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英语演讲稿分钟篇一
it is my great pleasure to share my dream with you today.
my dream is to become a teacher.
you know being a teacher is a thing that is very valuable and very interesting.i suggest that it must be a great fun to be with children all the if i am a teacher，i can teach my students a lot of might become stronger and cleverer because of is a very contented feeling.
china is a developing ese are not that excellent in their teachers in china might be very very can provide the society with a lot of successful people，and make china a better place.
do you think that i have a good dream？i will work hard to make my dream become true！
thank you!
英语演讲稿分钟篇二
classifying rubbish , improving environment good morning, respectable judges, teachers. today, standing here makes me feel really honored and excited. the title of my speech is classifying rubbish , improving environment.
personally, rubbish has been a big headache in beijing. as the year xx is coming ,every citizen has realized green beijing and green olympics will bring the far-reaching impact on beijing and even all china . the scense of rubbish nearly everywhere has given all of us a really bad impression, and im sure none of us wish to show off the bad side of beijing to athletes and journalists all over the world, for it would blemish the citys and even chinas image and leave a bad reputation. so we really have to work hard on green olympics.
now, we are middle school students. we must improve the sense of protecting the environment and make a contribution to green olympics .
in our life, a lot of rubbish , such as waste paper, plastic bottles ,batteries and so on , is produced every day . after we learnt the passage make our environment more beautiful , we found a lot of rubbish thrown into dustbins could be recycled in fact during our discussion. so we thought it would be better if we could classify rubbish . we told our idea to our teacher and he supported us very much . we became volunteers to classify rubbish . firstly we got three big boxes and put them in a corner of our classroom . one is for waste paper , one for plastics and coke cans and the other is for batteries . with teachers help ,soon all the students took part in the activity of classifying rubbish .in a month , we collected three boxes of paper , a box of batteries and a box of plastics and coke cans .we sold them for 28 yuan and bought some young trees with the money . we planted the trees around our school . we were all spoken highly of by our school principals. now we keep on the job and are all proud of improving environment .
the world trusts beijing .beijing still has a lot to do to reach the level the world expects, but we have the confidence to make beijing a green city. great changes are taking place, and not far in the future, beijing will be the focus of all worlds attention. well grasp the opportunity and do our best to make the sky bluer, water greener and air fresher by the year xx.
lets all wish the best for the xx olympics in beijing. thanks for your listening.
英语演讲稿分钟篇三
the real persuasive speech ·edward m. kennedy：chappaquiddick ·
to use the vivid example to wake up the conscience in peoples love nature is to love our mankind.
as the new generation who enter the new century, we should make efforts to love and respect nature, to treat it well and protect it.
only in this way can we have a beautiful nature to enjoy it!thank you. it is human nature that all of us should be fond of beauty.
everybody was born with a heart for beauty.
today in china,with the rising of our living standard, peoples requirement of beauty has been heightened accordingly.
some people spare no money or energy on beautiful clothes, fashionable hair styles,the decoration of their houses and even the improvement of their looks.
but it seems to me,all these are more or less confined to the beauty in appearance,or rather,the outward beauty.
in my opinion,we shouldnt only pay attention to beautiful appearance and neglect the beautification of the mind and what we are after should be the perfect unity of the outward beauty and the inner beauty.
as we all know,so far as objects and animals are concerned,there is only beautiful appearance to be mentioned, but to us humanbeings, although the outward beauty really matters, the inner beauty is much more important.
this was confirmed by a famous russian writer in words much like this: a person is not lovely for being beautiful but beautiful for being lovely.
here, id like to quote two typical instances and im sure, my dear friends,from them youll find out what real beauty is.
recently i learned from the radio an unpleasant incident about a well known singer.
she is very charming with a sweet beautiful voice and very famous for singing the on of love.
not long ago,she was invited to zhejiang province to give performance.
the moment she was to appear on the stage,she suddenly asked for more reward.
worse still,after her request was satisfied, she didnt begin to sing at once.
instead,she took her time to count all the money piece by piece.
thus she kept the audience waiting for half an hour.
so when she at last showed up and started to sing devotion of love,a man rose up from his seat and shouted at her,you dont have any devotion of love.
you are not qualified to sing this song ! hearing this, the singer stopped singing and began to shout abuses with her finger pointed at the man.
