Informative Speech: Avian Flu Did you know kno w that during the first six months of 2004, approximately 200 million birds died or were destroyed destroyed in attempt to stop the pandemic of avian influenza (5)? Did you hear that United Nations coordinator, coordinator, Dr David Nabarro, Nabarro, estimated the number of possible possible human casualties aass 5 150 million people? Are you aware that since since its discovery in the 1990 -ies the avian flu has been contracted contracted by more than 100 people, and one half h alf of them died (6)? Such figure may appear too abstract for us, as well as the avian flu itself raging somewhere on the other side of the world. In our corner of the world everything is fine, most of us love chicken meat, and are not going to deny ourselves a Mac Mac Chicken on week -ends. But the eye-opener for us all is the fact that the avian flu epidemic is much closer to America than it seems. If it strikes, no one listening to this speech will be immune, and "there won't be Tamiflu or hospital beds for everybody", everybod y", the officials say (6). So my thesis is that the only way of prevention preventi on of an avian flu epidemic in the USA is inoculation. The vaccine was synthesized by the National Institutes of Health, and it creates a protective immunity in the human organism in two rounds of inoculation (6). The trut trut h is that it won't cure an infected individual, but it will prevent a disease. At the moment there is no treatment for the human modification of the avian flu. The medication called "Tamilflu", elaborated by Roche Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical in Switzerland, Switzerland, can only "slow "s low the ability of the virus to overwhelm your bod y and make lots of copies of itself and that buys you time to develop appropriate immunity and kill it off", if taken in the first 36 hours (6). All in all, isn't it more appropriate to inoculate yourself against a lethal disease and minimize the chance of its contraction than resorting to Tamilflu to slow down the infection? The US government has already purchased some six million doses of vaccination, so if you apply for vaccination at his very moment, you are most likely to to be inoculated. I highly advise that you take care of yourself right now. The global matters are actually in the hands of every individual. If everyone will be immune to the diseas d isease, e, the pandemic won't break b reak in. You just need to be ino culated in order to prevent prevent an infection that can kill 150 million people. Your future and the future of the United States depend on your choice. Choose life before it is too late. Choose vaccination. Thank you.
mative Speech: U.S. P r esidential esidential election Inf or mative he last pr esidential esidential elections have r ealized ealized the d r eam eam of Afr ican ican Amer icans icans to have a pr esident esident who does not "look like other pr esidents esidents on the dollar bill." Pr esident esident Obama Obama became became the leader of the nation dur ing ing the global cr isis. isis. His success depends on his own ability to unite the nation in the context of a deepening wor ld ld cr isis. isis. He will have to take unpopular measur es es that may r educe educe his popular ity. ity. But he is r ightly ightly call ed "gene "gener ational ational tsunami". He is ener getic, getic, esolute, and tr ustwo ustwor thy. thy. He can hear the voices of multiethnic Amer ica, ica, he car es es f or the f utu utur e r esolute, of Amer ican ican democr atic atic values, and he can r esto estor e Amer ica's ica's positive image on the global political a r ena, ena, He is th th e pr esident esident who is entr usted usted with the task o f r emaking "one nation, one f r emaking people". He can change the Amer ican ican community inwar dly, dly, br eeding eeding over whelming whelming love instead hate, putting an end to many senseless wa r s unleashed by Pr esident esident Bush. He will make Amer ica ica mor e hopef ul, ul, mor e toler ant, ant, mor e constr uctive, uctive, and mor e constr uctive. uctive. he nation expects a mi r acle acle fr om om Pr esident esident Obama, entr usting usting him with the task o f healing the nation's economy and opening new hor izons izons in all spher es es of lif e. e. Pr esident esident Obama Obama made i t clear that the United States has neve r been "just a collection of individuals or a collection of Red States and Blue States: we a r e, e, and always will be the United States of Amer ica." ica." Pr esident esident Obama has opened a new page in Amer ican ican histor y. y. Since Since the the l aunch of the abolitionist movement, never was the victor y of democr acy acy in Amer ica ica so powerf ul ul and depr ived ived of the color of r acial discr imination. imination. Pr esident esident Obama is a national leade r , a br illiant illiant politician who f r acial epr esents esents a new gene r ation ation in Amer ican ican politics. He is suppor ted ted by the white populations f or r ep his intelligent, pr og ogr essive essive thinking and ener gy. gy. He is the hope of many other ethnic gr oups oups because he has demonstr ated ated that even the highest post in the countr y may be held irr espective espective of ace and ethnicity. Pr esident esident Obama is the mouthpiece o f diver se se Amer ica, ica, and that is r ace undamental to his r esolute esolute movement f or wa war d. d. Despite tough economic times he is at the head f undamental of the change. He lights his people's way towar ds ds pr ospe osper ity, ity, justice, and peace. he entir e wor ld ld was tir ed ed of the ideology of war s that had damaged the inte r national national image of Amer ican ican democr acy. acy. he BBC r epo epor te ter s highly pr aised aised Pr esident esident Obama's technically perf ect ect gr ound ound campaign, his br oad oad donor base, his ar my my of helper s, s, his chor ds ds with with you you nger Amer icans, icans, Hispanic and Jewish voter s, s, and his decent st r uggle uggle f or the most powerf ul ul post in the wor ld. ld. Pr esident esident Obama r ep epr esents esents a new gene r ation ation of pr agmatic agmatic politicians who may b r ing ing meaningf ul ul change to the United States. Pr esident esident Obama's Obama's outst outst anding per sonality, sonality, his ability to aise to the top post in the most powerf ul ul countr y in the wor ld, ld, star ting ting his campaign "in the r aise backyar ds ds of Des oines and the living r ooms ooms of Concor d and the fr ont ont por ches ches of Char leston", leston", is wor th th a lot. With the national suppor t, t, Pr esident esident Obama will be able to r esto estor e the image of the United States as the most democ r atic atic countr y in the wor ld. ld. "One nation, one people." We ar e changing, becoming mor e open to the r est est of the wor ld ld in our humanistic intentions.
Inspirational Speech: New project kick-off Hello. For those of you who don't know me yet my name is Andrew Dickinson. I am the head of the artificial intellect department and one of the founders of our company. To let you in a secret, it was my idea to name it "Mnemosoft". The whole thing started started in 2001, when I was 23 and was about to graduate from IT Department of the University of Toronto. My friend, a young manager and me, an enthusiastic programmer, programmer, decided decided to start a software software company. We had our bu siness plan composed, I was sure of my development skills and my companion defined a new market niche where our products would be much in demand. I came up to my father for advice and told him about our plans. I still recall recall his countenance, when he replie d: "Drew, it is impossible". impossible". I remembered those words for the rest of my life. They drove me to a corner, and for the first time I thought that our radiant hopes can fail. I had no right to a defeat, for my starting capital was too little to have a second try. I thought it over and over again till late into night. In the morning I decided to make an attempt. The name of the company came by itself - "Mnemosoft", from the Greek word "mnemo" meaning memory. I remembered father's words very well, yet I also believed in the impossible. I gambled on the incredible incredible - and today I am here with you, giving an inspirational speech speech to our new team before commencement of a new project. We are to develop a new search engine, and and I know that at first glance this idea see see ms impossible, for no other searcher can stand competition with Google and other whales of the Internet information information management. But But let us believe in the impossible - that a team of young energetic professional professionalss can create another whale by hard work, coope ration and confidence in success. Most of you are IT-people: IT -people: programmers, programmers, developers, testers, testers, web -designers, -designers, network administrators or maintenance engineers. However, you will also work side by side with linguists, journalists journalists and database specialists. specialists. Your team is quite diverse, but it should and will function as one single body, where every organ fulfills its vital function. Your ultimate goal lies within our reach. All you have to do is to believe that you can do it. Remember that that nothing is impossible - and everything will work out. Believe in the impossible, as I risked too four years ago, for it is the only way to achieve anything. I will finish my small speech by one of my favorite quotations. It is taken from the book written by a brilliant mathematician who dared to believe b elieve in the incredible. You must have read it in your childhood, but I want you to recall, recall, re -evaluate and remember it. "There "There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't can't believe impossible things. things. I dare say you haven't had much prac tice, said said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast" (Lewis Carroll) (3). The future of this project depends on each of you, and on your belief. Thank you.
ational Speech: Over coming coming Stor ms ms of if e Inspir ational Dear adies and Gentlemen, we have gather ed ed today to speak about over coming coming adver sity sity and coping with the stor ms ms of lif e. e. his is ver y deep theme, and I am sur e that anyone has many stor ies ies based on the challenges and their over coming. coming. But today we will co ncentr ate ate on the issue of over coming. coming. In this light, it is impor tant tant to emphasize the postulate that all challenges a r e timely, and they ar e not accidental. God tests us in such way. You cannot r ealize ealize the r eal eal value of your lif e if you have not compar ed ed it to something. God sends us tr ials ials so that we could under stand stand the deepness of His goodwill and love. No one is alone until he has his f aith. aith. he Bible has such wor ds: ds: "God withdr ew ew fr om om him, in or de der to test him, that He might know all that was in his hear t" t" Chr onicles onicles 32:31 NKJ . So, you see see that even even in His withdr awal, awal, God is always with us. Sending us tr ials ials and challenges, He wants to demonstr ate ate us the r eal eal power we have inside, the r eal eal power he gave us. Of ten ten we f ail ail to use it pr ope oper ly, ly, beca because use we don't know how str ong ong we ar e. e. In or de der to help us see ou r values He assigned us to, He sends us t r ials. ials. her e is no sense in cr ying ying over the tr ouble ouble "the best way out is always thr ough", ough", as Rober t Fr ost ost claimed. So, you should not concentr ate ate on your pr oblems, but r athe ather on the way how to solve them. ook f or wa war d, d, because lif e is beauti f ul, ul, and God cr eated eated it f or us. us. " hat hat whi which ch doe doess not not kill us makes us st r onge onger " these wor ds ds of the f amous amous philosopher demonstr ate ate that we ar e the instr uments uments in the hands of God. Remember , how many times you thought that this was the har dest dest thing you've ever done. hen you exper ience ience something even har de der , and you under stand stand that you became str onge onger . Now you can endur e even mor e. e. his is the eter nal nal pr ocess ocess of human development. I have met a lot o f people who over came came the sto r ms ms of lif e with dignity and f aith. aith. they all admit, that these challenges made thei r lives br ighte ighter . hey under stood stood the r eal eal value of lif e it is invaluable. And ther e is no sense in suff er ing ing accept it and over come. come. his is lif e. e. It does not consist of dr eams eams and happy days, but of alter nation nation of days and nights both happy and miser able. able. hus, another sense of adver sity sity comes to the f or eg egr ound ound it makes us closer to our destiny. Japanese pr ove over b says, says, "Fall seven times, stand up eight" and this eighth may be lucky chance which will br ing ing you to your happiness. ay be not, but then you'll have to believe, f ight ight and stand up as much as it will be needed. Stor ms ms of lif e ar e tr ansient, ansient, no matter how har d they ar e some day you will def initely initely r each each your desir ed ed peacef ul ul shor e. e. Just listen to the wo r ds ds wr itten itten in the Holy Bible: "Blessed "Blessed is the man who endur es es temptation; oved, he will r eceive eceive the cr own own of lif e which the o r d has pr omised omised to f or when he has been p r oved, thos thosee who who love love Him" Him" JA ES 1:12 1:12 13, 16 17 NKJ NKJ . empt emptat atio ion n to yield ield over come come it! emptation to blame God, f ate ate and ever ybody ybody ar ound ound you in all your tr oubles oubles over come come it! All your lif e is the sequence of choices. When a per son son makes makes h is choice choice in f avo avor of f aith he wins! f f aith Over coming coming adver sities sities and demonst r ating ating str ong ong will and belief , a human will obtain the "cr own" own" f or he has shown his love to God, by accepting all challenges as needed and coping with them with the name of God on t he lips. And God loves us, helps us and suppor t us, and this is the main tr uth uth a per son son should r emembe emember when f ighting ighting with diff iculties iculties in li f e. e. Don't be alone in your str uggle, uggle, accept it and entr ust ust to your God. For , as He told, "«When you pass thr ough ough the water s I will be with you; when you pass thr ough ough r ive iver s, s, they will not sweep over you. When you walk thr ough ough the f ir e, e, you will not be bur ned; ned; the f lames lames will not set you ablaze. For I r I Am the or d«you d«your Savior ." ." Isaiah 43:2, NIV). All our mundane diff icu icu lties lties may seem seem cr ucial ucial and catast r ophic ophic to us, but in f act act they ar e only the episodes in the histo h istor y of the humanity. Each lif e is saint and impo r tant tant in the eyes o f God, so don't thin your f aith and sacr if ice ice ar e inessential. r f aith
Inspirational Speech: Student of the Year Nomination Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce you the Student of the Year He is a 6th grade student. I am very glad to have such student in my class. First of all, my special thanks to the family of this student. student. I want to pay tribute to these people, becau se the play outstanding part part in the life of my m y student. There is no secret in the fact that favorable environment is essential in the formation of the excellence in students. When a student has support at home, when his family loves and cares for him, ther e is already fifty percent of success for a student. In the most difficult times of our lives we turn to our family. If it helps, we renovate our strengths and go further. further. In my class I see that families of all students students do their best to help their children children , but the family of this student is particularly concerned about his academic success. They try to create the friendly and favorable atmosphere which is the most helpful for studying. I think that they can already deliver lectures lectures about how to create favor able environment for student academic success. success. These lectures would be useful for many parents. As I have already mentioned, about fifty percent of academic success of the student are due to the proper support of the family. family. But what about the rest? Cert ainly, this is the most important important part of the student success. About fifty percent of the success belongs completely to the student. I can tell you, that this student has a great potential. He is very strong in his moral values and his will is strong as well. I have that happy chance to watch his studying: while he is reading a book or is working over some project. There is a satisfaction shining inside of him. He obtains a great pleasure from studying. studying. He is responsible, and this feature will be of essenti al importance for him in future. He can serve as an example to many adults who are not always as responsible as this student. This student demonstrates essential academic success and can be awarded with the Student of the Year due to his "professional" (me aning studying) and personal qualities. qualities. He is caring, demonstrates friendly attitudes to other students and always strives to help others. This is a sign of the outstanding person. He has friendly relationships with his peers and respects elder people. Various people in his surroundings characterize this student as very pleasant, caring and attentive person. As a teacher I can emphasize character features which are especially important for studying: studying: his strength strength of will and diligence. He always always tries hard hard , works a lot and never gives up. He is really strong individuality. Such students are the dream of any teacher. Aristotle stated, "we are what we repeatedly do. xcellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit". I completely agree agree with this saying and emp hasize that this student is habitually excellent. excellent. He does not strive for recognition; recognition; he focuses on the real and true values and contributions he can make. He is a citizen and I am sure he will benefit our society with his qualities and achievements. I am honored to have such wonderful student in my class. I am sure he will serve as positive example to his classmates. His strength, aspirations, and enthusiasm will benefit his future studying and career. career. I am grateful grateful to the family which has raised raised such ou tstanding student. student. To conclude, I want want to mention the words words of famous scientist scientist Albert Albert instein, who said, said, "Try not to become a man of success but a man of value". It does not matter what is your position in the society and how many regalia do you have. Th e most important is to be someone who brings brings quality to society, who contributes his efforts, efforts, skills and knowledge to improve one's life and the lives of other people. I am sure this student will strive for bringing true value and that's why I believe he is worthy of the award the Student of the Year.
Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexicals and names that are drawn from very large (usually >10,000 different words) vocabularies. vocabularies. ach spoken spoken word is created created out of the phonetic combination combination of a limited limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units. These vocabularies, the syntax which structures them, and their set of speech sound units, differ creating creating the existence of many thousands of different types of mutually unintelligible human languages. Human speakers (polyglots) are often able to communicate in two or more of them. The vocal abilities that enable humans to produce speech speech also provide humans with the ability t o sing.
