Representative American speeches, 2016-2017
By: [compiled by] H.W. Wilson, a division of EBSCO Information Services
Series: The reference shelf -- volume 89, number 6; Reference shelf -- v. 89, no. 6.
Publisher: Wilson, H.W.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781682174562; 9781682174500
Subjects: Politics and government; Sources; Social action; Emigration and immigration; Civil rights; History; Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. To the graduating class; title: Commencement speech to the University of Southern California class of 2017  -- Will Ferrell; title: Remarks to the Howard University class of 2017  -- Kamala D. Harris; title: Building collective resistance  -- Sheryl Sandberg; title: I see you, I love you  -- Cory Booker; title: Address to the Harvard University class of 2017 on success, failure, and entrepreneurship  -- Mark Zuckerberg; title: Remarks to the Brooklyn College class of 2017  -- Bernie Sanders; title: Be brave. Take the leap. Do it. Dare it. Courage.  -- Anna Quindlen -- 2. Making America great again; title: Farewell speech  -- Barack Obama; title: Inaugural address  -- Donald Trump; title: Remarks to US Department of State employees  -- Rex W. Tillerson; title: Address to the people of Poland  -- Donald Trump; title: Press briefing on US immigration policy  -- Sarah Sanders and Stephen Miller -- 3. The year in review; title: Remarks at the United Nations advocating for action against the Assad regime  -- Nikki Haley; title: Racism is evil  -- Donald Trump; title: Returning to the Senate after defeating the "skinny" health care bill speech  -- John McCain; title: Working together  -- Chuck Schumer; title: Removing New Orleans' Confederate monuments  -- Mitch Landrieu; title: How Facebook is fighting back against Russia's election interference  -- Mark Zuckerberg -- 4. Resistance and persistence 2017; title: 2016 postelection speech  -- Elizabeth Warren; title: State of the State Address  -- Jerry Brown; title: Do not try to divide us  -- Gloria Steinem; title: Climate statement  -- Mike Bloomberg; title: History cannot be deleted like web pages  -- Angela Davis; title: Bias is the enemy of science  -- Adam Savage; title: Flake announces Senate future  -- Jeff Flake -- 5. Free speech on campus; title: Say no to campus thuggery  -- Ben Shapiro; title: Statement on truth-seeking, democracy, and freedom of thought and expression  -- Robert P. George and Cornel West; title: Free inquiry on campus: a statement of principles  -- Middlebury College Faculty; title: The importance of free speech on college campuses  -- Jeff Sessions -- 6. DREAMers and DACA; title: Keep the door open for Dreamers  -- Joe Kennedy III; title: We cannot admit everyone  -- Jeff Sessions; title: Statement on the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) -- Barack Obama.