at this time the whole audience burst into an uproar.
how disappointed her keen listeners were when they learned this! it is the singer herself who spoiled her beautiful image in the eyes of others.
now, im coming to another true story.
its about a poor, ordinary looking old woman.
she was a widow without any children, living barely from hand to mouth by picking odds and ends from rubbish heaps.
however,she took in more than ten homeless orphans successively and managed to bring them up.
every day she labored from morning till night.
in order to earn as much money as possible to raise the children and to keep them in school,she even went to a hospital regularly to sell her blood.
she got so weak for the loss of blood that she sometimes fell in a faint on her way home.
when asked why she chose to burden herself with so many children,she smiled and simply answered,oh,i love children and i like to have their company.
though the old woman was poor materially, she was full of affection and rich in spirit.
she was loved dearly by her children.
she was also highly appreciated by the local government, and truly respected by people in her community.
maybe you cant help wondering, what makes that ordinary woman so extraordinary? it is nothing else but her inner beauty, her true devotion of love without any thought of rewarding.
what a sharp contrast there is between the great woman and the selfish singer]
so,to answer the question what is real beauty?, i declare definitely,it is the beauty lying in ones heart of hearts and embodied in his actions and deeds,that is,the inner heauty! hello, boys and girls.
my name is shen huiyao.
i’m a girl and i’m a student.
i’m from qianjia wan.
i like yellow, because i like banana.
my favorite food is eggs.
i like chinese, because i think mr.
fan is a good chinese teacher.
and i like miss zhou, : look, this is my family photo.
who’s this woman?s1: is she your mother?shy: yes, she’s my mother.
and who’s this man?s2: is he your father?shy: yes.
he’s my father.
then who’s this man? he’s a old man.s3: is he your grandfather?shy: yes, he’s my grandfather.
and this is my uncle.
who’s this girl? ha, ha, it’s mother is beautiful.
my father is cool.
i love my father.
i love my mother.
and they love me.
my grandfather is kind.
kind means
my grandfather is very very kind.
i love my grandfather, speech is over.
thank you everyone, goodbye!
英语演讲稿分钟篇四
i love my motherland
dear teachers，
i’m so glad to have the chance to give you a speech here. the topic of my speech is “i love my motherland”.
before i started school, my mother told me that “our country is called china.” when i attended school, the teacher told me that “our country is called the peoples republic of china”. we love our mothers, and we also need to love our motherland. when i was in the nursery school, i always envied big brothers and big sisters, because they could wear the red scarves, but i could not. the teacher told us:" the red scarf is a corner of the red flag. it is dyed with the blood of martyrs."
finally one day, the red scarf hanged on my chest. under the flag of young pioneers, i closed five fingers together, put my hand way up high. i knew deep inside that this salute meant the benefit of the people is higher than all. the red scarf would be along with us, told us to "study hard, make
progress day by day." the flag of young pioneers would guide us to "learn from lei feng, do good things."
gradually, we increase in height, and grow up. we know the yangtze river and the yellow river. we also know that the red flag symbolizes the glories and dreams of the motherland. we also know that we are the future and hope of our country. whenever i see the five-star red flag rising, my feeling is extremely excited. “ah motherland, you are my mom. ah mom, you are the motherland. i love you.”
英语演讲稿分钟篇五
the speech which i am about to deliver will not be for the purpose of checking your start homeward, for, so far as i am concerned, you may depart wherever you wish.
but for the purpose of making you understand when you take yourselves off, what kind of men you have been to us who have conferred such benefits upon you. in the first place, as is reasonable, i shall begin my speech from my father philip. for he found you vagabonds and destitute of means, most of you clad in hides, feeding a few sheep up the mountain sides, for the protection of which you had to fight with small success against illyrians, triballians, and the border thracians.
instead of the hides he gave you cloaks to wear, and from the mountains he led you down into the plains, and made you capable of fighting the neighboring barbarians, so that you were no longer compelled to preserve yourselves by trusting rather to the inaccessible strongholds than to your own valor. he made you colonists of cities, which he adorned with useful laws and customs; and from being slaves and subjects, he made you rulers over those very barbarians by whom you yourselves, as well as your property, were previously liable to be carried off or ravaged.