A gestural form of human communication communicati on exists for the deaf in the form of sign language. Speech in some cultures has become the basis of a written language, language, often o ften one that differs in its vocabulary, syntax and phonetics from its associated spoken one, a situation called diglossia. Speech in addition to its use in communication, it is suggested by some psychologists such as Vygotsky is internally used by mental processes processes to enhance and organize organize cognition in the form of an interior monologue. Speech is researched in terms of the speech production and speech perception of the sounds used in spoken language. Other research topics concern speech repetition, the ability to map heard spoken words into the vocalizations needed to recreated that plays a key role in the vocabulary expansion in children and speech errors. Several academic disciplines study these including acoustics, psychology, speech pathology, linguistics, cognitive science, communication studies, otolaryngology and computer science. Another area of research is how the human brain in its different areas such as the Broca's area and Wernicke's area underlies speech. It is controversial how far human speech is unique in that other animals also communicate with vocalizations. While none in the wild have compatibly large vocabularies, research upon the nonverbal abilities of language trained apes such as Washoe and Kanzi raises the possibility that they might have these capabilities. The origins of speech speech are unknown and subject to much debate and speculation.
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Speech Char tr es, es, our second stop in Fr ance ance
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our second stop in France
Dear fr iends! r fr iends! Although we ar e still at home, we continue getting r eady eady f or our tour over seas. seas. Last time we discussed our f st stop in Par is. is. oday, we ar e discussing our second stop in Fr ance, ance, the Char tr es es r f ir st Cathedr al. al. his is a maste r piece o f medieval ar chitectu chitectu r e, e, wi th a tr oubled oubled histor y of destr uction uction caused by om the Roman chur ch ch ar e f ir e in 743, 1020, 1134, 1194, and 1836. However , many elements fr om still visible. When you visit such histor ical ical landmar ks, ks, you get so impr essed essed that pay no attention to detail. I want you to discover the cathedr al al f or your sel self . But we will pr epa epar e bef or ehand ehand f or viewing the Souther n por tal. tal. It will help you bette r under stand stand the philosophy of this cathedr al's al's constr uction. uction. ther n Por tal tal and the Souther n P or tal tal have much in common. Yet, It may seem to you that the Nor the it's f ar fr om that. he Souther n por tal tal is char acte acter ized ized by its bar e style, although at f ir st st sight it r fr om would seem to you that it is similar to the Nor the ther n Por tal. tal. Let's
have a look at the windows and the r ose o se windo indow w of the f acade. acade. Unlike the No r the ther n Por tal tal that has a la r ge ge stained stained glass glass window, window, the windows windows of the Souther n Por tal tal ar e bar ely ely decor ated. ated. he Souther n Por tal tal glor if ies ies Jesus Ch r ist. ist. You can see Ch r ist ist on the pier of the centr al al door . On both sides o f the door stand Apostles and St. Paul. While the Nor the ther n Por tal tal narr ates ates how the wor ld ld was cr eated eated and celeb r ates ates the Holy Vir gin, gin, the Souther n Por tal tal glor if ies ies the mar ty tyr s of Chr istian istian Chur ch. ch. heir names ar e connected with the histor y of Roman Catholicism. On the lef t side of the door near the belfr y you will see St. Laur ent, ent, St. Clement, St. Etienne, and St. aur ice, ice, and on the r ight, ight, in knights' costume you will see St. Denis, St. Piat, and St. Geor ges. ges. In the tympanum you will r ecognize ecognize Chr ist ist as the Sup r eme eme ar ty tyr . he door on the apse glor if ies ies the f amous amous conf esso essor s St. Nicolas, St. Ambr ose, ose, St. Leon, St. ar tin, tin, St. Jer ome, ome, and St. Gr ego egor y I. Ambr ose ose lived in the 4th centur y. y. He played an outstanding r ole ole in conver ting ting St. Augustine, to Chr istianit istianity. y. He w as the fr iend iend of Augustine's mother onica. St. ar tin, tin, who also lived in the 4th centur y, y, is the patr on on saint of Fr ance. ance. He established established monasticism in Gaul. He was one o f the f ew ew who had exper ienced ienced a vision of Jesus Chr ist. ist. he last I've mentioned was Gr egor y the Gr eat, eat, the last o f the f ou our or iginal iginal Doctor s of the Chur ch. ch. He sent missiona r ies ies to England at the end of the 6th centur y to conver t it to Chr istianity. istianity. Episodes of St. ar tin's tin's lif e you will see in the tympanum. On the vaults of the por ch ch ar ches ches you will see patr ia iar chs chs and pr ophets, ophets, in the ver y center , the vir gins gins on the belfr y side, and apostles near the apse. Pay special attention to the lowe r par t of the old belfr y. y. Her e, e, you can see the Angel holding the Dial and the Donkey playing pla ying the hur dy dy
Motivational Speech: Lear n
Uk r ainian! r ainian!
Do you know k now the second most melodious language of the wor ld? ld? Most of you can f luently luently speak Fr ench ench and a couple of other Eur opean opean languages. So, whenever the question ar ises ises about the melodious language, we eager ly ly switch to the r enowned enowned language of Baudelai r e, e, Ver laine laine and Rimbaud. But do you know the second most tunef ul ul language which is fr equently equently compar ed ed to the song of a nightingale and the r ustle ustle of wind in the gr ove? ove? Do you know what language language is spoken in the geogr aphical aphical center of Eur ope ope and wher e is it situated )? Can you guess what the meaning of wor ds ds "palianitsia" and "ber eza" eza" is? Have you ever tasted "der uny" uny" or "chanaha"? Finally, would you like to r ead ead the enchanting ver ses ses by gr eat eat Romantic poet in o r i gina ginal? l? tur e your cur iosity iosity by asking mor e questions. hose who ar e inter ested ested will f ind ind out I won't tor tu the answer s in the cour se se of Uk r a inian language. For the song of a nightingale and the wind in rainian the leaves associated with Uk r a inian language, geogr aphi aphi cal cente center of Eur ope ope is located in rainian Cher kassy, kassy, 200 km f ar fr om Uk r a inian capital Kyiv... Remaining answer s ar e r ese eser ved ved f or those r fr om rainian who will now wr ite ite down their sur names names on the sheet o f paper and star t lear ning ning this f ascinating ascinating East East Slavonic Slavonic langua language. ge. My per sonal sonal exper ience ience in lear ning ning and teaching shows that such decision has never been a disappointment, dur ing i ng my whol wholee 10 10 yea year long lectur ing ing exper ience. ience. his language is diff icult icult f or f eigner s due to complex gr amma ammar , but upon master ing ing it you will r f or eigne be able to enjoy using wor ds ds that contain music in themselves. You will be able to r ead ead poems by r aas as Shevchenko or master any other language fr om om the Slavonic linguistic gr oup. oup. As f or the pr actical actical benef its, its, I think it's enough to mention that Uk r a inian Diaspor a in Canada Canada includes includes up up rainian to 1 million people; as f or mor e local per spectives, spectives, the Univer sity sity of or onto onto is maintaining long long time time fr iendly iendly r elationships elationships with Kyiv Mohyla Academy, and enthusiasts ar e always welcome f or an amica amicable ble sight sight seeing seeing tou tour , academic r esea esear ch ch or even r ec ecr uitment uitment as a lectu r er . Evidently, f luent luent Uk r a inian is highly desi r able able in this case. rainian My
off er is quite challenging, challenging, f or only lear ning ning Uk r a inian is a tough, although wor thwhile thwhile rainian exper ience. ience. Only the most motivated and the most har d wor king king can accept this challenge. challenge. But let me assur e you that those who will give a tr y will f ind ind out that the "jour ney ney itself is the ewar d" d" 3). Br ave hear ts, ts, come to the fr ont ont desk r ight ight now and enter you sur name name into the list r ewa and see you next hur sday sday at 8 30. As f or the other students, let me thank you f or your attention. Good Good bye! bye!
Motivational
Speech: Shar e and You'll Succeed
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen: member s of univer sity sity administr ation ation and f aculty, aculty, scholar ship ship donor s and r ecipients, ecipients, f amilies! amilies! It is a gr eat eat pleasu r e f or me to gr eet eet you her e today. Fir st st of all, let me intr oduce oduce myself . Some of you alr eady eady know me; some of you can only imagine imagine who this per son son is. Well, I used to be a student. I gr aduated aduated fr om om this univer sity sity ten year s ago. I succeeded in my academic year s, s, and I was a r ecipient ecipient of a scholar ship. ship. hose days I was like a duck to water within the walls o f my alma mater . oday, I f eel eel a little bit like a bull in a china shop, but I hope you'll under stand stand my excitement. onight is a special evening f or me. onight I want to expr ess ess my deepest gr atitude atitude to this univer sity sity which made me the per son son I am now. hough li ke any per son son I would like to believe that I am special and gi f ted ted by myself , I cannot under estimate estimate the r ole ole of the univer sity sity in my mation as individuality. It is her e that I under stood stood the value of academic success and the f or mation impor tance tance of one's skills development. he univer sity sity year s wer e an essential pa r t of my lif e: e: they taught me to be a social and sociable individual who can speak the same language language with diff er ent ent people. I f ound ound a lot of fr iends, and we continue to suppor t r elations elations even a decade a f te ter f fr iends, gr aduation. aduation. Communicating with them, I see that my success in li f e is not accidental the major ity ity of my fr iends iends have also succeeded. I'm inclined to think of the common denominator such as univer sity sity which f aceted aceted us like diamonds without f alse alse mod mod esty). I think that independency today play an outstanding r ole ole in the lif e of any per son. son. We all want to demonstr ate ate our independency and fr eedom. eedom. We want other s to honor us and we want to be honor ed ed f or our own achievements. However , univer sity sity plays an outstanding r ole ole in the mation of a per sonality. sonality. Even self -made people cannot r eject eject the impo r tance tance of their f or mation univer sity sity days and their inf luence luence on their lives. As f or me, I came her e as a fr eshman eshman mor e than ten year s ago and like the major ity ity of fr eshm en I was f ull ull of ideas, aspir ations ations and«f ea ear . I f fr eshm wanted to contr ibute ibute my talents and gi f ts ts to the academic community. I wanted to become the par t of this fr iendly iendly and f avo avor able able envir onment. onment. Cer tainly, tainly, it was not so easy, and I had to apply cer tain tain str ategies ategies f or my integr ation ation into this community. But the p r esence esence of clear mind, pr ope oper qualities and univer sity sity f aculty aculty allowed me to do so. I succeeded; I r eceived eceived the scholar ship ship while attending the univer sity. sity. It was my mer it it as well as the me r it it of my acade academ m ic advis adviso or and the mer it it of the univer sity, sity, because I wouldn't be so successf ul ul in the absence of that special envir onment. onment. Af te ter gr aduation, aduation, I became a scholar ship ship donor . And her e is my appeal to you, today's scholar ship ship r ecipients ecipients and f utu utur e scholar shi shi p dono donor s: s: be open and r esponsive. esponsive. Be team player s! s! Remember that you should par ticipate ticipate in the lives o f other people, because your help may become cr ucial ucial f or the success of another per son. son. his is like a r elay elay r ace ace - you should pass the baton, and then your team will win. Other wise, wise, you will be standing alone in the center of the playing f ield ield with that baton. Will it be benef icial icial f or you? Will you f eel eel your sel self a winner ? I eally doubt it. So, pass the baton a f te ter your gr aduation, aduation, that is, let other s f ee ee l that that exciteme excitement nt r eally like you do now. Be r esponsive esponsive and open: we all live in the wor ld, ld, wher e all r esou esour ces ces go r ound. ound. You can't just accumulate them f or your sel self ; you should shar e them with other s. s. he mor e you give, the mor e you r eceive. eceive. I want to assur e you that this this pr ove over b is completely t r ue. ue. hough I was ver y happy and pr oud oud of myself when I r eceived eceived the scholar ship, ship, I cannot expr ess ess my pr ide ide and happiness today, when I am a donor of scholar ship. ship. his f eeling eeling is much deeper because it
Narr ative ative Speech - Death in the Mountains Notes:
1. I have carefully selected the story: I hear this story from one of the mountaineers. It attracted me because of its possible connection with Unknown Flying Objects. 2. The material gathered: personal talk to the persons who collect stories about people found dead in a strange way in the mountains. 3. The point I want to make: mountains are haunted by spirits whose solitude must be respected by any intruders. 4. My most wanted response: People never sei ze an opportunity to conquer the mountains. I want my audience to remember that any exploration of our planet earth is dangerous because many secrets are still unknown. I would like to concentrate on the hypothesis: the disaster may be assigned to supernatural sources but in fact it could have been explained in a simple way. However, witnesses tend to disappear; secret files may be destroyed, as well. 5. Purpose: to narrate a story that may find responses in the audience. Goal: people become victims of their own disbelief in supernatural forces. Lesson: the world is full of dangers but we are eager to explore and conquer it. Plot: a story of a group of mountaineers found dead on the slope of the mountain fifty years ago, no explanation is available. 6. Developing the action and drama to visualize the plot: it was an open secret that the mountain spirits would kill any group that contains nine mountaineers. 7. A story sequence: Introduction: who? Nine mountaineers in their early twenties; where? In the Altai Mountains; when? In February 1959; Conflict: between mountaineers and nature; Unfolding of the plot: at first they were on the safe side because they were ten; then one of them ell ill, nine people went to the mountains; Climax: the movement of the frightened mountaineers to the tent; Denouement: the cause of deaths is still unknown. I will pay attention to the eye contact with my listeners when delivering the narrative speech.
