Dear sophomores,
You’ve been working hard to inspire others to follow you, both as an expert on a specific research topic and as a speechwriter. Your dream speeches are an important contribution to our class, our community, and our world. Your thoughts and ideas can have wide-ranging implications to help ease suffering and usher in a new era of peace and prosperity. All you have to do is imagine!
- Review: Make sure that your dream speech is just the way you want it, free from simple spelling and grammar errors, and full of those persuasive rhetorical techniques we have studied.
2. Publish: Click on the ‘leave a comment’ link at the top of this post. Follow the directions for uploading your ‘comment,’ in this case your dream speech. If you want, you can click an option to have your classmates’ comments emailed to you. I recommend this.
3. Read and reply: Once your classmates begin to upload their dream speeches, you can reply. Identify what you like about the speech; look for good examples of rhetorical techniques. Share other questions or ideas you have about the speech. Keep it positive. If you have a concern, you might consider speaking to that person directly rather than leaving a comment. Please comment on AT LEAST TWO of your classmates’ speeches. Also, our goal is to leave comments with each student writer, so everyone feels acknowledged for their ideas and hard work.
Thank you for all of your hard work and risk taking!
Kind Regards,
Mr. Coey
Stand up speak out
Bullying is such a major issue in today’s society. So many people have had to deal with this problem and sometimes what a person will result in is very tragic. The violent results of bullying vary, but are most often displayed by depression, suicide, and even mass shootings.
I see children crying and people dying We need to stand up so nothing like the columbine tragedy happens again. Two teens went on a mass shooting on April,20,1999 and killed 13 and injured 20 the gunman had went on a shooting spree because they were bullied and outcasts.
I speak for all those who have been a victim to this issue. Now is the time to stand up, speak out,to take action for those who have dealt with this issue. I have a dream that one day others won’t ridicule on a person’s looks but take the time to talk and get to know them. The only way this issue can be resolved is if we stand up and speak out. We must end this violence not starting tomorrow but starting today, today is the day we join together as one and support one another, today is the day we we realize that we are all people and we may look diffrent but we are all the same.
Hello and thank you for taking the time to read about my discussion over a life problem on homelessness.
It is the year 2017 and we still have people with no home or anything indicating that they are homeless. There can be symptoms coming from homelessness which is diseases because people get sick and it could be very bad sickness that could spread through the air or from wherever they are. I see people out today in the streets with a sign where it might say “Hungry, need money”. From the moment we see that we may emphasize that they are homeless and they need help. I also see people going through trash cans looking for cans so they can sell them to get money. I have an example from the year 2016 where I had a dentist appointment and I saw a guy, looked like a teenager or in his twenty’s and he had all his clothes on the corner of a street and from there I knew they were homeless. Now is the time to help those in need. Now is the time to put an end to homelessness. NOW IS THE TIME WE ALL SHOULD HAVE A ROOF TO LIVE UNDER OF! We should all be grateful for what we have because there are people who don’t own what we have today. Others don’t have a roof to live under of or clothe so we should be happy with what we have. I have a dream that one day homelessness will end. I have a dream that one day we all will have our necessaries in life.I have a dream that one day everything will change positively. Thus being said, i’d like to thank you for taking your time to read my speech and have a great day.
BEING TALLER DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE THE MOST POWER
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. First of all, I want to thank you all for coming all the way out here to hear me out. This means so much to me and I feel truly grateful to be here on this marvelous day. Dear friends, today I would like to share with you all the issue of bullying.
Bullying is a serious matter, that isn’t given as much attention as it should be getting. People fail to realize how much pain a minor can suffer and how much they can take. Many believe in the saying “ Kids will be kids”, but is saying hurtful, destructive words that eventually become actions due to jealously, kid like? No, I didn’t think so.. When I think about bullying I think of a child named Rebecca Ann Sedwick, a twelve year old girl who was bulled by 15 girls. A minor who through a social media called Facebook was Cyber-bullied. The messages she received would motivate her to do bodily harm to herself and make the decision to commit suicide. Little Rebecca left her house a 6:45 a.m., Monday morning. She should have been headed to Lawton Chiles, but instead went to an abandoned industrial locality where she climbed a high structure and jumped to her death. One in seven students in grades K -12 are either a bully or a victim. We must do something about this.
“Bullying is like a boxer working a punching bag…except the punching bag is a real person, and the punches are words.” Words are very powerful. Each day of our lives we walk around, we have the power to harm ourselves, our loved ones, our peers, strangers all over the internet, and our haughty society. Words eventually lead to consequences, problems that we as a team can prevent or avert by just maintaining our mischievous thoughts to ourselves. Words of our inconsiderate minds.
Now my friends, is the time to have more open communications on the topic of bullying. To show documentaries, give speeches, act out plays, to minors, to demonstrate what bulling can lead to and or cause. Now is the time that we must decrease the mass of hours students spend
unsupervised during school. Bullying takes place in unsupervised areas like on school buses, in restrooms, through hallways, and locker rooms. We must try and create an action plan to supervise these areas by adults or through the use of security techniques like cameras. Now is the time to start standing up for others. If you see bulling taking place, do not just pass by and do nothing about it be the bigger person and become someone’s hero for the day. Like the great Nishan Panawar said, “A strong person stands up for themselves, but an even stronger person stands up for others”.
I have a dream today that one day children and teenagers of all shapes and sizes, from head to toe will not be judged by the color of their skin, or appearance, but by their character. I have a dream today that one day we will all be able to speak what’s on our minds and not be judged,but be supported and be filled with more wisdom of glory. I HAVE A DREAM today that no child or teenager shall suffer from insecurities and shall present themselves as who they are, and not as who this generation has changed them to. They will stop hiding behind a mask.
I HAVE A DREAM TODAY.
Hello my fellow classmates,In the year 1874, Mary Ellen Mccormack first introduced us to child abuse. Ever since that tragic story, it’s been a constant battle of agony. Millions of children have to experience living in a household with abusive parents or guardians. A household full of hatred and regret, pain and sorrow or even both. Imagine if that was a loved one, can’t you see the fear in their eyes, hear the muffled cries in their voice or feel the pain they have to go threw on a daily basis? It’s a terrible thing for one to experience, most victims become emotionally and physically damaged for the rest of their lives. Child abuse is like bullying but by the ones you love. There’s many ways a child can be abused, both by action or by words, from being told you’re worthless and a mistake to being beaten and groped. Now is the time to step up and change this issue. Now is the time to let these young children know they aren’t alone. Now is the time to stop these innocent children from taking their lives and let them know it’s okay to fight back and ask for help. Like the beautiful Bell Hooks once said ‘’There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it’s the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse…” One day i hope every child won’t live in fear. That one day every parent will understand the pain they put their child threw. That one day we won’t watch the news and have to see another victim of this dreadful crime. Thank You for taking the time out of your day to read my speech.
The missing change of education
My fellow peers, beloved staff and honored audience, we have known about the change in the world for centuries; we have known about evolution throughout time. The telegraph has turned into the smartphone, the locomotive has turned into the race car; even us humans have evolved from a creature from millions and millions of years ago. But what hasn’t changed is the classroom from centuries ago, and its still hasn’t changed… Children mindlessly sitting in chairs of captivity; listening to the professor go on and on of the lesson that most children and even young adults as myself wonder “What will this ever help me with?” Will it keep me off the street? Will it help me feed my family? Will it help me live my life?