he also added the greater part of thrace to macedonia, and by seizing the most conveniently situated places on the sea-coast, he spread abundance over the land from commerce, and made the working of the mines a secure employment. he made you rulers over the thessalians, of whom you had formerly been in mortal fear; and by humbling the nation of the phocians, he rendered the avenue into greece broad and easy for you, instead of being narrow and difficult.
the athenians and thebans, who were always lying in wait to attack macedonia, he humbled to such a degree, i also then rendering him my personal aid in the campaign, that instead of paying tribute to the former and being vassals to the latter, those states in their turn procure security to themselves by our assistance. he penetrated into the peloponnese, and after regulating its affairs, was publicly declared commander-in-chief of all the rest of greece in the expedition against the persian, adding this glory not more to himself than to the commonwealth of the macedonians.
these were the advantages which accrued to you from my father philip; great indeed if looked at by themselves, but small if compared with those you have obtained from me. for though i inherited from my father only a few gold and silver goblets, and there were not even sixty talents in the treasury, and though i found myself charged with a debt of 500 talents owing by philip, and i was obliged myself to borrow 800 talents in addition to these, i started from the country which could not decently support you, and forthwith laid open to you the passage of the hellespont, though at that time the persians held the sovereignty of the sea.
having overpowered the satraps of darius with my cavalry, i added to your empire the whole of ionia, the whole of aeolis, both phrygias and lydia, and i took miletus by siege. all the other places i gained by voluntary surrender, and i granted you the privilege of appropriating the wealth found in them. the riches of egypt and cyrene, which i acquired without fighting a battle, have come to you. coele-syria, palestine, and mesopotamia are your property. babylon, bactra, and susa are yours.
the wealth of the lydians, the treasures of the persians, and the riches of the indians are yours; and so is the external sea. you are viceroys, you are generals, you are captains. what then have i reserved to myself after all these labors, except this purple robe and this diadem? i have appropriated nothing myself, nor can any one point out my treasures, except these possessions of yours or the things which i am guarding on your behalf. individually, however, i have no motive to guard them, since i feed on the same fare as you do, and i take only the same amount of sleep.
nay, i do not think that my fare is as good as that of those among you who live luxuriously; and i know that i often sit up at night to watch for you, that you may be able to sleep.
but some one may say, that while you endured toil and fatigue, i have acquired these things as your leader without myself sharing the toil and fatigue. but who is there of you who knows that he has endured greater toil for me than i have for him? come now, whoever of you has wounds, let him strip and show them, and i will show mine in turn; for there is no part of my body, in front at any rate, remaining free from wounds; nor is there any kind of weapon used either for close combat or for hurling at the enemy, the traces of which i do not bear on my person.
for i have been wounded with the sword in close fight, i have been shot with arrows, and i have been struck with missiles projected from engines of war; and though oftentimes i have been hit with stones and bolts of wood for the sake of your lives, your glory, and your wealth, i am still leading you as conquerors over all the land and sea, all rivers, mountains, and plains. i have celebrated your weddings with my own, and the children of many of you will be akin to my children.
moreover i have liquidated of all those who had incurred them, without inquiring too closely for what purpose they were contracted, though you received such high pay, and carry off so much booty whenever there is booty to be got after a siege. most of you have golden crowns, the eternal memorials of your valor and of the honor you receive from me. whoever has been killed has met with a glorious end and has been honored with a splendid burial.
brazen statues of most of the slain have been erected at home, and their parents are held in honor) being released from all public service and from taxation.
but no one of you has ever been killed in flight under my leadership. and now i was intending to send back those of you who are unfit for service, objects of envy to those at home; but since you all wish to depart, depart all of you!
go back and report at home that your king alexander, the conqueror of the persians, medes, bactrians, and sacians; the man who has subjugated the uxians, arachotians, and drangians; who has also acquired the rule of the parthians, chorasmians, and hyrcanians, as far as the caspian sea; who has marched over the caucasus, through the caspian gates; who has crossed the rivers oxus and tanais, and the indus besides, which has never been crossed by any one else except dionysus; who has also crossed the hydaspes, acesines, and hydraotes, and who would have crossed the hyphasis, if you had not shrunk back with alarm; who has penetrated into the great sea by both the mouths of the indus; who has marched through the desert of gadrosia, where no one ever before marched with an army; who on his route acquired possession of carmania and the land of the oritians, in addition to his other conquests, his fleet having in the meantime already sailed round the coast of the sea which extends from india to persia - report that when you returned to susa you deserted him and went away, handing him over to the protection of conquered foreigners.
perhaps this report of yours will be both glorious to you in the eyes of men and devout i ween in the eyes of the gods. depart!
