Graduation Essay

Coming to the USA was a huge change in my life. It was a lot of firsts for me. I got in a plane for the first time, left my state for the first time, and saw white people for the first time. Yes, I was ecstatic; well who wouldn’t be? America was portrayed as a land full of honey in my country, Nigeria. But I was scared too; I had to leave all my loved ones behind – my best friend, my closest friends, my grandmas, my juniors, and even those I just say hi to. I left a familiar place to come into a…

We finished. The performance was over. I signaled the snare player to begin the tap off. I turned around and faced the applauding crowd. I bowed and quickly stepped down off my podium and ran to the front of the line and led my band out of the Hart County Stadium. My heart was racing and I could hear the perfectly in time steps of my band on the pavement. We marched until we were out of view of the judges. We walked the rest of the way to our band trailer smiling and cheering. I hugged my senior…

Known as one of the most influential men of his time, Steve Jobs was chosen to give the 2005 Graduating Class of Stanford their commencement speech. Jobs aimed to inspire this next generation to use their intuition and follow their hearts to success and happiness. In doing so, he successfully convinced the class to pursue their passions by telling them three stories of connecting the dots, love and loss, and death. By filling his speech with ethos, pathos, and logos he gave a speech that was…

The CEO of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios, Steve Jobs, delivered the Commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Stanford on June 12, 2005. In his speech, he addressed life lessons he had learned that kept him going through hard times and inspired him to succeed. The purpose of his speech was to excite and inspire fresh college graduates about their world and futures. His first piece of advice is to trust in something in order to keep going. His second is that the only way…

It is my pleasure to be able to have this opportunity to write this letter today. I will be the first person in my family to attend college and it will be an incredible experience to have my first year be at MSU. I am a senior currently attending my last year at East Kentwood High School, and it is my top priority to further my education. Going to Michigan State would be a dream come true for me. In my heart, I have been a Spartan since 8th grade. I have a cousin who is currently attending State…

It is amazing how a twenty-one year old student from Yale created something so powerful, it would impact lives for a lifetime. The author, Brent Ashabranner specifically used the words “Vision” and “Remember” in the title, which was an amazing choice of words for many reasons. The word vision came straight to Brent’s head because he knew Maya Ying Lin had a vision of what the park was going to look like while looking at the park. The way Maya Ying Lin created this memorial would affect well…

The literature paints a picture of a high need population with many complex, interwoven needs which lead to negative outcomes; despite this, this population is characterized as being resilient due to various strategies and coping mechanisms (Singh, Hays, & Watson, 2011). Singh et al. (2011) define resilience as “a set of learned behaviors evolving from an individual’s system of beliefs that precedes one’s ability to cope.” Being able to define oneself, being aware of oppressive forces in order…

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In the spring of 2005, over twenty three thousand souls gather in Menlo Park to witness the newest graduates of Stanford University walk across the stage in their caps and gowns to receive their college diplomas. Prior to the commencement, one of the most triumphant and revered entrepreneurs in the world gave a indelible speech that will forever be remembered. Steve Jobs, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., stood in blue jeans and tennis shoes and astonished his audience with his remarkable…

Steve Jobs is one of the most successful people in America and is not a college graduate. When the topic of technology comes to mind, his name is automatically assumed. He was the founder and once the CEO of Apple, a company known for their innovation and propriety software. He uses his unstable and untraditional beginning of his life as a rhetorical advantage to grab the audience’s attention. His goal in his Stanford speech is to convince the audience that the stereotypical “money equals…