親情英語演講稿（通用25篇）
親情英語演講稿 篇1
The family is one of the best things in the world, it is spring, moistensdry up your mind, it is light, light the way forward for me, it is a cup of tea,warm me.
If nature is used to describe the family, the love is the sun in thewinter, it's warm. No matter you are what kind of injustice, the family will notlaugh at you, it will comfort you, when you meet with difficulties, it willimmediately give you hope and the power, let you solved.
The final exam approaching, nature is a tension, teacher than a studentstill nervous. The most obvious evidence, homework more.
Recently, English became my sorrow. Recite the text is my nightmare. Thenight, the wind has not respected bone, I stay up late to work overtime tobecome commonplace.
Back home, first thing is to review. As time goes by, the window is atnight, when others are fast asleep, lang lang came home, national who issurprised, remembered that is yourself. Father woke up, sleepy, fear to say:"the child hard, go to bed early." I nodded slightly, but let me have morepower.
The family is warm in the winter the sun, you warm me, you gave meunlimited power and hope. You are my life the fine night, the lowest in mylife.
親情英語演講稿 篇2
Parents gave me life in this world,I love the most is them.
Expressing of loving parents do not need to pass a language that I ever we can do some little the Father's Day or Mother'sDay,we can prepare a delicious breakfast for can remember their birthdays,we don't need to buy gifts,but have to say happybirthday.
When parents come home from work,we can hand them a cup of hot water tomake them can help parents to share some of the housework,so that theyhave more time to part of the family,we should take active to we read out,we should always contact them,tell them recent thingsof our them not worry about us.
It is known to all our parents love is priceless,is not asking should love them in return. But,parents can be very simple ng as the life of more concern to them,for them to have been do it.
父母給了我生活在這個世界上，我最愛的就是他們。
表達(dá)對父母的愛不需要通過語言，我愛他們。我們可以做些力所能及的事情。在父親節(jié)和母親節(jié)，我們可以準(zhǔn)備一頓美味的早餐給他們。我們能記住他們的生日。在他們的生日，我們不需要買禮物，但有說生日快樂。
當(dāng)父母下班回家，我們可以遞上一杯熱水讓他們放松。我們可以幫父母分擔(dān)一些家務(wù)，讓他們有更多的時間休息。作為家庭的一部分，我們應(yīng)該主動去做家務(wù)。如果我們讀出來的'，我們要經(jīng)常聯(lián)系他們，告訴他們我們自己最近的事情，讓他們不要擔(dān)心我們。
眾所周知，父母的愛是無價的，是不求任何回報。我們應(yīng)該愛他們。但是，父母的愛可以很簡單。只要給他們更多的關(guān)注生活，他們已經(jīng)很滿意了。只是這樣做。
親情英語演講稿 篇3
Awesome Love
Good afternoon. Ladies and Gentlemen,
Today I will say something about my family love.
I remember when I was younger. My family lived a simple life. We weren't wealthy by any stretch of the imagination, but we were content with what we had.
Our first vehicle was an old broken-down bicycle. It provided us with transportation on many enjoyable weekends and holidays. Mom sat on the back while Dad pedaled. I, a mere toddler at the time, rode on the bar in front of him. It didn't matter where we were going as long as we were going there together.
Not long after that, my family moved to Hainan. Relying on my parents, courage and persistence, they started their own business. As a result, we were soon able to replace the bike with a new car. So we could travel further on our excursions. Our family's happy laughter filled the car as we traveled to many distant locations in China. Many years have gone by since those happy days, but we're still as close as ever.
Recently, the airplane has become our mode of transportation as we venture beyond the confines of China to see the world. We were able to experience firsthand the uniqueness of Amsterdam, the romance of Paris, and the elegance of Vienna. But yet, such fantastic sites were nothing compared to the love of our family.
Time goes by swiftly, and everything is changing all the the love existing in my family always remains. It is the source of our happiness; It,s the source of all of our ideals: confidence, courage, and faith. But it goes so much deeper than that; it warms our very hearts. So I will acclaim for the eternal and awesome love in my family and let it go on forever!
Thank you very much!
親情英語演講稿 篇4
Good afternoon,everybody：
It is really a great honor to have this opportunity to make a speech for topic is OUR CLASS,OUR FAMILY.
I love my class very much!On one hand,I think we’re a struggling team,although we’re not the best class in study,we’re the hardest far as I’m concerned,our classmates all like studying very the other hand,we’re a unitive the military training for example,It is well known that military training needs good we did it,so we won the second prize.
This is our class,a harmonious class.
Okay,that's all for my ks for listening.
親情英語演講稿 篇5
Awesome Love
Good afternoon. Ladies and Gentlemen,
Today I will say something about my family love.
I remember when I was younger. My family lived a simple life. We weren't wealthy by any stretch of the imagination, but we were content with what we had.
Our first vehicle was an old broken-down bicycle. It provided us with transportation on many enjoyable weekends and holidays. Mom sat on the back while Dad pedaled. I, a mere toddler at the time, rode on the bar in front of him. It didn't matter where we were going as long as we were going there together.
Not long after that, my family moved to Hainan. Relying on my parents, courage and persistence, they started their own business. As a result, we were soon able to replace the bike with a new car. So we could travel further on our excursions. Our family's happy laughter filled the car as we traveled to many distant locations in China. Many years have gone by since those happy days, but we're still as close as ever.
Recently, the airplane has become our mode of transportation as we venture beyond the confines of China to see the world. We were able to experience firsthand the uniqueness of Amsterdam, the romance of Paris, and the elegance of Vienna. But yet, such fantastic sites were nothing compared to the love of our family.
Time goes by swiftly, and everything is changing all the time.Yet the love existing in my family always remains. It is the source of our happiness; It,s the source of all of our ideals: confidence, courage, and faith. But it goes so much deeper than that; it warms our very hearts. So I will acclaim for the eternal and awesome love in my family and let it go on forever!
Thank you very much!
親情
廄得在我很小的時候，家里的日子過得樸實(shí)無華，不富裕的家境容不得半點(diǎn)的奢侈。但是，我們對所擁有的一切都感到滿足與愜意。
一輛破舊的自行車是我們?nèi)业牡谝粋�交通工具。但它為我們帶來了許許多多快樂的周末與假期。記得媽媽總是坐在后座上，爸爸騎著車，而丁點(diǎn)兒大的我就呆在車子的前梁上。在我們的短程旅途中，似乎目的地并不是最重要的'，而重要的是我們在一起，享受并渡過了快樂的時光。
在那不久后，我們?nèi)野岬搅撕Ｄ�，憑著父母的勇氣與執(zhí)著不懈的努力，他們在自己的事業(yè)上很快有了出色的成績。因此，不久后父母就將原本的腳踏車換成了一輛嶄新的小課車，于是，我們就開始了長距離的旅途，在周游中國的同時，快樂的笑聲總是充滿著整個溫馨的車廂。而那些日子雖然已經(jīng)過去了很久，但是我們還是像以前那樣親密無間。
后來，在我們邁出中國游覽世界的時候，飛機(jī)又成了我們的新型交通工具。我們?nèi)乙黄鸶惺馨⒛匪固氐さ钠娈�，巴黎的浪漫與維也納的典雅。但是所有令人心動的景色都不可與旅途中我們?nèi)覞鉂獾挠H情相提并論。
時光如水，我們身邊的一切都在無時無刻地改變著，但是親情不變，永遠(yuǎn)不變。它是我們快樂的源泉，是我們?nèi)依硐�、信心、勇氣與責(zé)任的源泉。它所給予的不僅僅是這些。而更多的是心靈上的溫暖與感動。所以，我要為親情喝彩，讓愛--永恒!