The student raises his hand, full of curiosity, but the teacher responds to this hand with “Put your hand down and wait until I’m done with the lesson”. The student obeys to this order as if being a mindless domestic animal being taught to sit and stay.This teacher taught you to wait and listen because when you’re getting your job and you don’t understand it, you can wait and ask questions to see if they explain what happens. The teacher tells the student to read the passage and explain what he understands when finished reading. In the mind of this adolescent student, he wonders “Why did the teacher choose me? What will this even help me with?” When you have to do a report on a situation that happened at work then file it to your boss, you have to read and make sure you don’t make a mistake and include the details you understand. The teacher has taught you speak. But throughout generations, teachers have only used this method to teach children when to hold their tongues, when to speak, and when to obey. Nothing has changed.
I see no difference on why the teacher shouldn’t get paid a higher rate. A doctor saves lives, an engineer builds technological advances, but what about a teacher? If it weren’t for that teacher, you wouldn’t have had that doctor who just saved the life of your dearest loved one. If it weren’t for that teacher, you wouldn’t have a new cellphone to text that friend that you tell everything to that you moved away from. If it weren’t for that teacher, you wouldn’t have been able to keep yourself of the streets from that job that pays you weight in gold and give you the life you have been taught to learn.
Why is school still the same? The Earth rotates forward, the people keep moving, and the time keeps passing. Children enter school districts as just young inexperienced children and they leave as young matured adults, but no matter what grade they are in, it’s the same day and the situation: come to class on time, sit and pay attention to the lesson, then leave the halls of learning only to return home to do meaningless work. Why hasn’t there been a change in classrooms? Why do teachers not get paid more for saving the lives of these children? Why have students only repeated the same day for years? Why do schools not change?
Sarahi,
It’s an interesting line of reasoning (appeal to logos) that you employ when you give credit to teachers who have helped shape others’ lives.
Coey
My Voice Counts Too
Donald Trump talks about the immigrants and taking them out. 2017 wants to committed his dream. Also, immigrants families and they feel about getting deported. I see Donald Trump destroying and tearing families apart. They turned to the US to have the freedom they want, and all Trump is doing is taking it away from us. ISN’T THE US SUPPOSED TO BE A COUNTRY OF FREEDOM ? ISN’T THE US SUPPOSED TO BE THE COUNTRY OF GIVING ? ISN’T THE US SUPPOSED TO BE THE COUNTRY OF OPPORTUNITIES THAT THEY DIDN’T HAVE ? I hear Trump that trump wants to build a wall, so us Mexicans won’t cross. I am absurd that thinks us are a threat to OUR country, when in reality he is the threat. I feel sad, for many families won’t be able to see loved ones anymore, waking up to them, being there for them, or spending time with them. We are like a pack of wolves, if you one of us goes down we all go down. We will never back down from this place we call home. We will never let anyone tell us where we can and cannot go. No One will tell us that we are a disgrace to our own country when, the person saying, Trump, is a disgrace to the humankind. Now its time to stop racism. Now it’s time to stand up to authority, and tell them we are just like you, we are humans: not creatures, monsters, demons, we are humans. Like my father once told me, “Stay in school, for you can have a better life, we took you to the US to give you the opportunity that we didn’t have.” I have a dream that one day my people will be free of this racism, for they can live in a better life. I have a dream that every child that is an immigrant will have an education. I have a dream that we will end racism once, and for all.
Joahan,
I think your rhetorical questions emphasize the need for inclusion rather than exclusion, which is the central theme in your speech. Well-done!
Coey
Voice
Dear Fellow Classmates ,
Bullying still exists till this day. This judgemental society has cause parents to lose their innocent childrens. The pain and sorrow the parents have to feel for a lifetime will never be healed or put to rest like their childrens.Today society has made it difficult for people to express themselves without being bully . If you don’t have have designer clothes , new jordans , or the new technology that just came out you aren’t counted as cool. Technology has made bullying easier , it also gives the bullying a mask . Although , it’s not okay to bully , we do not know what’s the reasons for their action . Bullying is not only words , but it’s also aggression.
We shouldn’t let those words define us.We shouldn’t let the bully words hurt us and kill us like a gun to our hearts. We have to fight against those words like a fight against diseases, against war , and the fight for our freedom .Victims need to remain strong and hold on . We are stronger than we truly think we are .
I see the tears running down the faces of the family sorrow
I hear the silent screams for help and cries at night
I feel the pain of parents losing their kids to bullies
Like a sad abused dog,their innocent hearts came crashing down like a glass that breaks once it hits the wooden floor
Now is the time to wipe those tears
Now is the time to speak up
Now is the time to not be afraid any longer
Now is the time to end bullying
Our president once said “ I would rather be a little nobody , then to be a evil somebody.” Abraham Lincoln . Mr. Lincoln is correct , being nothing is way better than being someone who actions aren’t pure . Being a nobody to someone won’t change anything , because no matter what your heart should always be good so good karma can come your way . Having a bad heart won’t get you anything or anywhere but bad karma . If you are a victim of bullying, don’t live a life where you let words of others define who we you are.Let your words be the light that leads you to happiness once more. You deserve to know how amazing you are and how you may help out others by speaking up and fighting your battle instead of giving up.
I have a dream that one day everyone would not let words define us.
I have a dream that one day everyone would learn to love ourselves and others
I have a dream bullying will be no longer an issue around the worlds
For many centuries, All humans have been stereotyped. It doesn’t matter what color you are, we are all under the impression of not being the same.
I am a STEREOTYPE
I am judged by the color of my skin and how nappy and frizzy my hair is, judged by one person actions due to their color so that must define all blacks. They say “your not asian because your too dark” well that must mean that i’m blonde so i’m dumb or im muslim so i can’t believe in anything else but allah, and that’s not true.
AREN’T WE ALL STEREOTYPES?!
I am a STEREOTYPE
I am looked down at because my ancestors were slaves and that they had no will to step up for them self so you automatically view me, as weak! They say and they for ever will say the word “nigga”. That word comes from the word “negro” or “nigger”, it’s a derogative name a racial slur used to put down a colored person but not knowing that the word can dehumanize and hurt a person that you call “friend”.
AREN’T WE ALL STEREOTYPES?!
We are STEREOTYPES
We are judged because we are gay
Judged because they expect us all to be the same, judged because we see everything differently from one another.
WE ARE STEREOTYPES!!
They say asians can’t see because there eyes are little, don’t you feel stereotyped?
They say all muslim people are out to kill and bomb everyone based off of one vicious attack that wasn’t planned by you, don’t you feel stereotyped?
They say mexicans are only good at soccer and can’t do anything else that we can do and that’s not true I believe that we can do anything that we put our mind to, don’t you feel stereotyped?
They say blacks are a disgrace to human society and we are known for killing and stealing basically anything that you would call wrong, don’t you feel stereotyped?
WE ARE STEREOTYPES!!
But I HAVE A DREAM, that we will no longer be judged by one another that we can all be accepted for what and who we are.
I HAVE A DREAM that we can be called by our names not by “beaner(mexican),chinaman(asian),coon(black),cracker(white),palagi(islander), sand nigger(middle eastern or north african descent).
I HAVE A DREAM that we can all stand together and defeat these racial stereotypes.
Like the great Martin Luther King said “Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that, hate can drive out hate only love can do that”.
Lets defeat these stereotypes and become a better community, society and world.
WE ARE NOT STEREOTYPES!
Thank you for taking your time out to read my speech hope you enjoyed it.
love your introduction really drew me in
I really like your all the imagery and repetition in your speech.
I love your word choice you use in your speech!
