Take This Advice: The Best Graduation Speeches Ever Given Contributor(s): Bark, Sandra (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1416915966 ISBN-13: 9781416915966 Publisher: Gallery Books
Binding Type: Paperback Published: April 2006 Annotation: Bark compiles the 40 most powerful, affecting graduation speeches delivered in the last 10 years by popular speakers such as Toni Morrison, Judy Blume, Mister Rogers, Al Franken, Gloria Steinem, Jon Stewart, and many others. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Speech & Pronunciation - Education | Higher - Humor |
Dewey: 815.008 |
LCCN: 2005030529 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" L (0.65 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Friendship |
Features: Price on Product, Table of Contents |
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Publisher Description: BE FREE, AND DANCE THROUGH LIFE. -- YOKO ONO MAKE THE WORLD BEFORE YOU A BETTER ONE BY GOING INTO IT WITH ALL BOLDNESS. -- SEAMUS HEANEY REMEMBER ALWAYS TO SIT UP STRAIGHT. -- MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT Take This Advice delivers thirty of the most powerful and inspiring commencement speeches given in the past ten years. With grace and humor, this generation's favorite artists and thinkers address graduates to celebrate an incredible achievement, and to let them know that life after school is not the end of the world -- in fact, it's the beginning. THIS IS YOUR TIME. TAKE IT ON. -- TOM BROKAW |
Contributor Bio(s): Bark, Sandra: - Sandra Bark is the author of Cheap & Easy: A Cookbook for Girls on the Go and editor of Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars: Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories and Writers Workshop in a Box. She lives in Brooklyn. |
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