Blaine
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This is a speech I had to write for a contest, please do not reuse this because it is MY work. Anyways, I wanted a few opinions on it so here goes.
?If you want to see something done, just tell some human beings it
can't be done. Make it known that it's impossible to fly to the moon, or run
100 meters in 9.9 seconds, or solve Fermat's Last Theorem. Remind the world
that no one has ever hit 62 home runs in a season or stuffed 18 people into a
Volkswagen. Dangle the undoable in front of the world. Then, consider it
done.? Stated by a Merrill Lynch advertisement. And to be quite blunt, this is
pretty honest. Humanity has a fetish with taking things into their own
hands. Just look at the Wright brothers! Those two were ridiculed for their
propositions that with a proper craft, one might be able to fly. Now,
whenever a North Carolina license plate is made, the words ?Birthplace of
Aviation? are depicted with an illustration of these airborne siblings and their
famous airplane.
Leaf through the Book of World Records; one will find hundreds of
accounts of people who defied the rules and did something incredible. There
are millions more of these sorts of individuals whom are making things
happen. They are the ?rogues? of our time. Though rogue traditionally
means a scoundrel, it can also be used as a synonym for rule breaker. These
citizens are going above and beyond the rules set, expecting more than the
best of themselves! However, may there be hundreds of thousands of
amazing persons, there will always be the? ?Slackers.?
If one were to take a census in an average middle school, he would
find many of the pupils have short attention spans and ignore their teachers?
lessons. This is utterly depressing when one thinks about the challenges our
citizens will have to face from religious, or political wars, to fear from
terrorism, our world is dependent on the youthful population. A youth that
thwarts his success rates, succumbing to the fate of that stereotypical high
school dropout that never gets a real job, other than working in a
McDonald?s. It?s the sad truth that we all must admit is happening around
us. Though, there are the precious few that are prepping themselves, taking
time in their schoolwork, and setting high standards of living for themselves.
Yet the students who are focused are taking the gift of education and are
utilizing it more than any other generation before them.
They are the special individuals that are going to be the leaders of
our world. The ones who are making the plans for another Space Race and
the ones who are compiling blueprints for more ways to define the laws of
science. And they will not get by with simply mediocre grades and a bad
work ethic. This is a time where education matters in the heavenly bodies of
politics, art, philosophy, everything. You name it, it requires knowledge.
?If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time
will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work
upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then
engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and
brighten to all eternity.? Stated Daniel Webster. Education is the surface of
our society, and without we are nothing. So it is only the hope of our
communities that our children, teens, even adults, all are thinking, working
and expecting the best in their grades, lives, and selves.
Thank you...
?Thinking, Working, and Expecting the Best?
?If you want to see something done, just tell some human beings it
can't be done. Make it known that it's impossible to fly to the moon, or run
100 meters in 9.9 seconds, or solve Fermat's Last Theorem. Remind the world
that no one has ever hit 62 home runs in a season or stuffed 18 people into a
Volkswagen. Dangle the undoable in front of the world. Then, consider it
done.? Stated by a Merrill Lynch advertisement. And to be quite blunt, this is
pretty honest. Humanity has a fetish with taking things into their own
hands. Just look at the Wright brothers! Those two were ridiculed for their
propositions that with a proper craft, one might be able to fly. Now,
whenever a North Carolina license plate is made, the words ?Birthplace of
Aviation? are depicted with an illustration of these airborne siblings and their
famous airplane.
Leaf through the Book of World Records; one will find hundreds of
accounts of people who defied the rules and did something incredible. There
are millions more of these sorts of individuals whom are making things
happen. They are the ?rogues? of our time. Though rogue traditionally
means a scoundrel, it can also be used as a synonym for rule breaker. These
citizens are going above and beyond the rules set, expecting more than the
best of themselves! However, may there be hundreds of thousands of
amazing persons, there will always be the? ?Slackers.?
If one were to take a census in an average middle school, he would
find many of the pupils have short attention spans and ignore their teachers?
lessons. This is utterly depressing when one thinks about the challenges our
citizens will have to face from religious, or political wars, to fear from
terrorism, our world is dependent on the youthful population. A youth that
thwarts his success rates, succumbing to the fate of that stereotypical high
school dropout that never gets a real job, other than working in a
McDonald?s. It?s the sad truth that we all must admit is happening around
us. Though, there are the precious few that are prepping themselves, taking
time in their schoolwork, and setting high standards of living for themselves.
Yet the students who are focused are taking the gift of education and are
utilizing it more than any other generation before them.
They are the special individuals that are going to be the leaders of
our world. The ones who are making the plans for another Space Race and
the ones who are compiling blueprints for more ways to define the laws of
science. And they will not get by with simply mediocre grades and a bad
work ethic. This is a time where education matters in the heavenly bodies of
politics, art, philosophy, everything. You name it, it requires knowledge.
?If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time
will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work
upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then
engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and
brighten to all eternity.? Stated Daniel Webster. Education is the surface of
our society, and without we are nothing. So it is only the hope of our
communities that our children, teens, even adults, all are thinking, working
and expecting the best in their grades, lives, and selves.
Thank you...