Greetings from Period 5
Though I personally feel that this is a straw-man argument and don’t agree with your view, it is still a well written piece of work. Also take in mind offense is always taken never given.
I like your repetition on We are Stereotypes. Also, how you included Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” quote. I love the title; that honestly drew me in.
Markeisha great job! I loved your speech, the repetition you decided to use really caught my attention, as well as your word choice. Well done.
The cries of the earth about violence
In the past years where blacks and whites were segregated.There was too much violence in many parts of the world. Even now, it’s gotten more worst to the Black people and girls(women). But I see the world that needs to be a different place to live. I hear Michael Jackson’s song called the earth song. We are the ones that are killing the planet. I feel the cries of this world saying stop the violence. It’s saying stop the violence and have peace and harmony together. Violence it stings like a bee sting. But we need to try before it’s too late. But it feels like it’s already too late. The world has those long chains of pain and death.
Now is the time to stand up and fight. To help our planet achieves its goal. Now is the time to help me find the solution. We need to stop ruining ourselves but also the planet. Now is the time to stop violence everywhere. Like the great Martin Luther King and leaders that tried to make history. I have a dream that one day we as people could make a difference. For those who had their lives taken away to make peace. I have a dream that one day we as people could heal the world. I have a dream that one day we as people will make its destiny….to our destiny. I hope we will change the world. One day my dream will be heard to everyone here but also the planet. Earth wants peace but instead it sees people dying and beaten. I want a future where everyone is happy and together. Let’s make the earth get its wish.
Love the title, almost took my breath away. I like you included Michael Jackson’s hit earth song, its honestly one of my old favorites. Also, how you included Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” phrase.
Drug Abuse
Drugs… the same way drugs can be used for good, they can be used for bad. Good uses of drugs are things such as medical purposes. A bad use of drugs is when it gets consumed for no need other than what these consumers call it getting “high”.
I see difficulties approaching those who consume drugs for the sole purpose of getting “high”.
I hear the sorrows of the ones who can’t stop consuming.
I feel the pain of those suffering in hospitals due to misuse of drugs.
Drugs like hopelessness.
Drugs are a slow torture that lead to death.
Now is the time to end the unacceptable use of drugs.
Now is the time to revolt against these faulty habits.
Now is the time for a change in this world, so it can be a better place.
Like the great rapper once said, “My organs were shutting down. My liver, my kidneys, everything… They didn’t think I was going to make it. My bottom was going to be death.” He was close to losing everything due to this misuse of drugs. He was able to overcome this difficulty and now he has prospered and lives a successful life.
I have a dream that one day drugs will only be used to achieve the well being of the people.
I have a dream that the drugs of disharmony will come to its end.
I HAVE A DREAM where the abysmal use of drugs die and good use of drugs are born.
I like how you used a lot of repetition such as “Now is the time” and “I have a dream” which is also an allusion to Dr. King’s speech.
I like how you compared the good types of drugs for “medical purposes” and bad drugs to get “high”.
You have great allusion “My organs were shutting down. My liver, my kidneys, everything… They didn’t think I was going to make it. My bottom was going to be death.” I really enjoyed your speech!
Great word choice “disharmony”
I like the metaphors you used for example, “shadows of judgement” and “nights of bitterness”.
i like the parallelism you used in your introduction.
“Drop the Razors”
Fellow students, friends, peers, as you should know, everyday lives are constantly disappearing. Today I’ll be talking about those who feels the need not to live and those who feels as wiping their existence would solve their despair and their misery. Thank you for joining me, as this is a very difficult and emotional subject most people can relate to including me.
Walking around school, I’d see cut wrists, tears, no happiness in their eyes. People wishing they were dead. I hear screams of hell. People questioning their existence. I feel hopeless and useless not being able to help those who are standing at the edge of the cliff, those who are going to jump, and those.. those who are already gone.
Approximately one million people commit suicide each year worldwide. One cause is bullying. “There have been a shocking number of new stories about teens who have been teased and bullied and then committed suicide”. This was said by the well-known Ellen Degeneres. She based one of her shows on bullying and the fact that teens commit suicide because of it. Bullying changes the way people, especially teens, think of themselves. They’ll start developing hate within themselves. Many will isolate themselves and lock themselves in a room like a trapped bird who has nowhere to go.
But today I have a dream. I have a dream that one day bullying will die off instead of precious lives that are being thrown away. I have a dream that razors won’t be used for their skin but for their work.
Now is the time to stop discrimination and start building each other up. Now is the time to end insecurities and get rid of those nasty words that’s used to break people down. Those disgusting words such as ugly or fat but instead tell them they’re beautiful and tell them to be proud of themselves. Now is the time to eliminate those labels that were put onto us.
I HAVE A DREAM.
I have a dream that one day people won’t need to learn how to love themselves for they would already be loved by all people for what they are, what they look like, what nationality they are, and who they are.
I HAVE A DREAM!
Mao,
Your title, “Drop the Razors” just grabbed me by the shirt and yanked me! So powerful!
Coey
I like how you included about how much people dies each year and one of the cause of the deaths is bullying.
I like how you used Ellen DeGeneres as an example in your speech.
i love your speech because it is very moving and very powerful.
I like how you made your fellow peers as the audience
I like how you said “Many will isolate themselves and lock themselves in a room like a trapped bird who has nowhere to go.” The comparision is strong and powerful
I like your repetition “Now is the time” because it allowed me to see how you’d like to solve this problem.
Mao, I as well as Mr.Coey loved your title! I love the stats you decided to use, as well as your imagery. Well done.
Racism: The Breaking Point
2017, a new leaf littered with last years problems. It seems to me that last year was very crazy and quite a barbaric year. With Barack Obama’s second term coming to an end and the election of Donald Trump, the Black Lives Matter movement,the rise of homicides in Chicago, the terror caused by extremist called ISIS, but a topic that has recently reappeared in the world once again, it had plagued this nation and world for years, decades, even millenniums. But never truly disappearing, just fermenting, ready to take another jab at humanity.
Racism
Lately everything has to do with racism, the media’s involved, police are involved, even the people close to you are involved. Why? Stop and think why is that? Why is it becoming more of a problem now then it was years ago?
Because it’s all you see now, online, social media, news outlets, there has been a rise of racism across the united states, and it’s all we are exposed to, just shoved in our faces. Police brutality is always in the news, headlines just scrolling by, UNARMED BLACK MALE SHOT BY POLICE OFFICER, OFFICER PEPPER-SPRAYING RESTRAINED MAN WHO SAYS HE CAN’T BREATH, YOUNG BLACK CHILD SHOT FOR HAVING A TOY GUN, it’s ridiculous, and what do the the police have to say about the matters? Nothing but excuses, nothing but lies, nothing but injustice. People, families, children, their lives affected by the hand of the people sworn to protect them.
Even racial stereotyping is fuel for the inferno of racism… something that we have experienced or done in our lives. We all know what the stereotypes are. Blacks are nothing but gangsters, criminals, rappers and drop-outs. Latinos are nothing but illegals, job-stealers, and drug dealers, .Asians are nothing but bad drivers, doctors, lawyers, and good students, Whites are nothing but racists, Neo Nazi’s, rednecks, and school shooters. Muslims are nothing but immigrants, terrorist, and supporters of ISIS. All these stereotypes force us to look at people differently, forced to be cautious towards people, forced to hate, and forced to be scared. But what people forget to be looking at is the bigger picture, the fact that we are all human beings, made from the same things, from the same world, same solar system, same universe. Like Dr. king once said could be applied as a dream for the world to follow, “ a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character”. Its truly is the dream, where you will be judged for who you are, not what as you are labeled. Like cans in a grocery store, all of them have labels, labels that tell you what they are, according to what’s the company says that’s inside. But what happens if you take of those labels. The cans are all made of the same thing, tin, but once you open the can, you can see what they truly are. This same thing is applied to humans.
