JULIUS CAESAR..shakespeare

The "Friends Romans Countrymen" speech is a great example of a good speech.This was perhaps my first experience of a the power of a good speech - the ability of a speaker to convince an audience of their point of view. I particularly love the way in which he is able to turn the word honourable around to in fact mean dishonourable.

MARK ANTONY

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

Help MEN.... they need it!!

Enough of women liberalization and independance. Women have marched forward. She has emerged as a force to be reckoned with.

She is no longer waiting at the peripherry, she enjoys the glory of her being at the heart of every sphere. But now its not too early before we start

talking about independance of MEN. Yes , you read it right. Give it a deeper thought... arent men more dependent on women rather than vice versa?

Today most of the women have become financially able. They are not only bread earners but also bread makers.They have always been wonderful home makers and

the their entry into the world economics has only added an icing to the cake. But what about their counterparts-"the Men"?? how have they emerged?? How many of

them can manage their house without a lady? Be it his mother, wife or sister. In every walk of life he is somehow or the other dependent on women. Now shouldnt

we help them to become independent? Isnt it our turn to be supportive and make them realise that its high time to come out of their dipers and learn to live on their

own? If women can have the privilage of being independent, why shouldnt men?