親情英語演講稿 篇6
Every parents is very fond of his children,my parents is not exceptionalalso.My thing has my parental care a lot of,among them two things,of my for along time imprint in the heart.Once,I and father go into the street shop,thething on the street is too much really,
I am absorbed in skipping repeatedly belt jump ground edge walks along anedge to look,which still consider the car on the side!Abrupt,an a sudden bigstride forward develops father to pull me toward the side,I am tooting themouth,blame father grouchily.
Father tells me:"A moment ago on the side had sailed an autocycle,if youreturn the past 2 centimeters,your small order with respect to one cannot sayfor sure." at this moment,I feel father is so great,tear is abrupt an excessiveis full my orbit.relatively father loves darkly then,maternal love appearsparticularly meticulous,warm.
I study this term final that day,mom early rises cook breakfast,wait for meto wash gargle to end,when preparation has breakfast,mom says the thing thatwants
親情英語演講稿 篇7
Good afternoon. Ladies and Gentlemen,
Today I will say something about my family love.
I remember when I was younger. My family lived a simple life. We weren'twealthy by any stretch of the imagination, but we were content with what wehad.
Our first vehicle was an old broken-down bicycle. It provided us withtransportation on many enjoyable weekends and holidays. Mom sat on the backwhile Dad pedaled. I, a mere toddler at the time, rode on the bar in front ofhim. It didn't matter where we were going as long as we were going theretogether.
Not long after that, my family moved to Hainan. Relying on my parents,courage and persistence, they started their own business. As a result, we weresoon able to replace the bike with a new car. So we could travel further on ourexcursions. Our family's happy laughter filled the car as we traveled to manydistant locations in China. Many years have gone by since those happy days, butwe're still as close as ever.
Recently, the airplane has become our mode of transportation as we venturebeyond the confines of China to see the world. We were able to experiencefirsthand the uniqueness of Amsterdam, the romance of Paris, and the elegance ofVienna. But yet, such fantastic sites were nothing compared to the love of ourfamily.
Time goes by swiftly, and everything is changing all the time.Yet the loveexisting in my family always remains. It is the source of our happiness; It,sthe source of all of our ideals: confidence, courage, and faith. But it goes somuch deeper than that; it warms our very hearts. So I will acclaim for theeternal and awesome love in my family and let it go on forever!
Thank you very much!
記得在我很小的時候，家里的日子過得樸實(shí)無華，不富裕的家境容不得半點(diǎn)的奢侈。但是，我們對所擁有的一切都感到滿足與愜意。
一輛破舊的自行車是我們?nèi)业牡谝粋�交通工具。但它為我們帶來了許許多多快樂的周末與假期。記得媽媽總是坐在后座上，爸爸騎著車，而丁點(diǎn)兒大的我就呆在車子的前梁上。在我們的短程旅途中，似乎目的地并不是最重要的，而重要的是我們在一起，享受并渡過了快樂的時光。
在那不久后，我們?nèi)野岬搅撕Ｄ希瑧{著父母的勇氣與執(zhí)著不懈的努力，他們在自己的事業(yè)上很快有了出色的成績。因此，不久后父母就將原本的腳踏車換成了一輛嶄新的小轎車，于是，我們就開始了長距離的旅途，在周游中國的同時，快樂的笑聲總是充滿著整個溫馨的車廂。而那些日子雖然已經(jīng)過去了很久，但是我們還是像以前那樣親密無間。
后來，在我們邁出中國游覽世界的時候，飛機(jī)又成了我們的新型交通工具。我們?nèi)乙黄鸶惺馨⒛匪固氐さ钠娈�，巴黎的浪漫與維也納的典雅。但是所有令人心動的景色都不可與旅途中我們?nèi)覞鉂獾挠H情相提并論。
時光如水，我們身邊的一切都在無時無刻地改變著，但是親情不變，永遠(yuǎn)不變。它是我們快樂的源泉，是我們?nèi)依硐�、信心、勇氣與責(zé)任的源泉。它所給予的不僅僅是這些。而更多的是心靈上的溫暖與感動。所以，我要為親情喝彩，讓愛--永恒!
親情英語演講稿 篇8
Love to us human is what water to shines the most beautiful lightof humanity,we born in it,we live by often we take it as granted,but weshould know love is a priceless gift we should how to cherish thelove?I have heard a saying :the quickest way to receive love is to give it; thefastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly the best way to keep love isto give it wings.
It is important for us to learn to love as the first class in our when you know how to love than you will be a real man in this bringsus warmth in the fearful coldness,love brings us bright when life gets hard brings us confidence toward life when we are tired out and want togive up.
Love deserves all the admiring words,and love is even beyond the life is what love is all about in my eyes.
親情英語演講稿 篇9
Love to us human is what water to fish.Love shines the most beautiful lightof humanity,we born in it,we live by it.Too often we take it as granted,but weshould know love is a priceless gift we should cherish.But how to cherish thelove?I have heard a saying :the quickest way to receive love is to give it; thefastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly the best way to keep love isto give it wings.
It is important for us to learn to love as the first class in our life.Onlywhen you know how to love than you will be a real man in this world.Love bringsus warmth in the fearful coldness,love brings us bright when life gets hard anddark.Love brings us confidence toward life when we are tired out and want togive up.
Love deserves all the admiring words,and love is even beyond the life anddeath.That is what love is all about in my eyes.
親情英語演講稿 篇10
My mother is an educated woman, who has many good qualities. Like all othermothers, she is responsible and devotes most of her efforts to our family. Shetreats my father kindly and cares for her children whole?-heartedly.
When my mother has spare time, she reads books and newspapers, so she knowsmany stories. After supper, I often sit in our living room, listening to hertelling stories. She has a gift for telling interesting stories. My mother is alearned woman, so I often consult her whenever I have any difficulty in mylessons. Her explanations are very helpful, so she is not only my mother butalso my teacher.
親情英語演講稿 篇11
"Maybe you will forget those who shared pleasure with you, but you willremember those who tasted tears with you. " Kahlil Cirbran
“你也許會忘記那些與你一同笑過的人，但是你將永遠(yuǎn)記住那些與你一同傷心落淚的人�！�---- kahlil Girbran
Everyone has a lot of friends and he must have his own friendship as well.But usually only when you get into trouble, will you know what the truefriendship is. The friend in need is the friend in deed. Only the real friendswill help you when you are in trouble. If you establish your friendship when youare in trouble, make it go on forever.
