Friday

It's Friday. This week has been very busy and stressful. Last weekend i spent all my spare time learning my japanese speech off by heart. That ended up being a waste of time because i ended up going down to Otago on monday and tuesday (my speech being on tuesday). So wednesday i started on my Classics research assignment which i neglected (i think i mentioned all this on my last post). Thursday i went to work and then came home and was up till the early hours of the morning finishing it off. I got information on my biology research assignment for today too, which is good because at school today i found out that i was one of few who had done any research at all. I now feel like a great load has been lifted off me. No longer any worries about Japanese and Classics, ahead in Biology, and for English a new topic has just started. Orators.

I have to research Orators/Rhetorics and then do a speech of my own acting as a famous Orator by using his/her style of language, speech, views, appropriate use of language techniques, etc. I was given a sheet of many famous Rhetorics and i selected the ones i thought would be interesting to do. The teacher told us to only do ministers and theologians if we had a good religious upbringing or knew the subject well, otherwise a lot more work would be required and it would be harder to pass. (Not often a school will tell you christian has an advantage in some respect). I have decided that i will do one of...(Andrew Brown will like this one)... John Calvin, John Knox, John Wesley (there seems to be something with John), Lenin, or Trotsky. Anyone got any other famous Orators that they can suggest for me to do? I'm very open to options.