1. There are several websites on the Internet that post Academy Award acceptance speeches. Visit the website http://www.oscarworld.net/oscarspeeches.asp or www.ananova.com/goingout/story/sm_243561.html and read several of the speeches. Which ones seem memorable? Why?

2. General Douglas MacArthur's farewell speech to West Point is an oft-quoted speech ("In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. But in the evening of my memory I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes: duty, honor, country." Go to the website http://www.nationalcenter.org/MacArthurFarewell.html and read the speech. Is this a speech of tribute or inspiration? Or both?