每個人都有很多朋友，也一定有屬于他自己的友誼。但是，通常只有當(dāng)你遇到困難時，你才能知道什么是真正的友誼�；茧y見真情，只有真正的朋友會在你身處困境時幫助你。如果你在逆境中將友誼建立，那么請讓它繼續(xù)到永遠(yuǎn)。
Maybe a boy and a girl become good friends. They feel very happy when theyare each other, but other students may think that they have fallen in love. Ifyou were one of them, what would you do? If I were in that position, I would notcare about what anyone else may say. I only care about her feeling. We shouldknow that our friendship is pure without anything bad mixed. Friendship is veryimportant for everyone, so I will let my friendship last forever.
也許一個女孩和一個男孩成為了好朋友，他們在一起會感到很幸福。但是，其他同學(xué)會認(rèn)為他們相愛了。如果你是其中之一，你會怎么辦?如果是我，我將不會在乎別人說什么，我只在乎她的感覺。我們應(yīng)該明白，我們的友誼是純潔的，是不含任何雜質(zhì)的。友誼對每個人都很重要，所以我會讓我們的友誼繼續(xù)下去。
Everyone should know that he can not lose his opposite sex friends. If you donot make friends with your opposite sex classmates, then you have already losthalf of the friends. So you can make friends with all your classmates, and don'tbe shy. You should also pay enough attention to the friendship that you havealready established. Don’t undermine it unless you want to hurt him. You shouldnever try to do so, for if you do that you will lose much in emotion.
每個人都應(yīng)該明白你不能失去異性的朋友如果你不與異性同學(xué)交朋友，那么你就已經(jīng)失去了一半朋友。所以你可以與你所有的同學(xué)交朋友，不要害羞。你同樣也應(yīng)該重視你已經(jīng)建立的友誼，不要破壞它，除非你想傷害他。不過，請不要去嘗試，如果你這么做你會失去太多的感情。
Please cherish everything that you have already possessed. Maybe you don'tcare about it now. But when you lose it, you will find that how important itis.
請珍惜你所擁有的一切也許你現(xiàn)在并不在乎，但當(dāng)你失去時你會發(fā)現(xiàn)它是多么的重要。
親情英語演講稿 篇12
My mother is 36 years old。She is a businessman。She is very busy everyday。She gets up eary and cooks the breakfast for my household。Then she goes towork at 7:30。Goes home at 12:00 in the noon。In the afternoon ， she does not goto the shopping mall and bookshop。My mother ofter buys the useful books for me。Because she hopes me earnest learn 。A lot of time my mother is doing thehousework。 She can make very delicious supper。She ofter say;"I can makedelicious food for my dear daughter。
What a good mother! I will say to my mother:"Thank you，dear good mother! Iwill study hard and de a great people。
親情英語演講稿 篇13
Safety is very important. We often hear people say “safety first”. As a middle school student, we should learn to protect ourselves from every possible danger. Here are some things I do. I hope you can follow them.On your way to school and home. You should obey the traffic rules. You should walk on the right side of the road. Don't ride your bike too fast.During school, you can't fight with each other. Don't play with fire. Don't bring knife to school. Don't go out of school without your teacher's permission.In public places or campus, enough water plugs,extinguishing agents and emergency outlets should be set and prepared for unforeseen circumstances.Above all,a series of precautions must be taken to guarantee the students' safety. Let's make the campus safe through our long-term unremitting efforts. 安全是非常重要的。
我們經(jīng)常聽到人們說“安全第一”。 作為一個中學(xué)生，我們應(yīng)該學(xué)會保護(hù)自己免受一切可能的危險。
這里有一些我做的事情。 我希望你能跟隨他們。
在你去學(xué)校和家的路上。 你應(yīng)該遵守交通規(guī)則。
你應(yīng)該走在路的右邊。 不要騎自行車太快。
在學(xué)校期間，你不能與對方斗爭。 不要玩火。
不要把刀帶到學(xué)校。 未經(jīng)你的老師許可，不要出校。
在公共場所或校園，應(yīng)為不可預(yù)見的情況設(shè)置和準(zhǔn)備足夠的水塞，滅火劑和緊急出口。最重要的是，必須采取一系列預(yù)防措施，以保證學(xué)生的安全。
讓我們通過長期不懈的努力使校園安全。
親情英語演講稿 篇14
We are not going to evade that responsibility. We are going to let peopledown. And people, far and near, will hear of us. Frost will be brought to theirbackbones and tears to their eyes when our stories are told and retold, So letus go forth, my fellow members of this luckily chosen generation, and meet thenew century in victory and glory.
Knowing the Consequences of Choice
Over the past Spring Festival, I got involved in a family dispute. Rightbefore I got home, four satellite channels of CCTV were added to the 14 channelswe had already had. In prime time at night, they all had interesting shows.Therefore, the five of us-my parents, my sisters and I-had to argue over what towatch. Finally, we agreed that we should watch the "most interesting"programme... If we
could agree what that was.
However, all of us there remember that for a long time after we had TV,there were only one or two channels available. The increase in options revealsan important change in our life: the abundance of choice.
Fifteen years ago we all dressed in one style and in one colour. Today, weselect from a wide variety of designs and shades.
親情英語演講稿 篇15
When you are a kid, you get asked this one particular question a lot, it really gets kind of annoying. What do you want to be when you grow up? Now, adults are hoping for answers like, I want to be an astronaut or I want to be a neurosurgeon, you’re adults in your imaginations.
Kids, they’re most likely to answer with pro-skateboarder, surfer or minecraft player. I asked my little brother, and he said, seriously dude, I’m 10, I have no idea, probably a pro-skier, let’s go get some ice cream.
See, us kids are going to answer something we’re stoked on, what we think is cool, what we have experience with, and that’s typically the opposite of what adults want to hear.
But if you ask a little kid, sometimes you’ll get the best answer, something so simple, so obvious and really profound. When I grow up, I want to be happy.
For me, when I grow up, I want to continue to be happy like I am now. I’m stoked to be here at TedEx, I mean, I’ve been watching Ted videos for as long as I can remember, but I never thought I’d make it on the stage here so soon. I mean, I just became a teenager, and like most teenage boys, I spend most of my time wondering, how did my room get so messy all on its own.
Did I take a shower today? And the most perplexing of all, how do I get girls to like me? Neurosciences say that the teenage brain is pretty weird, our prefrontal cortex is underdeveloped, but we actually have more neurons than adults, which is why we can be so creative, and impulsive and moody and get bummed out.
But what bums me out is to know that, a lot of kids today are just wishing to be happy, to be healthy, to be safe, not bullied, and be loved for who they are. So it seems to me when adults say, what do you want to be when you grow up? They just assume that you’ll automatically be happy and healthy.
Well, maybe that’s not the case, go to school, go to college, get a job, get married, boom, then you’ll be happy, right? You don’t seem to make learning how to be happy and healthy a priority in our schools, it’s separate from schools. And for some kids, it doesn’t exists at all? But what if we didn’t make it separate? What if we based education on the study and practice of being happy and healthy, because that’s what it is, a practice, and a simple practice at that?
Education is important, but why is being happy and healthy not considered education, I just don’t get it. So I’ve been studying the science of being happy and healthy. It really comes down to practicing these eight things. Exercise, diet and nutrition, time in nature, contribution, service to others, relationships, recreation, relaxation and stress management, and religious or spiritual involvement, yes, got that one.
