speeches

The Top 10 Words in Commencement Speeches

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NPR have a wonderful speech database with over 350 great commencement speeches on their resource The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever What are the Most Common Words? Excluding prepositions and other super-common words, the most frequent words appearing in this database of Great Commencement Speeches were: Life Make People World Yourself Make Success Generation Define Human … Read more

The Top 5 Commencement Speeches

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Note: with a series of additions over the years, this post is now 11 Commencement speeches that I love. Commencement speeches… the final words of wisdom that almost-graduates receive before heading out into the big world.  These are important speeches.   I’ve seen a lot of them… I have had the privilege of attending 2 … Read more