that sees miles past the confines of their own backyard. Some may call me illogical and unrealistic. On the contrary, I see the world for everything it could be, everything we could make it. Two years ago I received my acceptance letter to my dream school: Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, and it was one of the happiest moments of my life. In the wake of a difficult childhood dealing with years of emotional and physical abuse culminating in my running away to put myself into foster care, it seemed
our teachers, coaches, deans, and parents. I’d like to start by thanking everyone who has supported me throughout my high school career. Because of you all, I was able to receive awards and acknowledgment for my hard work. I am very thankful. But today I want to share some experiences about my life. The three things I’ve learned while attending at Spring Lake Park High School were to never be afraid of failing, to take more risk, and to stay positive when the road gets bumpy. The important things
the Instructor Course Code Date Analysis from “Graduation” by Maya Angelou Graduation is a vital evolution time in every person’s life. It acts like moving one stage to another for something better and more important and to use knowledge to accomplish life goals. For this reason, children attend the grammar school, including Maya Angelou. In article ‘Graduation’, Maya Angelou describes her memories of her 8th grade graduation. She was more aware of the unfair management of African-Americans
graduating college students want to make a change. Now “Commencement Address” is a speech delivered by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at a graduation ceremony at Wellesley College, which is a private, women’s liberal arts college in the US. The speech was delivered in 2015 and Adichie is advising the graduating students of 2015 ‘to try’ and to stand up for themselves. She builds this on her own experiences in the speech and she also displays her concern regarding gender equality, where she speaks about
Graduation Speech Welcome to our graduation ceremony of 1940. It 's an accolade and a privilege to be graduating, I verbally express it’s a privilege because that 's what it is. As Nelson Mandela verbally expressed, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. We wouldn 't be where we all are today without an education. We always want to be thankful we got the chance to get an education because most everybody who is prosperous has an education. Now, don’t get me
his credibility as everyone already knows it and he is a trustworthy source. But, as his audiences are young adults, so he still try to boost his credibility at the beginning of the speech with the joke about coeducation college student partying to let the students know he has been there too. 2.3.2 Pathos This speech can be said as an emotional roller coaster as the emotional elements have its ups and downs. It arise when the president stated Americans ' previous achievements where he said "For a
being oblivious on what their interest lies in and what they want to do. Therefore, the ASPIRE committee wants to advice students on different careers and establish education in polytechnics, ITE and schools by placing around three to five trained Education and Career Guidance (ECG) officers in each schools to provide more information by having face to face sessions (Siau, 2014, para. 6). On the other hand, instead of searching for what their interest lies in, students are rushing to get a degree first
Informative Speech Preparation Outline I. INTRODUCTION A. Gain the audience’s attention: Koch states in the article Special Education in 2000 that 1.7 million disabled children were not able to attend public schools until IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, was implemented (Koch, 2000). Transition to Thesis: A high school diploma is necessary in todays life, but many students with special needs are still facing challenges to receive theirs. B. Thesis: The environment where
kids who don’t think about the consequences of their behaviour. They don’t know how the bullied kid feels. No. We have to embrace each other and be kind. That’s what George Saunders tries to illuminate in his speech. The “Commencement Address” is a speech held by George Saunders to the graduation class at Syracuse University in New York state in 2013. It’s a free paper because he writes what comes to his mind and what he wish to say and pass on to the students. The text is about how we have to behave
the summers when on break from school going to the local library almost every weekend to and getting a huge collection of book so that we could read and earn prizes during their reading program. I was formally taught to read and write as early as five years old. I attended a Montessori school from ages 3-5. It was very important to be able to identify letters and sight words at an early age. After Montessori school, I attended private parochial school until graduation. The academics and courses were