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ty year s has alr eady passed, f or the disaster I It was many year s ago, namely f if ty r I am going to talk about took place at the beginning of Febr ua uar y in 1959. It's a tr ue ue stor y, y, f or I om a r I hear d it fr om per son son who used to be a mountaineer himself and who collected stor ies ies of f ailur e fr om om all over f f ailu the wor ld. ld. All of them wer e exper ienced ienced mountaineer s, s, despite their young age - they wer e in the ear ly ly twenties. hey wanted to conquer a mountain in the Altai which had quite a bad r eputation. eputation. he locals believed that that mountain hated the numbe r nine: so mountaineer s tr ied ied to saf ely ely calculate the number of par ticipants. ticipants. Dyatlov's gr oup oup consisted of ten mountaineer s, s, as they might have been pr ejudiced ejudiced as well to be on the saf e side. hey wer e eight young men and two young women. hey arr ived ived at the top of the mountain mountain in high spi spir its, its, well equipped, in perf ect ect
New Year Speech Dear colleagues and guests! It's time we said goodbye to the year of 2008 that ver y soon will become our histor y. y. But bef or e we gr eet eet the year of 2009, I would like all o f us to r ecall ecall our achievements, of which many will contr ibute ibute to our sustained business g r owth. owth. We ar e a small b r anch anch of a huge phar maceutical maceutical company. We ar e only f ive ive year s old. Most
of us pioneer ed ed new attitudes to healthca r e in this countr y. y.
he secr et et of our br anch's anch's success is ou r f ocus on people people and values. values. We depend on employerr f ocus sponsor ed ed insur ance ance and state -r un un Medicaid pr og ogr ams ams f or much of our r evenues. r r evenues. Due to the new state -r un un pr og ogr ams ams launched in 2008, we wer e able to lower the pr ice ice of dr ugs ugs and deliver high quality pr oducts. oducts. Our mar ket ket shar e has inc in cr eased, eased, although we ar e still less competitive than J & J. Our goal is to sell locally p r oduced oduced dr ugs ugs to pr ovide ovide our consumer s with cheaper analogues of costly f or eign eign dr ugs. ugs. he suppor t of our gover nment, nment, despite the f inancial inancial cr isis, isis, helps us achieve this goal in the nea r est est f utu utur e. e. utur e. e. I am happy to say that we ar e well positioned f or the f utu We ar e planning to open a new dr ugsto ugstor e in the nor th th of the countr y. y. We ar e planning to pr omote omote a new dr ug ug that will help those who suff er fr om high blood p r essu essur e. e. r fr om We ar e launching a new anti - pain pain pr og ogr am. am. We ar e extending our pr esence esence in the south o f the countr y. y. ocus on domestically I am sur e we will continue seizing all competitive advantages of our f r f ocus pr oduced oduced dr ugs. ugs. hese dr ugs ugs ar e much cheaper and n ot less less eff ective ective than the ones adver tised tised by our chief competitor , J & J. As the standar ds ds of lif e ar e not expected to be high in 2009, the development of our home phar maceutical maceutical industr y is one of the ur gent gent pr oblems. oblems. We ar e r eady eady to cooper ate ate with our gover nment nment and we hope to arr ive ive at mutual under standing. standing. amilies shar ing ing our success. I love being her e tonight, with your f r f amilies t. I want to thank all of you, dear guests, f or your suppor t. ul to us because in business we depend on many f a ctor s. s. It is so meaningf ul
Per suasive suasive Speech: Ca r ee eer objectives Dear students, wher e ar e you going to be in f ive ive year s? s? What What will you you be doing fr om om 9 till 6 ever y day? In what spher e will you wor k? k? In other wor ds, ds, what ar e your car ee eer objectives? Some of you must be thinking that the thi r d year of studies is yet too ear ly ly to ask such questions. Let me assur e you that it is high time to dec ide upon this issue. act, as my 7 year -long exper ience ience as HR -manager shows, ther e ar e only two alter natives. natives. In f act, Either you think about your car ee eer bef or ehand ehand - now! - or you gr aduate aduate in two year s with an empty tr ack ack r eco ecor d, d, and cling to the ver y f ir st st j ob available with the highest highest sala salar y. y. "Not bad at all", some of you might think. Still, believe me that you will soon get bor ed, ed, f or money is not the sense of lif e. e. When you hate what you do ever y day f or eight hour s, s, when you go to wor k only to eceive your monthly salar y - your lif e is not complete to say the least. I like the quotation by r eceive Elizabeth Kubler Ross who said that "people ar e like stained -glass windows. window s. hey spar kle kle and shine when the sun is out, but when the dar kness kness sets in, their tr ue ue beauty beauty is r evealed evealed only if ther e is a light fr om om within" 3). he sour ce ce of this inner light is love f or ever ything ything that surr ounds ounds you - your f amily in the f ir st st place, but also your wor k! k! It should give you delight, r f amily ensur e your pr of essional essional and per sonal sonal gr owth owth and pr ovide ovide you with a sense of achievement achievement and impor tance tance of what you do. r ust ust my exper ience: ience: such people r ar ely ely get bor ed ed with their wor k in the cour se se of year s and ar e much happier than disillusioned money -ear ne ner s. s. he most diff icult icult thing her e is to f ind ind the r ight ight kind of job. Ever y per son son is unique and is best b est suited to a par ticula ticular spher e or position. You will never know which exactly is perf ect ect f or you until you tr y. y. In two year s you will gr aduate aduate the Linguistic depar tment. tment. Wher e will you go when the diploma is in your pocket? he ear lie lier you star t sear ching, ching, the sooner you will know the answer . Some of you will pur sue sue the dir ect ect specialization specialization and wor k as tr anslato anslator s, s, inter pr ete eter s or language teacher s. s. Other s will plunge into a neighbor ing ing spher e and will car ve ve out a car ee eer in the tour ist ist business, management etc. Whatever spher e you choose, it should be your cup of tea, not just means to ea r n your living or beguile eight hour s of your day. I call upon you to assume an active attitude to you car ee eer , and investigate the po possible ssible f ields ields of inter est est r ight ight now, while you still have time to be mistaken and oppo r tunity tunity to wor k par t -time. wo year s is the ter m long enough to under stand stand what you actually expect fr om om your job and f ind ind at least the di r ection ection of your path. You will know the pr actical actical advantages o f a def inite inite job - and its dr awbacks awbacks as well. he mor e you do now, the less conf usion usion you'll f eel eel when the univer sity sity door is f lung lung open and you ar e welcome to go - but wher e? e? Even small wor king king exper ie ie nce will help you to answer this question and f ind ind your tr ue ue self by becoming a skilled pr of essional. essional. Accor ding ding to my deepest conviction, happy per son son is the per son son who always br ings ings his own sunshine, wher eve ever he goes and whatever the weather 3). Hope t o see these these spar ks ks in you in two year s by the time of your gr aduation. aduation. hank you.
Per suasive suasive Speech: Global war ming ming is r eal/not eal/not r eal eal Global war ming ming has become a household ter m. m. You may believe that it is r eal eal or you may have doubts. In both cases you will b bee victimized by the myth of a melting, expanding heat - b br eathing eathing monster mocking at you fr om om inside the ozone hole in the dense dense smog of gr eenhouse eenhouse gases. You put on a mask to take a b r eath eath of oxygen and keep indoor s not to be air polluted. You ar e sweating because o f your gr een een pr inciple inciple not to switch on an air conditioner dur ing ing the heatwave. Your head is stuck with global war ming ming horr or s of Steven King's kind. We used to talk about weather to f ill ill in gaps in our conver sations. sations. Now, we get used to talking about global war ming. ming. I have r ead ead the r epo epor ts ts on global war ming ming that leave no doubt: yes, global war ming ming exists; yes, global war ming ming is acceler ating; ating; yes, temper atu atur es es r ise, ise, so you may spend less on war m clothes; yes, it is globally inevitable. I tr ust ust all this because I am a consumer of this inf or mation mation which may be tr uth uthf ul ul or may be something else. Global war ming ming may not be r eal. eal. It is the the pr oduct oduct of r esear ch ch institutions that ar e inter ested ested in f r esea huge investments. What is called global war ming ming is, in f act, act, our inability to listen to the natu r e that negatively r esponds esponds to our car eless eless intr usion usion and exploitation. Have you ever connected snow in Afr ica, ica, like last summe r 's 's exotic exper ience, ience, with global war ming? ming? It is not known how much of global war ming ming is pr oduced oduced by industr ial ial pr actices actices and how much of it is natur al. al. hey say it is cost -eff ective ective to f ight ight against global war ming ming now, now, wit hin a fr amewo amewor k of a cap and-tr ade ade system, pioneer ing ing a new car bon economy, in or de der to r educe educe heat -tr apping apping emissions. heir voices in the wilder ness ness fr ighten ighten us with the pr edictions edictions of Cassandr a's a's type: the r et etr eat eat of glacier s is dr amatic, amatic, and and the homes of up to 88 million people may have been f looded looded by the 2080s. It may be so, but we ar e adapting to cool summer s and war me mer winter s, s, as well as we a r e adapting to technological advances. When one pr oblem oblem becomes of gener al al concer n, n, something else is missing. What about wastes, wastes, envi r onmentally onmentally abusive pr of itee iteer ing, ing, curr ent ent global economic and f inancial inancial cr ises? ises? Isn't "global war ming" ming" our inability to unite our eff or ts, ts, to lear n how to live globally in peace with our own selves and our natur al al surr oundings? oundings? Wh at happene happened d to our dichotomous thinking that celebr ates ates the extr emes, emes, all these "eithe r « or ", ", instead of arr iving iving at one global st r ategy, ategy, global cooper ation? ation? hey say that global war ming ming is caused by higher concentr ation ation of water vapor in the atmospher e. e. oday's CO2 levels ar e 25 per cent cent mor e than over the past 650, 000 year s. s. So CO2 emissions must be r educed. educed. But we used to have per iods iods of higher aver age age temper atu atur es. es. Besides, these emissions nay stimulate c r op op gr owth. owth. What is mor e, e, it is r epo epor ted t ed that that t he Ar ctic ctic is war ming ming 2 or 3 times f aste aster than other ecosystems. ecosystems. he ice in Gr eenland eenland is disappear ing. ing. But another tr end, end, expanding glacier s in Nor way, way, Iceland, and New Zealand ar e simply under estimated. estimated. ming, which is thr ust ust on me. I consider buying a new I have to live with the concept of global war ming, set of clothes, f or I ise me with r I am not sur e whether the coming summer would not sur pr ise unusually cool mor nings. nings. I am changing together with my thoughts adapting to our global inability to change without declar ing. ing. Ar e we not living in the time of change? Conclusion: I do not think in ter ms ms whether global war ming ming is r eal eal or unr eal. eal. I am living in
Per suasive suasive Speech: Human cloning cloning mor al? al?) Human cloning involves many social, mor al, al, and ethical consider ations. ations. It may be usef ul ul to exper iment iment with goat, pig, deer , r abbit, abbit, r at, at, cat, mule, and hor se se clones, but the scena r io io of human cloning chills my enthusiasm. I would like to state my position: no to commer cialized cialized human cloning, we have made enough mistakes, and I am per sonally sonally not r eady eady f or such tr ials ials of my humanity. Human cloning is per ve ver se, se, abnor mal, mal, unhealthy and unnecessa unnecessar y. y. It is an unjustif iable iable waste of human and mater ial ial r esou esour ces. ces. I am happy that cloning eff or ts ts have statistically high f ailu ailur e r ates. ates. he mor e f ailu ailu r es, es, the less att r active active the idea may be to those who want to be Nobel Pr ize ize winner s. s. As f or me, human cloning is similar to n ucle ucleaar weapons, danger ous ous in the hands of potential terr or ist ist clones. Human cloning is a contr ove over sial sial issue that is becoming one of the hot debatable subjects. subjects. I have studied websites to f ind ind out what people think of a designer human being. he opinions a r e divided. Some people ar e f or human cloning as an emotional compensation f or our lives' natur ally ally ending in deaths; other s ar e horr if ied ied with this unhealthy idea. Would you suppor t the idea of cloning your sel self ? Why ar e investor s moving away fr om om human cloning? Calif or nia nia was the f ir st st state to ban r ep epr oductive oductive cloning. Ar kansas, kansas, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Mar yland, yland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Rhode Island, and some other s f ollowed ollowed it. Ar izona izona and Missou r i have r est estr ictions ictions on the use o f public f unds unds f or c loni loning ng.. Mar yland yland pr ohibits ohibits the used of state stem cell r esea esear ch ch f unds unds f or r epr oductive oductive cloning. Sever al al states ban ther apeutic apeutic cloning and r r ep cloning f or r esear ch ch pur poses. Vir ginia ginia pr ohibits ohibits the possession of the pr oduct oduct of human cloning. r r esea Human cloning is not clear ly ly def ined ined as a human being. It is a cr eated eated human lif e whose nucleus was tr ans ansf err ed ed fr om om a human cell. his unclear def inition inition is pur posef ul, ul, since it does not say dir ectly ectly whether a human clone is like us o r not. I do not know why, but f or me hu man cloning cloning is associated associated with another cr eatu eatur e of the same kind that would completely lack mo r ality ality and ethics. owing old, I will sign up f or an anti -human-cloning campaign. But the mor e I think about my gr owing the mor e doubts I have. Who wants to lose a p r o mised mised par adise adise of eter nal, nal, even clone -like existence, without thor ough ough consider ations? ations? I am not sur e, e, whether I ength f or r I have enough str ength that.
Retir ement/Fa ement/Fa r ewell ewell Speech Welcome, ever yone, yone, to this ver y special occasion. And a bitter-sweet occasion it is to us. s. Jane Smith who is closing twenty year s of militar y It's ver y sad to be saying goodbye to Mr s. ser vice. vice. ican women deployed to Haiti f or peacekeeping peacekeeping duties. She In 1995, she was one of 1, 200 Amer ican successf ully ully f ul ulf illed illed her mission. For twenty year s, s, she has had the p r ivilege ivilege of ser ving ving our gr eat eat nation with duty, honor , cour age, age, commitment, vision, vision, tenacity , and spir it it that all of us, her male and f emale emale colleagues, value so much. She has se r ved ved our countr y with distinction. She pur sued sued the car ee eer and lif estyle estyle of the militar y, y, making them the main meaning in her lif e. e. As you know, the off icial icial histor y of Amer ican ican women in the militar y began over a centur y ago. b egan her militar y car ee eer , the per centage centage of women in the militar y In the late 1980s, when Jane began was quite small, especially in the navy. nav y. In many ways, women who wanted to be in the Navy wer e discr iminated. iminated. hey wer e not consider ed ed to be str ong ong enough to ser ve ve equally with men. his view has changed since then. I am pr oud oud to say that two million women have ser ved ved our countr y. y. Of the 540, 000 Amer icans icans who ser ved ved in the Deser t Stor m oper ation, ation, near ly l y 41 , 000 000 per cent cent wer e women. It was the lar gest gest war time time deployment of Amer ican ican militar y women in histor y. y. Women in the militar y have gr eat eat achievements. achievements. Nobody doubts that they ar e playing an impor tant tant r ole ole in peacekeeping peacekeeping missions. oday, women make up 15 per cent cent of enlisted each yea r . When Jane began her militar y car ee eer , ver y f ew ew women wer e pr epa epar ed ed to stubbor nly nly move fr om om our pr of ession's ession's per iphe ipher y towar ds ds its hear t. t. It was ver y har d, d, f or we, men, dominated in the militar y and wer e not r eady eady f or any f emale emale competition. We thought that gir ls ls in the militar y would give up, unable to be qualif ied ied as our equals. But the mor e they tr ained ained and the mor e they bur ied ied their heads over textbooks, the mor e admir able able they they became became to us. hey taught taught us, with all per suasi suasio o n and over whelming whelming willingness to ser ve ve our countr y, y, to pur sue sue long -ter m goals, and, despite har dships dships and obstacles, obstacles, r ealize ealize them. When we wer e together in the Naval School, we f ailed ailed to see competito r s in women in the militar y. y. Now, due to such women a s Jane, our pr edominantly edominantly male ser vice vice has been changed. Jane has succeeded in doing her militar y duty, and she was sever al al times awar ded ded f or her excellent milita r y ser vice. vice. It is almost inc r edible edible to believe that she is Mom to these two boys, her sons, who want to f ollow ollow in their Mom's f ootsteps ootsteps and continue the f amily amily tr adition adition in the militar y. y. Sleepless nights, f ar away fr om om her sons, never did Jane complain, never did she show how har d it was to be at the head o f a single household and in the militar y. y. Mor e than that, she always helped us, men, to over come come separ ation ation fr om om our f amilies, with he r own example. At the r f amilies, ound war m wor ds ds that str engthened engthened us. She became our fr iend r ar e moments off our duty, she f ound r fr iend with whom we wer e able to shar e happiness and tr ou ou bles. She has become a valuable asset asset to our militar y team, qualif ied, ied, r eliable, eliable, tr ust ustf ul, ul, under standing, standing, and br ave. ave.
