Restoring price stability will take some time and requires using our tools forcefully to bring demand and supply into better balance. Reducing inflation is likely to require a sustained period of below-trend growth. Moreover, there will very likely be some softening of labor market conditions. While higher interest rates, slower growth, and softer labor market conditions will bring down inflation, they will also bring some pain to households and businesses. These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation. But a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain.
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For children and e-learningAs children play, you could use TTS to read out their favorite book, or a school reading, or use it for more intentional times. With TTS, words are highlighted (think Karaoke) so your child could read and listen at the same time. This makes for greater retention as two senses are stimulated.
With each chapter, the reader develops greater respect for Lincoln's ability to pack layers of meaning into small words in short sentences and White's ability to retrieve and illuminate them. In a short speech of 703 words arranged in twenty-five sentences, Lincoln drew timeless meanings from a struggle that had exhausted a nation and cost more than 600,000 lives. He began his speech in the passive voice, drawing attention away from himself. He chose his words carefully, so as not to inflame the aroused passions of his thirty to forty thousand auditors, many of them soldiers. Lincoln's famous phrase, "And the war came," is both understated and fails to place blame on any particular group of people. According to White, with this phrase, "Lincoln is setting the stage for a different angle of vision, an alternative perspective on the meaning of the war" (79). Lincoln's sentence "suggests that no mortal being can control the fortunes of war. Lincoln wants his listeners to understand that this war cannot be understood simply as the fulfillment of human plans" (79).
In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. For those of you who are black--considering the evidence there evidently is that there were white people who were responsible--you can be filled with bitterness, with hatred, and a desire for revenge. We can move in that direction as a country, in great polarization--black people amongst black, white people amongst white, filled with hatred toward one another.
In receiving the distinction with which your free Academy has so generously honoured me, my gratitude has been profound, particularly when I consider the extent to which this recompense has surpassed my personal merits. Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I. But I have not been able to learn of your decision without comparing its repercussions to what I really am. A man almost young, rich only in his doubts and with his work still in progress, accustomed to living in the solitude of work or in the retreats of friendship: how would he not feel a kind of panic at hearing the decree that transports him all of a sudden, alone and reduced to himself, to the centre of a glaring light? And with what feelings could he accept this honour at a time when other writers in Europe, among them the very greatest, are condemned to silence, and even at a time when the country of his birth is going through unending misery?
None of us is great enough for such a task. But in all circumstances of life, in obscurity or temporary fame, cast in the irons of tyranny or for a time free to express himself, the writer can win the heart of a living community that will justify him, on the one condition that he will accept to the limit of his abilities the two tasks that constitute the greatness of his craft: the service of truth and the service of liberty. Because his task is to unite the greatest possible number of people, his art must not compromise with lies and servitude which, wherever they rule, breed solitude. Whatever our personal weaknesses may be, the nobility of our craft will always be rooted in two commitments, difficult to maintain: the refusal to lie about what one knows and the resistance to oppression.
Lend Me Your Ears is an impressive compendium of 233 great speeches throughout history, from ancient Rome to modern times. There is an emphasis on political speeches, but you will also find commencement speeches, lectures, media speeches, eulogies, farewells, trials, and debates. Each one is preceded by a detailed introduction which helps the reader appreciate the themes, occasion, and figures of speech. 2ff7e9595c
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