America is at its core, a divided nation, a broken nation, at its breaking point, that needs repair. This speech might be interpreted in many different ways, it could be that this speech had no effect on you, that everything i said has been meaningless to you, some may interpret it as inspiring, something that has changed your outlook on life, the way you view your world. This speech may do little or a lot, but this change, this dream can’t be achieved by one single person, but by people who need to unite to fight against the racism that has afflicted people like a virus, we are to become the vaccine against racism. Maybe one day we’ll be free… free from the grasp of racism, free from the separation of mankind. Maybe one day…
Great Speech! I really like how you compared the labels of cans to labels of humans. I also like how you began the speech with problem that have just recently happened.
Great job on your speech, I like the part where you talked about the police creating excuses when they’re overextending too much.
“When Words Fail, Music Speaks…”
Imagine, in our current bustling and lively America, we all no longer had the gift of music. We’d have painting, yes, but could you hear the crackling warmth of red and it’s flames or the icy gusts of blue and it’s blizzards? We’d have books, but if the character were to hum, the reader would mistake the word for the low vibrations of a car. We’d have sports, but not everyone finds sweat, grass stains and skinned knees all that appealing. Besides, what would the crowd chant? There’s no ‘Paradise City’. No chorus of stomp-stomp claps and the off key singing of someone who is thoroughly enjoying himself. If there’s no music, there’s no dancers, singers, instruments, and a vitally important form of self expression is gone. That’s not a world where my extremely talented cohorts need to be. All of us, in one way or another have benefitted or have been at the very least comforted by music. So it makes sense that it’d continue to do so during our journey into adulthood. Except that it hasn’t. It pains me that such a widely accepted hobby that brings us together isn’t available for everyone. Some schools deem it unnecessary, others, a waste of funding that could be splurged on the sports program even more.
It’s been proven the music does many things for a high schooler. First and foremost, it improves grades. The friends and up in confidence are just an added bonus. Maya Angelou, poet, memoirist and civil rights activist, once said, “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” Many scholars can relate to this perfectly, as their days get more and more hectic and they’ve to juggle school and their social and personal lives. We all can agree, every now and then it feels absolutely amazing to sit down after a long day of hard work and pull a pair of headphones on to listen to our favorite song.
If only we, musicians, could put into words just how much of our being goes into writing lyrics and reading someone else’s, playing our instruments and listening to people play theirs. To see someone take even the slightest interest in what we can do, it’s exhilarating. It’s crushing to be refused the right to better our skills and do it in an encouraging environment surrounded by many people like us.
While on stage, it’s an out of body experience. The sole focus is to keep your breath steady. Keep your eyes on your music, if you’re given it. If not, find a way to watch the conductor’s face and hands simultaneously. He’ll give breath cues and nod if it goes along smoothly. The moment it’s done, your adrenaline is coursing through your veins. Then you look out to the audience. Your family looks proud. You want to remember this for the rest of your life. But how could you do that if it never happened?
Schools with no music program are just declining the option to make memories that could increase the school’s popularity and reputation for the better. People switch schools consistently because of one thing. They simply don’t’ have what’s being looked for. To prevent this from happening there should be a variety of extracurricular activities that guarantee the happiness of the students. More music equals better students staying and representing the school in a positive light.
Adults such as those in the state board of education should want the best for children, but for them to refuse us one of our most beloved forms of expression is unjust and quite simply one of the worst things they could do in an effort to better us.
I love your title!! Also your metaphor “crackling warmth of red and it’s flames or the icy gusts of blue and it’s blizzards.” Your metaphor sounds unique.
excellent title drew me in automatically.
I like your title and also the little quote “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” Well written speech.
I love the allusion you used in your speech about Maya Angelou.
Great speech Stephanie! I loved that you decided to do a speech about how important music is and I 100% agree with you. I loved the descriptive imagery you used and how you said ” a vitaly important form of self expression is gone” that really caught my attention and made me want to read more. Well done.
Ashley Hines
February 16,2017
Period: 6
Decades have gone by with gun violence being apart of everyone’s day to day lives. Treyvon Martin Luther King Jr, John F Kennedy, and Selena Quintanilla are all historical figures who are victims of gun violence.
Living in a world with gun violence going on everyday, some cases don’t get noticed as well as it would if it were done to a famous person or if it was shown in the media. In my society and my media, I see young kids wearing RIP sweaters and shirts. I hear mothers mourning for the death of their child. I feel victimized.
My family was struck with gun violence in 2013.
I was hurt. I was angry. I was confused. I was distraught. I was in denial.
I grieved for weeks. I cried for hours at a time, but violence was not one to come to mind. Not once did I think to seek revenge and cause the pain I have felt to someone else. Fighting back with violence was never my aim. Standing to the crime was the way I fought back.
Healing, moving forward, and prospering was the way i fought back.
Living my life at new perspective, renewing my routine and mindset was my consequence depending on which path I took. Negative or positive.
I and thousands of others are faced with this decision almost everyday.
Now is the time for us to stand up.
Now is the time for us to protect others from gun violence.
Now is the time to protest this crime.
Like other powerful leaders who have stood up to this harsh crime. We can stand up against gun laws. Having more heavily enforced gun laws can change the future of so many others. We won’t have people going and shooting in revenge or dangerously protesting.
So it is time to stand up and speak out.
Silent Killer
Hi my name is Viviana and i have had experiences where bullying won.Bullying,the silent killer that affects many all around the world.Many have become a victim to bullying whether it’s for their looks or the way the act.Why must bullying continue in a world where there are people without a home or food.People without an education or clothing.People without parents or loved one, yet there is something as simple as bullying that tragically takes a life.I see many with scars on their hands because their afraid to speak.I hear the sirens of ambulances rushing to a home where someone committed suicide because the can’t take on life anymore.I feel the depression of a mother’s sadness because she lost her baby to bullying.Bullying is the silent killer, like a knife slowly waiting to puncture the heart of an innocent one.Bullying is a silent killer and should end now.Bullying can be stopped and will be stopped.Now is the time to stop bullying not when there is another lying in the hospital on the edge of life or death.Now is the time to stop bullying not when the thoughts of death clouds the minds of our young generation.Now is the time to stand up together and fight the common enemy that is bullying.Now is the time.Like the great Ghandi,a peaceful activist that fought his enemy with non-violence,said “be the change you want to see in the world.”This quote stuck to me because it relates to my dream.I have a dream where there will be no more fear of the word bullying.I have a dream where we will live in a world without thoughts of deaths silently clouding our minds.I have a dream that the young generation will not know the meaning of bullying,but will understand the meaning of loving all.This is my dream and if we stand unified we will surely achieve it.
I like how you connected your speech’s topic to yourself. It made me feel like you know about your topic.
Homeless, Not Hopeless
Dear Fellow Classmates,
Throughout the world a mass amount of people that are homeless, abandoned, addicted, lost, hopeless; these people turned to the world for help. People who want to start over in their life, people who want to live again, people who just want to be called a person again in our society. When people think of homeless, they think of the words it, that, monster, creature or these vulgar words to people who can’t defend themselves, for they have no ability to. In our society everyone is our brothers and sisters; no matter what your appear to look like, no matter how much you earn, and no matter what you believe in, we are one as a whole.