Student Council Speech: Student Council Candidate's Candidate's Speech Hello. My name is George Robins, and I am the candidate for the Student Council Representative. Representative. Last year members of the Student Council did a great job b y adjusting the academic schedule to our needs, organizing the clubs of national minority students and improving the living conditions in the hostel. However, However, I think that the Council needs some refreshment - new representatives are to come in and reinforce the experience of the old ones by their enthusiasm. enthusiasm. In my opinion, this new approach can be demonstr ated by first-year students. students. I was authorized by the freshmen of our university to run for the student council representative. I guess they chose me because I was previously involved in high school council and afterwards spent one year participating in the t he Freedom Support Act project for future leaders. leaders. One of my achievements was the ban of the compensation system on PT lessons, so that our students didn't have to make up for the lessons when they were ill or absent. To tell the truth, this "political" and leadership experience experience only stirred up my thirst for making the world a better place by showing the ways to do it. For example, our university university is a wonderful place to study at, but still it needs some some improvement: those who ride to the university university by bic ycle or on roller-skate would benefit, if the car movement were restricted on the campus territory. Those who live in the hostel would find their life easier, had there been a special bus connecting the hostel and the campus, so that they won't won't have to tra vel by two means of transport transport twice a day. The senior students would have h ave more time for finding a proper job, had their academic periods been scheduled for two days instead of five. To put it in a nutshell, there is a thousand other trifles that that would make our university a sophisticated sophisticated and comfortable place to study in. The slo The sloga gan n for for my elec electi tion on cam campa paig ign n is is "FR "FR SHMA SHMAN N FOR FOR R FR SHM SHM NT", NT", and and as as a representative representative of first-year first- year students I come out for bringing new energy and new enthusiasm to the student council. I am not going to convince you that I am the very best candidate for this position. I am only 18; I have quite a modest track record in the school s chool council and participating in the cultural exchange programme for future leaders. I lack experience, but it is compensated by zeal, an unprejudiced new approach to old things. Furthermore, I am ready to work with gusto for your benefit. But I am not ambitious, and do not strive for authority authority for the sake of authority. If you elect another candidate, I will si ncerely wish him all of successes in improvement of our students' life life for the better - and continue my own struggle. But if you empower me with your confidence, I will do everything but the impossible to represent represent your interests and achieve our common goals and ideals. I am sure that our aims coincide - we are all here to obtain education that will teach us how to make the world a slightly better place. If you empower me with your trust, we will start start from solving local local problems and making our university a little better place. place. Thank you very much for your attention.
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to t ll you you a bout th cultural ar ti tifact hich has b n in y family f or man ar fr ar fr i nd , I ant to r many d cad s. his is th cushion ith th hand -mad cr oss-stitch. I b li v it is a mast r pi ce, because it is the com plex or k hich de picts the fair y ood ith a glade and a house on it. tifact because I believe that the best human memor y a bout family values and I have chosen this ar ti past days is k e pt due to the photogra phs and such sweet things. o my mind, ever y family should have some kind of c tifac t to have the sym bol of fam oots which f cultural ar ti f family relations and those r oot help us overcome diff iculties and cope with challenges. his cushion was em br oid oidered by my grand -grandmother . I remem ber her s er sitting in the gar den oider ing. She was a wonderf ul ul person who lived long and interesting life f ull ull of and em br oid ld and I listened attentively to each her challenges. For me r me, she was the wisest person in the wor ld d. She taught me that though fair y tales are unreal by def inition, we should str iv ive to mak e our wor d. lives better , at least par ti tially similar to a tale. his cushion is the sym bol of home warmth, family love and care, and other precious values which mak e our lives ha ppier . It is k e pt lik e a relic. y ul cushion of great va lue because of hand -made mother told me that f irst it was just a wonderf ul oider y, y, but af ter the death of m em br oid f my grand -grandmother it became pr iceless. y grandmother took it as memor y, y, and also it was decided that this cushion will be descended by female line. So, later it will be k e pt in the house of m f my mother . tifacts are im por tant f or an I believe that such cultural ar ti r any person, because they remind us of w f who we are, where we are fr om and what are our s r strengths. Looking at this cushion I remem ber the days of m iving f or . our f my childhood, but also I remem ber w er who I am no w and what I am str ivi family suppor ts you , this cushion whis pers, e brave and str ong . I now and I am. I wish ybody to have such sym bol of fam ever ybody f family relationships.
Team
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Per son son 1: With deepest appr eciation eciation we accept this hono r to speak on behalf of our team that has successf ully ully f ul ulf illed illed a two -year pr oject. oject. Per son son 2: I would like to thank our CEO Mr . Jonathan Br own own f or his suppor t dur ing ing these two har d year s. s. I hope that our team has lived up to your expectations. Per son son 1: We have shown that we can manage our team business f or the long ter m. m. It is a gr eat eat pleasur e to know that all ou r eff or ts ts wer e not in vain. We have hopes of a new mar kete keter 's 's agr eement eement that will position us well in f utu utur e. e. Per son son 2: Our team perf or mance mance in 2007 -2008 is evidence of sustained pr of itable itable gr owth. owth. Per son son 1: I agr ee ee that we have wor ked ked as r eliable eliable team membe r s, s, f ull ull of ideas that we wanted to ealize by combined eff or ts. ts. r ealize Per son son 2: While wor king king on the pr oject, oject, many of us enhanced our leader ship ship skills. We all emember how impor tant tant was Jack Stevens' decision to int r oduce oduce imp r ovements ovements in the r emembe equipment that incr eased eased our r evenues. Thank you, Jack, f or your br ave aver y and talents. Your r r evenues. contr ibution ibution was invaluable. Mar y Stone began wor k in our team just bef or e we had star ted ted the pr oject. oject. We even ar gued gued a lot whether she would be abl e to become an asset asset to our team or not. We conf ided ided in her . Today, she has pr oved oved to be one of the most devoted team member s. s. Mar y wants to continue her studies at univer sity. sity. We ar e all suppor ting ting her and wish her all the best. Mike Stuar t, t, Rod White, Br ian ian Gascoigne - I thank you all f or long hour s spent together , f or devotion to our team wor k, k, f or your gener osity osity in shar ing ing your skills with younger member s of the team. It was a gr eat eat pleasur e to wor k with you. I am pleased to announce that Br ian ian has bee n pr omoted omoted to the post of senior engineer : so much his par ticipation ticipation in the p r oject oject was appr aised aised by the boar d of dir ecto ector s. s. Per son son 1: I thank all our team member s f or your business and expr ess ess sincer e appr eciation eciation f or the pleasant association I enjoy with you. Per son son 2: Our team has actively pa r ticipated ticipated in the company's innovative pr ojects. ojects. Innovative pr oduct oduct planning and the attainment of manuf actu actur ing ing excellence ar e a co r por ate ate commitment o f the highest pr io ior ity. ity. You may be assur ed ed of our continuing dedication with the pur pose of achieving the best quality and perf or mance. mance. I am sur e that now we have a much better under standing standing of the secr ets ets of team wor k. k. Per son son 1: The success o f the pr oject oject would not have been possible p ossible without valued suppor t of the whole company. We f elt elt your conf idence idence in us, and we had been wor king king har d to r ealize ealize your hopes. We f elt elt how impor tant tant this p r of essional essional gr owth owth was to us, how much it would mean to each of us per sonally. sonally. Per son son 2: I have mixed f eelings, eelings, to tell the t r ut ut h. On the one hand, the the pr oject oject is over and, the task f ul ulf illed, illed, our team may also become a histo r y. y. On the other hand, we'r e planning a new
Thank You Speech: Word of Gratitude to the Patron Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, As the Deputy Head of the University of Toronto library I am honored to thank the British Council for this remarkable gift. The complete collection of the Millennium library that was presented presented to us today includes the classics classics of uropean and world literat literat ure: from from Marcus Marcus Aurelius to James Joyce, from Homer to Tony Morrison, from Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn to Junichiro Tanizaki. Undoubtedly, it will be of great use to the students of the humanitarian departments in their professional professional studies studies of nglish lan lan guage and literature literature - and you can imagine the impatient anticipation that the news of this gift rose in folks from Linguistics and Literature Departments of our university. This collection collection of the Millennium Millennium library library will also be a bounty for those who re ad nglishlanguage fiction for pleasure. Being an avid reader myself, I couldn't help thumbing through my favorite Dickens Dickens and greatly enjoyed the hard -back book-jacket, the fine paper and the respectable design of the series - any book-lover, I am sure, will share my thrill. On a wider scale, on behalf of the University administration and the library's readership I would like to highlight h ighlight that we highly appreciate these educational educational initiatives of the British Council aimed at getting the Ukrainian students studen ts acquainted with the British and world culture. The today's gift is a valuable contribution to the knowledge fund of our University that will help to rise (and (and satisfy) our students students'' thirst for the finest finest books of the past millennium. Reading and re reading the canonical texts of world literature is a must for educating young energetic intellectuals, intellectuals, whom our ou r country direly needs now. Thank you again and let me ensure you that this Millennium library collection will be in reliable hands and will be used for the utmost benefit of our university readership. readership.
Thank You Speech: Love and Gratitude My dearest family and friends, it is difficult to express my gratitude and love to you all. You know this saying, "a dog wags its tail with its heart" - well, I am like that dog today. I want to say so much, but I can hardly find find the words. So, I'll just s ay that you are the greatest greatest blessing blessing in my life. This evening is the expression of your love to me, I realize this, but also it is the event when I see all of you you gathered in the same same place. So, I gotcha gotcha Now you think you'll have to listen to my long and boring confessions«Well, confessions«Well, you are right. I'll try to make them shorter and funnier, but they still still remain long and boring. So, listen listen to me«Thank you Thank you for being with me all that difficult time. You support support and understanding gave me the strength strength t o continue fighting. Without Without you I would give up. But then you would come or call and I would remember why I am so in love with this wonderful life - because of you. You are my world, and I am sincerely grateful to God for giving me such loving family and caring friends. Your support support was crucial for me this year, when I achieved much due to your help: I graduated my true passion Nursing school. I can't wait when I can apply my m y skills and knowledge into practice. Love and gratitude gratitud e - this is what I feel standing standin g now in front of you. Love and gratitude - these are the best emotions one can can imagine. I am happy to love you and to be grateful to you. I know that you love me too, but it is by mistake. You think I am an ideal: perfect mother, noble friend, lofty relative relative - you are are wrong I have to work much much on myself myself I am not a leopard leopard which never never changes its stripes, so I would like to assure you that my goal in life is to become as wonderful as you think I am. As far as this goal attainment requires requires much effo rt, skills and time, I hope that you'll help me in it, as always. Just like all girls I dreamt of many things, people and event in my childhood, but I couldn't even imagine that some day I would have such wonderful friends and family. I deeply appreciate appreciate your y our support. Thank you for being with me and Tom. In the end, I want to cite you a poem (not mine, by Richard McWilliam): McWilliam): What is a dream? What is a dream? A dream is a goal, An inspiration, A dream is where Hope lives, A dream is something to chase when when life drags us down, A dream is a song in the wilderness, Good flowering from the mud of evil. That is a dream. Get yourself a dream, Touch God and pray And never, ever let your dream get away. With you, my dearest, my dream dream is always near. Thank you ver y much.
Wedding Speech: Father of the Br ide ide Speech Ladies
and gentlemen, f amily amily and fr iends, iends, good evening.
Fir st st of all let me welcome all the guests and say thank you to all o f you f or being with us today and making the atmospher e of the wedding par ty ty so war m and cozy. We ar e happy to shar e this holiday with f amily amily member s and r elatives elatives fr om om both sides. Especi ally welcome ar e those who tr aveled aveled a long way to come her e. e. To
conf ess, ess, thr oughout oughout the day I have been looking at my daughter in the wedding gown, so beautif ul, ul, solemn and br imming imming with happiness - like a tender white lilac on a sp r ing ing mor ning ning and I still couldn't believe my eyes. It seems to me that just an instant ago my f utu utur e wif e and I wer e standing at this alta r and sealing our marr iage iage with a kiss and now the f inest inest outcome of our marr iage, iage, our daughter , that cute blue -eyed tot, has gr own own up and said two simple wor ds ds "I do" to cr eate eate her own f amily. amily. Dur ing ing today's wedding cer emony emony I r ecalled ecalled a thousand little details about he r . Some of you know Donna as a talented web -designer ; f or other s she is a devoted tennis player ; many of us know her as a f aith aith f ul ul fr iend. iend. For me, ladies and gentlemen, she was and is and will be a little gir l with f unny unny plaits and sur pr ised ised blue eyes, as big as a plate. I r emembe emember the day when she was bor n: n: a br ight ight Apr il il mor ning ning with r ed ed tulips blossoming at the f lowe lower - beds by the mater nity nity hospital; it was one o f the happiest days of my newly - baked baked f athe ather 's 's lif e. e. I r emembe emember her f st r f ir st school days, when she f illed illed her exer cise cise - books books with f ancy ancy hier oglyphs oglyphs instead of letter s. s. Well, when her plaits and su r pr ised ised glance ar e gon e, at least one thing hasn't hasn't changed: her handwr iting, iting, which I still can't decode. ecall her dr owsing owsing on my lap, while I r ead ead her the f ai air y -tales about char med med pr incesses. incesses. Today I r ecall she looks like a f ai air y pr incess, incess, and I believe she has at last f ound ound her pr ince ince and they will live happily ever af te ter f ue marr iage iage means that you want to spend the r est est of your lif e with r f or tr ue somebody - and you want the r est est of your lif e to star t as soon as possible 1). ick, and I am sur e t hey ar e a perf ect ect match, f or they f it it I am ver y happy f or Donna and Roder ick, each other as two pieces of a puzzle that God must have scatter ed ed on the Ear th th in the ancient times. Dear Donna and dear Roder ick, ick, I won't bor e you with lengthy pieces of pater nal nal advice r ega egar ding ding marr iage iage and lif e together - this wor ld ld is entir ely ely your s, s, and it is only you two who will deter mine mine its r ules. ules. I am sur e that you will build a r eliable eliable f amily amily hear th, th, a cozy nook wher e you will f eel eel at your ease and which will give you str ength ength to withstand the stor ms ms and and c hallenges hallenges of lif e. e. On this way, let me only wish you toler ance ance and love. As one wise man once said, "a successf ul ul marr iage iage r equi equir es es f alling alling in love many times, always with the same per son" son" 1). Finally, I will shar e with you a quotation that guided me th r ough ough my marr iage iage - not a single day of these 31 year s I r eg egr et. et. It is taken fr om om the Bible and says that "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not pr oud. oud. It is not r ude, ude, it is not self -seeking, it is not easily anger ed, ed, it keeps no r eco ecor d of wr ongs. ongs. Love does not delight in evil but r ejoices ejoices with the t r uth. uth. It
