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- AlleyCat
- Use AlleyCat, the CCAC online catalog, to find materials at any of the CCAC libraries.
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Provides topical articles, about 15 - 20 pages long, on social issues; articles include an overview, background information, the current situation concerning the issue, an outlook on possible developments, a special focus, chronology of related events, and pro and con section, and an annotated bibliography. Provided by CQ Press.
- Credo Reference
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Contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range or subject-specific titles covering everything from accounting to zoology. Provides access to the full text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular reference sources. Provided by Credo.
- Issues & Controversies
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Provides more than 900 timely, in-depth, and objective articles, exploring controversial issues and topics. Provided by Facts.com.
- Opposing Viewpoints: Critical Thinking
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Contains an online library of current event topics; includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. Provided by Gale.
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- Academic Search Premier
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Provides full text for more than 4,650 journals, including full text for more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Provided by EBSCOhost.
- MasterFILE Premier
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Provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of 440,207 photos, maps & flags. Provided by EBSCOhost.
- Arts & Humanities Search
- infoIndexes over 5000 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Provided by FirstSearch.
- Bloomsburg University
- Gives sound clips from famous speeches.
- Chapman University - Persuasive Speech Links
- Provides many links for speech writing from finding a topic to organizing and writing a persuasive speech.
- Douglass : Archives of American Public Address
- Northwestern University's Douglass is a searchable electronic archive of American oratory and related documents. It contains significant speeches arranged by speaker, title, time or topic with numerous links.
- Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
- George Washington to Barack Obama.
- Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches
- Produced by American Radio Works, this radio documentary highlights a sampling of the great oratories of African Americans during the last century. Listen to the entire documentary or selected speeches. Included are selections from Booker T. Washington, Fannie Lou Hamer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama. A brief biography and the transcripts of each speech are also included. [Real Player]
- SpeechTips.com
- A free guide to speech writing and public speaking for any occasion.
- Wake Forest University: Collections of political speeches
- Site includes political speeches, audio sites, generic link information, genre sites and links to individual Presidential sites.