英文的演讲稿
演讲稿是在一定的场合，面对一定的听众，演讲人围绕着主题讲话的文稿。在我们平凡的日常里，演讲稿使用的情况越来越多，你所见过的演讲稿是什么样的呢？以下是小编为大家收集的英文的演讲稿，希望能够帮助到大家。
英文的演讲稿1
Good morning everyone, Before my speech, I want to ask one question, what do you eat this morning? Yeah, food is present in our life every time. So today my topic is how do we eat on campus?
1，In China there is an old saying: Bread is the staff of life. The Chinese meaning is 民以食为天。Obviously, it means food plays a decisive [di'saisiv] role in our daily life, Food safety is a matter of primary importance , The issue is closely related to ordinary people’s health.
2, As we know, The food safety is a serious problem in china, and on campus ,the matter is also exist, and the unhealthy food harm our health everyday. For example, in the morning, you buy a donut for breakfast, and likely, the donut is made by drainage oil; and when you hungry you buy kebab , it may be dealed with chemical materials. So even on campus, we also should improve food safety awareness.
3, The unhealthy food seriously harm our body, it can cause different kinds of diseases, from a headache to cancer, This is not a threat, some unhealthy food, Containing various additives. And which give a tremendous threat to us. Some unhealthy food will make us ill, such as diarrhea[,dai?'ri?]、stomach ache and other disease of digestive tract. Some food additives use chemical materials to make food looks better, but it will carcinogenic in a long time.
4, Due to food safety is important in our life, so there so many things waiting for the government to do. ***问1*** First, Strengthening food safety legislation , and use the experiences of developed countries. Strongly punish criminal for food safety. Second, our government should promote food safety knowledge, to rise people’s of self-protection.
5, What is more, as a postgraduate, we also should do more on food safety. First of all, we should learn some essential common sense about safety food, and learn to recognize the unhealthy food by ourselves. *** 问2*** second，do not covet petty gain，in normal situation, the food price is stable, when you see a abnormal price, be carefull ! Last, everyone should have awareness of unhealthy food, raise the sense of prevention.
Though the food safety situation is bad, but I still believe through the joint efforts of government and all communities, We finally will eat the security food .
英文的演讲稿2
Low-carbon LifeNow more and more people get to know its important to protect our living environment.As a student，its my duty to do something for the earth.From now on， Ill go to school by bike or on foot instead of in a car.Ill use fewer
plastic bags to reduce white pollution.In order to save energy Ill plant more trees so that the air will be fresher.Ill take lelift and reuse water.At last l will use second-hand books，so we dont need to cut down more trees.If everyone takes action， our enivronment will be better and better.Our world will be more beautiful. I am LiHua，now I suggest that everyone have a Low-carbon Life today.Low-carbon LifeNow more and more people get to know its important to protect our living environment. First，we should walk to school in the morning by foot.Then，it is neccesary not to use disposable chopsticks and to use fewer plastic bags to reduce white pollution.Furthermore，at night ，we should use the electric fan instead of enjoy the air conditioning when study at home. If everyone takes action， our enivronment will be better and better.Our world will be more beautiful. Fristly，discovering others fuels which is more clean and more green to instead of the using of carbon. Secondly， we should have the save-energy conscious and do something which we can make，for instance，using the bus ranther than car when you go out，re-use the thing that can be recycle used，reducing the use of plastic bags.
Last but not least，we should plant more trees or other greenplants，in which way we can not only improve the environment，but also can make our home more beauty. In my opnion， the most important thing to reach the low-carbon economic is everyone must try their best do what they can do for it.Once everyone have the sence of low-carbon economic and have the action by themselves ，it will be earlier to reach it.
英文的演讲稿3
Dear judges,
Good evening!
Thank you for holding this meaningful English Speech Competition. It offers us a stage not only for showing our interests, but also a great chance to communicate with and learn from others.
I am an English teacher from Ma’an Primary School in Huangpu, Zhongshan.
Last summer, I graduated from Hunan Normal University. Then I came to this small school. My first sight of this school was not good at all. It is in deep country, the campus is small, the buildings are old and low,and the equipments are very traditional, with in the whole school only three classrooms equipped with computer. I knew I made a terrible choice to be a teacher here. But children’s bright eyes changed my opinion.
In the first class, I told my children my English name was Flora. Flora meaned Godness of flowers. And all of them were beautiful flowers. They were very happy and showed great curiosty in English. Children like imitating. They like activities and games. They are really very sunny. I rememberd one girl once asked me a funny question in Chinese: “Flora, you speak so good English, are you from England?” I smiled. Look ,How lovely my children are!