英语演讲稿分钟篇六
hello, mustangs! (applause.) fantastic. well, everybody have a seat. have a seat. thank you, leah, for the great introduction. give leah a big round of applause. yay! (applause.) meeting young people like leah just makes me inspired. it’s a good way to start the week. and all of the students here who are discovering and exploring new ideas is one of the reasons i love visiting schools like bladensburg high. and so i just want to congratulate all of you for the great work that you’re doing.
i brought a couple of folks here who are helping to facilitate some of the programs here. mynew deputy secretary of labor, chris lu, is here. give him a big round of applause. (applause.) and some of the biggest champions for education in prince george’s county arehere, including your governor, martin o’malley. (applause.) county executive rushern baker. (applause.) mayor walter james. (applause.) superintendent kevin maxwell. (applause.) yourbiggest fans in congress, donna edwards and steny hoyer. (applause.) we are proud of all ofthem, and we’re proud of you.
all of you remind me, all these young people here, that young people today are working oncooler stuff than they were when i was in high school. in classrooms across the country,students just like the students here, they’re working hard, they’re setting their sights we’ve got to do everything we can to make sure that all of you have a chance to that’s why your outstanding principal, aisha mahoney, is working so hard at this school. (applause.) that’s why governor o’malley has been working so hard to repair old schools andbuild new ones across the state of maryland. and that’s why i’m here today. because last year,we launched a national competition to redesign america’s high schools for the 21st century --the 21st century economy. and i’m proud to say that your hard work here has paid off, becauseone of the winners is prince george’s county. (applause.) good job. that’s right, you guys havedone great. (applause.)
now, let me tell you why this is so important. many of the young people here, you’ve grown upin the midst of one of the worst economic crises of our lifetimes. and it’s been hard and it’sbeen painful. there are a lot of families that lost their homes, lost jobs; a lot of families that arestill hurting out there. but the work that we’ve done, the groundwork that we’ve laid, hascreated a situation where we’re moving in the right direction. our businesses have createdalmost 9 million new jobs over the last four years. our high school graduation rate is thehighest on record. dropout rates are going down; among latinos, the dropout rate has been cutin half since 20xx. (applause.) more young people are earning college degrees than ever ’ve been bringing troops home from two wars. more than 7 million americans have nowsigned up for health coverage through the affordable care act. (applause.)
so we’ve been making progress, but we’ve got more work to do to make sure that every one ofthese young people, that everybody who is willing to work hard has the chance to get ’ve got to make sure that our economy works for everybody, not just a few. we’ve got tomake sure opportunity exists for all people. no matter who you are, no matter where youstarted out, you’ve got to have confidence that if you work hard and take responsibility, youcan make it.
and that’s the chance that this country gave me. it’s the chance that this country gavemichelle. and that’s why we’re working so hard for what we call an opportunity agenda -- onethat gives everybody a shot. and there are four simple goals: we want to create new jobs. wewant to make sure that people have the skills to fill those jobs. we want to make sure everyyoung person has a world-class education. and we want to make sure that we reward hard workwith things like health care you can count on and wages you can live on.
and maryland and governor o’malley have been working alongside us on these issues, and iwant to give a special shout-out to the maryland legislature because, because of governoro’malley’s leadership, you are helping to make sure that we are raising more people’s wageswith your push to raise your minimum wage right here in maryland. (applause.) we’re veryproud to see that happen. and i hope governor o’malley is going to sign it into law soon. givemaryland a raise. (applause.) that’s good work.
but the main focus here is guaranteeing every young person has access to a world-classeducation. every single student. now, that starts before high school. we’ve got to start at theyoungest ages by making sure we’ve got high-quality preschool and other early learningprograms for every young child in america. (applause.) it makes a difference.
we’ve got to make sure that every student has access to the world’s information and the world’sbest technology, and that’s why we’re moving forward with an initiative we call connected tofinally connect 99 percent of america’s students to high-speed internet in the next few years. (applause.) it means that we’ve got to rein in college costs -- because i want to make sure thatleah, when she goes to school, she’s not burdened with too much debt. (applause.) and we’vegot to make it easier to repay student loans -- because none of the young people here should bedenied a higher education just because your family has trouble affording it. and a world-classeducation means preparing every young person with the skills they need for college, for acareer, and for a lifetime of citizenship.
