Amherst College: Announcements https://www.amherst.edu/ en Voice Touching Twin Toddlers https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/courses/1011S/THDA/THDA-32H-1011S/announcements/node/307213 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Voice Touching Twin Toddlers</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><a title="View user profile." href="/user/6337" class="username">Ron Bashford</a></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2011-03-29T20:12:46-04:00" title="Tuesday, March 29, 2011, at 8:12 PM" class="datetime">Tuesday, 3/29/2011, at 8:12 PM</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Look how natural it really is!&nbsp; Check out this video of the <a href="http://youtu.be/_JmA2ClUvUY" target="_blank">Voice Touching Twin Toddlers</a>!</p></div> Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:12:46 +0000 rdbashford88 307213 at https://www.amherst.edu Excerpt from Patrick Henry's 1775 speech to the Virginia delegates https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/courses/1011S/THDA/THDA-32H-1011S/announcements/node/302833 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Excerpt from Patrick Henry&#039;s 1775 speech to the Virginia delegates</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><a title="View user profile." href="/user/6337" class="username">Ron Bashford</a></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2011-03-24T08:11:12-04:00" title="Thursday, March 24, 2011, at 8:11 AM" class="datetime">Thursday, 3/24/2011, at 8:11 AM</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free--if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us! They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength but irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.</p> <p>It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!</p></div> Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:11:12 +0000 rdbashford88 302833 at https://www.amherst.edu