So these eight things come from Dr. Roger Walsh, he calls them Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes or TLCs for short. He is a scientist that studies how to be happy and healthy. In researching this talk, I got a chance to ask him a few questions like; do you think that our schools today are making these eight TLCs a priority? His response was no surprise, it was essentially no. But he did say that many people do try to get this kind of education outside of the traditional arena, through reading and practices such as meditation or yoga.
But what I thought was his best response was that, much of education is oriented for better or worse towards making a living rather than making a life.
In 20__, Sir Ken Robinson gave the most popular Ted talk of all time. Schools kill creativity. His message is that creativity is as important as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
A lot of parents watched those videos, some of those parents like mine counted it as one of the reasons they felt confident to pull their kids from traditional school to try something different. I realized I’m part of this small, but growing revolution of kids who are going about their education differently, and you know what? It freaks a lot of people out.
Even though I was only nine, when my parents pulled me out of the school system, I can still remember my mom being in tears when some of her friends told her she was crazy and it was a stupid idea.
Looking back, I’m thankful she didn’t cave to peer pressure, and I think she is too. So, out of the 200 million people that have watched Sir Ken Robinson’s talk, why aren’t there more kids like me out there?
Shane McConkey is my hero. I loved him because he was the world’s best skier. But then, one day I realized what I really loved about Shane, he was a hacker. Not a computer hacker, he hacked skiing. His creativity and inventions made skiing what it is today, and why I love to ski. A lot of people think of hackers as geeky computer nerds who live in their parent’s basement and spread computer viruses, but I don’t see it that way.
Hackers are innovators, hackers are people who challenge and change the systems to make them work differently, to make them work better, it’s just how they think, it’s a mindset.
I’m growing up in a world that needs more people with the hacker mindset, and not just for technology, everything is up for being hacked, even skiing, even education. So whether it’s Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg or Shane McConkey having the hacker mindset can change the world.
Healthy, happy, creativity in the hacker mindset are all a large part of my education. I call it Hackschooling, I don’t use any one particular curriculum, and I’m not dedicated to any one particular approach, I hack my education.
I take advantage of opportunities in my community, and through a network of my friends and family. I take advantage of opportunities to experience what I’m learning, and I’m not afraid to look for shortcuts or hacks to get a better faster result. It’s like a remix or a mash-up of learning. It’s flexible, opportunistic, and it never loses sight of making happy, healthy and creativity a priority.
And here is the cool part, because it’s a mindset, not a system. Hackschooling can be used anyone, even traditional schools. Soo what does my school look like? Well, it looks like Starbucks a lot of the time, but like most kids I study lot of math, science, history and writing. I didn’t used to like to write because my teachers made me write about butterflies and rainbows, and I wanted to write about skiing.
It was a relief for my good friend’s mom, started the Squaw Valley Kids Institute, where I got to write through my experiences and my interests, while, connecting with great speakers from around the nation, and that sparked my love of writing.
I realized that once you’re motivated to learn something, you can get a lot done in a short amount of time, and on your own, Starbucks is pretty great for that. Hacking physics was fun, we learned all about Newton and Galileo, and we experienced some basic physics concepts like kinetic energy through experimenting and making mistakes.
My favorite was the giant Newton’s cradle that we made out of bowling balls, no bocce balls. We experimented with lot of other things like bowling balls and event giant jawbreakers.
Project Discovery’s ropes course is awesome, and slightly stressful. When you’re 60 feet off the ground, you have to learn how to handle your fears, communicate clearly, and most importantly, trust each other.
Community organizations play a big part in my education, High Fives Foundation’s Basics Program being aware and safe in critical situations. We spent a day with the Squaw Valley Ski Patrol to learn more about mountain safety, then the next day we switched to science of snow, weather and avalanches.
But most importantly, we learned that making bad decisions puts you and your friends at risk. Young should talk, well brings history to life. You study a famous character in history, and so that you can stand on stage and perform as that character, and answer any question about their lifetime.
In this photo, you see Al Capone and Bob Marley getting grilled with questions at the historical Piper’s Opera House in Virginia City, the same stage where Harry Houdini got his start.
Time and nature is really important to me, it’s calm, quiet and I get to just log out of reality. I spend one day a week, outside all day. At my Fox Walkers classes, our goal is to be able to survive in the wilderness with just a knife. We learn to listen to nature, we learn to sense our surroundings, and I’ve gained a spiritual connection to nature that, I never knew existed.
But the best part is that we get to make spears, bows and arrows, fires with just a bow drill and survival shelters for the snowy nights when we camp out. Hanging out at the Moment Factory where they hand make skis and design clothes, has really inspired me to one day have my own business. The guys at the factory showed me why I need to be good at math, be creative and get good at selling.
So I got an internship at Big Shark Print to get better at design and selling. Between fetching lunch, scrubbing toilets and breaking their vacuum cleaner, I’m getting to contribute to clothing design, customizing hats and selling them. The people who work there are happy, healthy, creative, and stoked to be doing what they are doing, this is by far my favorite class.
So, this is why I’m really happy, powder days, and it’s a good metaphor for my life, my education, my hackschooling. If everyone ski this mountain, like most people think of education, everyone will be skiing the same line, probably the safest and most of the powder would go untouched.
I look at this, and see a thousand possibilities, dropping the corners, shredding the spine, looking for a churning from cliff-to-cliff. Skiing to me is freedom, and so is my education, it’s about being creative; doing things differently, it’s about community and helping each other. It’s about being happy and healthy among my very best friends.
So I’m starting to think, I know what I might want to do when I grow up, but if you ask me what do I want to be when I grow up? I’ll always know that I want to be happy. Thank you.
親情英語演講稿 篇16
It is easy to describe success in terms of money, fame and reputation. But I believe that success is not external. I believe that success comes from within. My definition of success is to be true to yourself, and be true to others. That means, that you must cherish your personal ideal even in the face of adversity. I also believe that success is not discriminatory. Success is not restricted to such a class of people, in fact, it may be achieved by any person irrespective of his race, creed, gender and economic background. A good example of success is that of Beethoven. He is one of the world's most famous composers, yet he was deaf. He could not hear the majestic pieces of music that he created. Yet, in the face of this adversity, he was able to maintain his ideals--that of composing music.
To exemplify what success means to me, I pose a question to all of you. What brings us together here today? I believe that it is the beauty of the spoken word. The effect of pause and the sound of rhetoric are unique to the spoken word. I believe the beauty of the spoken word is even stronger for those who have difficulty in expressing themselves.
These people are reclusive and had their emotions hidden within them. I once went to Australia and I saw two pictures, Once was drawn by a normal child, the other was drawn by a child with social inhibitions. The picture drawn by the normal child was simple and plain. The other was life-like, full of details and imagination. What this shows is that these are ideas, emotions and feelings that are locked internally in thesechildren.
My ideal is to be the key, spreading the beauty of the spoken words to these children. These children have been neglected, but I feel that I can and should help these children to find themselves and be able to express themselves.