Wedding Speech: Gr oom oom Speech Dear f amily and guests, my wif e and I ar e glad to welcome all of you at the par ty. ty. We would like r f amily to expr ess ess our gr atitude atitude to fr iends iends and f amily amily member s fr om om both sides sides who helped helped to pr epa epar e and arr ange ange this gr eat eat day and contr ibuted ibuted to the f eeling eeling of a f ai air y -tale my wif e and I have enjoyed since ear ly ly mor ning. ning. We ar e also thank f u ul, usef ul ul and witty wedding ful l f or the beautif ul, pr esents, esents, and above all f or your attention attention and sin cer e wishes. ide's f athe ather , Mike, f or pr oposing oposing the toast and arr anging anging the I'd like to say thank you to the br ide's wedding banquet. Above all I appr eciate eciate Julia's mothe r and f athe ather f aising such a wonderf ul ul r f or r r r aising daughter , whom I am so pr oud oud to call my wif e. e. Mik e and and So Sof ia, ia, I appr eciate eciate that you have entr usted usted your daughter to me and I will do my best to take car e of her . We have been together eady, and she has invar iably iably been f or me a sour ce ce of comf or t, t, inner power and f or some year s alr eady, inspir ation. ation. I r emembe emember that af te ter our f st date which occurr ed ed in high school) I f elt elt that I could r f ir st move mountains - or f ly to the moon and back. It was a stupendous f eeling, eeling, and as time passed I r f ly gr ew ew to appr eciate eciate mer e Julia's pr esence esence by my side, not to mention her const constant ant su su ppor t, t, love and car e. e. By the way, ladies and gentlemen, I can't but mention that Juliana looks gor geous geous today! A f ew ew weeks ago I asked Gabr iela, iela, the curr ent ent maid of honour , about how Julia looks in the wedding gown, and she r eplied eplied that she looked ver y elegant. However , these wor ds ds didn't pr epa epar e me suff iciently. iciently. When I saw her walking to me down the aisle, I f elt elt br eathless eathless to say the least by Julia's beauty! My wif e is beautif ul, ul, kind, car ing, ing, har d -wor king« king« the list of her advantages is quite lengthy« unf or tunately, tunately, I can't make out Julia's handwr iting iting - as a web -designer , she must have become mor e used to a keyboar d than to a pen : ) Now, when the wedding cer emony emony is over , I can honestly admit how diff icult icult it was f or me to pr opose opose to Juliana. Believe me, I had to pluck up all my cour age age to ask a beautif ul ul young woman to marr y me. As Ar thu thur Rubinstein, at that instant I thought that it was much "easier to play the whole Petr ushka ushka on the the piano" piano" 1) - although I don't play any musical instr ument ument at all. It was was almost as diff icult icult as dar ing ing to kiss her f st time. It was, as most o f you alr eady eady know, r f or the f ir st when we at high school and I took Julia f or a walk to the r ive iver and then saw her home. It was getting dar k, k, and she was standing on the door step step saying good- bye. bye. And then I f elt elt that I had to do something extr ao aor dina dinar y. y. So I took a f ull ull br eath eath and planted a kiss somewher e in the dusk - as it appear ed, ed, I almost spotted Julia's lef t ear . Of cour se, se, the pr ecision ecision of the kiss lef t much to be desir ed, ed, but anyway I was not going to be a sniper , but only wanted to kiss the gir l I f ound ound to be ver y special f or me. Fr om om the next day we star ted ted to come back fr om om school together , and since then and till the f ollowing ollowing year my special status was mar ked ked by the honour able able mission mission to carr y Julia's schoolbag. It took me only seven year s since then to under stand stand that I can't live without her , which is not long at all, isn't it? To
be ser ious, ious, I want ever ybody, ybody, especially you, Julia, to know how extr emely emely lucky I am be her e r ight ight now. I am so lucky to have f ound ound Her , the woman who made me dr eam eam of waking up together , eating br eak eak f ying home in the evening to see her f ace and chat with fast ast together , hurr ying r f ace her until it was time to f all all asleep. It was Julia who made me under stand stand h ow wonde wonderf ul ul it may be to dr eam eam together , to manage our common household and br ing ing up our childr en. en. And thus I
Wedding Speech: Best Man Speech Good evening ever ybody. ybody. For those who don't know me yet I am the gr oom's oom's best man, and I am her e to pay tr ibute ibute to the best woman Roder ick ick managed to f ind, ind, to beautif ul ul Donna. When Rick off er ed ed me to be his h is best man, I was f ir st st star tled, tled, because I thought of those ancient times when best man had to help the gr oom oom in kidnapping the br ide, ide, and f ight ight off the angr y elatives, while the g r oom oom galloped away with his lady -love. Well, I thought immediately of r elatives, ights and pur suits suits in Hollywood blockbuster s, s, and my "C" f or PT in the univer sity. sity. You can f ights imagine how r elieved elieved I was to f ind ind Donna's r elatives elatives to be fr iendly iendly -looking and pleasant people, and the only per il il I detected at this wedding par ty, ty, the gr avest avest danger to all men p r esent esent her e bewar e! e!)« is the beauty of the br ide, ide, wonderf ully ully complimented by the char m of the br ide ide maids. By the bye, thanks to all the br ide ide -maids who managed to convince the br ide ide to keep to her irr ational ational decision and marr y Rick.) Well, when things clear ed ed up f or me as the best man, my mission appear ed ed to be quite peacef ul... ul... just to ensu r e that the gr oom oom doesn't r un un away till the end o f the par ty ty and to deliver a speech to and f or the newly -weds. And, of c our se, se, TO UNCOVER THE MOST PIQUANT EPISODES OF THE GROOM'S DISSOLUTE LIFE BEFORE HIS MARR IAGE! Ladies
and gentlemen, I have known this r ogue ogue f or some 20 year s of his 25 -year-old lif e. e. Yeah, we went to the kinder ga gar ten ten together , and in secr et et) he was was a p oor tr ee ee -climber , and always seemed mor e inter ested ested in tugging at gir ls' ls' plaits than in noble male activities. With the advantage of the hindsight, I can guess that even at this young age he star ted ted to be looking f or his will- be be perf ect ect match, which at this time was r unning unning about in the same neighbor hood hood wear ing ing plaits and enchanting eve r ybody ybody with big blue eyes. My per sonal sonal guess -wor k is that they got acquainted at that time, when Rick was once r etu etur ning ning home fr om om the kinder ga gar ten, ten, and saw an attr active active plait near by, and couldn't help r unning unning and tugging at it. Well, anyway, it took them some ten mor e year s to str ike ike up an acquaintance, and th r ee ee mor e year s to let it gr ow ow fr om om a school r omance omance to a univer sity sity r omance, omance, and one mor e year to get it into a ma rr iage and at the beginning of it all ther e wer e plaits of a neighbor hood hood gir l. l. Af te ter our kinder ga gar ten ten acquaintance I happened to study f or the same deg r ee ee as Rick and as f ar as I r emembe emember he never limited his love inte r ests ests to Donna only. Being a per sonal sonal ity open open f or love, he also took a f ancy ancy in a cute blondie called Stella, but a f te ter a while his taste changed and he switched to Sherr y; y; af te ter wa war ds ds he plunged into shor t -lived love-aff ai air with Jack Daniels, until he f inally inally made his ultimate choice choice in Heine ken, and has been dr inking inking it ever af te ter . But however engaged he was in his Stella -Sherr y-Jack -Heineken aff ai air s, s, I r emembe emember that Rick never missed a date with Donna. It was then, at the fr eshman's eshman's cour se se that I star ted ted to suspect that something is gr avely avely wr ong ong with him. As his old fr iend, iend, I was so worr ied ied that I r ummaged ummaged thr ough ough volumes of specialized specialized books until I identif ied ied Rick's diagnosis. It was "a wildly misunder stood stood although highly desir able able malf unction unction of the hear t which weakens the br ain, ain, causes eyes to spar kle, kle, cheeks to glow, blood pr essu essur e to r ise ise and the lips to pucke r " 2). I r ealized ealized that my old chap was head over heels in LOVE with Donna. To
be fr ank, ank, I have always been astonished astonished by my chap's devotion to Donna that has lasted and
Acceptance Speech: Nomination f or Mayor's Off ice ice Dear towns people,
I am extr emely emely honor ed ed to have been selected the mayo r of Catsville and to accept the r es ponsibilities that your tr ust has entitled me to. I am boundlessly gr ate atef ul ul to the vote s of 66% of the townsf olk olk who thus empower ed ed me to make the daily li f e of Catsville better , and I can har dly dly keep in my impatience to star t it. I g uess I'll have to wait at lea st until the end o f the inaugur ation ation cer emony emony to star t. t. Our town r equi equir es a lot of impr ovement ovement s. As mentioned in the election campaign, I will dir ect ect r r oad the attention o f the town autho r itie ities to the pr oblem oblem of our r oads, es pecial pecial ly the the r oad oads to the new southea ster n distr ict icts of the city ( New New Hampshir e, e, Pember ley ley). I used to be at the head o f the building cor por ation ation "MBuild" that s pecialized in multi stor ey ey housing, and I know at f irst -hand r state of the highways and r oa r I will do my best to deal of the poor s oa ds in the location. A s a mayor I with this pr oblem. oblem. Accor ding ding to the f ou our -step plan, in th r ee ee years the south -easter ne ners will have newly-r epai epair ed ed and as phalted r oad oads at their dis posal. My second conce r n will be ensur ing ing the simplif ication ication o f the cr edit edit issue to the young f amilie amilies f or house - building. building. Finally, I also plan to minimize and e r adicate adicate r ed ed tape in the activitie s of pr ivate ivate ent r ep epr eneu eneurs and small companies. Thank you again f or your tr ust in me and my team. Bef or e the symb olical olical act act of handing ove r the keys fr om om Catsville to me I thought much about the long way we have ove r come come to be her e r f ou today. For f our years I r ep epr esented the inte r ests of the Pember ley ley community at the Cat sville town council, until I understood that the di ff icultie iculties wer e to be ove r come come fr om om the top, and only the mayor could attempt to change the situation r adically. adically. I am gr ate atef ul ul to my suppor te ters f or their belief in me that empowe r ed ed me to be he r e today and accept the key s fr om om Catsville some ten minutes ago. Let me assur e you that in my activitie s I will be guar ded ded by no othe r pr inciple inciple s than tho se of the Bible and the Con stitution. As f ar as I can r emembe emember in Ancient China the candidate s to the post in the town admini str ation ation wer e to pass an examination examination in ae sthetics and dis play their love and understanding o f ar t. t. Only then could they become high -off icial icial s. Well, times have changed, but the humanity ha s har dly dly been alte r ed ed - neithe r have the unive rsal pr inciple inciple s of humani sm and r I pledge to adhe r e to the Bible and the Con stitution, to mor ality. ality. In my wor k as a mayor I f fr eedom implement and develop the ideal o f fr eedom to en sur e adequate li f e f or towns people irr es pective r social status. of their economic, political o r s
I am pr oud oud of your tr ust, Catsville, and I will will justif y it to the be st of my competence and knowledge. Thank you.
Acceptance Speech: Accepting Eme r ging ging Leader s TM awar d Dear ladies and gentlemen! ed to have been selected as the lau r eate eate to accept the Emer ging ging Leader s TM I am deeply honor ed awar d. d. I am one of the manager s who have made their mar ks ks in Minnesota business. I am sincer ely ely gr ate atef ul ul f or the r ecognition ecognition fr om om the pr og ogr am am sponsor ed ed by MDA Leade r ship ship Consulting Featur ed ed in the Twin Cities Business Monthly magazine which initiated the whole event. ned about my nomination. Without f alse alse modesty, I I should admit I was a bit stunned when I lear ned eel that other manager s ar e also wor thy thy of this r ewa ewar d. However , I r ealize ealize that it can't be divided f eel into f ive, ive, so again I want to expr ess ess my gr atitude atitude to you. I am ver y pleased to r eceive eceive this awa r d. d. eams to stand in fr ont ont of many people I am ver y pleased also because it was one o f my child dr eams accepting an awar d r ecognizing ecognizing my qualities and achievements. So, today you ar e pr esent esent at the ulf illment illment of my dr eam. eam. I can't expr ess ess my excitement and inspi r ation ation with this awar d. d. Then, in f ul the year s of my unclouded childhood I couldn't imagine how inter esting esting my lif e would be. Of cour se, se, I f aced aced a lot o f challenges but I succeeded succeeded to over come come them and gained outstanding ou tstanding exper ience. ience. Bef or e enter ing ing the business spher e, e, I ser ved ved in the U.S. Ar my. my. Dur ing ing that time I patr olled olled the east -west Ger manboa manboar de der as Cavalr y Scout u ntil the wall came came down. I also ser ved ved in Oper ation ation Deser t Stor m. m. Those days ar e in the past but something invaluable r emains emains with me. acter which was built up then. I had to over come come pr of essional essional diff iculties iculties and It is my char acte per sonal sonal stor ms ms of lif e, e, but I succeeded. I star ted ted my car ee eer as a pr essman, essman, and then wor ked ked my way to a plant manager that over sees sees two manuf actu actur ing ing oper ations. ations. I think this is r eal eal success. And today's awar d is the symbol of that success. ough t me her e tonight wer e gained in the days of my youth. I believe that six qualities which b r ought These qualities include p r of essionalism, essionalism, the demonstr ation ation of potential and capacity to gr ow ow under corr esponding esponding cir cumstances. cumstances. I also tr ied ied to cr eate eate the climate in which people ar e motivated to excel, so that they we r e engaged into wor k and contr ibuted ibuted their best. Thus, I ocused on the teamwor k. k. I taught other s to be sel f less less in achieving goals that will benef it it the f ocused whole or ganization, ganization, without waiting f or r ewar d. d. But f ir st st I demonstr ated ated this this on my my p er sonal sonal r r ewa example. I was an intentional lea r ne ner , who concentr ated ated on self - impr ovement ovement and encour aged aged it in other s. s. I taught my employees to be cour ageous ageous in taking well -r easoned easoned r isks isks and embr acing acing pr oductive oductive conf lict, lict, showing good judgment in gather ing ing inpu t and investigating investigating the company's str ategic ategic goals. And cer tainly, tainly, I f ollowed ollowed my instr uctions uctions as well. But I should tell you that thr oughout oughout my lif e I always meet people who ar e so inspir ed, ed, talented or skilled that I can take something fr om om them of cour se, se , with thei their per mission mission). I am always opened to new initiatives, new people, and new cooper ation. ation. I think it is the pledge of successf ul ul perf or mance mance today, because the wo r ld ld is changing so r apidly apidly that we can f ail ail to keep ab r east. east. Active position is benef icial icial today. So, guided by this pr inciple inciple I always take the best qualities o f my employees, iends and f amily, amily, apply them to my pr of essional essional lif e and so you can see me her e. e. Of cour se, se, it fr iends is a joke, but I do lear n fr om om my envir onment. onment. People ar ound ound ar e f ar clever er than some might think. You only have to listen and watch attentively. ess my gr atitude atitude to my f amily, amily, which suppor ted ted me in all my under takings, takings, XYZ I want to expr ess
Annive rsar y Speech Dear guests, thank you f or coming to u s today to celeb r ate ate the 11th annive rsar y of our marr iage. iage. Eleven yea rs ago I asked this woman to marr y me and wa s childi shly thr illed illed to call he r my wif e f or the f irst time in my lif e. e. I can still r ecall ecall the slightest par ticula ticula rs of that day, up to my astonishment when I saw Helen in the awe some wedding gown going down the ai sle. Mor e than a decade i s a long per iod; iod; it make s up almost thr ee ee pr esidential ter ms and thr ee ee Olympic games. But f or me time has elapsed too f ast... they say this always happen s when you ar e happy. I am happy to be still violently in love with my wi f e and I appr eciate eciate all he r car e and toler ance ance thr oughout oughout the yea rs. Of course, I should admit that ma rr ying ying f or love was a r eckle eckless thing to do - but as Josh Billings put it, such marr iage iage "is so honest that God can 't help but smile on it"(1). Ladies and gentlemen, my wi f e and I wer e lucky to be p r esented with some Lor d's r son, Jim. gr ace aces dur ing ing this decade - the chief of them is our s
In these years we've done a lot togethe r . We have built a hou se and planted a ga r den; den; we have climbed the Eve r est Mountain and t r ied ied par achute achute jumping. But mo st impor tantly, tantly, we lea r ned ned to toler ate ate with each othe r's habit s and tr ait aits, to say "sorr y" when you ar e wr ong ong and "I love you" on all other occasions. We lear ned ned to cher ish ever y evening s pent with the f amily amily - even if it means doing nothing s pecial, just sitting on the sof a and tr ying ying to r ead ead a news paper , while Jim is r ushing about the r oom oom imitating the sound of th e helicopter's engines. We lear ned ned being happy with what we have - and we have a f amily, amily, a son and you, ou r good old fr iend iends. Of course, ther e wer e some ups and downs - but I must conf ess that the f or me mer gr eatly eatly outnumbe r ed ed the latte r . Like a good wine, a good r elation elation ship becomes better and bette r with ever y passing year . It wor ked ked f or our marr iage iage and still makes my wif e and me happy. Today I am off er ing ing to r ai aise our glasses f or love, the co r ne nerstone of any household, and hope to see you at ou r s r silver wedding par ty. ty. Bottoms up!
