毕业典礼发言稿简短英语(通用20篇)

first, i want to ask you a question; what does family mean someone told me: it means father and mother, i love you.

today i am very happy to stand here to express my opinion to my dear parents. first, i want to say thank you to my mom and dady .without you, i would not enjoy such a colorful life. you both love me for ever and never leave me alone when i was in trouble. thank you. mom and dady, thank you. when i was in my hard time, you are my tender sunshine which encourages me to hold on and never give up. and now i am too excited .i dont know how to express my true feeling with limited words. what i know is that without you my life will be filled with endless suffering and mistake .

it’s a very intresting topic today.

Hello everybody!

I called a package of Kexin, today I stand on the podium for the first time speech, and speech is the first election monitor, this time I am excited and nervous. It is a squad many students looking for jobs, the need for a capable and caring people to play, I believe I have the ability. In second grade I have been a leader, we are not continue to give me this opportunity? My childhood diary whole class to stay in the unparalleled service good memories! I warm and cheerful, loving the collective unity of the students, with love. I despise the disadvantage of poor students, not like other people my advice in the coming days, I will remove these defects.

If I win the election as class leader, I will use the exuberant energy, a clear mind to do this work, I will organize a series of activities such as reading, speech, and of course there are many I do not say. I think we should have as a doer, not those beautiful words to describe. If I had lost, that I still have many shortcomings, I will continue to self-improvement.

Ability to work on me, I created a living. Dale Carnegie said, "Do not be afraid to sell yourself, if you think you have the talent, you should consider themselves eligible for this or that job."

Students, and trust me, support me, please vote for me, thank you!

Passions are stoked, and the assault on truth begins. The necessary predicate for discrediting your opposition and for creating supporters. It usually starts with attacks on the press and journalists. And then it moves to universities and students and professors.

Since truth is the real enemy, and whoever pursuit it must be declared the enemy. Evidence of nation after nation making this distressing turn is now all around us. We must be careful not to underestimate the negative consequences to our own values caused by this pervasive form of censorship and suppression.

Given the ever-increasing integration of peoples of the world. Through the powerful forces of economic activity, communication, and movements across borders, we depend on professors, students, and ideas flowing freely through our community of institutions. We may therefore sometimes look at these acts of intolerance abroad as matters of here foreign consequence, but they almost also have much more direct and immediate consequences for our own values.

The most recent case that vividly makes this point is the hideous torture and murder of Khashoggi. A Saudi national and unsparing critic of that regime. A violation of international law and human rights, yes, it certainly appears so. But it was potentially a violation of American law, and the interests protected by those laws for Khashoggi was a communist with the Washington post and a legal resident of the United States. With two children of his four who are U.S. citizens. As such he was protected by the first amendment for the things he said and for which he was killed. This is a crime under American laws against torture and violation of civil rights, for which there is extraterritorial jurisdiction to pursue prosecution. Though it is deplorable that no action has been taken in this country to bring this killer to justice and to vindicate U.S. interests. A precedent that should concern us all.

Of course, there is no shortage of attacks on truth and on truth seekers right here at home. The undermining of honest discourse has occurred so far not through official acts of censorship, but more indirectly, if not very subtlety, the means of suppression.

尊敬的老师,亲爱的同学们:

大家好!

我是(五)一班的一名学生,名叫。今天走上这个讲台只有一个目地，

那就是为了竞选班长。

我是一个，性格开朗.成绩优逸的一个学生,在同学之中也具有领导性作用,这可能是我当了几回班长,知道怎样带领大家。有什么不对之处，告诉我，我会尽力的改正错误的。

如果竞选上了班长，我会：1.把班上的秩序调整好;2.和各个班干部一起帮助班上成绩不好的同学把成绩提高;3.协助老师一起管理班上的大小事件等。如果我没有竞选上班长，我也不会这样轻易的放弃的，而且，我会在一年中让大家看到我进步的成果的。我会更上一层楼的!

请大家行动起来吧!为我投上你们手里那珍贵的一票吧，给我一次锻炼我的机会吧!

谢谢大家!

As you slowly open your eyes, look around, notice where the light comes into your room; listen carefully, see if there are new sounds you can recognize; feel with your body and spirit, and see if you can sense the freshness in the air.

