Failure‚ Success‚ and Kindness Graduation commencement speeches are usually inspirational‚ not only to the graduating students but also to anyone who reads them. The speech given by J. K. Rowling at Harvard and the one by George Saunders at Syracuse University in 2013 are some of the best commencement speeches. Rowling and Saunders are both experienced speakers. Rowling’s speech focused on the benefits of failure‚ a subject she had first hand experience on. Saunders’ speech was on kindness and included
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In the spring of last year‚ my mother and I were walking down the street on our way to serve dinner to the homeless when it turned into a nightmare. The place we had enjoyed going to together and helping those in need became a place that made us shudder and think of bad thoughts. At 4:15 we were attacked and robbed in front of hundreds of people waiting in line to get the dinner that we were going to serve them. I watched‚ helpless‚ as my mom had her hair pulled and was punched multiple times
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The Purpose of Revolutionary Speeches The “Crisis No 1” written by Thomas Paine‚ was one of the many great speeches written during the Revolutionary War. Speeches like “The Crisis” have inspired people even in this day and time to fight for their country. Speeches like Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis”‚ are some of the most important speeches of the Revolutionary War. Speeches during the Revolutionary War were used to persuade people‚ including the common man‚ of their beliefs‚ and to boost soldiers
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Comparison of the two speeches ” I have a dream” and ”Yes we can”. The two speeches by Martin Luther King and Barrack Obama are similar in the way that they both talks about human rights‚ and they both have a dream that people in America can be free and equal treated. Both of them managed people who were important for them in the speech‚ like their family. Both of them want to see a change in the American society. They have a proverb they use. The two speeches are different in the way that
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to white Americans in a positive way. This Integration Period therefore brought together African-American actors with scenes along side white actors in roles showing both players dealing with racial conflict and resolution. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner was truly a unique film for its time in that Sidney Poitier’s character breaks all the stereotypical views of blacks in American Cinema. In the early 1930’s blacks were portrayed as lower class‚ slow-witted figures of entertainment‚ often showed
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4 Things Women Should Know About Losing Weight after Menopause If there is one thing that is as hard as gaining weight‚ harder even‚ it is losing weight itself. Even so‚ the whole weight gain-weight loss process is made worse with the onset of menopause in women‚ once they hit the age of 50 years going up. As a woman in the fore-mentioned age bracket‚ you might be starting to realize your body gaining weight in a manner that is out of hand. However‚ this particular predicament has been thoroughly
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After I read chapters 18 and 19 in Animal Reader I almost couldn’t bring myself to eat meat. I had already begun to shy away from red meat‚ but not because my conscience was making me feel shame or guilt. Instead‚ I just sort of break out with hives if I eat a lot of red meat‚ but even that reaction didn’t stop me from enjoying my previously heavy carnivorous diet. I am beginning to be more mindful of my treatment towards animals and of my meat consumption. I don’t think I can ever look at bacon
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of 12‚ he seems to have tried to commit suicide. It was May of 1941 when his grandmother passed away after a heart attack. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.’s birthday was first observed as a national holiday in 1986. King Jr. skipped two grades in high school‚ 9th and 11th‚ and entered college (Morehouse College) at the tender age of 15 in 1944. By 19‚ he received a bachelor’s degree in sociology. After graduating from college‚ he still had serious doubts about Christianity and the Bible and told his dad
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Chapter Two The Detonation/After the Carnage The day of the Carnage-Still a week earlier-Day One 8 p.m. The Insurgents and their new ‘prisoners’. “We are travellers. We will be staying for a few days. Ask all your people to come into the room.” The Chief spoke softly to the eldest male of the family. He scanned the family members. The family members were quickly rounded up. It was an extended family. Two brothers with their families under one roof as per the custom of extended families. The Chief
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Every time you go through school you have new teachers. They all have different ways of trying to get to know you. But one thing they all have in common‚ they start by calling roll and sometimes saying someone’s name wrong. Then after that they ask you a ton of question‚ like who is your favorite person. I said “Martin luther king jr.” because without him the world would have never changed. This brings me back to my third grade class. Where I really started learning history and seeing how important
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