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Speech: Best Fr iend's Bir thd thday
ybody, let me gra b a handf ul ul of m ello ever ybody, f minutes of your a r attention and congratulate our born", atalie, on her 26th bir thd thday, and wish her a newly- bo er a couple of things. ell, to be frank, I thday surr ou ounded by fr iends and am ver y glad to be here today and to see her ce er cele brate her bir thd close people. I have k nown atalie since our fres r freshman times in lasgow niversity and it is a pleasure f or me r me to note that she hasn't changed a bit in f iv ive years, and is still a cheerf ul ul ener gi gi er of a f all our ties and t he soul of the com pany - I always wondered how she student now graduate) par ti ived to f ind time f or e ything, and always came with her home assignment ready even contr iv r ever ythi ousals late into the night. Besides the evident advantage of having her af ter our s r student car ou homewor k k always done, atalie has always been - and is - a good mixer rea er ready to listen to a pr obl oblem and offer s its, as this une she ffer some advice. ot less outstanding were her aca er academic mer it graduated with honors, and now wor k ks f or one of the renowned P -agencies. But
thday I'd lik e to wish her f irst and f oremost, atalie is an amazing person, and on her bir thd sim ple human ha ppiness. I wish her harmony that comes when all the com ponents of life are balanced: when daily wor k br ings delight and in the evening you hurr y back home to be with your fam r family. I wish atalie inner c nner comf or t when you k now that somewhere near , at the distance of a phone call, there are old fr iends who care a bout you and if you feel blue, they will always come to your place with beer an obl ems with a hear ty ty laugh and recollections eer and chips to dis perse your pr obl of tur bulent student days. I wish her a ull of pleasant little tr if les and joys that give one er a year f ear f ull strength to mak e great achievements and reach one's goals. ay atalie's most cher ished dreams come tr ue, as we stand up and raise our glasses f or her bir thd thday and ha ppiness.
Bir thday thday Speech: My Radiant Mother Dear f amily and fr iends! iends! I am happy to see all of you her e today. I want to thank you all f or r f amily coming her e. e. Today is an outstanding event. It is the "25th" bir thday thday of my dar ling ling mother . Mommy, you ar e always young and beautif ul ul so let them talk, and f or get get the numbe number "50", it has nothing to do with you. Well, I see that my mother has made a lot of fr iends. And f amily amily is also big enough! This is not f fr iends. sur pr ise ise f or me, because mother always attr acts acts people who want to be nea r her . She is so adiant, have you ever noticed this? I r emembe emember , once at night, when I was a child, the elect r icity icity r adiant, in the house cut off because of stor m or something. I called my mother , because I was afr aid aid of the lightning. She came to my r oom oom with that wonderf ul ul expr ession ession on her f ace which I r f ace emember even today. It was the mix of love, car e and concer n f or me. You would ask how r emembe could I see that? I told you, she is r adiant! adiant! And, of cour se, se, a candle in her hand also played its par t. t. Anyway, I bet that each of you has special sto r ies i es wh wh er e my mother is the main char acte acter yes, she likes to lead ), but now it is my time. Elber t Hubbar d told that "In or de der to have fr iends, iends, you must f ir st st be one". I am not a fr iend, iend, I am r athe ather a child, but I know that my mother is a tr ue ue iend. She is r esponsive espon sive and open; she will be glad glad to help you if it is in her power . Her devotion fr iend. to other people is outstanding. She incr eases eases her joy by giving it. And she becomes mor e beautif ul ul each day, because as Louisa May Alcott stated, " Love is a gr eat eat beautif ie ier " . Indeed, and, mother , you don't have to bother because of your wr inkles inkles - they demonstr ate ate how long you have been loving us all and pleasing us with your blessed pr esence. esence. I am pr oud oud of you, my dear mother . In the pr esence esence of your f amily and your fr iends I would like to expr ess ess our gr atitude atitude to r f amily r fr iends you. We thank you f or the year s lit up with your pr esence esence and loving and car ing ing attitude. We wish you to live many mor e and thus gladden our hear ts ts and souls. So, I hope in the next 25 year s we'll gather again again to ce lebr ate ate your "50th" bir thday. thday. In the end: r ecently ecently I f ound ound with sur pr ise ise that Emer son son have wr itten itten about my mother : "To help the young soul, to add ener gy, gy, inspir e hope, and blow the coals into a usef ul ul f lame; lame; to r edeem edeem def eat eat by new thought and f ir m action, this, though not easy, is the wor k of divine man". You ar e divine, my unique and inimitable mother ! To my mother , the one and only!
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Speech: Sweet 16 Bir thd thday
y dear daughter ! Today is one of the greatest events in your life - your swee thday. r sweet sixteen bir thd ou will remem ber it as the br ight ight and ha ppy day when you have all your fr r fr iends beside you. our fr r fr iends and your fam r family are the most precious things in life but you'll understand this a little bit later when you open your present s). er tainly, it is a jok e, but never th theless the presents are ul, you will lik e them. wonderf ul, y dar li ling, I want you to shine with that beautif ul ul smile ever y day! our kind hear t and car ti ting ill my hear t with ha ppiness. I'm gratef ul ul to my desti ny f or having such a wonderf ul ul attitude f ill daughter . I wish you to en joy your life - ever y day of it, value people ar ou ound you and str iv ive f or your a oud of you, because we see your potential and we r aims achievement. our fam r family is pr oud k now that you can do anything you real ly want. But remem ber that "In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and en joyed". I wish you to f ind the golden balance between studying and en joying your life - both are extremely im por tant. uth, "Smar tness r uns in my family. hen I went I hope you'll f ind your wa r way, because to say the tr uth, to school I was so smar t my teacher was ive years". hen I was pre par ing f or er was in my class f or f r f iv exam I k new new that 80% of the f inal exam will be based on the one lecture I missed and the one book I didn't read. That's why I always visited that one lecture and read that one book. But I see that my daughter is much smar ter : I don't k now her pr inciples, but she studies well. arr y on! ne more, if you think that your gif t is pedagogy, I want to remind you th at "there are three good reasons to be a teacher - une, uly, and ugust". nyway, I'll acce pt any choice of pr ofession, because no one k nows where one can f ind her vocation. Some wise man said, "Your talent is od's gif t to you. hat you do with it is yo ur gif t back to od". I hope you'll realize your gif t and return it back to od. Be that shiny and loving person you are now! emem ber that you always have your fam r family and fr iends to suppor t you. Be ha ppy and live your life!
Char ity ity Speech Distinguished guests! Ladies
and gentlemen!
ity event at this concer t hall. It is my honor to be invited as a speaker in a char ity eat pleasur e f or me to be her e today. It is a gr eat tunity to congr atulate atulate us on launching this outstanding f und undr aising aising I would like to seize the oppor tunity campaign in which many ur ban or ganizations ganizations ar e involved. Our donations in this month have amounted to 50, 000 dollar s - the sum that will be t r ans ansf err ed ed to a mater nity nity house in the south of Somalia. On the boar ds ds you can see the f aces aces of young mother s in Somalia who need our help. The money will be donated f or moder n medical equipment. Our goal is to decr ease ease the number of inf ant ant deaths in the Somalia town under our sponsor ship. ship. To achieve this noble goal, we have or ganized ganized a char ity ity ball and a cha r ity ity f ai air . I am honor ed ed to thank all sponsor s, s, or ganizations ganizations and pr ivate ivate per sons, sons, who car e f or people in need in the hear t of the Afr ican ican continent. We all know that tha t Somalia is in a despe r ate ate economic condition, many of its natur al al r esou esour ces ces exhausted and diff er ent ent political gr oups oups still tear ing ing the countr y into separ ate ate par ts ts due to their endless conf licts. licts. But common people, victimized by the r egime, egime, have a r ight ight t o live, live, to give give bir th th to babies, and to enjoy f amilies amilies with many kids. The women of Somalia, who suff er fr om r fr om malnutr ition ition and har d conditions of lif e, e, ar e br ave ave to have kids. We ar e pr oud oud of their br ave aver y and their will to exper ience ience all pleasu r es es of mothe r hood. hood. However , the conditions ar e gr ave. ave. Poor medical car e, e, if any, a high r ate ate of inf ant ant deaths - one can har dly dly imagine that all this may be possible in the f ir st st decade of the 21st centur y. y. We ar e living in the wor ld ld that needs gr eat eat changes. But, as Pr esident esident Obama said, we ar e r esponsible esponsible utur e of the wor ld ld as well. Ou r char ity ity or ganization ganization has been constantly wor king king on f or the f utu undr aising, aising, much of which is tr ans ansf err ed ed as humanitar ian ian aid. Last month we enjoyed our young f und models in stylish dr esses esses o f their own design - they collected a good sum o f money and wer e so happy to give a helping hand to our Afr ican ican fr iends. iends. Today,
we ar e of ten ten constr ained ained to our own domestic aff ai air s. s. We think of our own f utu utur e, e, with hopes at the time o f r ecession. But when we ar e in tr ouble, ouble, citizens of a pr ospe osper ous ous countr y f r ecession. people in developing countr ies ies suff er fr om the cr isis isis much, much mor e. e. They have to f ight ight f or r fr om their ever yday yday needs. But they have f ew ew r esou esour ces ces to st r uggle uggle against their extr eme eme pover ty. ty. The
most unpr otected otected cir cles cles of Afr ican ican society ar e kids. Last year we visited a mate r nity nity house in Somalia. It fr ightened ightened us to see how mother and kids suff er . In that hot climate it is ver y impor tant tant to f ight ight against inf ectious ectious diseases. Wate r supplies ar e limit limited, ed, and dr inking inking water is of notor ious ious low quality. We have developed a pr og ogr am am "Mom and kid" that will gr adually adually change the situation at least one mater nity nity house f or the better . You may be inf or med med on this pr og ogr am am on our website.
Chr istmas istmas Speech Welcome all, on this wonderf ul ul occasion: Mom. Dad, Aunt Anne and Uncle Ger ar d, d, Laur a, a, ner , and little Robbie! It's so gr eat eat to be her e, e, at this Chr istmas istmas dinner f ull of delicious things, Ver ne r f ull with the f ir e bur ning, ning, the mantelpiece f ull ull of Chr istmas istmas car ds, ds, and you, my dear est est f amily, amily, smiling at me. One of pleasu r es es of the Chr istmas istmas season is the oppo r tunity tunity to extend cor dial dial gr eetings eetings to all o f you whose love and complete devotion I value so highly. Chr istmas istmas time is my f avo avor ite. ite. Although I live away fr om om home, I know that I will leave all my business behind on a Chr istmas istmas day to be together with you, to be with you, my beloved f amily. amily. Remember , Laur a, a, how we ar gued gued in our childhood that Dad might be putting pu tting those stockings under our pillows late at night. I was twelve and Laur a ten when we decided to make sur e that Santa Claus is imagined. We wanted to see Dad putting his Ch r istmas istmas gif ts ts f or us. We decided to doze off in tur ns. ns. I honestly tr ied ied to be awake but it seemed to me that Laur a, a, like all gir ls, ls, would ind out the tr uth uth better than me. Well, I don't know how but we missed the moment. In the f ind mor ning ning I f ound ound a pr esent esent under my pillow. I br avely avely came up to Laur a's a's bed and took her Chr istmas istmas gif ts. ts. With the wor ds ds "It's him, him, Santa Santa Claus " I r ushed ushed into the living -r oom oom to see a Chr istmas istmas tr ee. ee. In the evening, tir ed ed but happy, we talked with Laur a. a. She said, "Nick, what makes you think it was not Dad?" My answer was, "We saw neither Dad nor Santa Claus. Dad knew nothing of our being awaken. So, it was Santa Claus." Claus." Mom and Dad! You cr eated eated the wor ld ld of wonder s to us, your son and daughter . Even if Dad and Santa Claus ar e the same, that's istmas spir it it all the year r ound. This year 's 's f or the better . Because it's so good to have a Chr istmas r r ound. Chr istmas istmas time is ve r y special. I have been pr omoted omoted to the post of senior manager , and I am gr ate atef ul ul to you, my f amily, amily, because without your suppor t I wouldn't have been able to f ight ight f or my f utu utur e. e. Now, let's talk o f Him whose nativity we ar e glor if ying ying today. Baby Jesus, when time came, was bor n, n, with angels smiling at Him. His mothe r car ef ully ully wr apped apped her f stbor n in cloths and placed Him in a manger . r f ir stbo "An Angel of the Lor d appear ed ed to [the shepher ds], ds], and the glor y of the Lor d shone ar ound ound them, and they wer e terr if ied. ied. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afr aid. aid. I br ing ing good news of gr eat eat joy that will be f or all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been bor n to you; he is Chr ist ist the Lor d." d." Luke 2:9 -11) Each year we celebr ate ate Jesus Ch r is is t's t's bir th, th, f or it has changed the wor ld. ld. We ar e living in Chr ist. ist. He is with us when we'r e happy and when we'r e sad. He enhances our inner f ces and dir ects ects us r f or ces on the path of salvation. When I was a child, I wanted to be like Jesus. I mean, I wanted wanted to h elp othe other people, I wanted to love neighbor even when I was hur t and off ended. ended. Mom and Dad taught Laur a and me to be toler ant ant to the outside wor ld, ld, and, at the same time, not to be separ ated ated fr om om it. When we wer e kids, our Chr istmas istmas par ties ties wer e f ull ull of ch ild ildr en's en's voices. Gr anny anny was dead at that time. I
ation Demonstr ation
Speech: Tying a Tie
Hello. My name i s Br endon endon Johnson, and I will show you how to tie a tie. At f irst sight it may seem mor e complicated and time -consuming than nuclea r physics, but as soon as you understand the basics it becomes mer ely ely a matte r of pr actice. actice. Believe me, it i s much easier than lear ning ning to r ide ide a bike o r tying a shoelace.
I will demonstr ate ate how to tie a Wind sor knot. It is "a thick, wide and t r iangula iangula r tie knot that pr oject ojects conf idence idence ", "your knot of choice f or pr esentation s, job inter view views, cour tr oom oom r s pr ead r shir ts" ( ). In f act, appea r ance ances", " best suited f or s ead colla r s act, making it i s not tr icky icky at all. Ever ybody ybody can make a Wind sor knot on hi s tie; however , it is highly r ecommended ecommended f or men with a long neck, f or the wide knot will vi sually diminish the height o f the neck neck and thus balance the appea r ance. ance. What do we need f or tying a Windsor knot? Let u s star t fr om om the essential s. To succeed in ou r goal you need th r ee ee thing s: a tie, a mirr or and motivation. It is highly desir able able that you wea r a suit or at least a shi r t, t, f or a tie was initially de signed to conceal the button s on a shir t, t, so that you will vividly see why a tie i s necessar y, y, and how long it should be. So, en sur e that you have all the essential s, stand in fr ont ont of a mirr or , place the tie on you neck and f ollow the instr uction uction s.
f f all r simple steps ( plea The pr oce ocess itself f alls into f ou our s please r ef er to the diagr am am on the blackboa r d). 1. Ensur e that the wide end i s appr oximately oximately 30 cm lowe r than the na rr ow ow end and c r oss the wide end over the narr ow ow one. This will cr eate a loop between the colla r and you r will - be tie. Pass the wide end th r ough ough thi s loop and then down. So the wide end will again be on top o f the narr ow ow one. 2. Put the wide end unde r the narr ow ow one; pull it to the le f t and acr oss the top o f the narr ow end. By this time the wide end should enci r cle cle the narr ow ow one, f or ming ming the f irst outline of a knot. The wide end should be located to the r ight ight of the knot. 3. Put the wide end beneath the na rr ow ow one again, then between the colla r and the knot, and af te ter wa war ds push it thr ough ough the loop. 4. Finally, pu sh the wide end th r ough ough the knot. Next, hold the knot with you r lef t hand, while adjusting the end s of your tie and pushing the knot to the colla r . Her e is the r esult - a perf ectly ectly tied Wind sor knot. As we c an see by now, tying a tie i s much easier than nuclea r physics, and not time -consuming at all. With a tie, a mi rr or and pr ope oper motivation it took u s two minutes to accompli sh the task accor ding ding to the in str uction uction s. If you pr actice actice f or a couple o f times, you yo u will be able to br ing ing the time r equi equir ed ed to less than hal f a minute. Fr om om now on you know the secr et, et, and you a r e welcome to u se it f or the benef it it of your appea r ance. ance.