Yes, yes, yes, it’s a new day, it’s a different day, and it’s a bright day! And most importantly, it’s a new beginning for your life, a beginning where you are going to make new decisions, take new actions, make new friends, and take your life to a totally unprecedented(空前的) level.

In your mind’s eye, you can see clearly the things you want to have, the paces you intend to go, the relationships you desire to develop, and the positions you aspire(励志) to reach.

You can hear your laughters of joy and happiness on the day when everything happens as you dream. You can see the smiles on the people around you when the magic moment strikes. You can feel your face is getting red, your heart is beating fast, and your blood is rushing all over your body, to every single corner of your being!

You know all this is real as long as you are confident, passionate and committed!(效忠的) And you are confident, you are passionate, you are committed!

You will no longer fear making new sounds, showing new facial expressions, using your body in new ways, approaching new people, and asking new questions.

You will live every single day of your life with absolute passion, and you will show your passion through the words you speak and the actions you take.

You will focus all your time and effort on the most important goals of your life. You will never succumb(屈服,屈从) to challenges of hardships.

You will never waver(动摇) in your pursuit of excellence. After all, you are the best, and you deserve the best!

As your coach and friend, I can assure you the door to all the best things in the world will open to you, but the key to that door is in your hand. You must do your part. You must faithfully follow the plans you make and take the actions you plan; you must never quit and you must never fear. I know you must do it, you can do it, you will do it, and you will succeed! Now stand firm and tall, make a fist, get excited, and yell it out:

I must do it! I can do it! I will do it! I will succeed!

I must do it! I can do it! I will do it! I will succeed!

I must do it! I can do it! I will do it! I will succeed!

敬爱的老师，亲爱的同学们：

大家好!我叫刘宇。这次我很荣幸能站在讲台上进行英语科代表的竞选。这次，我要通过我的努力，成为老师的助手，同学的榜样，我相信我一定能竞选上英语科代表这个职务。

一个人最可怜的是无知，最可悲的是自私，最可敬的是拼搏。不管我竞选成功与否，我都会让自私、无知与我无缘。只有那一股子拼劲，为大家，为班级做事。我在每次的英语考试中都能达到95分以上，成绩很不错，此外，我有着强烈的责任心，有丰富的经验，可以帮助老师做一些力所能及的事。如果我竞选成功，我一定会全心全意地为同学服务。每天早上，我会带领同学们进行早读，并把同学的作业收齐。在课上，我会带头积极举手发言;课下，如果有同学来问我不会的题，我也一定会耐心爽快地回答。如果遇到了一些难题，我会组织其他的同学共同探讨，并寻求老师的帮助。正因为如此，我有信心做好一名英语科代表。

假如我落选了，我也不会伤心，因为那说明我还有许多缺点，我将继续自我完善，因为每一个失败都会提醒我下次努力。俗话说失败乃成功之母，我还会继续努力，找出自己的不足并及时改正，争取下次能竞选上。

希望大家支持我，投出手中神圣的一票吧!谢谢大家!

敬爱的老师、亲爱的同学们：

你们好!

我叫，我爱好唱歌、跳舞，特长英语、音乐。这次，我要竞选的职位是英语课代表。

我喜爱英语，成绩更是在班里名列前茅。甚至有时候玩游戏我都玩英语的，虽然有些我不会念，但慢慢来，总是能学会的。再说了，这几年我一直都是英语课代表，有一些经验，我有责任、有能力为英语老师做好我力所能及的工作。

如果我当上了英语课代表，首先我会比以前更加努力，使同学们更加信任我，另外，以前，有许多同学对我有意见，说我不能当好这个英语课代表，这次，我会用实际行动来证明自己：我能当好这个英语课代表。

我会带领大家进行一些关于英语的活动，比如说：一月总结、单元总结等。我们可以做小报、写反思等形式开展各项主题活动，我坚信，在我的带领下，我们班的英语成绩会直线上升!

即使我当不上英语课代表，我也不会气馁，依然会继续帮助大家，请大家投我一票吧!

我的发言完毕，谢谢大家!

"Inspirational speech"

1. Growth takes time. You only want to do is target sights, full of patience, full of indomitable spirit to move forward, and this is our growth process.

