Speaker: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Title: A World Split Apart

Date: June 8, 1978

Venue: Commencement Address, Harvard University

Clip Length: 5 min 2 sec

(Clip courtesy of AmericanRhetoric.com)
A World Split Apart
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Questions

1) How does the use of a simultaneous translator affect Solzhenitsyn's own verbal expressiveness? (65)

2) What seem to be his control beliefs about human nature, God, and the purpose of life? (46, 74)

3) How well does this speech fit with the audience for a commencement ceremony at Harvard University? (67)

4) When and why does the audience applaud before the conclusion of the speech? (61)

Page numbers in above parentheses are from Quentin Schultze, An Essential Guide to Public Speaking.
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