I realize that this is a difficult task, and there are many obstacles on the way. But I believe in my ideals and I will stick to them--even in the face of adversity. We should never have a premature abortion of ideals--let the child, let our ideals, stand the challenge. For a life without ideals is not living.
Thank you!
譯文:成功之我見
用金錢、名譽(yù)和聲望來描述成功，這很簡單。但我相信成功不是外在的，我相信成功來源于自身。我對成功的定義是對已誠實(shí)，待人真誠。這就意味著即使面臨困境厄運(yùn)，你都必須堅(jiān)守自己的理想。我同樣相信成功沒有偏見，成功不屬于某一類人，事實(shí)上，不論種族、宗教信仰、性別和經(jīng)濟(jì)背景，任何人都能夠獲得。貝多芬的成功就是個很好的例子。他是世界上最著名的作曲家之一，而他卻雙耳失聰。他無法聽到自己創(chuàng)作出的美妙樂章。然而，身
處如此逆境，他仍然能夠堅(jiān)持自己的理想——作曲。
為了舉例說明我對成功的理解，我想給在座的諸位提一個問題。是什么讓我們大家今天在此相會?我想是語言世界的美麗讓我們走到了一起。停頓的效果和修辭之聲是話語世界所獨(dú)一無二的。我相信那些說話表達(dá)困難的人們對話語世界中的美麗體會得更為深刻。這些人都隱遁世間，把自己的感情深藏于心。我曾經(jīng)去過澳大利亞，在那里看到了兩幅畫。一幅是正常兒童畫的，另一幅是一個社會生活受限制的孩子畫的。正常的孩子畫的畫簡單、樸素，
而另一幅卻貼近現(xiàn)實(shí)生活，充滿了細(xì)節(jié)和想象。這表明這些孩子的思想、情緒和感受都封閉在他們的內(nèi)心深處。
我的理想是成為向這些孩子傳播話語世界美好的鑰匙。這些孩子曾被我們忽視，但我覺得我能夠也應(yīng)該幫助他們發(fā)現(xiàn)和認(rèn)識自己，并且能夠表達(dá)自己的想法。
我知道這是個艱巨的任務(wù)，實(shí)現(xiàn)起來會遇到許多困難和障礙。但我篤信自己的理想，并將堅(jiān)守下去——即使逆境重重。我們千萬不能對一個理想作出不成熟的棄絕決定——讓這些孩子，讓我們的理想經(jīng)受挑戰(zhàn)。因?yàn)椋瑳]有理想的生活是沒有生氣的。
謝謝!
親情英語演講稿 篇17
All of us experience failure every now and then. Although some people will avoid failure at all costs, some people welcome it. Failure can be a good teacher. It always teaches us to be better the second time around. As they say, "The more you try, the more you'll succeed."
我們所有人都有可能會經(jīng)歷成功和失敗。盡管有些人會盡全力去避免失敗，但有些人卻很愿意去直面失敗，因?yàn)樗麄冋J(rèn)為失敗是最好的老師。通過這次失敗的教訓(xùn)，我們會避免再次“遇到她”。
There is some wisdom to be learned from failure. If we can learn to turn a failure to our advantage, we will have learned another secret to success. Failure is the mother of success and success that comes after failure is so sweet.
人類智慧的發(fā)展和進(jìn)步也是不斷的從失敗中學(xué)來的，如果我們能從失敗中總結(jié)經(jīng)驗(yàn)，這將會變成我們的優(yōu)勢。我們也同時學(xué)會了另一個走向成功的秘訣：失敗是成功之母，陽光總在風(fēng)雨后!
親情英語演講稿 篇18
Ladies and Gentlemen , Good afternoon! I’m very glad to stand here and give you a short speech. today my topic is “youth”. I hope you will like it , and found the importance in your youth so that more cherish it.
First I want to ask you some questions:
1、 Do you know what is youth?
2、 How do you master your youth?
Youth
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind ; it is not rosy cheeks , red lips and supple knees, it is a matter of the emotions : it is the freshness ; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life .
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite , for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20 . Nobody grows old merely by a number of years . We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years wrinkle the skin , but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul . Worry , fear , self –distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust .
Whether 60 of 16 , there is in every human being ‘s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of living . In the center of your heart and my heart there’s a wireless station : so long as it receives messages of beauty , hope ,cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are young .
When the aerials are down , and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old ,even at 20 , but as long as your aerials are up ,to catch waves of optimism , there is hope you may die young at 80.
Thank you!
青春
青春不是指歲月，而是指心態(tài)。粉嫩的臉，紅潤的唇，矯健的膝并不是青春。青春表現(xiàn)在意志的堅(jiān)強(qiáng)與懦弱。想象的豐富與蒼白、情感的充沛與貧乏等方面。青春是生命深處清泉的噴涌。
青春是追求。只有當(dāng)勇氣蓋過怯弱、進(jìn)取壓倒茍安之時，青春才存在。果如此，則60見之長者比20歲之少年更具青春活力。僅僅歲月的流逝并不能使他們衰老。而一旦拋棄理想和信念，則垂垂老也。
歲月只能使皮膚起皺。而一旦喪失生活的*，則連靈魂枯老，使人生枯如死水，毫無活力。
60歲長者也好，16歲少年也罷，每個人的內(nèi)心深處都渴望奇跡，都如孩子一般眨著期待的雙眼，期待著下一次，期待著生活的情趣，你我靈魂深處都有一座無線電中轉(zhuǎn)站------只有你我年輕，則總能聽到希望的呼喚，總能發(fā)出喜悅的歡呼，總能傳達(dá)勇氣的訊號，總能表現(xiàn)出青春的活力………
一旦青春的天線倒下，你的靈魂即為玩世不恭之雪、悲觀厭世之冰覆蓋；即使你年方20.其實(shí)你已垂垂老也。而只要你青春的天線高高聳起，就可以隨時接收到樂觀的電波-----即使你年過八旬，行將就木，而你卻仍然擁有青春，你仍然年輕。
謝謝！
親情英語演講稿 篇19
I can never forget the summer in 1996. I went through an extremity ofdespair due to my failure in the National College Entrance Examination. Itseemed that my dream of being a university student would never come true. Oneevening my father came and told me the story of Steven Callahan, who wascrossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it struck something and sank.It was a miracle that he survived and was found 76 days later(the longest anyonehas survived a shipwreck on a life raft alone). Later in his narrative he wrotethese sentences “I tell myself I can handle it .Compared to what others havebeen through I’m fortunate”.
Hearing these sentences I felt something important struck me. I belived mylife would mot be that bad and it was proved to be true. Later during my studyin the university I always told myself “I can handle it” when my own goalsseemed far off or when my problems seemed too overwhelming and every time I saidit ,I always came back to my senses.
Now I work as an English teacher in a middle school. Whenever my studentscomplain about their difficulties in study or want to give up, I will tell thesame story of Callahan to them. I just want to make them believe they can handletheir difficulties because their circumstances are only bad compared tosomething better. But others have been through much worse. Then they will buildup fortitude.
So here, coming to us from the extreme edge of survival, are words that cangive us strength. Whatever you’re going through, tell yourself you can handleit. Compared to what others have been through, you’re fortunate. Tell this toyourself over and over, and it will help you get through the rough spots withlittle more fortitude.