2. Way of life of our people, there are two: the first one is like grass alive, you though alive, still growing every year, but you are, after all, is a grass, you absorb the sun and rain, but grow up, people can step you, but it will not be because of your pain and he produces pain, people do not come because you were stepped pity you, because people do not see you! So every one of us should be tree-like growth, even if we do nothing, but as long as you have the seeds of the tree, even if it was the middle of the man stepped on the soil, you are still able to absorb soil nutrients, own growing up, maybe two in three years, you grow up, two decades but eight or ten years, you will be able to grow into towering trees, when you grow into towering trees, the distant place that people will be able to see you come near you, you can giving a green, a cool, can you help others, even if people leave you, a look back, you are still on the horizon a beautiful landscape, tree alive beautiful scenery, dead still is a pillar of the living dead are used, this standard is the standard of life of each and every one of us and grow.

3. Those who want to all of a sudden, the thing dry into the idea, even if he did into this thing, he no foundation tantamount to build a house on the beach, they will definitely collapse, only slowly things step by step as dry as, every step gave himself has laid a solid foundation, each step gave a good explanation, and then again to the next higher go step he is able to make things really do successful .

2. You in the end what is most like what we should do when you decide life doing, you must unswervingly to stay here, Do not change, you can be like a river, flow more broad, but Do not want to go into another river, or into a high mountain.

5. Our future life one of the most important ability, the ability called bite the bullet, and a lot of celebrities will encounter a lot of things you can not stand, but you have to live with, rather than endure can not succeed, and why? Because you do not bite the bullet, you do not have the time, you do not have the space, not toward future space, if you want to last into the future, become stronger and more prosperous, you have to do to give myself enough time and space , turn to our own lives in order to strive for a great goal when you exclude, to have must exclude all trivial interference in your life, so you have to bite the bullet! Personal, you want to have a great development, you have to fight for their own time, to fight for space, fight for the future, and to gain time to fight for space to fight for the future of one of the most important prerequisite is that you have the ideal! But you dare to endure life appear unfair to you, or you think you can not stand the things!

6. I have a metaphor, every river has its own different life curve, the curve of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River is definitely not the same, but every river has its own dream, that is, towards the sea! Therefore, regardless of the Yellow River is how the twists and turns, bypassing the obstacles Yangtze River Shui bend as good as the Yellow River, but she broke through the cliffs, the way is not the same, but to finally come to the sea. When we encounter difficulties, whether it is rush to go around, as long as we could in the past, I hope everyone can make their own life to the dream stream past, the same as the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers flow to the end of their dreams, into a broad ocean, so that their lives become open broadened own career, but not to say that you want the stream will be able to stream past, in fact, there have a spirit, no doubt, this is the water spirit! Our life sometimes sediment, although you can also follow the water with forward flow, but because of your personality defect, in the face of a difficult step backward or timid, you might slowly will be the same as the sediment precipitated down , once you precipitation down, you may no longer need to move forward efforts, but you never see the sun, you precipitate it, above the sediment will continue to suppress you, and finally you will be dark, So I suggest that everyone, regardless of your life is how kind, must have the spirit of water, even if it is contaminated, wash their own strength as water continues to savings, to break through the obstacles, when you find timing not to the thickness of the accumulated, when one day when the time comes, youll be able to gallop into the sea, the achievements of their lives!

7 .Everyone know Western mythology, there is a story called Sisyphus, due Zeus punishment must push down from the foot of a stone pushed to the top of the hill, when the big rock pushed him to the top of the hill, the stone will automatically rolled down to the foot of the mountain, he had to start from scratch to push up, so worried! Little think about our daily life and work is not such a process, and when he pushed the stone, when to treat it as a form of punishment, his mind will be very hard to accept daily with grievances resentment in pushing the stone like many of us work with grievances and resentment at work, your work will always do well, but when he later realized this, and push through the seasons, push lightning weathered, when he pushed to the top of the hill to see higher and more beautiful blue sky, he felt that push the stone is also a beautiful time of life, life in fact has been sublimated. Our lives what passes cost-effective, when we look back we have in the past days, we have some days to make our own was moved to tears, what let you in tears the day, you make some let you feel can not do, but you do things.