These images kept appearing in my daily life. Day after day, I was touched by the bright eyes, I was touched by the heart thirsty for knowledge, I began to fall in love with this carreer. Every morning, I get up at six o’clock. I see the red rising sun. I tell me what I’m nurturing are groups of small suns.
However, life is a mixture of sunshine and rainfalls. Last November, I had a first test in my class. All the children did a good job in this test except for one boy. This boy was a very polite student with few words. In my class I seldom noticed him. But I never thought he would do so bad this time. I was unhappy . I pulled him to my office and badly criticized him.
But he didn’t say any word. The second test, his paper was just like before with a big red cross on it. I pulled him to my office again. He didn’t say any word, and just listened and listened. When he went back, I was perplexed. “What kind of boy on earth he is? How can I deal with him? ”
This time ,I turned to his former headteacher. I got to know that this boy’s other subjets are not good,either. His father and mother got divorced when he was five. He is with his mother. Life is difficult. His mother sells vegetables in the market and has to leave home early and go back late to support this incomplete family. From the bottom of his heart, he is bad than others.
I was astonished. God is unfair to this small boy. I knew I was wrong to criticized him that badly. First, I changed the seat from the coner to the middle. Then I paid more and more attention to him. I found he is not at all clumsy. I looked for chances to praise him and asked the class leaders to play with him.
Gradually I found smiles on his face. He is becoming outgoing. What’s more, he gave me a satisfying paper in the last term exam. I smiled because I saw his smiles.
Look, this is my carreer. I like to be a teacher. It can’t be more common. But it’s full of love. My dream is trying to give children a much fairer chance to learn. I’m sure love can water whatever kinds of land. Thank you !
英文的演讲稿4
Keep Your Direction 坚持你的方向
What would you do if you failed? Many people may choose to give up. However, the surest way to success is to keep your direction and stick to your goal.
On your way to success, you must keep your direction. It is just like a lamp, guiding you in darkness and helping you overcome obstacles on your way. Otherwise, you will easily get lost or hesitate to go ahead.
Direction means objectives. You can get nowhere without an objective in life.
You can try to write your objective on paper and make some plans to achieve it. In this way, you will know how to arrange your time and to spend your time properly. And you should also have a belief that you are sure to succeed as long as you keep your direction all the time.
翻译：
如果失败了你会怎么做?很多人可能会选择放弃。不过，要想成功，最可靠的方法就是坚持你的方向和目标。
在通往成功的路上，你必须坚持你的方向。它就像一盏灯，在黑暗中为你指路，协助你度过难关。否则，你很容易就会迷失方向或犹豫不前。
方向意味着目标。人生如果没有目标，将一事无成。
你能够试着把你的目标写在纸上，并制定实现目标的'计划。这样，你就会懂得如何合理安排时间，如何准确地支配时间。而且你还要有这样的信念：只要你一直坚持自己的方向，你就一定能够成功。
英文的演讲稿5
Ladies and gentlemen,dear friends!
I am very glad to stand here and deliver a speech.
20xx sees the joys and sorrows of china.The snow disaster ,the earthquake and the olympics all happened in this particular year.we chinese had never suffered such disaters and held the olympics for the first time.That was a big challenge for us.But the strong chinese nation would fight until he dropped!Just as the saying goes,when the going gets tough,the tough gets going.Hard work paid off.The disasters has gone by and the olympics has been a big hit throughout the world.
Now I'm standing here to tell you that we're on our way to be great.No one can deny us the future.If winter has come,can spring be far behind?we stand on the land of snow,we hear the voice of hope!
Thank you!
英文的演讲稿6
I'm a student.I like eggs and coconut.Because eggs is very good for me .It's very healthy.The coconut is a very sweet .I like them.
What about fruit?I like banana very much.banana always grows in the warm area. it's nice to eat, and it is good for our healths. like us ,monkeys also like to eat bananas. you can see this in the zoo.
They are really healthy and delicious.I think you will like them,too.
英文的演讲稿7
心宽一寸，受益三分。心宽路就宽，心窄路就窄。不争自然能得到人们的尊崇，能忍则忍，一忍百安。以下是“态度的英文演讲稿”希望能够帮助的.到您！
It is natural that difficulties hide in every corner of our life,so we have to face them at times.Whatever we have undergone in our life, we shouldn't complain about it. We may get a lot or lose so much in our life journey, but keeping a positive attitude should always be together with us. Nothing can defeat us if we are confident and diligent. Just as saying goes, God is equal to everyone. As he closes the door, he will also open a window for us.
