eulogy

Examples of eulogy in the following topics:

• Commemorative Speeches: Dedications and Eulogies

  • Dedications and eulogies are two types of commemorative speeches that memorialize people and/or events.
  • A eulogy is a very specific type of commemorative speech that occurs at a person's funeral.
  • Eulogies may include memories and anecdotes of that person's life.
  • Rather than focusing on how or why a person died, the eulogy celebrates the life he lived.
  • It can be extremely emotionally difficult to deliver a eulogy for a friend or family member.

• Situational and Environmental Context

  • If you're at a funeral, you may be asked to deliver a eulogy.
  • For example, you wouldn't read a eulogy at a wedding?

• Summary of the Benefits of Public Speaking

  • This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

• Founding of the Roman Empire

  • Nonetheless, Antony eventually succeeded in driving most of them out of Rome, using Caesar’s eulogy as an opportunity to mount public opinion against the assassins.

• Civil Rights and Voting Rights

  • In his first address to Congress on November 27, 1963, Johnson told the legislators, "No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long."

• The Lyndon B. Johnson Administration

  • In the days following the assassination, Johnson made an address to Congress: "No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the Civil Rights Bill for which he fought so long."