Comparing Paul Keating's Redfern Speech And Noel Pearson

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It is evident that by successfully manipulating rhetorical treatment of human aspirations and beliefs, powerful speeches are able to communicate confronting ideas that often challenge firmly-held views of an audience, thus demanding their engagement. It is through this process that Paul Keating in his Redfern Speech and Noel Pearson in his lecture, An Australian History For Us All, collectively present a compelling picture of the historical racism once endemic within Australia that many are still unable to come to terms with. The provocative nature of this perspective leads the two speakers to challenge their audience to finally accepting this confronting past, allowing progress for a nation-wide reconciliation. By interweaving rhetoric, it

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