Many of us have seen a picture on the Internet of a man with a nice smile is struggling along with the aid of a stick because of losing one of his feet,and another man is sitting on the ground without shoes on his feet,looking anxious and depressed.How different the expressions flitting across their faces are!At the bottom of the drawing says”Because I have no shoes,I keep complaining until I find another man who has lost one of his feet.”
What an impressive drawing it is in revealing different attitudes toward life!A person's attitude towards life is very important, it determines your life, which path you are taking and how your life will become. if you are a person with very strong positive outlook, no matter what difficulties you encounter, you will always look at the bright side of life and never give up easily. Take Thomas Edison as an example.Before inventing the electric bulb,he had tried thousands of materials for lamp filament,but failed.Despite others’ laughing at him.he said,”I am not a failure,at least I have proved these materials are not fit for filament.”Before long he invented electric bulb.
The most frequent example you see are those patients or people that are handicapped or suffering from some type of illness like cancer. They do not give up any glimpse of hope and continue fighting till they their last breathe. Even those very determined handicapped,they do not blame the world for their disable. Instead, they are contented and blessed with all the rest the have, their family , friends and those who support them greatly. Those handicapped with negative attitude towards life will feel that the world is unfair and they life in misery and always feel that they are unless and unwanted.
All in all,it is our attitudes that have changed everything in our life and help us to pull through all hardships.So we should strive to develop a positive attitude toward life and the world.It is convinced that only when we are equipped with optimism and confidence can we achieve success in the future.
英文的演讲稿8
In Other Ways
其他开场方式欣赏
Today I come to Oslo as a trustee， inspired and with renewed dedication to humanity； I accept this prize on behalf of all men who loved peace and brotherhood. I say I come as a trustee， for in the depths of my heart I am aware that this prize is much more than an honor to me personally.
今天，我以受托人的身份来到奥斯陆，心情激动，充满了献身人类的新勇气。我代表所有热爱和平与兄弟情谊的人们接受这个奖。我之所以以受托人的身份来到这里，是因为，在我的内心深处，我意识到这个奖决不仅仅是我个人的荣誉。
The road of history is not level and smooth all along. Sometimes the path will come to a dangerous and difficult place.
It is only with the valiant and gallant spirit of the travelers that it can be passed through.
The vast and mighty Yangtzi River， when it comes to an endless， broad plain， will flow ten thousand miles in a rapid current. But as it reaches a narrow valley with high ranges of mountains， cliffs and precipices on both sides， which look dangerously steep， the river has to force its way through them in a winding， tortuous course. The same is the case with the developing course of a nation’s history.
The history of human race is like going on a journey. Some of the places the traveler passes through are smooth and level pianos， and others are dangerous and rugged paths. The experienced travelers， when they moved on to a broad， level road， will naturally walk along with a light heart， but while they are passing through a rugged place they will all the more be seized with curiosity， and in such an extremely fantastic and magnificent realm， will all the more feel a sort of pleasure in an adventure.
历史的.道路，不总是平坦的，有时会变得艰难险阻。这只能靠英勇无畏的精神才能够冲过去。
一条浩浩荡荡的长江大河，有时流到很宽阔的境界，一望无际，一泻千里。有时流到很逼狭的境界，两岸丛山叠岭，绝壁断崖，江河流于其间，曲折迂回，极为险峻。民族生命的进展，其历程亦复如是。
人类在历的生活正如旅行一样。旅途上的征人所经过的地方有时是坦荡平原，有时是崎岖险路。老于旅途的人，走到平坦的地方固是高高兴兴地向前走，走到崎岖的境界，愈是奇趣横生，觉得在此奇艳壮绝的境界，愈能感得一种冒险的美趣。
My fellow and my friends；
Once I read a piece of news report. It says， ”A middle school student in a remote mountainous area was doing his revision at home one day. His brother， whose age excelled school age， was playing and drawing on the paper with his elder brother’s pencil at his side. Suddenly the younger brother raised his head thoughtfully， his little eyes were winking， and said to his brother seriously， ”When will it thirty-second， brother？” The elder brother looked at his innocent younger brother and said with a smile， ”What are you going to do on that thirty-second？” ”Papa promised me to send me to school，” said his younger brother. His brother， the middle school student looked at his lovely brother and his heart seemed to be stitched with needles. My God！ My parents were working day and night in order to be able to afford my schooling. They were exhausted. How could they afford my younger brother’s schooling？ Oh， thirty-second ...