8. of my own personal experience is how business is more successful a few key points: the first point, and how, as far as possible, to combine their long-term goals and short-term goals, we must first distinguish what things we want to life doing things, which things are suddenly finish the things we can not dry. China we have a saying hurry slow to do, the more anxious you things, you are done more carefully and more seriously, the more we can do a good job, and the more anxious you do things the faster, but more to do to pieces. I hurry to call it a major event, for example, you want to be a lifetime to master a high level of English, you say three months, learn twelve hours a day, you are absolutely impossible, three months, and you English level will be greatly improved, but three months later, you do not learn that in another three months, forget your English level. The second element is to determine their own life to do, then I think very important is usually to do things when the time plan, a person is very dynamic, and I do more than ten years ago, the New Oriental I feel that the time is not enough, Im too busy hands and feet the air, finally found something to finish, I twenty-four hours to do things, out of things to do with more than a dozen years ago my twenty-four hours running around in circles , is quite different. So why can busy over it, the reason is very simple, because you busy when you know how to plan your time, do remember that, no matter the time, and certainly are able squeezed out, then there is a very important, called the success of the necessary self-restraint, I ski five years ago, just up on the snow to fall on the snow fell, but then I found that it does not work, I have to learn to stop, we know that skiing two parked method of beginner ski toe stop method, but when the ski slope to reach a certain slope, this eight regardless of use, to the two skis side over side stop, so I spent a whole weeks time, I have not practiced skiing, I come with specialized training to stop, stop I found I have done a very good time, I directly carrying snowboard a senior Road, I have a friend, he felt that you can on that I can on his side of the ski trails is hillside, one side is cliffs, the results after him when he could not stop. directly rushed to the cliffs that have passed, rushed past that he is not afraid of you, afraid he began forcibly Niuguo Lai Niuguo Lai a foot Niuguo Lai, the other feet did not Niuguo Lai, results of two feet ripped ligament was completely pulled off at any time, when youre in front of the face of a huge temptation, and any other temptation may arise, if you feel not stop, you do not go chase that thing, because you chase that thing can not stop himself, and finally come a cropper necessarily you!

9. Great and extraordinary difference is that an ordinary person, living a trivial life every day, but he spelled out the trivial, or a bunch of trivial life! The so-called great man, a bunch of trivial things, by a great goal, daily accumulated into a great career!

10. There are two words that I appreciate: Life is a process; career is a result. Everyone live live in every day, if every day you upset you every day all combined, is your life happy, but if you happy every day, in fact, your life is happy Happy! Time I go to the Yellow River, I use mineral water bottles filling a bottle of water, we all know that the Yellow River water is particularly muddy, then I placed on the side of the road, about an hour or so, so I am very surprise, found that three-quarters have become a very clear and a bottle of water, and only a quarter of it is settling down sediment. That if we put a bottle of water to fresh water part of the metaphor of our happiness and joy, and that that mud, muddy sediment precipitation metaphor of our pain, you understand, when you shake it after your life in whole is full of pollution, that is full of all the pain and trouble, but when you calm down, despite the sediment total weight at all did not decrease, but it is deposited in your heart, because your heart is quiet, so we never mix up three-quarters of your life must be happiness and joy. What is the cause of a result, we all know that as one thing, it really is relentless, if New Oriental I do fail, I am absolutely not here today to give you the opportunity to address the reasons because its final results here, so anything as long as you do it, he can not be considered successful, for example, we said Cao Xueqin success, whether socialist or capitalist, would have to admit that Cao Xueqin Chinese history one of the greatest writers, we say that Newton is successful, whatever nation or any people would admit that he is one of the greatest scientists in the world, I consider myself to be successful, unsuccessful New Oriental much not successful how much money I have or how many friends I think I succeeded in that I have a state of mind, I fell in the past more than 10 million times, the future I may also fall thousands of times, but Im still able to get up. For how you do things, things like, the eyes of people in society, it is the only standard of success!

11. I want to say that human life is very flat road, by you absolutely go finish this world only you together with others, for the same goal, with things, in order to put the thing made very limited power of one person, but a group of people is unlimited power, when five fingers outstretched, five fingers, but when you put five fingers hold up, it is a fist!

尊敬的老师们，亲爱的同学们：

大家好!

我叫__，今天我我站在这里，是因为我对自己有信心，我认为自己有能力胜任副班长这个职位。

在上个学期，我担任的职位是__委员和__委员，大家对我的工作有目共睹，通过我自身的努力，我的工作获得了老师与同学们的认可，被评为了“优秀班干部”。但是我认为，我的工作仍然有做得不足的地方，所以在这一学期里，我要改正这些我做的不足的地方，为同学服务，得到大家更高的评价!