so what we did was we launched a new competition, backed by america’s departments ofeducation and labor, to start redesigning some of our high schools. we call it youthcareerconnect. and we’re offering $100 million in new grants to help schools and local partnersdevelop and test new curricula and models for success. we want to invest in your future.
you guys are all coming up in an age where you’re not going to be able to compete with peopleacross town for good jobs -- you’re going to be competing with the rest of the world. youngpeople in india and china, they’re all interested in trying to figure out how they get a footholdin this world economy. that’s who you’re competing against. now, i’m confident you canmatch or exceed anything they do, but we don’t do it by just resting on what we’ve donebefore. we’ve got to out-work and out-innovate and out-hustle everybody else. we’ve got tothink about new ways of doing things.
and part of our concern has been our high schools, a lot of them were designed withcurriculums based on the 1940s and ‘50s and ‘60s, and haven’t been updated. so the ideabehind this competition is how do we start making high school, in particular, moreinteresting, more exciting, more relevant to young people.
last year, for example, i visited a school called p-tech --- this is in brooklyn -- a high schoolthat partnered with ibm and the city university of new york to offer its students not only a highschool diploma, but also an associate’s degree in computer systems or electromechanicalengineering. ibm said that p-tech graduates would be the first in line for jobs.
then i visited a high school in nashville that offers “academies” where students focus on aspecific subject area -- but they’re also getting hands-on experience running their own creditunion, working in their own tv studios, learning 3d printing, tinkering with their own airplane -- which was pretty cool. i never got to do that. i did get my own airplane later in life. (laughter.) although i’ve got to give it back. (laughter.) i don’t get to keep it.
but this is stuff i didn’t get to do when i was in high school -- and i wish i had. but it’s stuffyou have to know how to do today, in today’s economy. things are moving faster, they’re moresophisticated.
so we challenged america’s high schools to look at what’s happening in a place like p-tech,look at what’s happening in cities like nashville, and then say what can you do to make sureyour students learn the skills that businesses are looking for in high-demand fields. and weasked high schools to develop partnerships with colleges and employers, and create classes thatfocus on real-life applications for the fields of the future -- fields like science and technology andengineering and math. and part of the reason we have to do this now is because othercountries, they’ve got a little bit of a lead on us on some of these areas.
a country like germany right now focuses on graduating their high school students with atechnical degree equivalent that give them a head start. so we’re asking schools to look intowhat places like germany are doing.
now, not every school that enters into this competition for the $100 million is going to win --because we don’t have enough money for everybody, and we want to force schools to think hardand redesign, and we want to reward the schools that are being most innovative and areactually proving some of the concepts that they’re trying out. but the great thing is thatthrough this competition, schools across the country that entered have changed the way theyprepare their students, and have already made enormous improvements, even before they getthe grant. and, ultimately, we had to choose the top youth careerconnect initiatives. today,i’m proud to say that schools across america are putting up some pretty impressive proposals.
the winners across the board are doing the kinds of stuff that will allow other schools to startduplicating what they’re doing. the winners in indianapolis are expanding their career prepprograms to encourage more young women and kids from diverse backgrounds to join ourscience and technology workforce. new york city likes that brooklyn high school model, p-tech,so much that they’re using their grant to fund two more just like it, so that students can gaintwo degrees at once and get the edge they need in today’s high-tech, high-speed economy. andas i mentioned earlier, one of our 24 winners is a three-school team including your high gs, you guys are part of the team that won! (applause.) that’s good.
now, in part, the reason you won is because you guys were ahead of the curve. you werealready winning. for a couple years now, your career academies have been integratingclassroom learning with ready-to-work skills, and you’re preparing students to move directlyinto the in-demand jobs of the future -- jobs in it and biosciences and hospitality. and nowyou’re stepping it up. you’re taking it to another level. so in the classroom i just visited, youhad 10th graders -- although there was also a freshman -- who are studying epidemiology -- thestudy of disease patterns and outbreaks. and they’re getting potentially college-level creditfor it, which is good because they may be the young people who discover a cure for somedisease down the line that we don’t even know about yet.