My dear friends， hearing this， didn’t you feel sorry for them？ We share the same native land， the same blue sky under the sun. Why cannot they be given lesson at school， sitting in the bright and big classroom？ We are used to saying that education goes first before vitalizing the country. But now the country’s fiscal solvency and material resources are not ample enough. What should we do？ It requires that we should be of one heart and exert our efforts for our motherland.
同胞们，朋友们：
我曾看过这样一则报道：”某边远山区一个中学生，一天在家复习功课，一旁的已过入学年龄的小弟弟拿他的铅笔在纸上写着、涂着、画着，突然若有所思地仰起小脸，眨巴几下小眼睛，认真地问：’哥哥，什么时候才到32号呀？’这位中学生看看天真的小弟弟，笑着逗他：’32号你要干啥？’’爸爸说，到32号才能送我去上学。’中学生望着可爱的小弟弟，内心针扎般难受：天哪，父母为了供自己上学，整日操劳，身体都累垮了，哪还有能力再送弟弟上学？啊！32号......”
朋友们，当你听了这个故事，你不感到痛心吗？同在一片故土上，同在一片蓝天下，为什么他们不能坐在宽敞明亮的教室里去读书？我们常说：国家要振兴，教育须先行。而我国的财力、物力都不宽裕，怎么办？这就需要全社会的人齐心协力为国家分忧，为国家出力！
英文的演讲稿9
The Little Prince is a tale for both children and adults. The Little Prince is the story of a man who crashes his airplane into the desert only to meet a traveling boy from a small planet. The boy inquires about trees and sheep, shares his journeys and various encounters, and then leaves. Yet, reading between the lines, the story offers a much more complex, eiching, satisfying and eye-opening moral: what matters in life is love - and caring about someone or something and maintaining that relationship. The prince loves his rose enough to care for it every night by protecting it with a glass globe and requesting a muzzle for his sheep. He knows that the rose is naive with only four purposeless thorns and, out of his loyalty to her, it is his duty to protect her. Likewise, the narrator loves the prince and feels an obligation to secure his safe journey home. I read this book as a child and was infected with a sense of awe and a newfound respect for the written word and its power to touch, heal and change perception. For myself, it accomplished two things; it instilled in me a desire to one day become a writer and touch others with my words and like the narrator of the story, and Antoine De Saint-Exupery (whose own plane crash is said to have been the basis for the tale) it instilled within me a hope that one day the Little Prince will return and someone will let me know. What is the meaning of this tale? Easily saying is that the tale talk about many normal things like morals and principles and values from two different but successive way as children and adults. As the narrator said you can only catch adults’ attention by describing the price of something or saying the number of something. It’s hard to make adults feel lovely by the children’s beautiful describing. That is the reason why many adults believe this tale is a tale for adults. Being insincere and utilitarian, adults consider useful and kids think sinful. Free spirit and free heart, adults consider absurd and children believe necessary. The amazing point is that these two different beliefs are held by one species--Human. When we were young, we could see anything God want us to see. But after decades, what we could see was only something we need to see. There are so many good things for children and their imagination. And there are not so many things for adults and their reality.
英文的演讲稿10
Once man did not have to think about the protection of his environment. There were few people on the earth, and natural resources seemed to be unlimited.
Today things are different. The world has become too crowded. We are using up our natural resources,and polluting our environment with dangerous chemicals. If we continue to do this, human life on earth will not survive.
We realize that if too many fish are taken from the sea, there will soon be none left. Yet,with modern fishing methods, more and more fish are caught.We know that if too many trees are cut down, forests will disappear. Yet, we continue to use powerful machines to cut down more and more trees. We see that if rivers are polluted with waste products, we will die. Yet, waste products are more and more
i think avoiding to do many things is not the way to protect the envirnment,the point is not the thing we can't do,but is the thing we shuld do,we are human beings, and we are different form the other animals,we should relay on our telegent and brave.
here i think there are two effecient ways to protect the enviroment, and first one if the development of the technology, the knowlodge is power, it always makes us to get twice acheivement with half effort,for example, an typical pollution plastic package, many places forbid to use the plastic pakage,in fact the plastic package is very good,it has many advantage, low cost ,durable,convenient. the issue is we can't break down it, with the development of technology, one day it will be wildly used, but now what we can do is to use other things to instead it. we usually call for to save the resorces, but in my opinion the resorce is just like the money, if you want more money, you have to earn, but not to save. so the best way is to use the present resorce to discover the new and powrful resorce,we call it sustanibol development.
the other aspect of the protection is advocating everyone to join the group, to make every one realize the importance of protecting the enviroment, the more people ,the more power,thus, you can image if everyone has the habit to improve our enviroment,who make the pollution, if you want the enviroment better,now make you contribution and make your choice!
about my country
I'm worried about my country.