I see our brothers and sisters suffering, from the cold harsh weather. I hear our brothers and sisters agonizing in pain. I feel has if I were them who are suffering through this tragedy we call home. People who have to steal food, and blankets so they can just make sure they can live on the streets. People panhandling for change just so they can get burger from McDonalds. People struggling barely making it, but still pursuing, trying, changing so they won’t suffer anymore.
Being homeless is like a baby without its mother: lost, scared, hungry, trying to find a way out, but can’t. Homeless people are like cracks on a street, we walk over ignoring them, thinking everythings is okay as we past by. They are stucked in the pit of hell, reliving the same day over and over. Not knowing if they will: eat, sleep, find shelter, or fight for their lives.
Now this is the time, to end homelessness. Now this is the time, to end the fear and sorrow these people have. Yes now this is the time, that we must give our fellow brothers and sisters a life they deserve.Like the great NBA all-star player Jimmy Butler once said; “It taught me that anything is possible.” I have a dream that there will be no more starving people on the streets. I have a dream there will be no more children crying for their dying mothers. I have a dream that in the near future, we shall end it all.
I really like your title and how it relates to the topic of your speech.
I like how you compared the homeless with cracks on the street and how people just walk over it. Really descriptive.
You have good use of repetition and imagery throughout your entire speech.
Great job! I like how you had kind of a parallelism in the first sentence.
I like how you referred to people suffering as “brothers and sisters”, it makes me think of the world as one big community rather than everyone fighting for themselves.
Get Off Your Phone
About 50 year ago human invent a device call a phone. As time pass by phone turn into cell phone and it get better and better. Now day we have iPhone, Samsung and more other type of phone. And people like us teenager can’t stop using them. Everywhere I go I alway see people on their phone. I see them on their phone while driving, while eating, while shopping, while doing anything. As we all may know texting while driving is a very dangerous thing to do. I hear people turning on their phone, taking picture on their phone, and the sound of texting. I feel like people is been control by their phone and can’t get over them. To some people their phone is like a child to them; they’ll get worry when they lose it or when it went missing. I feel like your own phone can control you better than your parent. Now day teenager spent more of their time on their phone than with their own family. Now is the time to put down the phone and be like the old day where there no phone yet for a while. And spent time with the people that is near you, the people that you love. Now is the time to tell people that phone are not a big part of life. Your phone can’t help you to get out of problem or to solve them. Now is the time to stop phone addiction and make the world a less danger place. Like my mom alway say “Don’t stare at the screen to long or you’ll go blind”. I have a dream that phone should only be use at a certain time only. I have a dream that people can have self control over them and for them to know the limit of using cell phone. I HAVE A DREAM that people should know that phone cannot help them get through with their life.
I HAVE A DREAM
I like the allusion you used because you used your mother.
Your allusion made a great twist to your speech. Good stuff g.
The Tears and Bruises of Broken Hearted childrens
Child abuse is a serious problem today. In 2010, nearly 1,560 children died. Now, that my not seem like a lot to you, but that was 1,560 children that will never get to grow up. They will never get to finish school. They will never get to celebrate their birthdays too. They will never know true love and family. I could go on but I think everyone here gets the point. The fact that that is still a problem in the United States, and that we have people in our country who would do that disgusts and repulses me.
I see the broken hearts of broken childrens. I hear the cries when they are beaten. I feel the bruises from the beatings. Abused children are like caged animal. Wanting the freedom and love but can’t. I am not blaming you, and I am not trying to make you feel bad. I am saying that children who live in an abusive home have gotten incredibly good at hiding their scars and hiding their fears. It can be someone sitting right next to you in class. But I am not here to tell you about how unnerving I find that, I am here to talk to you about how we can stop this. I know we can do it, together. You, as a part of this country, can make someone’s life a whole lot better by just knowing the signs and reporting abuse. This country cannot and will not survive without children in it to grow up to become adults, and to shape the future for their own children. I have a dream that children of all race would live with happiness and peace. I have a dream that parents would teach them the good way to live in life. I have a dream of a better future. Like the great Whitney Houston once said, “ I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.” Now I do understand that not every single child in the country is being abused. I understand that this is not an everyday problem. But it happens, folks. It happens, and where does it happen? You would probably scoff a little and say “Well, it does not happen in my town.” Well, you would be wrong. That is why that I ask that when you go home, you be on the lookout then and every day and night. “Our greatest natural resource is in the minds of our children.”
Great speech! I really like the simile you have used. I also like how you included statistics.
The title of your speech is very engaging and it really draws you in. I also like your allusion involving Whitney Houston.
I really like the allusion and the quote
I like your use of repetition as well as the rhetorical question!
Time to Tap Out Putting Labels
Dear students, I come to you today to tell you about the appalling action that a lot of people are committing today. Bullying is a world-wide epidemic that has taken over society. Every day at school we witness it but just become a bystander and never do anything about it. This negative society has brought many innocent beings down the wrong road of death. How can we say we have never hurt a person directly but the bad words we say are tearing that person’s life to the core? Because of technology and social media, bullying has gotten out of hand. In the news I can see the despair of parents mourning their young one’s death. It shouldn’t be that way anymore. Many kids today are stripped of their dignity and robbed of the personality by you calling them mean comments.
Calling someone fat won’t make you skinnier. Calling someone ugly, won’t make you prettier. Calling someone stupid, won’t make you smarter. Calling someone a loner, won’t make you more popular. Bullying someone won’t make you a better person. So, please look at yourself and your imperfections before you call them out on a different person because all of your mean labels can certainly tear someone’s character and damage somebody’s image.
Not only does this go out to bullies but to the bystanders. As bystanders we must help those who are victims and get them help. We must fight together to win together. So now is the time where we can’t wait for people to change but ourselves. Now is the time where if you strongly believe in my fight against bullying you will take action. Now is the time for all of those who have been bullied to rise and shine your beautiful light because you are worth it. Like the actor, Michael J. Fox, once said, “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” So don’t let bullying break you down, build yourself up and show your worth.
I HAVE A DREAM that our society can work together as a group where everyone is equal and bullying stops.
Thank you for your time today.
School Shootings
On April 20th, 1999 in Colorado at Columbine High School, 13 innocent lives were taken. On December 14th, 2012 in Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary, 26 innocent lives were taken. These innocent lives were stolen from us because of school shootings.
Schools shooting is one particular problem in the world that I would like to see changed. When it comes down to school shootings, all I see are the lives of daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, and friends all being taken too soon. I hear the despair in the victim’s families. I feel the sense of loss that has been brought upon us from the shootings.
This is why now is the time to bring awareness to school shootings. Now is the time to give out severe punishment to the perpetrators. Now is the time to stop taking innocent lives.
Like the great Nelson Mandela once voiced, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Let’s not have the most powerful weapon as guns, but education. Let’s not have the shootings change the world, but education change the world.
Our kids, our future doctors, teachers, business owners, artists, politicians, athletes – shouldn’t feel that getting an education could be dangerous. That sitting in school could be dangerous. That someone with a gun could march right into school buildings. Our kids shouldn’t have to feel that. Schools should be a safe learning environment.
So I have a dream. I have a dream that one day, parents will be able to drop off their children at school without any fears. I have a dream that one day, students and teachers won’t have to plead for their lives on school grounds. I have a dream that one day, school shootings won’t be a problem anymore. One day, I HAVE A DREAM!
Good dream speech. I like how you included some of the shootings that happened.
I like how you mentioned real world examples of school shootings!
Nuclear Proliferation and Weapons
Greetings, my name is Chance Xyooj. I would like to thank everyone in the audience for taking the time to hear my speech.
