Speeches

When I was ten all I thought about was cheerleading, and all I dreamed about was being a cheerleading world champion. I kept this dream extremely close to me for the past 7 years, but never thought I would even come close to completing my dream. Last year, I finally made my dream cheerleading team Maryland Twisters F5. F5 was an enormously talented team that was a top contender for the world champion title. F5 could’ve won the championship, but our mistakes in our routine costed us first place.…

We’re here today to honor our heroes, to remember their achievements, their courage and their dedication, and to say thank you for their sacrifices. Thinking of the heroes who join us in this group today and those who are here only in spirit, a person can’t help but feel awed by the enormity of what we encounter. We stand in the midst of patriots and the family and friends of those who have nobly served. They were ordinary people who responded in extraordinary ways in extreme times. They rose to…

For 19 years, I have been hard at work, relentlessly training and preparing for the day that I lay it all on the line. When I was young, it was from the shower to my room. In high school, it was the football field during a homecoming pep rally. Now, in college, I can confidently say that all my hard work has paid off and I am prepared to take on my greatest feat of all: streaking the Lawn. As a swimmer, getting there and back as quickly as possible (all while minimally clothed) has always been…

I’m sitting down in my English classroom, waiting for my teacher to call me up. When I hear my name being called; a rush of panic runs through my whole body, my heart starts to race, my hands start getting sweaty, and when I opened my mouth not a single word comes out. Public speaking was a challenge because I always feared people would judge me over what I had to say and it became one of my insecurities. During my junior year in high school, I decided to take speech and debate so that I could…

Ugh, Segregation! I am a black 9-year-old girl named Kyle who was living in segregation. All yall may ask, “What is segregation?” segregation is when us known as black people were separated from whites.It was really bad. It separated us from whites’ restaurants, hotels, water fountains schools, public toilets, riding the bus, etc. Speakin’ of the bus, Have you ever heard of Rosa Parks? If you haven’t, this is what happened. December 1 ( two days before my birthday!) Mrs.Parks was going home…

I am doing a discourse analysis of political speeches; I have chosen two political speeches, produced 45 years apart, in order to investigate the language surrounding racial equality and how it has changed over time. I collected my data from the internet as it is easily accessible, due to the fact that these speeches were spoken by public figures and televised. When finding my appendices I searched for speeches focused on racial equality, spoken by two different influential male figures with…

Last Monday, 4th of September at 9 am, in the school’s theater, the three ninth grade candidates held their speeches in hope to become this year's grade level representative. Three persuasive speeches were held from each representative; Noa, Ashim and Misha, trying to gain as many votes as possible by their peers. Each grade has to elect one or two grade level representative to advocate for that specific grades voice, desires and opinions. This helps the school understand the students concerns…

Despite both Mark and Brutus gave persuasive speeches, Mark had more examples to contradict Brutus’s points, while Brutus based his speech off unknown future events. In Mark Antony’s speech he used the rhetorical device logos to explain his logic and stated, “I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambitious?” (Stanza 3). There is proof within the quote that Caesar was not ambitious because he did not accept the crown. Mark also adds a rhetorical question to…

In Plato's Symposium, three main speeches/eulogies addressed by Aristophanes, Socrates and Alcibiades achieved deeper thought than others. These dialects contain strengths and weaknesses for approaching of understanding love as well as a conflict on the superiority of which individuals should abide by. Aristophanes’ accounts for the origin of love as being due to people originally having been welded with twice as many limbs and organs but forced to being split into halves by the gods as a…

Why would you like to be the student speaker at this year’s Commencement Ceremony? I would like to be the student commencement speaker at this year’s commencement ceremony because I believe that my class needs to be inspired to live every of their life on purpose! My story is one of triumph against all odds. I believe that by telling my story and showing them that anything is possible they will be inspired to change the world, one small step at a time. By all accounts, I was not supposed to…