There is polution everywhere.
It's time to do something about it.
We need fresh air to breathe.
We need pure water to drink.
We need a clean environment to be healthy.
People have to stop littering.
We have to respect our surroundings.
We must become friends of the earth.
First,everyone must get involved.
Everyone must lend a hand.
Together we can clean up our neiborhoods.
Second,we can practice conservation.
We can reduce waste and reuse things.
We can recycle paper,bottles,and plastic.
Third,we can put up more "Don't litter" signs.
We can trashcans on every corner.
We can pick up garbage when we see it.
We must take action to fight pollution.
It's our future we're protecting.
It's our duty to keep our planet clean.
So,please don't pollute.
Don't be a litterbug.
Don't be afraid to remind others,too.
Let's protect nature's beauty.
Let's make our future bright.
Let's start to clean up now.
英文的演讲稿11
Teachers and students,
is honored to talk about myself in this place; also very happy to be able to meet you again in this place.
Its more of a communication than a display, just listen to my Cinderella talk about the dream of the white swan! We are all familiar, but we have not yet reached the point of understanding. This seems to have created some obstacles to the development of our friendship, but to think about it from another angle, perhaps this familiar strangeness can make our friendship even greater. Play. By the way, what I want to say today is mine and all of us-friendship! There is no definite definition of friendship, and in this narrow period of time, what I think of is whether friendship needs to be understood or needs to be understood.
Look at us. Some people can only talk because they don’t understand. She or he hasn’t entered the world you talked to, and you won’t feel embarrassed. It’s because you don’t understand. Sympathetic and outspoken, you can communicate more objectively and rationally; it is because you do not understand that you need to understand, it is because you do not understand that you want to be understood... and understanding has always been the vocabulary we call. It is our inner desire and the basis of exchange and sublimation.
Flying birds do not understand the language of fish, but they can understand its tears, so they spin around in the sea, and the fish forget to cry, and swim with the Qianying swim. I dont understand the darkness of the night during the day, but the setting sun can see the smoke rising, calling the moon and pretending to play with the stars.
英文的演讲稿12
Life can be good,Life can be bad,Life is mostly cheerful,But sometimes sad. Life can be dreams,Life can be great thoughts;Life can mean a person,Sitting in court. Life can be dirty,Life can even be painful;But life is what you make it,So try to make it beautiful.
英文的演讲稿13
Hello , everyone !
Let me have an introduction of myself . I think , I am a special girl !
My name is Hu. I am twenty . I come from the number one class of the Software and Technology College . I am the student in charge of organization in my class . I like smiling , because I think it is the best way to get on well with others . I come from Nanjing , a beautiful city .
Now I am part-working and part-studying in the colleges canteen . One the one hand , doing this part time job can bring financial support to me , the burden of my parents will be greatly relieved . One the other hand , it is an enrichment of my college life . Although it is a little tired , I can insist on .
Do you know where is my favourite place in our college ? Of course the library . I like staying in the library . I like borrowing some books I like and reading quietly . I also like the circumstance , pretty big , quiet , beautiful and full of the tastes of books !
I hear many people say that their future looks blank . I do not think so . We must be confident in ourseleves . Where there is a will , there is a way . And we also should remember that there is no royal road to learning .
As an old saying goes , attitude decides everything . I am bound up in many things such as reading , studying , playing sports and so on . As far as I am concerned , now we should still put study in the first place .We should first be accomplished in our lessons . Because knowledge equals to our power and ablity .Without knowledge ,we can say nothing .
It is certain that the college is a place where we can take part in many activities .We can take advantage of the free time to enrich all sides of ourseleves , not only the ablity of studying , but also the ablity of communication .
Constant ping weas away a stone . I think if you try your best , you can get something unexpected .
It is my personal thoughts , only want to share with you .