I feel like the issue I will be talking about today is very important. The issue is nuclear weapons and the proliferation, or increased spread, of them. In history, there has only been one real case of nuclear weapons being used for the purpose of war. The United States of America dropped two atomic bombs on two different Japanese cities during World War II.
Imagine this, my audience, it is August 6, 1945 in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. You are sitting with your family, friends, or colleagues. Totally unaware of the impending doom you are about to face. You see everyone going about their normal day. You can hear plane engines above accompanied with a loud whistling. You feel the ground shake for miles, and then came a loud explosion, and then nothing.
In the bombing of Hiroshima, approximately 90,000 – 146,000 people died. Since then, multiple countries have developed, tested, and enhanced their own weapons of mass destruction. The threat of our normal day lives being disrupted in a matter of minutes is still present and is also on a larger scale. These nuclear weapons are the fire in the forest that once a spark is set, everything is burned down.
The spread of these city-wiping weapons is adding to the threat of ruining our normal lives. If the wrong people have these weapons available, then we could potentially be in danger.
So, now is the time to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. Now is the time to not resort to using nuclear weapons. Because if nuclear weapons are used, there will be no more resorts for humans to visit. Now is the time, to try to prevent the world from human destruction.
If these nuclear weapons are used to fight a war, like in World War II, what would be left? Not only would the mere force of explosion from the bomb would obliterate the city and the land, but the radiation would create “fallouts” which pollute the air for a long time. But, like the great Abraham Lincoln once said, “Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short lived.”
I believe that one day the fear of being annihilated in such a short amount of time will not be in the back of our heads.
I believe that one day we will end the spread of nuclear weapons and to make sure these humanity-ending armaments, like a kid using a water hose on an anthill, do not fall into the wrong hands.
Similar to building castles with moats and drawbridges to keep out invaders, I strongly believe that one day we will have an invention that will nullify nuclear weapons.
I just hope that it comes soon.
Dear Chance,
I like your use if statistics in your speech. They help to further show what happened in Hiroshima.
“Human destruction” Great word choice.
i love how u use commentary details and this speech really reached out to me to understand where ur coming from….
Thank you for noticing my use of “commentary details” Kenny, I appreciate that!
Peace
Do you hear the sound of crying children, mourning their dead parents? Do you hear the sound of a thousand soldiers groaning in pain? Do you see the corpses of a fallen warriors on a battlefield? Do you see bullets penetrate through the bodies of thousands of fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers? Do you feel their sorrow? Do you feel their pain? Ladies and gentlemen, do you feel the pain and suffering that many people must go through due to the many wars that engulf the history of our and many other nations? Can you even understand their pain?
I don’t. I can’t hear the painful groans of soldiers or the cries of children. I can only hear the joyful music of hope and the cheers of children. I don’t see the see corpses, nor do I see bullets flying. My vision is blinded by the golden light of peace. I can’t feel pain nor sorrow. I can only feel the warmth of the serenity of the future. I don’t understand the concept of pain or suffering. I can only understand peace and love.
I wish that one day we will all understand peace and serenity. I wish that one day we will all comprehend hope and love. I wish that we all will not have to experience the torments of war. I wish that one day we will not look behind us at the wars of the past, but that one day we will look forward at a future of love, sisterhood, and brotherhood. I wish that we will no longer destroy each other with the instruments of war but stand together in a circle of unity. I wish that one day will no longer build walls but build bridges. I wish that one day our world leaders will no longer spread words of hate, but join hands and yell proudly, “Love thy neighbor!!!”
Dasean,
Great use of vivid imagery and rhetorical questions to appeal to your readers’ emotions and logic!
Coey
Great job. I like those repetition you used in the very beginning of your speech.
I like the way you started your speech with questions. Good work.
I agree with Pha because when i first started reading i was immediately drawn in the questions that stuck in my mind while reading the rest of the speech.
Great speech! I like the metaphors you have used. For example, “the golden light of peace”. I also like how you started your speech with questions towards the audience.
I like it how you’re so positive! Its like no matter what happen, you are always looking to a better future. I love your Dream Speech, keep up the good work!
I like how you use an abundance amount of realistic imagery. It almost as if I were them in that position; I felt the pathos.
Dream Speech: I am a Hmong daughter
I am a Hmong daughter. Who wasn’t born in Laos, but in America! I am a Hmong daughter who is to follow the orders from the elders. I am a Hmong daughter who isn’t allowed to follow her own dreams. But to follow what the dream of me to be. I am a Hmong daughter who has high expectations from the elders.
I see as a Hmong daughter we aren’t allowed to have an education like we are not allowed to have freedom. We are expected to come home keep the house clean, learn how to cook, and be “wifey material”. We are not allowed the same freedom as being a Hmong son. Being a Hmong son they have the every power to do whatever they want. But being a homing daughter we are not allowed the same power as being a Hmong son.
I hear our elders complaining to our parents that we are not allowed to do this and that. I hear the elders complaining that us Hmong daughter isn’t like the one from Laos. I hear our elders complaining and comparing us to them.
I feel that we are not allowed to be free. I feel that we are stuck at home like a prisoner having no rights to do what we want. Our skies of futures have begun to darken due to our older. The voice of our elders is torture to our ears. Our world isn’t as bright as the sun no more.
Now is the time for us to stand up for our freedom. Our education, our dreams. Now is the time for us to tell our elders we won’t do what they want us to do. Don’t ever let an elder stop us from reaching our goals. Now is the time for us to prove them wrong. Tell them that one day you will succeed and that one day you’ll give your respect to them.
Like the great Malala who stands up for her education. Like the great Martin Luther King who stands up for his own freedom and rights. We shall stand up and fight for our education, freedom, and rights.
I have a dream that our elders will believe in us. I have a dream that being a Hmong daughter we will have the freedom and education that we want and need. I have a dream that we all will prove our elders wrong, and succeed as being a Hmong daughter. Represent who you are, represent yourself being a Hmong daughter.
Shery,
I appreciate your allusions, which connect past social rights movements with the plight of being a Hmong daughter.
Coey
I like your metaphor “… we aren’t allowed to have an education like we are not allowed to have freedom.”
I love your Dream Speech. Everything you said is so true. Being a Hmong daughter, you have no rights what you want to do and you have no freedom at all. Keep up the good work!
i like how you used repitition in your dream speech. Great job
Your speech is very inspiring and I really like all the allusions in it.
I like how your speech was based on events still happening now as well as your metaphor “our skies of our future have begun to darken”.
Christina Chang
Period 2
My Hmong People, Us, Our
My Hmong people, we, who have no countries as ours. My Hmong people, we, who have a name as ‘Hmong’. We were originally from China, but later on in the late 1990s our Hmong spread throughout the world. Although, we as Hmong people have a place to live, eat, sleep, and work, but we cannot call this ‘our’ country. A country that we can call as ‘our’ country is a country that really belongs to our Hmong people.
I see my Hmong people, who are here with me, somehow some have become good and successful people and some have become bad and unsuccessful people. I heard hundreds of people throughout the world talking about my Hmong people. I feel proud of myself as a Hmong people, but however I also feel shameful because of my Hmong people. General Vang Pao who was known as our Hmong leader who had past away on January 6th, 2011; have brought our Hmong people to America for a reason.