Demonstr ation ation Speech: How to Play the Piano ation speech cannot be enough to play the piano. However , I can It is obvious that one demonstr ation teach you how to sit at the piano duly and how to star t lear ning ning to play the piano so that you want to continue. Bef or e star ting, ting, r emembe emember , that as Chinese p r ove ove r b puts it, "A jour ney ney of a thousand miles star ts ts with the f ir st st step". Also, be advised, that lea r ning ning means "mistaking", so watch and epeat af te ter me: no exper ience ience can be gained without p r actice. actice. We'll discuss such issues as: 1 ) r epeat acquaintance with the piano and its main elements an ter ms; ms; 2) lear ning ning the piano notes; 3) playing the octaves. So, let's star t. t. Fir st st of all, you will need the piano. Look at it: the most cont r asting asting elements a r e the keys, they ar e black and white. They compr ise ise a keyboar d. d. T he keyboar d usually has seven octaves and a minor thir d. d. The piano can be closed with the lid which cover s the keyboar d when the instr ument ument is not being used. So, we open the lid and pr ess ess the key to pr oduce oduce some sound. Move piano bench close r to the piano so that you can sit conveniently while playing the piano. Look down: ther e ar e thr ee ee or two pedals under your f eet, which ar e used to change the sound of a note. Raise r f eet, your eyes: you see the music r ack. ack. It is r ight ight in fr ont ont of you, and it is like a small shelf f f f or carr ying ying the music paper or sheet music etc. So, you sit, open the sheet music and put your hands on the keyboar d. d. What should you do next? The
next step is lea r ning ning the piano notes. Look at the keyboar d. d. Ther e is symmet r y which helps us to diff er entiate entiate the octaves and lea r n the location of cer tain tain piano notes. In or de der to make the pr ocess ocess of lear ning ning the piano notes easier , we'll denominate each white key with the letter . Tr aditionally, aditionally, the f ir st st seven lette r of the alphabet ar e used. Thus, hus, st ar ting ting fr om om the lef t we assign white keys with the letter s A -G. Black keys can be helpf ul ul in f inding inding the corr esponding esponding white keys. While this is not the initial f unction unction of the f or me mer , we'll star t using them this way. Look at the keyboar d attentively, and you'll notice that gr oups oups of two black keys and thr ee ee black keys epeat. So, if you need D, you can f ind ind it on the r ight ight fr om om the gr oup oup of two black keys; F is on r epeat. the lef t of gr oup oup of thr ee ee black keys etc. Though it r equi equir es es cer tain tain time to lea r n wher e dif f er ent ent keys ar e, e, this will be helpf ul ul f or sur e. e. Also, besides white keys, ther e ar e black keys. They ar e identif ied ied accor ding ding to the white keys which they bor de der with. Thus, the f ir st st black key in the gr oup oup of thr ee ee will be denominated as F# or Gb. In this case, F# means shar p F, i.e. the black note F is half-tone higher than F which is on the lef t. t. Or , it can be identi f ied ied as Gb f lat lat G), which means that black key is half -tone lower than G. You can use the guiding diagr am am in the beginning but then you have to lear n all the keys without any hint. You should be able to identif y the note simply by looking at the keyboar d. d. Thir d, d,
we'll lear n to play octaves or scales. In piano music, octave means the inter val val between the two notes which is equal to twelve ke ys. To play an octave means pr essing essing smoothly the keys in succession. The simplest simplest octave C majo major) means pr essing essing only white keys, star ting ting fr om om C and ending with the C in seven notes. G major scale, f or instance, includes G, A, B, C, D, E notes, then moving to F#, and pr oceeding oceeding in the same way. Scales should be lear ned ned as well as simplest songs. They ar e used to develop the ear f actice piano playing and pr epa epar e r f or music, pr actice ious piano playing. f or mor e ser ious To
conclude, we have consider ed ed the main issues which ar e needed to be lea r ned ned by the
Demonstration
Speech:
ow to install a ceiling fan
Today
we will learn how to install a ceiling fan. The ceiling fan can become a real rescue in hot days. eiling fan is not so diff icult to install if you k now the pr inciples of installation. So, now we will learn to do this. First of a f all, you should choose the place where the fan will be located. It is recommended that the ceiling fan is placed in the center of the ceiling, as far as far as it allows the lows of a oom. The next ste p is the identif ication of the blade clearance. f lo f air s r s pread all over the r oo So, you should measure the distance fr om f loo loor to ceiling and distract the height of the fan. The distance of n f not lower than 7' is recommended. f ter that, you should mount the ceiling fan. This
is the most res ponsible par t of the installation: 1. you should turn o ff the power to prevent the electr ical str ik ik e fr om ha ppening; 2. then you should identif y the center of the ceiling - if there was not light f ixtu ixture in the center , you should identif y it by yourself . ar k two cr oss lines on the ceiling fr om each of f our c f f ou r c orners of the r oo oom. The place where they cr oss is the center of the ceiling. 3. you should install the junction box. In some cases it can be screwed to the joist. therwise, the box should be put into the hole cut par ti ticular ly ly f or this case; 4. the next ste p is the installation of the hanger brack ets. They have to be installed in the box with the help of screws f screws and washers; 5. then, wire the unit. emem ber that white house wires should be connected to the white fan wires, while the black house wires should be connected to the black fan wires. 6. at last, the fan should be electr ically gr ou ounded to both the fan and the metal box. Turn
it on! If there is some wobbling, be advised that the blades are un balanced and this should be corrected. You can change two adjacent blades or c r check the weight of eac f each blade. If s If some is lighter , increase its weight with some small object put to the center of the blade. einstall fan and use it!
Descr iptive iptive Speech - DVD movie cr eation eation needs skills and exper ience ience In my descriptive speech I would give recommendation concerning home videos. I would not go into much detail. Instead, I would describe the steps that must be kept in mind. I would give some technical details. Notes:
Purpose: to help create a good home video. Goal: to narrate about an object in a way the audience can visualize the image. Structure: technical details are few but they are recommendations that may be used by the audience. I expect from my audience some knowledge about operating a video camera. My intention is to present the process of creating a home movie in a series of steps. I would never say that many home videos are awful because a home video is not a documentary movie. Its plot may be narrated by editing the event and cutting all that is o f minor importance. Creative ideas: home video may not mirror the event; it may show it from a certain perspective. So, memorable events may be performed with the help of the material available. I would make my audience interested in the described object : a home movie that is unique, exclusive, miraculous, and entertaining. Then I would describe the process of creating a good home movie with the steps singled out in separate paragraphs. I would modestly believe, in my conclusion, that the audience would follow my advice. I would talk to the audience as an expert who can talk shop without annoying details. I would never say overtly that many home videos are rubbish. But my recommendations would ut it in the implicit - first think, then make a movie of your life. The intended audience: not friends with technical appliances
DVD
movie creation needs skills and experience
Whenever I ience with time. r I look in the mirr or , I tr y not to see the changes all o f us have to exper ience However , DVD movie cr eation eation commemor ates ates the most cher ished ished and r emembe emember ed ed episodes of our lives and makes us f eel eel good, r efr eshing eshing memor ies ies about events and dates, places and people in vivid and unique images. All of us can't help gather ing ing together to enjoy watching unf or gettable gettable moments a r chived chived on DVDs, shar ing ing memor ies ies and being pr oud oud of our looks. I would like to r eveal eveal some sec r ets ets to you - how to make a good home h ome video. Fir st st of all, you have to tr ans ansf er the video data fr om om the camer a into the computer . For that, you need a video captur e car d to save the mate r ial ial on the har d dr ive ive using the car d's d's har dwa dwar e encoder . The best solution is constant bit r ate ate CBR ). Keep in mind that the volume of inf or mation mation must be less than that o f DVD disc. Second, video editing pr og ogr ams ams will help you cut unwanted data and adding eff ects. ects. My f avo avor ite ite
Enter taining taining Speech Headgear may be the most impor tant tant ar ticle ticle in the a r my's my's unif or m. m. You wear headgear to pr otect otect your sel self fr om the r ain ain and hot r ays ays of sunshine, as well as f or other s to admir e your militar y f fr om status. Militar y designer s ar e tempted again again and again to make hea dgear exclusive, namely, mor e stylish, tr endy, endy, and f ashionable. ashionable. The US patr iot iot stor e has on sale a gr eat eat var iety iety of headgear , may be f antastic antastic to wear - all those watch and boonie caps, ACU Fleece watch caps and Hat Ir aqi aqi Fr eedom eedom Veter an, an, Hat Special f or ces ce s and hat hat USA w/Flag low pr of ile. ile. They look smar t and ver y tempting to wear . My
old patr ol ol cap, the one I am holding in my hand, is my fr iend's iend's pr esent. esent. It has neither double thick bill nor inter nal nal pocket, neither chinstr aps aps nor br eathtaking eathtaking camouf lage lage c olor by which any deser t sniper would f igu igur e me out in no time. Quite an old thing it is, keeping secr ets ets of the militar y ser vice vice but whenever I table it f eels eels - even with that r I put it on « Well, how comf or table str ong ong smell of militar y ser vice! vice! What a f eeling! eeling! my, the patr ol ol cap is one of the thr ee ee headgear options, together with the ber et et and the In the ar my, militar y visor dr ess ess hat. When I tr ied ied to f ind ind secr ets ets of a new ACU patr ol ol cap, it occurr ed ed to me that the milita r y value moistur e -wicking boots mor e than headgear . A new patr ol ol cap is descr ibed ibed as "an upgr aded aded sof t cap with double thick bill, no earf laps laps and a lower pr of ile." ile." New ACU r elated elated questions, nd, np). Well, my old patr ol ol cap is sof t, t, too. No wonder s, s, it has known so many laundr ies. ies. It has no earf l aps, aps, eithe either . What about a lowe r pr of ile ile or a higher pr of ile? ile? No sweat, i f I like this shows) and like that shows). Wher e's e's the f I change it like ub? r ub? You may ask me why I ar gue gue against a new patr ol ol cap. Because I car e f or its histor y and I hate being cheated. My
patr ol ol cap suits me well. It may be used under any weather conditions. The color may be dulled but a f aded aded cap is the p r oo oof of many hour s spent outdoor s. s. I don't think a special pocket in the cr own own may alter anything in this valuable object of mine. mine. N either would two- ply ply panels with eyelets impr ove ove it a lot. Well, I can't call my cap a "f lying lying tiger " but it ser ves ves me well. At least it unctions as a cap, has no f alse alse pr etensions, etensions, and pr otects otects saf ely ely my head. You would r ecognize ecognize it f unctions as a patr ol ol cap at f i r st st sight. Such a cher ished ished model! Whatever you think, mine is a tr ue ue patr ol ol cap. In a new patr ol ol cap this f eeling eeling will somewhat disappear . I bet! New caps a r e stylish, but how well ar e they to wear ? New caps have cer tain tain impr ovements, ovements, but isn't a whee l always a wheel, r ound ound and r olling olling along the surf ace? ace? Who says that new patr ol ol caps ar e mor e comf or table table than the old ones?