各位老师、同学们，如果我评选上了，我会在各方面积极带头，当好老师的助手，团结同学，为同学们服务。如果我没有评上，我会寻找自己存在的不足，积极改正，同时也会为班级的建设与发展做出贡献!

请将您手中宝贵的一票投给我吧!

谢谢大家!

Everybody good afternoon:.

First of all thank the teacher gave me a story in my own future ideal job.

Everyone has a dream job. My dream is to become a boss, own a company.

In order to achieve my dreams, I need to find a good job, to accumulate some experience and wealth, it is the necessary things

Of course, in the school good achievement and rich knowledge is also very important. Good achievement and rich experience can let me work to make the right choice, have more opportunities and achievements.

At the same time, communication is very important, because it determines whether my company has a good future development. So I need to exercise their communicative ability. I need to use all of the free time to learn all. Because I believe, there is nothing in the world can shake my determination.

You will be successful, as your own efforts. So seize the time, we have no time to waste.

Nothing in the world can change their patience ( confidence ).

各位同学下午好：

首先很感谢老师给了我一个讲述我自己未来理想工作的机会。

每个人心中都有一个自己理想的工作。我的梦想是将来成为一名老板，拥有一个属于自己的公司。

为了完成自己的梦想，我需要找到一个好的工作，用来积累一些经验和财富，这是必要的事情。

当然，在学校里好的成绩和丰富的知识也是非常重要的。好的成绩和丰富的经验能让我在工作中做出正确的选择，拥有更多的机会和成就。

同时，交际能力也是非常重要的，因为这决定着自己公司未来是否拥有一个好的发展。所以自己需要锻炼自己的交际能力。自己需要利用一切的空闲时间来学习一切。 因为我相信，世界上没有什么能动摇我的决心。

你的明天会成功的，正如你自己所努力的那样。

因此抓紧时间，我们不能在浪费时间了。

世界上没有什么能改变自己的耐心(信心)。

亲爱的同学们：

大家好!

很高兴能够再次站在这个讲台上，面对同学们熟悉的脸庞，参加班干部竞选活动。此时此刻，我的心里感到非常的激动，并且充满感慨。感到激动是因为我能有机会再次争取为大家服务;充满感慨是因为我已不再是那个初来乍到的小女孩，经过几年的风风雨雨，成功的喜乐、失败的教训，让我茁壮成长。相信，不管今天我从这里走下台后，竞选的结果会如何，我都会从心底感到高兴。

今天我竞选的是班长一职。我来参与竞选的目的只有一个：一切为同学服务。我自信在同学们的帮助下，我能胜任这项工作，正由于这种内驱力，当我走向这个讲台的时候，我感到信心百倍。

也许，在我说出这番“豪言壮语”后，有些人会暗自发笑：他怎么这么自负!可是我想说，这不是自负，这是自信!一个人如果连自己都不相信，那么他就没有资格做任何事，即使做了，也很难成功!我之所以能够站在这里，大部分是由于我的自信!当然，能力也很重要，因为一个人的信心和能力永远是成正比的。

在参加班级管理的过程中，尤其是参加竞选后，我明白了许多道理：做任何事都要有强烈的责任感，要认真履行自己的职责，才能无愧于心。在管理的同时，要严格要求自己，因为自己的一举一动都被同学们看在那里，如果连自己都管不好，如何去管别人?当然，管理时一定要有耐心，要顾及同学们的感受，不要去品尝“高处不胜寒”的滋味。否则，会给今后的工作带来许多困难。即使有困难，也应勇敢面对。

著名作家罗曼·罗兰说过一句话，只有先相信了自己，然后别人才会相信你。我想有足够的信心来相信自己。我有能力更有自信，能以新的方法带领我们的班级走向一个新的层次。世界上没有完美的人，我也不例外，但是我会尽量减少自己的缺点，同时也希望每个人都能提出我的不足，让我能正确认识自己，完善自己。

成为班长，是一种荣誉，更是一种责任。我知道这条路上有许多挑战，但我自信我有能力担起这副担子，因为我的热情，我的毅力，我实事求是的工作态度，能真正做好班长的工作。

我的演讲完毕，谢谢大家!

My hometown is Guangdong Maoming which lies in the south coast of China. I study in Shiyan High school and Im in grade 2.Our campus is very beautiful and there are much charming view.

I study hard every day and I wish to go abroad for further education.I have some hobbies such as basketball,tennis,swimming and so on.I like making friends with others.

