Writing assignment

Read or listen to each of the three speeches listed, and for each, write a short paragraph response answering some of the following questions: why do you think the speech was considered remarkable?  Why might it still be venerated today?  What was it trying to achieve?  Was it convincing?

Franklin Roosevelt's "Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation"

Mary Fisher's "1992 Republican National Convention Address"

Elie Wiesel's "Perils of Indifference"

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlharbor.htm

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/maryfisher1992rnc.html

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/wiesel.htm

I want the writing with simple vocabulary and easy to understand.