Thank you ~
英文的演讲稿14
i'd like to share with you a discovery that i made a few months ago while writing an article for italian wired. i always keep my thesaurus handy whenever i'm writing anything, but i'd already finished editing the piece, and i realized that i had never once in my life looked up the word "disabled" to see what i'd find.
let me read you the entry. "disabled, adjective: crippled, helpless, useless, wrecked, stalled, maimed, wounded, mangled, lame, mutilated, run-down, worn-out, weakened, impotent, castrated, paralyzed, handicapped, senile, decrepit, laid-up, done-up, done-for, done-in cracked-up, counted-out; see also hurt, useless and weak. antonyms, healthy, strong, capable." i was reading this list out loud to a friend and at first was laughing, it was so ludicrous, but i'd just gotten past "mangled," and my voice broke, and i had to stop and collect myself from the emotional shock and impact that the assault from these words unleashed.
you know, of course, this is my raggedy old thesaurus so i'm thinking this must be an ancient print date, right? but, in fact, the print date was the early 1980s, when i would have been starting primary school and forming an understanding of myself outside the family unit and as related to the other kids and the world around me. and, needless to say, thank god i wasn't using a thesaurus back then. i mean, from this entry, it would seem that i was born into a world that perceived someone like me to have nothing positive whatsoever going for them, when in fact, today i'm celebrated for the opportunities and adventures my life has procured.
so, i immediately went to look up the online edition, expecting to find a revision worth noting. here's the updated version of this entry. unfortunately, it's not much better. i find the last two words under "near antonyms," particularly unsettling: "whole" and "wholesome."
so, it's not just about the words. it's what we believe about people when we name them with these words. it's about the values behind the words, and how we construct those values. our language affects our thinking and how we view the world and how we view other people. in fact, many ancient societies, including the greeks and the romans, believed that to utter a curse verbally was so powerful, because to say the thing out loud brought it into existence. so, what reality do we want to call into existence: a person who is limited, or a person who's empowered? by casually doing something as simple as naming a person, a child, we might be putting lids and casting shadows on their power. wouldn't we want to open doors for them instead?
one such person who opened doors for me was my childhood doctor at the a.i. dupont institute in wilmington, delaware. his name was dr. pizzutillo, an italian american, whose name, apparently, was too difficult for most americans to pronounce, so he went by dr. p. and dr. p always wore really colorful bow ties and had the very perfect disposition to work with children.
i loved almost everything about my time spent at this hospital, with the exception of my physical therapy sessions. i had to do what seemed like innumerable repetitions of exercises with these thick, elastic bands -- different colors, you know -- to help build up my leg muscles, and i hated these bands more than anything -- i hated them, had names for them. i hated them. and, you know, i was already bargaining, as a five year-old child, with dr. p to try to get out of doing these exercises, unsuccessfully, of course. and, one day, he came in to my session -- exhaustive and unforgiving, these sessions -- and he said to me, "wow. aimee, you are such a strong and powerful little girl, i think you're going to break one of those bands. when you do break it, i'm going to give you a hundred bucks."
now, of course, this was a simple ploy on dr. p's part to get me to do the exercises i didn't want to do before the prospect of being the richest five-year-old in the second floor ward, but what he effectively did for me was reshape an awful daily occurrence into a new and promising experience for me. and i have to wonder today to what extent his vision and his declaration of me as a strong and powerful little girl shaped my own view of myself as an inherently strong, powerful and athletic person well into the future.
this is an example of how adults in positions of power can ignite the power of a child. but, in the previous instances of those thesaurus entries, our language isn't allowing us to evolve into the reality that we would all want, the possibility of an individual to see themselves as capable. our language hasn't caught up with the changes in our society, many of which have been brought about by technology. certainly, from a medical standpoint, my legs, laser surgery for vision impairment, titanium knees and hip replacements for aging bodies that are allowing people to more fully engage with their abilities, and move beyond the limits that nature has imposed on them -- not to mention social networking platforms allow people to self-identify, to claim their own descriptions of themselves, so they can go align with global groups of their own choosing. so, perhaps technology is revealing more clearly to us now what has always been a truth: that everyone has something rare and powerful to offer our society, and that the human ability to adapt is our greatest asset.
the human ability to adapt, it's an interesting thing, because people have continually wanted to talk to me about overcoming adversity, and i'm going to make an admission: this phrase never sat right with me, and i always felt uneasy trying to answer people's questions about it, and i think i'm starting to figure out why. implicit in this phrase of "overcoming adversity" is the idea that success, or happiness, is about emerging on the other side of a challenging experience unscathed or unmarked by the experience, as if my successes in life have come about from an ability to sidestep or circumnavigate the presumed pitfalls of a life with prosthetics, or what other people perceive as my disability. but, in fact, we are changed. we are marked, of course, by a challenge, whether physically, emotionally or both. and i'm going to suggest that this is a good thing. adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. it's part of our life. and i tend to think of it like my shadow. sometimes i see a lot of it, sometimes there's very little, but it's always with me. and, certainly, i'm not trying to diminish the impact, the weight, of a person's struggle.
