Choices | Speech

As you can see in the previous post there are quite a few speeches to choose from.

The ones that initially interested me were

• Nelson Mandela - An idea for which I'm prepared to die
• Martin Luther King - I have a dream
• Winston Churchill - We shall fight them on the beaches
• John F Kennedy - Ask not what your country can do for you

I was first interested in Mandela's speech because I have recently taken an interest in his life and began to read his biography so I already am prepared with some ideas for this one.

I love the repetition of "I have a dream" in Martin Luther King's speech. I really like the way that the speech builds as it goes through as this gives me something to work with for the video by making something rise to get to its peak at the end of the video. 

I've always had an interest in World Wars and the politics behind them and so naturally as Churchill was a great leader of Britain I'd like to look into this one further. 

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" is a part of John F Kennedy's speech. It is the most famous part and I can really see why as it seems to sum up his point of the whole speech in a single sentence. I would also like to know more about the cultural and political contexts of what was going on at the time of this speech.

Although I'm still far from concluding which speech I'd like to do I feel I've made some headway in working out a short list and the reasons behind it. By the time I next post I will hopefully have made a decision as to which I'd like to go into further detail with.