Goodmorning/afternoon,everybody!A famous American poet says , "Life is short, study is long." Everyone should work hard and study well. Never waste any time. Now we are young, we have so many things to do. Youth time is like a happy bird. If it flew away, it would never return. Nothing is more important than time.

Today some students spend too much time enjoying their lives such as eating, clothing, traveling and so on. Others spend too much time reading some useless books. A lot of time has been wasted. They have no idea that waste of time means wasting of one’s life.

While we are young and full of energy, let’s study hard.

My speech is over ! Thank you.

Sometimes it takes things falling apart, for better things to fall into place. Sometimes it takes the most uncomfortable path, to lead your life to the most beautiful place. Theres gonna be bad days, theres gonna be dark days, but youve gotta embrace it.

Because that pain is what makes you stronger. Failure is what makes you stronger.

You have to accept those down times, because once you realize those down times, are just as much part of life as anything else, youre able to strive again.

Youll never see the purpose of the storm, until you see the growth it produced. Youll never understand why you went through what you went through, until you see the strength, the power, the resilience that it built inside of you. Ask yourself why.

But this why is a better why, "Why am I doing this? Why am I failing? Why am I even getting myself in a situation where I could fail? Because I have a dream. Because I have goals."

敬爱的老师，亲爱的同学们：

大家好!我叫谢沛燃。这次我很荣幸能站在讲台上进行英语科代表的竞选。这次，我要通过我的努力，成为老师的助手，同学的榜样，我相信我一定能竞选上英语科代表这个职务。

一个人最可怜的是无知，最可悲的是自私，最可敬的是拼搏。不管我竞选成功与否，我都会让自私、无知与我无缘。只有那一股子拼劲，为大家，为班级做事。我在每次的英语考试中都能达到95分以上，成绩很不错，此外，我有着强烈的责任心，有丰富的经验，可以帮助老师做一些力所能及的事。如果我竞选成功，我一定会全心全意地为同学服务。每天早上，我会带领同学们进行早读，并把同学的作业收齐。在课上，我会带头积极举手发言;课下，如果有同学来问我不会的题，我也一定会耐心爽快地回答。如果遇到了一些难题，我会组织其他的同学共同探讨，并寻求老师的帮助。正因为如此，我有信心做好一名英语科代表。

假如我落选了，我也不会伤心，因为那说明我还有许多缺点，我将继续自我完善，因为每一个失败都会提醒我下次努力。俗话说“失败乃成功之母“，我还会继续努力，找出自己的不足并及时改正，争取下次能竞选上。

希望大家支持我，投出手中神圣的一票吧!谢谢大家!

Hello everyone!

My name is-.I want to be the monitor of our class for I can undertake the responsibility and I have enough ability to be competent!First,what I think the monitor is a sever for a class,he should spare no effort to help everyone in study and daily life.Second,I will do my best in study,thus helping others.At last,I will completely layout our descipline in practice.Surely I believe I can!

Thank you!

On behalf of our proud trustee, our esteem faculty, our distinguished alumni, our devoted families and our unparalleled friends gathered here and across the globe virtually, I welcome you to this very special moment in time. Today, we continue a 265- year-old tradition that binds us with a sense of pride and hope and of deep and never-ending curiosity.

We initiate those who are committed to a world of openness and debate, who have learned the power of discovering the unknown and who have accepted the great responsibility that comes with acquiring knowledge into a community steadfastly poised to shape our world for the better. At the end of our time together today, joining a legacy of those who have come before them, we will have a new class of alumni representing 16 distinct schools along with affiliated institutions of Teacher’s College and Bernard college.

The potential for trouble is palpable. And as we explore the profound meaning of this moment, there is one special part of our community deserves unique recognition. Graduates, as much as we, your faculty, feel deep, deep affection for you, nothing can compare to the pure, unqualified adoration of your parents and families, though you will never be able to express fully the infinite gratitude I know you feel, please take this opportunity to thank them.

For my remarks today, I have three parts. I want to talk about the idea of the academy, about the enemies of the search for truth and about what we are to do.In awarding you the degrees in your respective field, we recognize your academic accomplishment and now acknowledge your expertise in some area of study. But you are now also an expert in higher education in America, simply by virtue of your presence and deep engagement with this little world over the past several years.

finally, when leaders wrap themselves in the flag, or the national anthem, and try to make you think that critics of your government don’t love and respect our country, real patriotism isn’t about honoring symbols. Real patriotism is about bringing truth to light, and when action is required, standing up and taking action.