i know our brilliant scientists at the national institutes of health and the centers for diseasecontrol, they’d be proud of you. they like looking at bacteria. (laughter.) and i got a littleworried when i went into the classroom -- everybody was wearing goggles and vests, and ididn’t have my goggles. (laughter.) but they assured me it was safe. but some of youmustangs are pushing yourselves to get industry-recognized certifications in nursing, whileother students on this winning team are studying cutting-edge technology and getting hands-on internship experience at local businesses. and we know these are skills that will be indemand. companies will come looking to hire you because of the experiences you’ve gottenhere.
if you’re focused, if you’re working hard, you now have a platform so that by the time you getout of high school you’re already ahead of the game; you’re already in a position where you’vegot some skills that make you employable. and then you can just take it further, whether it’s atwo-year college or a four-year college, or graduate school. or there are a couple of young ladiesin there who said they want to be neurosurgeons, psychiatrists. so you can build on thesecareers, but the point is you have a baseline where you know if you’re focused here at thisschool, doing your work, you’re going to be able to find a job.
and the grants that you’ve won in this youth careerconnect competition mean that theprograms you’ve started are going to expand, and you’re going to get more college and careercounseling to help get you a jump on your post-high school plans. so a little over four yearsfrom now, bladensburg and your partner schools will graduate hundreds more students withthe knowledge and skills that you’ll need to succeed.
and that’s what we want for all the young people here. we want an education that engagesyou; we want an education that equips you with the rigorous and relevant skills for collegeand for a career.
and i’m confident -- meeting these young people, they were incredible. and a couple of themgiggled a little bit when i walked in, but after they kind of settled down -- (laughter) -- theywere -- they knew their stuff, and they were enjoying it. and that’s part of the message i’ve gotfor all the young people here today, is your potential for success is so high as long as you stayfocused. as long as you’re clear about your goals, you’re going to succeed.
and my message to the older people here -- like me -- is we’ve got a collective responsibilityto make sure that you’re getting those opportunities. and there are resources out there thatwe’ve got to pull into the school setting. businesses, foundations around the country, theywant to fund more careerconnect programs -- because it’s in their interest. they want goodemployees. they’re looking for folks with skills.
when you can say, hey, the math that i’m doing here could change the way the businessoperates; or, i see how this biology experiment could help develop a drug that cures a disease -- that’s a door opening in your imagination. it’s also good for our economy. it’s good for ourbusinesses. that’s a new career path you’re thinking about that allows you to pursue highereducation in that field, or the very training you need to get a good job, or create a new businessthat changes the world. that’s good for our economy, it’s good for business, it’s good for you,it’s good for america.
as a country, we’ve got to do everything we can to make sure that every single young personhere can have that “aha” moment, that light bulb goes off and suddenly you’re not juststudying because your parents tell you to or your teacher tells you to, you’re studying becauseyou know you’ve got something to offer.
and i want to make sure every student in america has a chance to get that moment -- thatrealization that your education can not just unlock your future and take you places you neverimagined, but you’re also going to be leading this country. that’s the chance that this countrygave to me and michelle. and that’s the chance i want for every single one of you. frompreschool for every four-year-old in america, to higher education for everybody who wants togo, every young person deserves a fair shot. and i’m going to keep on doing everything i can tomake sure you get that shot and to keep america a place where you can make it if you try.
i’m proud of your principal. i’m proud of your superintendent. i’m proud of everybody who gotinvolved in making sure that you guys were already doing the right thing before you won thisnew grant -- and i know it’s going to be well-spent. most of all, i’m proud of the students.
thank you very much, everybody. god bless you. (applause.) go, mustangs! all right. (applause.)
英语演讲稿分钟篇七
i speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy. i urge every member of both parties, americans of all religions and of all colors, from every section of this country, to join me in that cause.
at times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in mans unending search for freedom. so it was at lexington and concord. so it was a century ago at appomattox. so it was last week in selma, alabama. there, long-suffering men and women peacefully protested the denial of their rights as americans. many were brutally assaulted. one good man, a man of god, was killed.
there is no cause for pride in what has happened in selma. there is no cause for self-satisfaction in the long denial of equal rights of millions of americans. but there is cause for hope and for faith in our democracy in what is happening here tonight. for the cries of pain and the hymns and protests of oppressed people have summoned into convocation all the majesty of this great government -- the government of the greatest nation on earth. our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man.