General Vang Pao wants ‘us’ our Hmong people to be like others, who have knowledge. We, my Hmong people, came here to America for a reason! We came to be successful and to make our ‘Hmong people’ proud! My Hmong people, we, who have the name as ‘Hmong’ need to combine together, hold hands to make us, our Hmong people, to be as strong as metal. My Hmong people, I want us, to bloom like beautiful flowers from the tree turning into a full fruit. Now is the time my Hmong people, we need to hold hands together and show other that ‘we are one!’ Now is the time to show others that we, ‘Hmong’ people, are now together, share the same heart, the same blood, and share the same bond. Now is the time my Hmong people, we need to work together; I want us all, to bloom together, to become successful, strong and powerful.
Like the great General Vang Pao’s speech, in his speech he said, “ I am your parent. I had a vision. You as the youth would be educated and have rights, have a bright future, your own home, access to basic necessities, the same opportunities as others.” He, General Vang Pao, wanted us, Hmong people, to love each other and help each other but as I see, none of this is happening. I wanted to ask all Hmong people this question, we are Hmong, if we don’t love our ‘Hmong’ people who will? If we don’t help each other who will? If you don’t even love your race, do you think other races will? Love is a bond, we have to love and respect each other if we want others to respect us!
“I have a dream, that one day, Hmong people will love each other!”
I have a dream, that all Hmong 18 clans will combine together and go through every hardships together!
I have a dream, that all Chang, Vang, Lee, Xiong, Yang, Vue, Thao, Moua, Her, Chue, Cheng, Khang, Lor, Hang, Kong, Kue, Cha, and Pha will all become one!
I like how you said “I want us, to bloom like beautiful flowers from the tree turning into a full fruit” the tone is very positive.
Thank you Melinda.
I really like your simile “I want us, to bloom like beautiful flowers from the tree turning into a full fruit”. This shows a nice imagery. Also I like how you mention those Hmong last name and this really shows your dream for Hmong to unite.
I agree with you that all the 18 hmong clans will join together one day. I believe that we’re still not as one even though we hang out together and go to events together.
Bullying
School is one of the places where kids are more vulnerable at being bullied. Almost none of the bystanders take action on helping the kid who’s going through the torments of the bully. As we see on social medias, the victim is being bullied with no one to help which leaves the kid helpless. Is it worth bullying another person out of joy? Is it worth having a life being lost because of the intimidations that he or she goes through? Is school a place where kids are picked on now or is it a place where it’s about getting an education to become smarter and progress through life with that knowledge? I see a victim getting harassed as I stutter to do anything while I pass by. I hear the screams of the victim after walking away. I feel the pain of torture that the victim goes through as he gets broken down by hatred words. It’s like a fox preying on a bunny when it’s hungry for food. It’s how the shoe meets the bug when killed as a human being is grossed out by the bug. Now is the time to lend a helping hand. Now is the time to stand up for others when they can’t for themselves. Now is the time to end the ways of bullying. Like for example Dwayne Johnson from the movie “Central Intelligence”, he got bullied throughout his high school days because of how obese he was. Even in the future when returning to a high school reunion in shape and buffed out, his childhood bully still got the best of him and still made fun of Dwayne. But later on in the movie, he stands up to his bully and then later says, “I don’t like bullies.” So let’s join hands and help each others with a major problem in life. I have a dream that bullying will be gone and would be erased or decay from existence. I have a dream that the kids who gets bullied will rise up and stand up for themselves. I HAVE A DREAM TO STOP BULLYING.
I like how you alluded to a Dwayne Johnson movie and used it as an example in your speech.
Good job, placing plot from a movie into you’re speech is something I would have never done. Keep up the good work!!!
I like how you used the allusion of Dwayne getting bully in his high school life because these kind of problems do really happen in real life.
Unity for All
I welcome you all, my dear classmates and my respected teacher, Mr Coey, for joining me here today. In our world, we are divided into colonies. Colonies that love each other and hate each other. With hate in our world, I see deaths of the men and women who had fought for us. I see battlefields of hatred. I hear cries of horrify. I hear screams of pain. I feel sorrowful & shamefaced, for we are too blind to see the aftermath of our actions. We must love and care, but not all of us are able to love and care for others the way we love and care for our family. Not all of us are able to appreciate our world. Not all of us are able to give up materialistic items we own to those who need it more than us. Not all of us are able to bring each other happiness rather than hatred. Therefore, we have wars. We have wars to solve problems, to help one another, but at the same time it creates enemies. World War 1, one of the largest wars in history, originated through the tensions of Europe, from 1914 to 1918. This war caused bloody deaths of millions of honorable people. People who had a family waiting for them to return. 4 years of fighting each other, but instead we could of became friends. This war happened because we couldn’t be happy with each other. But it’s not over. 21 years later, World War 2 takes place and millions of more people die. We fight each other like clashing waves, repeatedly. But it is not too late to forgive. It is not too late to help each other. It is not too late to love who we hate. It is not too late! It is not too late to create peace, to form bonds we wished we had created, and to care for each other. We must build respected relationships. But it shall not be build with greediness, which will cause wars. We shall build it with peace. Peace is what we all want, but we can’t get. Peace doesn’t walk to us and just hands itself to us. We must create peace. It must be seen as a goal throughout the entire world. We must contribute our help by creating bonds. Bonds that will never break. Bonds of love, not hatred. Bonds of friends, not enemies. Like the great Albert Einstein said, “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” We must be able to understand each other’s problems and work it out instead of avoiding it. We are still able to make change. We are still able to the see each other’s best true self. We are still able to step up with our nationalism, and join together as one. We are still able to create what we need the most, peace. Thank you.
I like how you included both of the World Wars as references to your dream speech. The examples made me able to imagine what you were trying to tell us, the readers/audience.
I really like how your title “Unity for All” really fits with the topic of peace.
I liked your motif of “It is not too late”, showing that action can still be taken on these problems.
A Cure, A Cure to rethink
Hello fellow people, I am here to greet you about poaching. In 2007, there was a huge poaching case in North Dakota’s, at Sheyeme Lodge. Where a father and son were charged with a number of federal game violation. I see poachers caring about money and money is just another crime added. I hear people show off what they got, but really they only got them self. I feel people need to stop focusing on fame and focus on enjoying memories with the people you love.
There has always been one thing in & out of my mind, so i decide to speak up and tell the world why poaching is not acceptable nor should come to mind of us hunters, fishermen etc. Everybody want to be famous, but people don’t understand that cheating will only get u where u started, unless your born famous. When poaching becomes a habit it becomes a crime and as people take more, it becomes who they are and not enjoying what they do. As for the people who do take the limit amount will always feel hatred to those who do take over the limit. It gets people angry and causes problems that leads to crimes/violation.
Now is the time to show others the right way to spend quality time. Now is the time for us gamers avoid poaching. Now is the time for us to share for the next day.
I have believe that there would be no such to poaching like having no life. I believe that we would have no limits just because we would trust each other to leave for everyone to enjoy.
I HAVE BELIEVE no one will ever be selfish to over take all and not let other have great memories with their families.
Nice job Kenny. I like how you started your speech with greeting your audience.
Great job Kid… people would really understand how u feel about poachers and that they only make things worse. when really other people only want is to have a great time with their loved ones and take pictures of what they would catch. The outdoors is they way to live………
I enjoy how your love for animals, and turned it into a speech. I also like how you used an anecdote, with you and your grandpa.
great job i like the title and how it relates to your topic.
Caution Phone Addiction!
Fifty years ago, people invented the first smartphone which brought efficiency to our life, and as the technology continued to evolve finally it transformed to a widespread technology that everyone was amused by that power. Fifty years later, almost every person in the society has a smartphone , and half of them who was so engage to the fiction world gradually infected by a disorder that is called “phone addiction”.
