE]Also comes to mind, Bill Clinton's "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." I suck at this, hehe.
Posted by AllAboutTheBenjamin[/QUOTE]

That's what SHE said

Blueyed228

Washingtons first inaugural speech.  The most interesting thing about him is that he was so soft spoken for such a big man (well, big for the times). 

Also- another fun fact about him, is that he was sworn in at a bank on Wall Street, lol.  Considering all the Wall Street hate and "This country was NOT FOUNDED ON CAPITALISM" stuff that flies around these days, I find it so ironic.

baystateapple

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Need homework help ~ history buffs? : That's what SHE said
Posted by anna.oskar[/QUOTE]

*snort*

Blueyed228

And for other letters, any letters between Adams and Jefferson around the time of the Revolution are extremely interesting.

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If you needed speaches that made an impact in movies, I'd be your girl.

Real life? Not so much.

BUT just in case, the president's speech in Independence Day. Makes me teary every time. AND Herb Brooks' speech in Miracle before they beat the Soviets. Sure, it was hockey, but totally important.

daria24

Malcom X-The Ballot or the Bullet

Barbara Jordan: Statement on the Articles of Impeachment

Jonathan Edwards: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?

anna.oskar

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[QUOTE]Washingtons first inaugural speech.  The most interesting thing about him is that he was so soft spoken for such a big man (well, big for the times).  Also- another fun fact about him, is that he was sworn in at a bank on Wall Street, lol.  Considering all the Wall Street hate and "This country was NOT FOUNDED ON CAPITALISM" stuff that flies around these days, I find it so ironic.
Posted by Blueyed228[/QUOTE]

I'll add that to my list.

Really?  Wall Street.  Why there?  I did not know that.  Totally ironic.

Blueyed228

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[QUOTE]Malcom X-The Ballot or the Bullet Barbara Jordan: Statement on the Articles of Impeachment Jonathan Edwards: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
Posted by daria24[/QUOTE]

Thats a great one.

Also Anna, im not up on feminist stuff, but I bet any speeches from the Womans Rights movement would be interesting.

anna.oskar

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[QUOTE]If you needed speaches that made an impact in movies, I'd be your girl. Real life? Not so much. BUT just in case, the president's speech in Independence Day. Makes me teary every time. AND Herb Brooks' speech in Miracle before they beat the Soviets. Sure, it was hockey, but totally important.
Posted by Seshat411[/QUOTE]

Although I wasn't a huge fan of the movie, That Braveheart battlefield speech WAS brilliant

AllAboutTheBenjamin

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Need homework help ~ history buffs? : That's what SHE said
Posted by anna.oskar[/QUOTE]

LOL

anna.oskar

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Need homework help ~ history buffs? : . Also Anna, im not up on feminist stuff, but I bet any speeches from the Womans Rights movement would be interesting.
Posted by Blueyed228[/QUOTE]

The susan B one is pretty good.  I've got it slated for my 3rd piece.

AllAboutTheBenjamin

Oh movie speeches?  Bill Pullman's in Independence Day.  Fuckyeah.

Yeah I am definitely no help at all. 

DNAtime

Anna, I don't know any other speeches but what is your art project? What are you doing with the speeches?

pirategal03

You need more women.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the first Women's Rights Convention in the US
Betty Ford's address to the American Cancer Society (and here's a good blog post about why it was important)
Hilary Clinton at the '95 UN Women's Conference - Human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights

anna.oskar

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[QUOTE]Anna, I don't know any other speeches but what is your art project? What are you doing with the speeches?
Posted by DNAtime[/QUOTE]

I'm going to use the speech on an individual piece as a background effect that may or may not be noticed by the viewer.  From 3ft+ distance it will just look like textured stripes in the background amid a watercolour wash.

anna.oskar

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[QUOTE]I only skimmed the other posts, so I'm sorry if I'm repeating... Emmeline Pankhurst's Speech "Freedom or Death" during the Women's Suffrage Movement would make for an interesting context. Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty, or give me Death" . And though this may not be the direction you want to head, I love Lou Gehrig's "Farewell to Baseball Address". I also think that Faulkner's 1950 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech could lead to some interesting artistic concepts.
Posted by mrs.jesse[/QUOTE]

Ooh!  I love Patrick Henry

dmiller9274

You've got a lot of good ones. 

The only other one that I can think of that would be a little different and maybe easy to capture artistically would be in 79 when Carter announced that the US would not participate in the Moscow Olympics because of the Soviet/Afghan stuff. 

DNAtime

Nice. Are you going to photo transfer??  Or just print and paint on top?