1、speeches and culture,a.the close relationshipn between speeches and culture b.examples and analyze: American speeches and Chinese speeches c.my opinions and gains,明天，非常现实地说，你们从零塑造自己人生的时代即将开启。 Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life - the life you author from scratch on your own - begins.你们会如何运用自己的
2、天赋?你们又会作出怎样的抉择? How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make?你们是被惯性所引导，还是追随自己内心的热情? Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?你们会墨守陈规，还是勇于创新? Will you follow dogma, or will you be original?你们会选择安逸的生活，还是选择一个奉献与冒险的人生? Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service a
3、nd adventure?你们会屈从于批评，还是会坚守信念? Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions?你们会掩饰错误，还是会坦诚道歉? Will you bluff it out when youre wrong, or will you apologize?你们会因害怕拒绝而掩饰内心，还是会在面对爱情时勇往直前? Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love?你们想要波澜不惊，还是
4、想要搏击风浪? Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling?你们会在严峻的现实之下选择放弃，还是会义无反顾地前行? When its tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless?你们要做愤世嫉俗者，还是踏实的建设者? Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder?你们要不计一切代价地展示聪明，还是选择善良? Will you be clever at the expense of others, or wi
5、ll you be kind?,famous American speeches and American culturea.George Washington, Lincon and Emersonb. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Wilson Reaganc.Steve Jobs and Tom Hanks,Nothing filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on
6、the 14th day of the present month.On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years a
7、retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time.,The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget wha
8、t they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before usthat from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that caus
9、e for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vainthat this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedomand that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.,The scholar
10、is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges. If there be one lesson more than another, which should pierce his ear, it is, The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourse
11、lf is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all. Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all
12、 preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See a
13、lready the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.,Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With
14、confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounding determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us God. I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, Dec. 7, a state of war has existed between the United States and
15、 the Japanese empire.,Well continue our quest in space. There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space. Nothing ends here; our hopes and our journeys continue. I want to add that I wish I could talk to every man and woman w
16、ho works for NASA, or who worked on this mission and tell them: “Your dedication and professionalism have moved and impressed us for decades. And we know of your anguish. We share it.“ Theres a coincidence today. On this day 390 years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off th
17、e coast of Panama. In his lifetime the great frontiers were the oceans, and a historian later said, “He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it.“ Well, today, we can say of the Challenger crew: Their dedication was, like Drakes, complete. The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored u
18、s by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and “slipped the surly bonds of earth“ to “touch the face of God.“,Again, you cant connect the dots looking forward; you can o
19、nly connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.,Your time is limited, so dont was
20、te it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you tr
21、uly want to become. Everything else is secondary.,Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.,