我永生難忘1996年的夏天。由于我在高考中的失利，我感到了極度的失望，我要成為一名大學(xué)生的夢想似乎是無法實(shí)現(xiàn)了。一天傍晚，我的父親來給我講了一個關(guān)于史蒂文·卡拉漢的故事，史蒂文獨(dú)自駕駛著帆船橫渡大西洋，途中船遇難下沉，但是他卻活了下來并在76天后被人發(fā)現(xiàn)。(他是世界上遇海灘在救生艇中存活最長時間的人了)。后來卡拉漢在他的敘述中寫到“我告訴自己一定可以挺過去的，跟別人的遭遇相比，我已經(jīng)算是幸運(yùn)的了”。
聽了這些話，我被深深地震撼了，我相信我的生活不會太差而事實(shí)也證明了這一點(diǎn)，后來我得到了進(jìn)入大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)的機(jī)會，在大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)期間，當(dāng)我覺得自己的目標(biāo)似乎遙不可及或者我遇到了似乎無法解決的問題時，我就勉勵自己說“我能挺過去的”而每每念及這句話，我總能有所醒悟。
現(xiàn)在我在一所中學(xué)教英語，每當(dāng)學(xué)生們報怨學(xué)習(xí)的困難或是想放棄時，我就給他們講卡拉漢的故事，我就是想讓他們相信他們可以從困難中挺過去的，因?yàn)槔Ь扯际窍鄬Χ缘�，有些人比我們更不幸，然后他們就會在自己心中建立起永不放棄的信念�?/p>
從這個大難不死的故事中，我們學(xué)到了能給予我們勇氣與力量的話語，無論你遭遇了什么，都要對你自己說：一定能挺過去的。與其他人的不幸相比，你已經(jīng)算是很幸運(yùn)了，要一遍一遍地用此話鼓勵自己，這個信念會使你更有信心渡過難關(guān)。
親情英語演講稿 篇20
good morning/evening/afternoon, ladies and gentlemen :
today, my speech is about talents,in my opionion, talents are indispensable in nowadays society. as is known to all that the fight among countries is actually the fight among talents.
first, i'd like to define the word
country from invasion, talents in commerce help make our economy kee
in improving, talents in aerospace make the world see chinese manned spacecraft flying. talents in sports make china rank the first in the olympic games......
to sum up, talents will play a more and more impoetant role in the world, if one country intends to flourish, he must foster talents as many as they can ,that's all,thank you.
親情英語演講稿 篇21
security issue may sound clichéd, but when it comes to the campus security, we have to take it seriously. nearly every day, there are reports to the security office on campus that valuable things are stolen away.
a surrounding with stealing, mugging can’t be worse for studying. in such cases, what measures should be taken to improve the campus security?
on the one hand, we students should strengthen our security awareness. once we smell out something unusual, we should report it to the campus guard immediately. on the other hand, more equipment such as monitors should be installed on campus so as to detect crimes as soon as possible.
besides, a proper amount of security guards should be arranged to patrol the campus。 in my opinion, campus security will be improved as long as efforts are made on campus. therefore colleges and universities should try their best to make everyone on campus safe and sound
親情英語演講稿 篇22
East and West have met
runner-up: Rui Cheng gang, Foreign Affair College
Honorable judges, ladies and gentlemen:
Kipling said:" East is east, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet!" But now, a century later, they have met.
They have met in business. They have met in education. They have met in the arts.
Some would argue that these meetings leave us with a choice between East and West ,but I believe the best future lies in the creative combination of both worlds. We can make Western ideas, customs and technology our own, and adapt them to our own use. We can enjoy the best of all worlds, because our tradition is, above all, one of selecting the best and making it our own.
But, do Western styles and values threaten our identity?
History makes it easy for us to think so-perhaps too easy.
Some people seem to think that adopting Western customs, such as a bride wearing white-which has long been a color of mourning in China, instead of the traditional Chinese red for her wedding, is another submission to foreign intervention,--a betrayal of our heritage, they say.
They fear that as we become "globalized", we will no longer be Chinese.
I do not agree.
History teachers that a strong and confident nation is at ease in hearing from the outside world.
The wedding of Eastern and Western cultures, whether in white gowns or red, brings us variety.
It is a rich banquet of special foods from all over the world.
As an amateur gourmet of Chinese cuisine, our superb flavours delight me.
But my Chinese taste appreciates food from any land.
I even allow the convenience of McDonald's a place in my life without giving up my good taste.
My grandfather taught me to hum tunes of Beijing opera from the time I was very young; they are deep in my spirit, part of my soul.
I love Beijing opera, because it always reminds me of who I am.
But I am also a fan of modern pop music, the No.1 fan of Spice Girls on campus.
of course, it goes far beyond food, music and dance. It goes into values and ways of thinking about the world.
Once upon a time, or so my teacher told me, a Chinese boy and an American girl had a squabble.
Both wanted to keep a bunny rabbit they had found in the garden.
Surely you've seen a rabbit sunning himself in the grass.
Nothing is more lovable, nothing more natural. No wonder they wanted him. The Chinese boy played his er-hu. Happiness and joy, longing and passion, filled the air. The little rabbit swayed gently and began to move his ears in the direction of the music. He liked what he heard.
The girl then took out her violin and played it to produce beautiful melodies of her own.
The rabbit began to bounce in her direction.
So intent were the children on their own music that neither paid the other any attention.
The competing melodies confused the little rabbit and he did not know which way to turn .Unable to attract the little creature, both children gave up ;they walked away, in different directions, leaving the rabbit. . .alone.
But, what if they listened ,what if they really heard each other's music, instead of always playing their own tunes?
When I hear the music of a violin ,rich with the joys of men and women who came together and sang and danced.. . I hear echoes of the music of the grass lands, of the hills, of the rivers...of my own native land.
Is music mine and yours, or is it ours?
What I want to hear is the er-hu and the violin played together, in rhythm and in tune. Together, we can produce new and beautiful music, rich with textures and sounds that can only be made in harmony.
The rabbit sits in the grass in the ever-warming sun. Waiting for us to play, waiting for the symphony to begin.
Will he have to wait forever? The choice is ours . Thank you.
尊敬的評委、女士們、先生們：吉卜林說過，“東方是東方，西方是西方，兩者永不聚!”然而如今，在一個世紀(jì)之后，東西方相聚了。
它們在貿(mào)易中相聚，在教育中相聚，在藝術(shù)中相聚。
有人爭論說這種東西方之聚,使得我們能夠在東西方中作出選擇.然而我相信最美好的未來在于東西方世界的創(chuàng)造性的結(jié)合，我們可以變西方的觀念、習(xí)俗、技術(shù)為己所有，為己所用;我們可以享受兩上不同世界之精華，總之，我們的傳統(tǒng)之一就是擇其精華，為己所用。
然而，西方的生活方式和價值會威脅到我們的民族特色嗎?