in our time we have come to live with the moments of great crisis. our lives have been marked with debate about great issues -- issues of war and peace, issues of prosperity and depression. but rarely in any time does an issue lay bare the secret heart of america itself. rarely are we met with a challenge, not to our growth or abundance, or our welfare or our security, but rather to the values, and the purposes, and the meaning of our beloved nation.
the issue of equal rights for american negroes is such an issue.
and should we defeat every enemy, and should we double our wealth and conquer the stars, and still be unequal to this issue, then we will have failed as a people and as a nation. for with a country as with a person, "what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
there is no negro problem. there is no southern problem. there is no northern problem. there is only an american problem. and we are met here tonight as americans -- not as democrats or republicans. we are met here as americans to solve that problem.
this was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose. the great phrases of that purpose still sound in every american heart, north and south: "all men are created equal," "government by consent of the governed," "give me liberty or give me death." well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories. in their name americans have fought and died for two centuries, and tonight around the world they stand there as guardians of our liberty, risking their lives.
those words are a promise to every citizen that he shall share in the dignity of man. this dignity cannot be found in a mans possessions; it cannot be found in his power, or in his position. it really rests on his right to be treated as a man equal in opportunity to all others. it says that he shall share in freedom, he shall choose his leaders, educate his children, provide for his family according to his ability and his merits as a human being. to apply any other test -- to deny a man his hopes because of his color, or race, or his religion, or the place of his birth is not only to do injustice, it is to deny america and to dishonor the dead who gave their lives for american freedom.
our fathers believed that if this noble view of the rights of man was to flourish, it must be rooted in democracy. the most basic right of all was the right to choose your own leaders. the history of this country, in large measure, is the history of the expansion of that right to all of our people. many of the issues of civil rights are very complex and most difficult. but about this there can and should be no argument.
every american citizen must have an equal right to vote.
there is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. there is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.
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good afternoon， ladies and gentlemen！
i am glad to be here to share my opinions with all of you。 my topic today is about internet。
with the development of technology， more and more people are fond of using internet。 it is particularly popular among young people。 just like the coin has two sides， internet also has its own advantages and disadvantages。
first of all， the internet has brought people great convenience in getting information， entertainment and contact with each other。 as for our students， it is a useful tool when we meet problems。 when we are tired， a piece of light music will help us relax。 if we have free time， we can enjoy movies or interesting cartoons。 what’s more， we can also watch live programs on the internet or see it later if we are not available at that time。
but there is also bad influence。 some of the young teenagers are addicted to computer games， and some even play games all night。 because of lacking in sleep， those students can not focus on in the class 。 as a result， they may fail in the exam。 when they realize it is wrong to spend too much time playing games， it’s already too late。
i have remembered such a piece of news 。 an excellent student flunked （考试不及格） because he could not concentrate on his study for being too indulged in computer games。 he spent nearly all the money on games， which was earned by his fathers selling blood。 when his father knelt down to beg him to return to school， he was too numb to show any regret。
英语演讲稿分钟篇九
edward m.
kennedy: chappaquiddickmy fellow citizens: i have requested this opportunity to talk to the people of massachusetts about the tragedy which happened last friday evening.
this morning i entered a plea of guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident.
prior to my appearance in court it would have been improper for me to comment on these matters.
but tonight i am free to tell you what happened and to say what it means to me.
on the weekend of july 18, i was on marthas vineyard island participating with my nephew, joe kennedy -- as for thirty years my family has participated -- in the annual edgartown sailing regatta.
only reasons of health prevented my wife from accompanying me.
on chappaquiddick island, off marthas vineyard, i attended, on friday evening, july 18, a cook-out, i had encouraged and helped sponsor for devoted group of kennedy campaign secretaries.
when i left the party, around 11:15 p.m., i was accompanied by one of these girls, miss mary jo kopechne.
mary j was one of the most devoted members of the staff of senator robert kennedy.
she worked for him for four years and was broken up over his death.
for this reason, and because she was such a gentle, kind, and idealistic person, all of us tried to help her feel that she still had a home with the kennedy family.
mary jo kopechnethere is not truth, not truth whatever, to the widely circulated suspicions of immoral conduct that have been leveled at my behavior and hers regarding that evening.