there is adversity and challenge in life, and it's all very real and relative to every single person, but the question isn't whether or not you're going to meet adversity, but how you're going to meet it. so, our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity, but preparing them to meet it well. and we do a disservice to our kids when we make them feel that they're not equipped to adapt. there's an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not i'm disabled. and, truthfully, the only real and consistent disability i've had to confront is the world ever thinking that i could be described by those definitions.
in our desire to protect those we care about by giving them the cold, hard truth about their medical prognosis, or, indeed, a prognosis on the expected quality of their life, we have to make sure that we don't put the first brick in a wall that will actually disable someone. perhaps the existing model of only looking at what is broken in you and how do we fix it, serves to be more disabling to the individual than the pathology itself.
by not treating the wholeness of a person, by not acknowledging their potency, we are creating another ill on top of whatever natural struggle they might have. we are effectively grading someone's worth to our community. so we need to see through the pathology and into the range of human capability. and, most importantly, there's a partnership between those perceived deficiencies and our greatest creative ability. so it's not about devaluing, or negating, these more trying times as something we want to avoid or sweep under the rug, but instead to find those opportunities wrapped in the adversity. so maybe the idea i want to put out there is not so much overcoming adversity as it is opening ourselves up to it, embracing it, grappling with it, to use a wrestling term, maybe even dancing with it. and, perhaps, if we see adversity as natural, consistent and useful, we're less burdened by the presence of it.
this year we celebrate the 200th birthday of charles darwin, and it was 150 years ago, when writing about evolution, that darwin illustrated, i think, a truth about the human character. to paraphrase: it's not the strongest of the species that survives, nor is it the most intelligent that survives; it is the one that is most adaptable to change. conflict is the genesis of creation. from darwin's work, amongst others, we can recognize that the human ability to survive and flourish is driven by the struggle of the human spirit through conflict into transformation. so, again, transformation, adaptation, is our greatest human skill. and, perhaps, until we're tested, we don't know what we're made of. maybe that's what adversity gives us: a sense of self, a sense of our own power. so, we can give ourselves a gift. we can re-imagine adversity as something more than just tough times. maybe we can see it as change. adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.
i think the greatest adversity that we've created for ourselves is this idea of normalcy. now, who's normal? there's no normal. there's common, there's typical. there's no normal, and would you want to meet that poor, beige person if they existed? (laughter) i don't think so. if we can change this paradigm from one of achieving normalcy to one of possibility -- or potency, to be even a little bit more dangerous -- we can release the power of so many more children, and invite them to engage their rare and valuable abilities with the community.
anthropologists tell us that the one thing we as humans have always required of our community members is to be of use, to be able to contribute. there's evidence that neanderthals, 60,000 years ago, carried their elderly and those with serious physical injury, and perhaps it's because the life experience of survival of these people proved of value to the community. they didn't view these people as broken and useless; they were seen as rare and valuable.
a few years ago, i was in a food market in the town where i grew up in that red zone in northeastern pennsylvania, and i was standing over a bushel of tomatoes. it was summertime: i had shorts on. i hear this guy, his voice behind me say, "well, if it isn't aimee mullins." and i turn around, and it's this older man. i have no idea who he is.
and i said, "i'm sorry, sir, have we met? i don't remember meeting you."
he said, "well, you wouldn't remember meeting me. i mean, when we met i was delivering you from your mother's womb." (laughter) oh, that guy. and, but of course, actually, it did click.
this man was dr. kean, a man that i had only known about through my mother's stories of that day, because, of course, typical fashion, i arrived late for my birthday by two weeks. and so my mother's prenatal physician had gone on vacation, so the man who delivered me was a complete stranger to my parents. and, because i was born without the fibula bones, and had feet turned in, and a few toes in this foot and a few toes in that, he had to be the bearer -- this stranger had to be the bearer of bad news.
he said to me, "i had to give this prognosis to your parents that you would never walk, and you would never have the kind of mobility that other kids have or any kind of life of independence, and you've been making liar out of me ever since." (laughter) (applause)
the extraordinary thing is that he said he had saved newspaper clippings throughout my whole childhood, whether winning a second grade spelling bee, marching with the girl scouts, you know, the halloween parade, winning my college scholarship, or any of my sports victories, and he was using it, and integrating it into teaching resident students, med students from hahnemann medical school and hershey medical school. and he called this part of the course the x factor, the potential of the human will. no prognosis can account for how powerful this could be as a determinant in the quality of someone's life. and dr. kean went on to tell me, he said, "in my experience, unless repeatedly told otherwise, and even if given a modicum of support, if left to their own devices, a child will achieve."