歷史讓我們輕易相信——也許是太輕易地讓我們相信此說了。
有人似乎認(rèn)為彩西方習(xí)俗，比如新娘結(jié)婚穿白色婚紗，是對外國介入的屈服，是對傳統(tǒng)遺產(chǎn)的背叛，因?yàn)榘粗袊鴤鹘y(tǒng)，結(jié)婚新娘要穿紅色，而白色長期以來代表的是哀悼。
這些人擔(dān)心一量我們變得全球化，我們也就不在是中國人了。
我不這樣認(rèn)為。
歷史告訴我們：一個強(qiáng)大自信的民族學(xué)起外面的世界易如反掌 。
無論是穿白衣還是黑衣，還是東西方異質(zhì)文化的聯(lián)姻，都給我們帶來多姿多采的生活。
東西方異質(zhì)文化的聯(lián)姻是一席來自世界各地佳肴的盛宴。
身為中國菜的業(yè)余美食家，我喜歡民族的佳肴。
然而我的中國口味也欣賞異國的風(fēng)味。
生活中我為簡便吃麥當(dāng)勞，卻不會放棄自己的良好口味。
從小祖父就教我哼唱京劇，京劇深入我的精神之中，成為我靈魂的一部分。
我熱愛京劇，因?yàn)榫﹦∽屛铱傁肫鹱约菏钦l。
但是我也迷戀現(xiàn)代流行音樂，在學(xué)校里還是“辣味女孩”的頭號歌迷。
當(dāng)然，異質(zhì)文化的交流遠(yuǎn)不止于食物、音樂和舞蹈，它深入到價值觀和世界觀。 有一次老師給我講了一個中國男孩和一個美國女孩發(fā)生爭執(zhí)的故事。
在花園里他們倆發(fā)現(xiàn)了一只小兔，兩人都想要。
你肯定見過草叢中曬太陽的小兔。
沒什么東西比小兔子更可愛的，更富有自然情趣了，難怪他們兩人都想要它。
男孩拉起了二胡，愉快喜悅的琴聲，充滿了渴望和激情，回蕩在空中，小兔子聽著這音樂輕輕搖擺，耳朵轉(zhuǎn)向音樂，它喜愛男孩的琴聲。
女孩也取出小提琴，拉出悠揚(yáng)的旋律。
小兔子聽了朝她跑去。
兩人都全神貫注于自己的音樂，絲毫沒注意對方演奏的音樂。
交雜在一塊的音樂困惑了小兔子，它不知該朝哪走。男孩和女孩都不能將小兔子吸引過來，只好放棄，各自走開了，扔下小兔子獨(dú)自一人。
然而倘若他們傾聽對方的音樂，而不是各自為歌，那么結(jié)果會如何呢?
當(dāng)我聽到小提琴聲響起，男男女女走道一起又唱又跳，樂聲中充滿了歡樂， 此時我也聽見了草原上、山谷間、小河旁傳來得我們本民族的音樂的回聲。
音樂分你我，還是屬于我們大家?
我想聽的是二胡與小提琴的合奏，旋律與節(jié)奏和諧一致。
大家一起才能創(chuàng)造出新穎動聽音樂， 只有在和諧中大家才能創(chuàng)造出富有神韻的樂聲。
在溫暖的陽光中，小兔子在等待著我們一起演奏，等待著交響樂開始。
他有必要再永遠(yuǎn)的等下去嗎?決擇在于我們自己。謝謝。
親情英語演講稿 篇23
my dream hello everyone! it is my great pleasure to share my dream with you today.
my dream is to become a teacher.
you know being a teacher is a thing that is very valuable and very interesting.
i suggest that it must be a great fun to be with children all the day.
and if i am a teacher， i can teach my students a lot of knowledge.
they might become stronger and cleverer because of me.
that is a very contented feeling.
china is a developing country.
親情英語演講稿 篇24
We want to hold a green Olympic Games ,so everyone should do somethinguseful to protect the environment ,whether it is big or small.
我們要舉辦一個綠色奧運(yùn)，每個人都應(yīng)該做些無論是大或小的有用的事來保護(hù)環(huán)境。
We should do something to stop people from doing bad things to theenvironment .We should put rubbish into dustbins instead of throwing it about.Everyone must care for flowers ,grass and tress in public .We shound collectthings like paper ,plastic bags our neighborhood as well ,it’s necessary toplant more trees every year .
我們應(yīng)該做些什么來阻止人們對環(huán)境做一些不好的事情。我們應(yīng)該把垃圾放進(jìn)垃圾箱而不是直接扔了，每個人都必須愛護(hù)公共場所的花，草，樹木。我們應(yīng)該收集社區(qū)的一些像紙，塑料袋的東西，每年種植更多的樹是必要的。
It is everyone’s duty to make our neighborhood much better with our handsminds .Let’s make a contribution to protecting the environment and the PlympicGames successfully.
用我們的雙手和頭腦使我們的社區(qū)變得更好是我們每一個人的職責(zé)。讓我們?yōu)楸Ｗo(hù)環(huán)境做貢獻(xiàn)，祝奧運(yùn)會成功。
親情英語演講稿 篇25
well, welcome to the white house,everybody. and that was one of the best introductions i’ve ever had. (applause.) so we’re so proud of kiara for the introduction and for sharing yourstory, and you’re just so poised. and iknow geoff canada is just out there all excited -- (laughter) -- and proud, andi know your mom is proud. i know she is. she should be.
kiara and the rest of these youngpeople grew up in a 97-square-block section of harlem. it’s a place where the odds used to bestacked against them every single day, even just graduating from high schoolwas a challenge. but with the help ofsome very dedicated adults and a program called the harlem children’s zone,they’re right on track to go to college. together, students, teachers, administrators, parents, community, they’rechanging the odds in this neighborhood. and that’s what we’re here to talk about today -– changing the odds forevery american child so that no matter who they are, no matter where they areborn, they have a chance to succeed in today’s economy.
now, the good news is that,thanks to the hard work and sacrifice of the american people all across thecountry over the last five years, our economy has grown stronger. our businesses have now created more than 8million new jobs since the depths of the recession. our manufacturing, our housing sectors arerebounding. our energy and technologyand auto industries are booming. we’vegot to keep our economy growing. we’vegot to make sure that everybody is sharing in that growth. we’ve got to keep creating jobs, and then we’vegot to make sure that wages and benefits are such that families can rebuild alittle bit of security. we’ve got tomake sure this recovery, which is real, leaves nobody behind. and that’s going to be my focus throughoutthe year.
this is going to be a year ofaction. that’s what the american peopleexpect, and they’re ready and willing to pitch in and help. this is not just a job for government; thisis a job for everybody.
working people are looking forthe kind of stable, secure jobs that too often went overseas in the past coupleof decades. so next week, i’ll join companies and colleges and take action toboost high-tech manufacturing -- the kind that attracts good new jobs and helpsgrow a middle class. business owners areready to play their part to hire more workers. so this month, i’m going to host ceos here at the white house not once,but twice: first to lay out specificsteps we can take to help more workers earn the skills that they need for today’snew jobs; second, they’re going to announce commitments that we’re making toput more of the long-term unemployed back to work.