there has never been a private relationship between us of any kind.
i know of nothing in mary jos conduct on that or nay other occasion -- the same is true of the other girls at that party -- that would lend any substance to such ugly speculation about their character.
nor was i driving under the influence of liquor.
little over one mile away, the car that i was driving on the unlit road went of a narrow bridge which had no guard rails and was built on a left angle to the road.
the car overturned in a deep pond and immediately filled with water.
i remember thinking as the cold water rushed in around my head that i was for certain drowning.
then water entered my lungs and i actual felt the sensation of drowning.
but somehow i struggled to the surface alive.
i made immediate and repeated efforts to save mary jo be diving into strong and murky current, but succeeded only in increasing my state of utter exhaustion and alarm.
my conduct and conversations during the next several hours, to the extent that i can remember them, make no sense to me at all.
although my doctors informed me that i suffered a cerebral concussion, as well as shock, i do not seek to escape responsibility for my actions by placing the blame either in the physical, emotional trauma brought on by the accident, or on anyone else.
i regard as indefensible the fact that i did not report the accident to the policy d of looking directly for a telephone after lying exhausted in the grass for an undetermined time, i walked back to the cottage where the party was being held and requested the help of two friends, my cousin, joseph gargan and phil markham, and directed them to return immediately to the scene with me -- this was sometime after midnight -- in order to undertake a new effort to dive down and locate miss kopechne.
their strenuous efforts, undertaken at some risk to their own lives also proved futile.
all kinds of scrambled thoughts -- all of them confused, some of them irrational, many of them which i cannot recall, and some of which i would not have seriously entertained under normal circumstances -- went through my mind during this period.
they were reflected in the various inexplicable, inconsistent, and inconclusive things i said and did, including such questions as whether the girl might still be alive somewhere out of that immediate area, whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the kennedys, whether there was some justifiable reason for me to doubt what has happened and to delay my report, whether somehow the awful weight of this incredible incident might, in some way, pass from my shoulders.
i was overcome, im frank to say, by a jumble of emotions, grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion and shock.
instructing gargan and markham not to alarm mary jos friends that night, i had them take me to the ferry crossing.
the ferry having shut down for the night, i suddenly jumped into the water and impulsively swam across, nearly drowning once again in the effort, and returned to my hotel about 2 a.m.
and collapsed in my room.
i remember going out at one point and saying something to the room the morning, with my mind somewhat more lucid, i made an effort to call a family legal advisor, burke marshall, from a public telephone on the chappaquiddick side of the ferry and belatedly reported the accident to the marthas vineyard , as i mentioned, i felt morally obligated to plead guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident.
no words on my part can possibly express the terrible pain and suffering i feel over this tragic incident.
this last week has been an agonizing one for me and for the members of my family, and the grief we feel over the loss of a wonderful friend will remain with us the rest of our events, the publicity, innuendo, and whispers which have surrounded them and my admission of guilt this morning raises the question in my mind of whether my standing among the people of my state has been so impaired that i should resign my seat in the united states senate.
if at any time the citizens of massachusetts should lack confidence in their senators character or his ability, with or without justification, he could not in my opinion adequately perform his duty and should not continue in people of this state, the state which sent john quincy adams, and daniel webster, and charles sumner, and henry cabot lodge, and john kennedy to the united states senate are entitled to representation in that body by men who inspire their utmost confidence.
for this reason, i would understand full well why some might think it right for me to resign.
for me this will be a difficult decision to has been seven years since my first election to the senate.
you and i share many memories -- some of them have been glorious, some have been very sad.
the opportunity to work with you and serve massachusetts has made my life so i ask you tonight, the people of massachusetts, to think this through with me.
in facing this decision, i seek your advice and opinion.
in making it, i seek your prayers -- for this is a decision that i will have finally to make on my has been written a man does what he must in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles, and dangers, and pressures, and that is the basis of human morality.
whatever may be the sacrifices he faces, if he follows his conscience -- the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow man -- each man must decide for himself the course he will follow.
the stories of the past courage cannot supply courage itself.
for this, each man must look into his own soul.i pray that i can have the courage to make the right decision.
whatever is decided and whatever the future holds for me, i hope that i shall have been able to put this most recent tragedy behind me and make some further contribution to our state and mankind, whether it be in public or private you and good night.