Bono's Speech
Summary:
Back in 2001, Bono the rock star held a speech at Harvard University in which he spoke about how it is to be a singer and a songwriter in which he refers to: "You know what a singer is? Someone with a hole in his heart as big as his ego"(P:126,L: 11-12)
And how it is to be a father four times over as well. Bono mentions why he became a rock star and he is asking the audience what rock stars nowadays rebel against. Bono also talks about the subject of being aware of why you are doing and why you are doing it, and the misery of having it all. He conjure the path to success as misleading but at the same time. He mentions at one point how failure is not a bad thing when all comes to all, because some of the greatest material from an artist' point of view, comes from failure. Bono talks about Mozambique which is a country in the northern Africa being able to pay their debt down to 42% due to people around the world, donating to them, and he mentions a man named: Dr. Kabira who is a doctor, who works in Uganda helping and curing the kids from measles, which many suffered from back in 1999-2000. In the end of the speech he talks about HIV and how many positive tested there are in Africa and encourage some of the young ones to help out on a cure, or at least some smart people to work on it.
Main Points:
There are two main points in this speech which was held by Bono. The first main point that I would like to discuss, is Bono reaching out to the young students with the hope that they will help and support the 3rd world. He wants the awareness about AIDS and HIV in Africa to be spread out in the entire world, but he is at Harvard University because they are the upcoming generation, who are going to be faced with 40million AIDS orphans and 25million HIV positive, and Bono wishes for that maybe one day, one of the students at Harvard will have the cure to this disease.
The second main point that Bono talks about which I also would like to discuss is his
Back in 2001, Bono the rock star held a speech at Harvard University in which he spoke about how it is to be a singer and a songwriter in which he refers to: "You know what a singer is? Someone with a hole in his heart as big as his ego"(P:126,L: 11-12)
And how it is to be a father four times over as well. Bono mentions why he became a rock star and he is asking the audience what rock stars nowadays rebel against. Bono also talks about the subject of being aware of why you are doing and why you are doing it, and the misery of having it all. He conjure the path to success as misleading but at the same time. He mentions at one point how failure is not a bad thing when all comes to all, because some of the greatest material from an artist' point of view, comes from failure. Bono talks about Mozambique which is a country in the northern Africa being able to pay their debt down to 42% due to people around the world, donating to them, and he mentions a man named: Dr. Kabira who is a doctor, who works in Uganda helping and curing the kids from measles, which many suffered from back in 1999-2000. In the end of the speech he talks about HIV and how many positive tested there are in Africa and encourage some of the young ones to help out on a cure, or at least some smart people to work on it.
Main Points:
There are two main points in this speech which was held by Bono. The first main point that I would like to discuss, is Bono reaching out to the young students with the hope that they will help and support the 3rd world. He wants the awareness about AIDS and HIV in Africa to be spread out in the entire world, but he is at Harvard University because they are the upcoming generation, who are going to be faced with 40million AIDS orphans and 25million HIV positive, and Bono wishes for that maybe one day, one of the students at Harvard will have the cure to this disease.
The second main point that Bono talks about which I also would like to discuss is his