and on january 28th, in my stateof the union address -- which i want all the legislators here to know i’m goingto try to keep a little shorter than usual -- (laughter) -- they’re cheeringsilently -- (laughter) -- i will mobilize the country around the nationalmission of making sure our economy offers every american who works hard a fairshot at success. anybody in this countrywho works hard should have a fair shot at success, period. it doesn’t matter where they come from, whatregion of the country, what they look like, what their last name is -- theyshould be able to succeed.
and obviously we’re coming off ofa rancorous political year, but i genuinely believe that this is not a partisanissue. because when you talk to the american people, you know that there arepeople working in soup kitchens, and people who are mentoring, and people whoare starting small businesses and hiring their neighbors, and very rarely arethey checking are they democrat or republican. there’s a sense of neighborliness that’s inherent in the american people-- we just have to tap into that.
and i’ve been very happy to seethat there are republicans like rand paul, who’s here today, who are ready toengage in this debate. that’s a goodthing. we’ve got democratic andrepublican elected officials across the country who are ready to roll up theirsleeves and get to work. and this shouldbe a challenge that unites us all.
i don’t care whether the ideasare democrat or republican. i do carethat they work. i do care that they aresubject to evaluation, and we can see if we are using tax dollars in a certainway, if we’re starting a certain program, i want to make sure that young peoplelike kiara are actually benefiting from them.
now, it’s one thing to say weshould help more americans get ahead, but talk is cheap. we’ve got to actually make sure that we doit. and i will work with anybody who’swilling to lay out some concrete ideas to create jobs, help more middle-classfamilies find security in today’s economy, and offer new ladders of opportunityfor folks to climb into the middle class.
and, personally, i hope we startby listening to the majority of the american people and restoring theunemployment insurance for americans who need a little help supporting theirfamilies while they look for a new job. and i’m glad the republicans and democrats in the senate are workingtogether to extend that lifeline. i hopetheir colleagues in the house will join them to set this right.
today i want to talk aboutsomething very particular, a specific example of how we can make adifference. we are here with leaders whoare determined to change the odds in their communities the way these kids andtheir parents and dedicated citizens have changed the odds in harlem. it’s now been 50 years since presidentjohnson declared an unconditional war on poverty in america. and that groundbreaking effort created newavenues of opportunity for generations of americans. it strengthened our safety net for workingfamilies and seniors, americans with disabilities and the poor, so that when wefall -- and you never know what life brings you -- we can bounce backfaster. it made us a better country anda stronger country.
in a speech 50 years ago,president johnson talked about communities “on the outskirts ofhope where opportunitywas hard to come by.” well, today’seconomic challenges are differentbut they’ve still resulted in communitieswhere in recent decades wrenching economic changehas made opportunity harderand harder to come by. there arecommunities where for toomany young people it feels like their future onlyextends to the next street corner or theoutskirts of town, too manycommunities where no matter how hard you work, your destinyfeels like it’salready been determined for you before you took that first step.
i’m not just talking aboutpockets of poverty in our inner cities. that’s the stereotype.i’mtalking about suburban neighborhoods that have been hammered by the housingcrisis. i’mtalking about manufacturingtowns that still haven’t recovered after the local plant shut downand jobsdried up. there are islands of ruralamerica where jobs are scarce -- they were scarceeven before the recession hit-- so that young people feel like if they want to actually succeed,they’ve gotto leave town, they’ve got to leave their communities.
and i’ve seen this personallyeven before i got into politics. infact, this is what drove meinto politics. i was just two years out of college when i first moved to the south sideof chicago.i was hired by a group ofchurches to help organize a community that had been devastatedwhen the localsteel plants closed their doors. and i’dwalk through neighborhoods filled up withboarded-up houses and crumblingschools, and single parents and dads who had nothing to dowith their kids, andkids who were hanging out on the street corners without any hope orprospectsfor the future.
but these churches cametogether. and then they started workingwith other non-profits andlocal businesses. and the government -- local, state and federal -- participated. and we startedgetting some things done thatgave people hope. and that experiencetaught me thatgovernment does not have all the answers -- no amount of moneycan take the place of a lovingparent in a child’s life. but i did learn that when communities andgovernments and businessesand not-for-profits work together, we can make adifference. kiara is proof -- all theseyoungpeople are proof we can make a difference.
for the last 17 years, the harlemchildren’s zone -- the brainchild of geoffrey canada, who’shere today -- hasproven we can make a difference. and itoperated on a basic premise that eachchild will do better if all the childrenaround them are doing better. so in harlem,staff membersgo door to door and they recruit soon-to-be parents for “babycollege,” preparing them forthose crucial first few months of life; makingsure that they understand how to talk to theirchild and read to their child,and sometimes working with parents to teach them how to read sothey can readto their child and give them the healthy start that they need.
and then, early childhoodeducation to get kids learning at four years old. and then acharter school that help studentssucceed all the way through high school. and medical careand healthy foods that are available close tohome. and exercise. i was very pleased to hearthat -- michellewas very pleased to hear that -- (laughter) -- that they’ve got a strong physedprogram. and then students gettinghelp finding internships and applying to college, and anoutstanding, dedicatedstaff that tries to make sure that nobody slips through the cracks orfallsbehind.
and this is an incredibleachievement, and the results have been tremendous. today,preschool students in the harlemchildren’s zone are better prepared for kindergarten. lastyear, a study found that students whowin a spot in one of the charter schools score higher onstandardized teststhan those who don’t. in a neighborhood where higher education was oncejustsomething that other people did, you’ve got hundreds of kids who’ve now gone tocollege.
and harlem is not the onlycommunity that’s found success taking on these challengestogether. in cincinnati, a focus on education hashelped to make sure more kids are ready forkindergarten. in nashville, they’ve redesigned high schoolsand boosted graduation rates byalmost 20 percent over the past 12 years. in milwaukee, they’ve cut teen pregnancy inhalf.
every community is different,with different needs and different approaches. butcommunities that are making the most progress on these issues havesome things in common.they don’t lookfor a single silver bullet; instead they bring together local governmentandnonprofits and businesses and teachers and parents around a shared goal. that’s whatgeoffrey did when he started theharlem children’s zone. government wasinvolved -- so don’tbe confused here, it has an important role to play. and already there are governmentresourcesgoing into these communities. but it’simportant that our faith institutions and ourbusinesses and the parents andthe communities themselves are involved in designing andthinking through howdo we move forward.
and the second thing is they’reholding themselves accountable by delivering measurableresults. we don’t fund things, we don’t start projectsjust for the sake of starting them.they’vegot to work. if they don’t work weshould try something else. and sometimesthose of uswho care deeply about advancing opportunity aren’t willing tosubject some of theseprograms to that test: do they work?
in my state of the union addresslast year, i announced our commitment to identifymore communities like these-- urban, rural, tribal -- where dedicated citizens aredetermined to make adifference and turn things around. andwe challenged them. we said ifyou candemonstrate the ability and the will to launch an all-encompassing,all-hands-on-deckapproach to reducing poverty and expanding opportunity, we’llhelp you get the resourcesto do it. we’lltake resources from some of the programs that we’re already doingandconcentrate them. we’ll make sure thatour agencies are working together more effectively.we’ll put in talent to help you plan. but we’re also going to hold you accountableand measureyour progress.