Management Theory [Tuesday, January 20, 4th period]

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After the class was assembled in their oh-so-stylish labcoats and hats, Yzma raised her hands grandly. "Today," she announced, "we will work on speeches! A good manager must be able to inspire others with their words and dramatic gestures. Borrowing from great speeches--" by which she meant stealing outright, "inspire your fellow classmates!"

She gestured to Toby to hand out numbered placards. "As each student gives their speech, you shall judge them!" she declared gleefully, then pointed one incredibly long fingernail towards a student. "You! Begin!"

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Re: Speechify!

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Oh, please, like Turtle was going to go with anything that wasn't even remotely patriotic.

"Four score," she began stoutly with a straight back and a lifted chin, "and seven years ago...or, rather, a bit long than that now, but I'm not very good at math....our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men...and women!...are created equal."

So she was making a few adjustments; sue her. Go on, try it. She dares you.

"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."

"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth!"

At the end, she bowed.

"The end."