QUEEN ELIZABETH I |
BILL GATES |
In the article, “Elizabeth the Writer” (2000) by Leah S. Marcus we get two sides of the coin: 1) it was commonly known that Elizabeth was a great orator, learned, and displayed rhetorical skill, and 2) Elizabeth’s speeches were typically “not penned in advance (36). |
Bill Gates is recorded, video taped, and televised. His images and speeches are transmited through the Internet around the world. |
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Marcus notes that recording devices were not available. Most of what we have today are copies of her speeches written after the fact by contemporaries who wanted to capture her words by either using shorthand during the speech or by memory after the fact (36). |
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Collected Works of Elizabeth: The irony here is that this book is a translation in and of itself but we are presented with a copies of several of her writings, and like most writers, she made notations in the margins and drew lines through phrases or words (78; 104): |
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The following is an excerpt from version three of Queen Elizabeth’s February 10, 1559 speech in answer to the Commons’ petition that she marry: |
The following link is Bill Gates's speech: "The Case For Microsoft": Why Windows and Microsoft Office should stay under one roof. Sunday, May 7, 2000. |
To conclude, I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England, and that may suffice you. And this” quoth she, “makes me wonder that you forget, yourselves, the pledge of this alliance which I have made with my kingdom.” And there withal, stretching out her hand, she showed them the ring with which she was given in marriage and inaugurated to her kingdom in express and solemn terms. “And reproach me so no more,” quoth she, “that I have no children and kinsfolk […]” (Marcus 59) “Lastly, this may be sufficient, both for my memory and honor of my name, if when I have expired my last breath, this may be inscribe upon my tomb:
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