Eulogies and Memor ials ials Mr s. s. Mar y
Boyle is no longer with us. Our gr ie ief is unbear able able because we have been used to having her with us - easy to contact, always hospitable and willing to give a helping hand. On this sad day we all f eel eel how impor tant tant her pr esence esence was to us. We cannot physically f eel eel the war mth mth of her attitude, her str ength, ength, her char m, m, her fr iendliness anymor e. e. But her e, e, she is still r fr iendliness with us. And will ever be - in our memor ies, ies, in our hopes, in our doings her e, e, on ear th. th. She was a good wi f e, e, a devoted mother of two childr en, en, and a wonderf ul ul gr andmothe andmother of thr ee ee gr andchild andchildr en. en. She was our fr iend, our devoted fr iend, iend, who always car ed ed f or us, who always r fr iend, suppor ted ted us, and with whom we used to shar e our happiness and anxiety. Per haps, haps, I am one of the f ew ew who r emembe emember her as a gir l. l. We lived in the same neighbor hood hood and visited the same school. I of ten ten visited her par ents' ents' house. Ther e was something special in it. amily atmospher e that I enjoyed so much. My Mom died when I was was ten ten . Mar y's y's It was a war m f amily amily gave that f eeling eeling of home that I had been missing. I spent many unf or gettable gettable hour s in f amily Mar y's y's house, talking, listening to music, dancing, and singing. While gr owing owing together , we got to know each other better . This fr iendship iendship of almost almost sixt sixt y yea year s is meaningf ul ul to me. It helped me to live with hope, to love the wor ld ld ar ound ound me, and it color ed ed my lif e in br ight ight color s. s. oduced the wor ld ld of liter atu atur e to me. I could spend hour s gluing to a TV It was Mar y who intr oduced scr een. een. I thought it was the only on ly escape fr om om loneliness. But when I made close fr iends iends with Mar y, y, I think I was eleven at that time, my li f e had dr astically astically changed. Well, she int r oduced oduced a new wor ld ld to me - the wor ld ld that was f ull ull of love, sympathy, and goodness. Together with Mar y, y, egular chur ch ch goer . Together with her , I volunteer ed ed to help the elder ly ly people in our I became a r egula neighbor hood. hood. Together with her , I went to par ties. ties. Due to her , I got to know that it was time f or har d wor k and f or pleasu r e. e. She was a disciplined per son, son, ha r dwo dwor king, king, br illiant illiant at school. She memor ized ized poetr y, y, Rober t Fr ost ost being her f avor ite, ite, and did wonder s inter pr eting eting it. She was a r f avo eal bor n leader , admir ed ed by all at school. r eal Although we attended diff er ent ent colleges, we never seized an oppor tunity tunity to spend time togethe together . We became closer than ever when we got marr ied ied the same year . My husband and I lived close at hand, so our fr iendship of two classmates tu r ned ned into f amily amily fr iendship. iendship. Mar y's y's husband Jack r fr iendship became ou r dear fr iend. Mar y was able to cr eate eate a f ami ami ly atmosphe atmospher e, e, of which her par ents ents wer e r fr iend. ver y pr oud. oud. Her home was open to my f amily. amily. Our kids played together . We wanted them to have this gr eat eat f eeling eeling of mutual tr ust ust and long -ter m fr iendship, iendship, which unites sever al al gener ations. ations. Although Mar y had been ser iously ill dur ing ing the last months of her lif e, e, she r emained emained the same cheerf ul ul per son son as ever . She knew that she would not live long. But she never showed it. On the contr ar y, y, she helped us to pr epa epar e f or this inevitable sepa r ation. ation. In her pr esence esence we had had t o as str ong ong as she was inwar dly. dly. At her bedside, she always had a book to r ead. ead. She was a bookwor m and could r ead ead sever al al books simultaneously. simultaneously. When I visited her dur ing ing her illness, we discussed liter atu atur e, e, ar gued gued about liter ar y tr ends, ends, and shar ed ed opinion s. She made made me f or get get how gr avely avely she was ill. She was a woman o f r emar kable kable intellectual power s. s. We r emembe emember her book pr inted inted ten f r ema year s ago. She was a college p r of esso essor r espected and admir ed ed by her students. She knew how to r r espected
Famous Speech: Alexander Hamilton Stephens: Secession is the Heights of Madness Alexander Hamilton Stephens ear: 1861 gia, the US ocation: Geor gia, gia ccasion: State Convention of Geor gia
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Alexander Stephens deliver ed ed this speech at the Special Convention in Geo r gia, gia, which was to decide on f ur the ther events in the United States. The Secession o f Geor gia gia fr om om the United States was in the center of discussion. Stephens Stephens appealed to the South to r e main with the Union. He distinctly opposed the secession, secession, but at the same time he kept this r ight ight in case if the f ede eder al al author ities ities continued discr editing editing of the Fugitive Slave Law. Stephens was elected the p r esident esident of the Conf ede eder acy. acy. ext of the Speech This
step of secession ) once taken, can never be r ecalled; ecalled; and all the bale f ul ul and wither ing ing consequences that must f ollow, ollow, will r est est on the convention f or all coming time. When we and our poster ity ity shall see ou r lovely South desolated by the demon of war , which this act o f your s will inevitably invite and call f or th: th: when our gr een een f ields ields of waving har vest vest shall be tr odden odden down by the mur de der ous ous soldier y and f ie ier y car of war sweeping over our land; our temples of justice laid in ashes; all the ho rr or s and desolations of war upon us; who but this convention will be held esponsible f or it? and who but him who shall have given his vote f or this unwise and ill -timed r esponsible measur e, e, as I honestly think and believe, shall be held to str ict ict account f or this suici suicidal dal act by the pr esent esent gener ation, ation, and pr obably obably cur sed sed and execr ated ated by poster ity ity f or all coming time, f or the wide and desolating r uin uin that will inevitably f ollow ollow this act you now pr opose opose to per petr ate? ate? Pause, I entr eat eat you, and consider f that will even satisf y r f or a moment what r e asons you can give that your selves selves in calmer moments - what r easons easons you can give to your f ellow -suff er er s in the r f ellow calamity that it will b r ing ing upon us. What r easons easons can you give to the nations of the ear th th to justif y it? They will be the calm and delibe d eliber ate ate judges in the case; and what cause o r one over t act can you name or point, on which to r est est the plea o f justif ication? ication? What r ight ight has the Nor th th assailed? assailed? What inter est est of the South has been invaded? What justice has been denied? and what claim f ounded ounded in justice and r ight ight has been withheld? Can eithe r of you to -day name one gover nmental nmental act of wr ong, ong, deliber ately ately and pur posely done by the gover nment nment of Washington, of which the South has a r ight ight to complain? I challenge the answer . While, on the other hand, let me show the f acts acts and believe me, gentlemen, I am not her e the advocate of the Nor th; th; but I am her e the fr iend, iend, the f ir m fr iend, iend, and lover of the South and her institutions, and f or this r eason eason I speak thus plainly and f aith aith f ully ully f o r your s, s, mine, and ever y other man's inter est, est, the wor ds ds of tr uth uth and sober ness ness), of which I wish you to judge, and I will only state f acts acts which ar e clear and undeniable, and which now stand as r eco ecor ds ds authentic in the histor y of our countr y. y. When we of the South demanded the slave -tr ade, ade, or the impor tation tation of Afr icans icans f or the cultivation of our lands, did they not yield the r ight ight f or twenty year s? s? When we asked a th r ee ee-f if ths ths r ep epr esentation esentation in Congr ess ess f or our slaves, was it not gr anted? anted? When we asked
Famous Speech: Ben Chif ley ley : The Light on the Hill Ben Chif ley ley ear: 1949 alia ocation: New South Wales, Austr alia ess to the Annual Conf er ence ence of the ALP Austr alian alian Labor Par ty ty) ccasion: Addr ess
Author:
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This
shor t speech was given at the Annual Conf er ence ence of the ALP in the New South Wales, Austr alia. alia. Pr ime ime Minister Ben Chif ley ley addr essed essed mainly the member s of the labor par ty, ty, f or he concentr ated ated on the values and challenges f or the Labor Par ty. ty. ³The light on the hill´ is the symbol of the par ty, ty, its objective. Some o f the wor ds ds fr om om the speech wer e str iking iking f or the audience, as they disclosed the LP goals and aspir ations ations in the most dir ect ect ter ms, ms, without diplomatic cover ing. ing. ext of the Speech
ivilege of leading the Labour Par ty ty f or near ly ly f ou our year s. s. They have not been I have had the pr ivilege easy times and it has not been an easy job. It is a man -killing job and would be impossible if it wer e not f or the help of my colleagues and member s of the movement. No Labour Minister or leader ever has an easy job. The ur gency gency that r ests ests behind the Labour movement, pushing it on to do things, to cr eate eate new conditions, to r eo eor ganise ganise the economy of the countr y, y, always means that the people who wor k within the Labour moveme nt, people who lead, can never have an easy job. The job of the evangelist is never easy. Because of the tur n of f tune's wheel your Pr emie emier Mr McGirr) and I have gained some f f or tune's pr ominence ominence in the Labour movement. But the str ength ength of the movement movement cannot cannot com e fr om om us. We may make plans and pass legislation to help and di r ect ect the economy of the countr y. y. But the job of getting the things the people of the countr y want comes fr om om the r oots oots of the Labour movement - the people who suppor t it. When I sat at a Labour meeting in the countr y with only ten or f teen men ther e, e, I f ound ound a man r f if teen sitting beside me who had been wor king king in the Labour movement f or f ty -f ou our year s. s. I have no r f if ty doubt that many of you have been doing the same, not hoping f or any advantage fr om om the movement, not hoping f or any per sonal sonal gain, but because you believe in a movement that has been built up to b r ing ing better conditions to the people. Ther ef or e, e, the success o f the Labour Par ty ty at the next elections depends entir ely, ely, as it always always has done, on the people who wor k. k. I tr y to think of the Labour movement, not as putting an extr a sixpence into somebody's pocket, or making somebody Pr ime ime Minister or Pr emie emier , but as a movement br inging inging something better to the people, better standar ds ds of living, gr eate e ater happiness to the mass o f the people. We have a gr eat eat objective - the light on the hill - which we aim to r each each by wor king king the better ment ment of mankind not only her e but anywher e we may give a helping hand. If it wer e not f or that, the Labour movement would not be wor th th f ighting ighting f or .
Gr aduation aduation Speech: Gr aduating aduating fr om om Univer sity sity of Tor onto onto Let
me star t by saying that I am ver y pr oud oud to be addr essing essing you today as the students of Tor onto onto Univer sity sity f or the last time. In some moments we shall r eceive eceive the diplomas and become the 2005 gr aduates aduates of the Linguistics f aculty, aculty, newly -f ledged ledged Master s of Ar t in Tr anslation. anslation. I guess that af te ter the str ain ain of f inal tests, cr edits edits and exams, not to mention the time -consuming f f inal gr aduation aduation theses and its ner ve ve -r acking acking pr esentation esentation ), most of us wer e looking f or wa war d to this moment, when the studying is over , the d iploma is in your pocket and you ar e fr ee ee to do what you like. But I want you to look ar ound ound you and r emembe emember this moment. Look at your gr oup oup mates and your teache r s, s, because fr om om now on lif e will scatte r us ar ound ound the wor ld, ld, and most of us will meet only at alumni pa r ties. ties. Recall the best moments o f studying that we shar ed. ed. Our f st lectur es es in September , when we came so sun -tanned and so f ull ull of summer stor ies ies that r f ir st the teacher had diff iculties iculties silencing us up to sta r t the lectur e, e, and we tr ied ied har d to wr ite ite it down with f inge inger s stiff fr om a long idle vacation v acation time. Remember our coff ee ee br eaks, eaks, our f st collective ff fr om r f ir st tr uancy, uancy, when we gather ed ed together and went to play snowballs. Recall Recall your student fr iends iends with whom you tr ied ied har d to answer the eter nal nal ques tions and and f ind ind the sense of lif e. e. Remember the sur pr ise ise we all f elt elt when we under stood stood that we ar e no longer the youngest in the campus, when the fr eshmen eshmen f ussing ussing ar ound ound and asking f or dir ections ections caused caused us to smile at them and pat r onize onize them. Remember your f avo avor ite ite teacher s who made you f eel eel a tiny spa r k of inter est est glowing inside you and managed to suppor t this spar k and helped us to discover who we ar e and what we'd like to do in the f utu utur e. e. Remember ever ything ything and car ve ve this moment in your memor y. y. We ar e now standing on the thr eshold eshold of the r eal eal adult li f e. e. Fr om om now on no one will put us an "A" or an "F" f or well or poor ly ly done homewor k and evaluate our pr og ogr ess. ess. We ar e fr ee ee to go our own way, and it will be absolutely diff er ent ent f or ever yone. yone. Some Some will continue studies studies on the post-gr aduate aduate level and become univer sity sity tutor s or scientists. Othe r s will r ush ush to apply their skills on pr actice actice and become good tr anslato anslato r s or inter pr ete eter s. s. Some of us will r equi equir e time to think and will go tr aveling. aveling. When univer sity studies ar e over , it is time to cr eate eate our own lives, and f or this we have the whole wor ld ld at our disposal. As John U pdike said, "you cannot help but lear n mor e as you take the wor ld ld into your hands. Take it up r eve ever ently, ently, f or it is an old piece of clay, with millions o f thumbpr ints ints on it" 2). So my f ir st st piece of advice is not to hesitate to step over the thr eshold eshold of the door that is al r eady eady open f or us. With the knowledge and fr iends iends we gained fr om om our alma mater , the Univer sity sity of Tor onto, onto, we will will over come come ever y obstacle. The main thing is to sear ch ch har d f or the job that you r eally eally like, and have per sistence sistence and f aith. aith. A avor ite ite job is not f ound ound lying in the str eet, eet, it should be looked af te ter . But in the end it will be f avo ther e f or you, and you'll f eel ee l that it's your cup of tea as soon as you sta r t it. Don't settle and keep looking. But however winding and diff er ent ent our lif e paths will be, we ar e all the gr aduates aduates of one univer sity, sity, and we shar e the common concepts of our Univer sity sity - knowledge, spir ituality ituality and eedom. The Univer sity sity gave us an oppor tunity tunity to get good academic tr aining, aining, balance our fr eedom. per sonal sonal pr io ior ities ities and f eel eel fr ee ee to choose whatever path we like. We have gained education, that is "what sur vives vives when what has been lear ned ned has been f or gotten" gotten" B.F. Skinner) 2). To be ser ious, ious, I think that with these concepts we ar e, e, as Clinton said, "doomed to succeed". succeed".
Gr aduation aduation Speech: Gr atitude atitude to Phoenix Univer sity sity Dear fr iends, we have gather ed ed her e today to celeb r ate ate our gr aduation. aduation. It is momentous event, r fr iends, because it ma r ks ks the ending of the whole er a of your lives. Year s at univer sity sity wer e special, because they helped us to become individuals we a r e today. Per sona s onall ll y I am sur e that without that pr ecious ecious exper ience ience my lif e would be something completely diff er ent. ent. I would not have such eatur es es of char acte acter as deter mination, mination, self -conf idence, idence, pur posef ulness ulness and commitment. I can f eatu state this clea r ly: ly: my univer sity sity helped me to become a per son son I am now. Special thanks ar e to my lear ning ning team member s who helped me a lot, guided and suppor ted ted me. It was due to their backing that I completed my under gr aduate aduate degr ee ee in about thr ee ee year s, s, then took two weeks off and immediately sta r ted ted pur suing suing an MBA. I succeeded, succeeded, and tonight I am standing in fr ont ont of you. aduating with the f eeling eeling of deep satisf action. action. I wor ked ked a lot and my eff or ts ts gave I am gr aduating something mor e than just an MBA status. It is skills skills and knowledge knowledge and invaluable e xper ience. ience. uctor s challenged us with the eno r mous mous tasks, stating that their subject is the most impo r tant tant Instr ucto and only it will be of use in our f utur e car ee eer . Well, I should say this is t r ue. ue. I can har dly dly r f utu emember a book or a pr oject oject which I can call unne cessar y today. The univer sity sity envir onment onment r emembe was like the model o f the society in miniatu r e. e. Ther e wer e ups and downs but now I am r eady eady f or the r eal eal wor ld ld waiting outside the univer sity sity walls. You know, sometimes I f elt elt fr ust ustr ated, ated, because it was di ff icult icult enough. enough. Ther e was ever ything: ything: sleepless nights, f atigue atigue and even disappointment about the way I have chosen. But those wer e tr ansient ansient emotions evoked by much studying and lack of r est sometimes. It has been a challenge f r est getting education, and many times I though of giving up«But those wer e only the thoughts, because I can't imagine my lif e without that pr ecious ecious exper ience, ience, knowledge and skills obtained in my univer sity sity year s. s. Of ten ten I was pr oud oud of myself because I was str ong ong enough to over come come all obstacles and succeed. I obtained tr ue ue satisf action action fr om om getting new knowledge and becoming someone gr eate eater than just a student. I was an excellent student. Maybe, my gr ades ades wer e not always perf ect, ect, but I knew it f or myself that I am an excellent excellent student who can can cop e with any task and solve any pr oblem. oblem. I did my best to get as much fr om om my education as I could. This was my victor y over the challenges I f aced aced on my way. If I If I could do this, you can do it as well. Because, Because, you know, tutor s, s, instr ucto uctor s and academic academic advi sor s ar e not the only f acto actor of student success. Much depends on a student himself . Gr eat eat desir e, e, enthusiasm and str iving iving f or academic success contr ibute ibute to the student achievements. achievements. Thus, I under stood stood that no one but you can br ing ing you to the top. Academic envir onment onment and people ar e impor tant tant f acto actor s, s, but not the only. By the way, they ar e quality and su ff icient icient at Phoenix Univer sity. sity. Academic sta ff and academic envir onment onment ar e wonderf ul ul at this univer sity, sity, and I will r emembe emember the days of my studying her e as the most valuable and quality year s in my lif e. e. So, I can't descr ibe ibe my happiness and enjoyment today, when I am gr aduating aduating with an MBA. It is not about getting the diploma as the cer ti tif icate icate o f my status. It is r athe ather satisf action action fr om om having the mater ial ial evidence o f my pr ecious ecious exper ience ience gained in the year s of studying at Phoenix Univer sity. sity. en't too tir ed ed of my speech. These wer e my I want to thank you all again. I hope that you wer en't
IMPROMPTU SPEECH I did not intend to take the floor, but the questions "Should women ever pay on a date" seems to be having a response in my heart. If you ask me, everyone loves to be wined and dined at another person's expense, both men and women. It is expected from the man who initiates a date to pay for it is well. However, I wonder: Is it really fair f air for a man to foot the bill all the time? You may say, he has invited her and must pay for her company. If it she were not invited, she would be able to have a Lean Cuisine by herself. In this case, the man is not paying for a meal. He is paying for the pleasure of being with a woman, so that in her presence any meal would be sweetened by her charm and a good sense of humor. Men may think that it it is out of the question to allow a woman to have a share in paying for a meal. Women may think that men may be offended if they pay on a date. In other words, women support the idea of being a man in the person who wines and dines them. However, in the 21st centur y, with women earning their own money and getting more and more more independent, we may not see a thing wrong with women paying for a date. Let's see my point. Yes, it's a different age. With all all those talks about gender roles and equality of sexes, sticking sticking to manycentury traditions when men paid for women mainly because women had no money of their own may be out of date. Of course, some men are offended when a woman offers to pay for a date. But isn't it the sign of her reluctance to continue relationship? Isn't it a straightforward straightforward "No!" to any further advances? Why, then it is the only way for a man to keep his face. When a woman suggests she should pay on a date, she demonstrates that she is not interested in a relationship. In this case, a man with her is treated as someone she's doing business with, not a person she cares for. You may say, society dictates that the initiator foots the bill on a date. In accordance with this norm, it doesn't matter whether this initiator is a man or a woman. When a man s ays, "Baby, let's go out", a woman subconsciously knows who would pay on a date. The one who is inviting is to set the foundations of the date. To be on the same side, it would be not bad from the very beginning to discuss the issue at hand. Neither of those involved should ever assume that the other is paying. Yet, a woman should pay on a date only if: - First, if it isn't her first date with a guy. - Second, if she has been going going with that guy guy for some time, and only if he p permits ermits - no shortage of money would prevent a real gentleman from having a pleasure to show that he isn't in low waters financially. - Third, if it is a woman who initiates the date.