Do you feel people being isolated from the society? Do you feel family is despairing about their broken relationships with each other? Do you feel our world was affected by the monster name smartphone?
This world is like a graveyard that every one of us was so concentrating on the smartphone instead of the true feelings between each person that is happening at every moment of our life. Love of the smartphone brings sorrowful life to our self. As this situation continued to extend the innocent heart of us will dyed with the ink of smartphone and then becomes indelible. After our heart is washed with the ink then our personality start to shut down, and will stay in the bottom of the box.
Dear friends start right now to put down your smartphone and enjoying the life. Start right now to look at your family and show them the warm love. Start right now to rise up on our society and defending the phone addiction. “Like the author Alex Morritt told us that the more time we spend interconnected via a myriad of devices, the less time we have left to develop true friendships in the real world”.
I have a dream that one day in our society, people could communicating, playing and walking without a smartphone on their hand. I have a dream that one day our world will become vivid again like those old days when we didn’t express to technology, and like those old days when we are innocent and young. I have a dream that one day no one will be wearing glasses and everyone will be showing their beautiful eyes.
We have a chance right now to stop the phone addiction. So why don’t we do it? We have a chance to give yourself a bright future future. So why don’t we do it? Just put down your phone.
I like your introduction because it really got me thinking about how much time I spend on my phone.
Thank you Viviana!
Not So Unconditional Love
In our modern society, some children grow up with both of their parents loving and supporting them throughout their lives from the moment they are born and sometimes one single parent takes on the role that both of those parents would play. Though my mom falls into the latter category she loves me unconditionally, I know that for a fact.
But unconditional love is not a default setting that is programmed into every parent once their child is born. Have you ever stopped to think about the children whose parents don’t love them? Every child is not born and immediately accepted with open arms into this world.
Child abandonment is when a parent, guardian, or person who is charge of a child deserts them without any regard of the child’s physical health or safety and with the intention of wholly abandoning the child or fails to provide the necessary care for a child under their roof. Over 400,000,000 abandoned children live on their own on the streets of hundreds of cities around the world. Every 2 seconds a child becomes an orphan. Let that sink in.
Do you hear that?
The sound of a 5-year-old boy the size of a toddler due to malnourishment, shrieking at the top his lungs, “Mommy, Mommy! Don’t leave me!” at the silhouette of his mother as she walks away from the boy who she has left to die behind an old, abandoned building.
Do you see that?
The slight smirk on her face as she thinks of all the freedom she will have now that her own son and responsibility is gone.
Please tell me you feel that boy’s and every abandon child’s innocence being shattered into a million pieces by the thought of themselves being so worthless to the one person or people who are suppose to love them by default even if no one else does, cares about them seemly as much as they care about a piece of garbage they would toss to the side of the road. To those people the act of abandoning a child is as if they are getting rid of an extra piece baggage that is weighing them down.
Let us not wait until we hear news about the kid who has died around the corner due to starvation.
Let us not continue to sit idly by when we see a child or person in need.
Let us not let those parents or guardians or just those people win, the ones that see human life as insignificant and valueless when it is in actuality precious and beautiful.
Now is the time for everyone to help the child in need, not ignore them.
Now is the time for parents who aren’t ready for the great responsibility that is taking care of another human being and that is to put their child up for adoption at least not leave them to survive by themselves when they their child can’t. “My wish is that children be treated as people, and not as property; that their rights as human beings on the planet, to food, shelter, education, and health, be taken seriously,” said by Oprah Winfrey, an advocate for adoption.
I have a dream that I can walk down the street anywhere in the world to see not one malnourished child or person laying on the side of the road wondering about and begging for their next meal.
I have a dream to be able to flash a smile one day, at the fact the statistics of child abandonment are about the size of a pebble when compared to the skyscraper that will be the statistics of adoption.
I have a dream that abandoned children will grow up to be healthy and to be happy.
And have a dream that an adopted child has a family who loves them as much as they deserve and as much as my mom loves me.
Excellent imagery and statistics!!!
I like how you said “shrieking at the top his lungs, “Mommy, Mommy! Don’t leave me!” at the silhouette of his mother as she walks away from the boy who she has left to die behind an old, abandoned building.” The imagery and word choices are very specific, strong, and detailed.
nice used of reputation and imagery
We are all the same
I HAVE A DREAM
It is 2017, and there is still racism remaining in this world of ours. Males and Females are struggling through the hardships of this tragic problem, interracial relationships. Couples cannot be together in peace because of the people who still do not believe in interracial relationships.
So to my fellow friends of colors, you are not alone. So to my fellow brothers and sisters of different nationalities, we will get through this. So to my partner of devotion, I will make an end to this. Today I will speak for the males and females out there who are suffering from this dreadful ignorance.
I see hatred, inequality, intolerance, and stupidity. I see men and women forbidden to love another ethnicity. I see my fellow friends being told they are not enough because of the color of their skin. Regardless of their skin color, appearance, and background we are all the same. We are all human. And we should have humanity. We should never segregate anyone in any shape or form for the way they look. The appearance of a human does not identify who or what kind of person they are. The appearance of a human shall not affect the way we view one another.
I hear my own father telling me I cannot love my own partner for he is from a different background. For he is not the same as me and for he is not Hmong. He wants me to be happy yet he forbids me to be with who I truly want. So when is this going to end?
Now is the time to stop this racism. Now is the time to stop this discrimination. Now is the time to change people’s mindset that should’ve been changed 100 years ago. Just like the great Martin Luther King Jr said, “Little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.” We need to have this mindset and we shall join together no matter what our nationalities are.
I have a dream that Asians, Latinos, African Americans, Whites, Pacific Islanders, and other nationalities can have a peaceful interracial relationship without the pain of racism. I have a dream that different races can be able to connect together without suffering from discrimination.
I HAVE A DREAM ONE DAY PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE WORLD CAN STOP THE RACISM IN INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS.
I love how u use ur own personal life and allussion to make this work of art. And how you use other “famous” speech from all over the world… Great work of art
Pader, I like how you included your own experience into this speech that you wrote. I can imagine how the elderly hmong parents can be judging at a certain type of time regardless of who you date or who you hang out with.
I like how you use your parents and Martin Luther King as an allusion, and also how you use your own personal experience in your speech.
I really like the way that you used Dr.King’s quotes it’s really emphasising your dream
Day in day out, week in week out, month in month out, judgements are being made. The
act of judgements is an act of assumption. Every judgement of conscience, right or wrong has an impact. Throughout the whole world judging one another has become a problem and it has develop insecurities.
To see people stay hidden in the shadows of judgement, filled with sorrow and fear,
scared to get judge, wanting to be “perfect” to hear the negative comments that their “not good enough”, to feel their pain, suffering from the physical and mental illness. We need to put this to an end.
Don’t live in the shadows of people’s judgement. Make your own choices in the light of
your own wisdom. No more long nights of bitterness.
Now is the time to stand and stop the hatred, now is the time to stop judging others, now
is the time to create everyone equal. Like the great artist, Linkin Park, said, “Become so tired so much more aware, I’m becoming this, all I want to do is be more like me and be less like you.”
I have a dream that one day there would be no hatred, let us live in peace. I have a
dream that there would be no more judgements, when you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. I have a dream that one day we all can be equal and live happily.
Wow!!! what such amazing work by you… nice repetition and great concreat details
I like the metaphors you used for example, “shadows of judgement” and “nights of bitterness”.
I like your speech topic as well the metaphor “light of your own wisdom”.