see, dr. kean made that shift in thinking. he understood that there's a difference between the medical condition and what someone might do with it. and there's been a shift in my thinking over time, in that, if you had asked me at 15 years old, if i would have traded prosthetics for flesh-and-bone legs, i wouldn't have hesitated for a second. i aspired to that kind of normalcy back then. but if you ask me today, i'm not so sure. and it's because of the experiences i've had with them, not in spite of the experiences i've had with them. and perhaps this shift in me has happened because i've been exposed to more people who have opened doors for me than those who have put lids and cast shadows on me.
see, all you really need is one person to show you the epiphany of your own power, and you're off. if you can hand somebody the key to their own power -- the human spirit is so receptive -- if you can do that and open a door for someone at a crucial moment, you are educating them in the best sense. you're teaching them to open doors for themselves. in fact, the exact meaning of the word "educate" comes from the root word "educe." it means "to bring forth what is within, to bring out potential." so again, which potential do we want to bring out?
there was a case study done in 1960s britain, when they were moving from grammar schools to comprehensive schools. it's called the streaming trials. we call it "tracking" here in the states. it's separating students from a, b, c, d and so on. and the "a students" get the tougher curriculum, the best teachers, etc. well, they took, over a three-month period, d-level students, gave them a's, told them they were "a's," told them they were bright, and at the end of this three-month period, they were performing at a-level.
and, of course, the heartbreaking, flip side of this study, is that they took the "a students" and told them they were "d's." and that's what happened at the end of that three-month period. those who were still around in school, besides the people who had dropped out. a crucial part of this case study was that the teachers were duped too. the teachers didn't know a switch had been made. they were simply told, "these are the 'a-students,' these are the 'd-students.'" and that's how they went about teaching them and treating them.
so, i think that the only true disability is a crushed spirit, a spirit that's been crushed doesn't have hope, it doesn't see beauty, it no longer has our natural, childlike curiosity and our innate ability to imagine. if instead, we can bolster a human spirit to keep hope, to see beauty in themselves and others, to be curious and imaginative, then we are truly using our power well. when a spirit has those qualities, we are able to create new realities and new ways of being.
i'd like to leave you with a poem by a fourteenth-century persian poet named hafiz that my friend, jacques dembois told me about, and the poem is called "the god who only knows four words": "every child has known god, not the god of names, not the god of don'ts, but the god who only knows four words and keeps repeating them, saying, 'come dance with me. come, dance with me. come, dance with me.'"
thank you. (applause)
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I feel deeply after I watch Truman show.It makes me think about our life and media Truman is a leading role in his own world unconsciously.He lives in that peaceful world out of willingness.Do the creature that others pay attention to.His own life is control by director.Life to him is real but fake.Truman’s life is completely open to the mass.People knew everything he does，such as how he was born, went to school, got a job，got married and so on.
They are witness of Truman’s life.Everyone live together with him are all performers.Everything they do is in the director’s arrangement.His wife, who is claimed herself a doctor, is not a doctor at all.His father, who was died in a storm, is still alive.All performers are supposed to be cheat.Truman’s life is absolutely a vast lie.But when you know your life is rally a lie, do you have to courage to expose it? Will you choose to give up your peaceful life under control rather than to be the leading role of your show? Not everyone has the courage to go out.May be you will say: “It is easy to go out.” But we can’t understand, predict and control the outside world, can you? Sometimes I wonder if I also live in that fake world.Am I the real leading role of my Truman Show? I don’t know.If I live in this situation, I will be angry and want to escape from this huge prison.I will feel disrespect and boring because in my mind no one has the right to arrange my life.No one can control it including me.My life is supposed to be an adventure.Nobody knows what is going to happen.If it is like a soap opera as Trumann’s, it will be meaningless.
Nobody wants to be a victim of media.But I have to admit, media is powerful, we can’t live without it and we have to suffer from it, especially stars.Nowadays media is full of our daily life.We surf the internet to look up news whenever we want.We like to watch movies, news, soap operas, talk shows or other television programs in our leisure time.Surfing the internet to know anything we want to know.We always talk with our classmates about everything happened around us, such as new movies on show, new songs, the scandal about starts and so on.Public figures seems don’t have the right to keep privacy.They are beneficiaries of media, but also victims.What can we do to avoid us suffer from media, or to avoid being violated and misleading? I think we should not rely on media everywhere and anytime.Sometimes we should have our own judgments rather than follow those so called experts.We had better more focus on our daily life not the famous person’s.We had better not spending to much time on watching TV and try to do something meaningful by watching TV.We should make full use of media rather than rely on it.
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