In other words, real patriotism is about taking pains. So if you remember nothing else from today, remember that phrase. Or, to make it even simpler, just remember: T-Pain.

Graduates, as you leave this great university, I hope you will take the pains that are necessary to preserve and extend our democracy. Take pains to understand the other side. Take pains to expose lies. Take pains to reject scapegoating and xenophobia. Take pains not to fall for easy answers. And take pains to hold our leaders accountable for their words and their deeds.

If you do that, I have no doubt that truth – and America – will prevail. And my generation will be able to say, as we pass the leadership torch to yours, the same words that Washington spoke with his last breath: ‘Tis well.

So tonight, have one last drink, maybe at T’s, dance to your own beat or to the beat of Ninja Turtle Backpack Guy, and tomorrow, get to work. The world needs you more than ever.

Congratulations, and good luck.

I am for the robust and free exchange of ideas, as essential to the mission of a great university as it is to the health of our democracy.

I am for a world where we welcome the immigrant, the poor, and the forgotten; we did [do] not shut them out or silence them; a world where showing empathy and understanding is considered the true hallmark of success, of a life well-lived.

That is what I am for.

Yale’s mission says, in part, that we are “committed to improving the world today and for future generations.” That commitment does not end at graduation.

Soon you will leave Yale and, as Robert Penn Warren, who studied and taught at Yale, wrote, “You will go into the convulsion of the world, out of history and into history.”

Indeed, you’ll go into history and make history.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to give my topic with you.Eh, I am just a little nervous right now. And I usually sing a song when I feel nervous. So would you mind me singing a song? Of course not!(sing the song…) Did I sing well?Okay, thank you. Do you like this piece of music? Yes or no? By the way, do you know the name of the song? Who can tell me? ---Yep! You are right! The name of the song is Imagine me without you. As for me, I can’t imagine me without English in my life. Why? Please wait a moment. You will get the answer from the following content. Let’s back to our topic.

As we all know, English is an international language. I am 14 years old now and I’ve learnt English for 9 years. It has become a part of my life. I think English is not only important but also very useful to me.

I have never thought that, I would pay such more attention to learning English because when I was six, I always got bad marks at school and I could not figure out the letters “ R” and “K”。 Yeah, that is impossible.

One day, my mom came to school and took me home and she saw the letters on the blackboard. She pointed to “R” and asked me “What is this?”---“R”。 “And what about this one”? She pointed to “K”。---“R”! I answered. “Are you sure?”---“Yep, mummy, They are the same!” I said confidently! My mom shook her head with an upset face. She was so disappointed with me. From then on, she tried to use many different ways in order to improve my English, such as inviting the private teachers with high salary; finding foreign teachers online; buying lots of English books or encouraging me to enter different English competitions and so on. And I also worked very hard. I got up early every morning to read English books aloud and had English classes for hours. Sometimes I felt really tired and I had no progress. I felt frustrated! Luckily, my mum is always with me! She wanted me to learn everything happily but not with lots of pressure. She tried to make me relax. It was a kind of logical game. Would you like to have a try? Follow me, please! Raise your hands up. This is a gun in my left hand and there are four birds in my right hand. Now I need to exchange them like this. Try to do it as fast as you can! Can you do it? Well, maybe it is a little difficult at first. So did I. So I tried it patiently and carefully again and again. You see, I can do it as fast as I can now. I think the way to learn English is still the same. After a difficult training time, I found that: the more English I’ve learnt patiently,the more confidence I’ve got and the more interested I was in learning English.

I am an outgoing girl. I love to explore and know more about the world. I have some friends from different countries. At first, I could not follow them clearly. But they were friendly. They treated me as a member of their family. We could play jokes to each other or share something interesting together. I remembered one day I had mentioned to my American teacher that I had a fight with my friend and I felt left behind. She stopped for a moment and said: “It doesn’t matter. I am always with you.” At that time I felt really warm. Sometimes I talk with my friends on Skype and some of them on QQ. And one of my friend came from Philippines had asked me to give him the QQ red bag.Very interesting, right?

During the time when I learn English, I understand a point clearly that is “Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time you will be grateful you did.” We should always in siston what we are seeking. I wouldn’t give up learning English. Thanks for your listening.

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