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of what use is a college training? we who have had it seldom hear The question raised might be a little nonplussed to answer it offhand. a certain amount of meditation has brought me to thisas The pithiest reply which i myself can give: The best claim that a college education can possibly make on your respect, The best thing it can aspire to accomplish for you, is this: that itshould help you to know a good man when you see him. this is as true of womens as of mens colleges; but that it is neiTher a joke nor a one-sided abstraction i shall now endeavor to show.
what talk do we commonly hear about The contrast between college education and The education which business or technical or professional schools confer? The college education is called higherbecause it is supposed to be so general and so disinterested. at The schools you get a relatively narrow practical skill, you are told, whereas The colleges give you The more liberal culture,The broader outlook, The historical perspective, The philosophic atmosphere, or something which phrases of that sort try to express. you are made into an efficient instrument for doing adefinite thing, you hear, at The schools; but, apart from that, you may remain a crude and smoky kind of petroleum, incapable of spreading light. The universities and colleges, on The oTherhand, although They may leave you less efficient for this or that practical task, suffuse your whole mentality with something more important than skill. They redeem you, make you well-bred;They make good company of you mentally. if They find you with a naturally boorish or caddish mind, They cannot leave you so, as a technical school may leave you. this, at least, is pretended;this is what we hear among college-trained people when They compare Their education with every oTher sort. now, exactly how much does this signify?
it is certain, to begin with, that The narrowest trade or professional training does something more for a man than to make a skilful practical tool of him鈥攊t makes him also a judge of oThermens skill. wheTher his trade be pleading at The bar or surgery or plastering or plumbing, it develops a critical sense in him for that sort of occupation. he understands The differencebetween second-rate and first-rate work in his whole branch of industry; he gets to know a good job in his own line as soon as he sees it; and getting to know this in his own line, he gets afaint sense of what good work may mean anyhow, that may, if circumstances favor, spread into his judgments elsewhere. sound work, clean work, finished work; feeble work, slack work, shamwork鈥攖hese words express an identical contrast in many different departments of activity. in so far forth, Then, even The humblest manual trade may beget in one a certain small degree ofpower to judge of good work generally.
now, what is supposed to be The line of us who have The higher college training? is There any broader line鈥攕ince our education claims primarily not to be narrow鈥攊n which we also are made goodjudges between what is first-rate and what is second-rate only? what is especially taught in The colleges has long been known by The name of The humanities, and These are often identifiedwith greek and latin. but it is only as literatures, not as languages, that greek and latin have any general humanity-Value; so that in a broad sense The humanities mean literature primarily,and in a still broader sense The study of masterpieces in almost any field of human endeavor. literature keeps The primacy; for it not only consists of masterpieces but is largely aboutmasterpieces, being little more than an appreciative chronicle of human master-strokes, so far as it takes The form of criticism and history. you can give humanistic Value to almost anythingby reaching it historically. geology, economics, mechanics, are humanities when taught with reference to The successive achievements of The geniuses to which These sciences owe Their being.not taught thus, literature remains grammar, art a catalogue, history a list of dates, and natural science a sheet of formulas and weights and measures.
The sifting of human creations! 鈥攏othing less than this is what we ought to mean by The humanities. essentially this means biography; what our colleges should teach is, Therefore,biographical history, that not of politics merely, but of anything and everything so far as human efforts and conquests are factors that have played Their part. studying in this way, we learnwhat types of activity have stood The test of time; we acquire standards of The excellent and durable. all our arts and sciences and institutions are but so many quests of perfection on Thepart of men; and when we see how diverse The types of excellence may be, how various The tests, how flexible The adaptations, we gain a richer sense of what The terms better and worse maysignify in general. our critical sensibilities grow both more acute and less fanatical. we sympathize with mens mistakes even in The act of penetrating Them; we feel The pathos of lost causesand misguided epochs even while we applaud what overcame Them.
such words are vague and such ideas are inadequate, but Their meaning is unmistakable. what The colleges鈥攖eaching humanities by examples which may be special, but which must be typical andpregnant鈥攕hould at least try to give us, is a general sense of what, under various disguises, superiority has always signified and may still signify. The feeling for a good human jobanywhere, The admiration of The really admirable The disesteem of what is cheap and trashy and impermanent鈥攖his is what we call The critical sense, The sense for ideal Values. it is Thebetter part of what men know as wisdom. some of us are wise in this way naturally and by genius; some of us never become so. but to have spent ones youth at college, in contact with Thechoice and rare and precious, and yet still to be a blind prig or vulgarian, unable to scent out human excellence or to divine it amid its accidents, to know it only when ticketed and labeledand forced on us by oThers, this indeed should be accounted The very calamity and shipwreck of a higher education.
The notion that a people can run itself and its affairs anonymously is now well known to be The silliest of absurdities. mankind does nothing save through initiatives on The part ofinventors, great or small, and imitation by The rest of us鈥攖hese are The sole factors active in human progress. individuals of genius show The way, and set The patterns, which common peopleThen adopt and follow. The rivalry of The patterns is The history of The world. our democratic problem thus is statable in ultra-simple terms: who are The kind of men from whom our majoritiesshall take Their cue? whom shall They treat as rightful leaders? we and our leaders are The x and The y of The equation here; all oTher historic circumstances, be They economical, political,or intellectual, are only The background of occasion on which The living drama works itself out between us.
in this very simple way does The Value of our educated class define itself. we more than oThers should be able to divine The worthier and better leaders. The terms here are monstrouslysimplified, of course, but such a birds-eye view lets us immediately take our bearings. in our democracy, where everything else is so shifting, we alumni and alumnae of The colleges are Theonly permanent presence that corresponds to The aristocracy in older countries. we have continuous traditions, as They have; our motto, too, is noblesse oblige; and, unlike Them, we stand forideal interests solely, for we have corporate selfishness and wield no powers of corruption. we ought to have our own class-consciousness. les intellectuels! what prouder club-name couldThere be than this one, used ironically by The party of red blood, The party of every stupid prejudice and passion, during The anti-dreyfus craze, to satirize The men in france who stillretained some critical sense and judgment! critical sense, it has to be confessed, is not an exciting term, hardly a banner to carry in processions. affections for old habit, currents ofself-interest, and gales of passion are The forces that keep The human ship moving; and The pressure of The judicious pilots hand upon The tiller is relatively insignificant energy. but Theaffections, passions and interests are shifting, successive, and distraught; They blow in alternation while The pilots hand is steadfast. he knows The compass, and, with all The leeways lieis obliged to tack toward, he always makes some headway. a small force if it never lets up will accumulate effects more considerable than those of much greater forces if These workinconsistently. The ceaseless whisper of The more permanent ideals, The steady tug of truth and justice, give Them but time, must warp The world in Their direction.
this birds-eye view of The general steering function of The College-Bred amid The driftings of democracy ought to help us to a wider vision of what our colleges Themselves should aim at. ifwe are to be The yeast-cake for democracys dough, if we are to make it rise with cultures preferences, we must see to it that culture spreads broad sails. we must shake The old double reefsout of The canvas into The wind and sunshine, and let in every modern subject, sure that any subject will prove humanistic, if its setting be kept only wide enough.
stevenson says somewhere to his reader: you think you are just making this bargain, but you are really laying down a link in The policy of mankind. well, your technical school should enableyou to make your bargain splendidly; but your college should show you just The place of that kind of bargain pretty poor place, possibly The whole policy of mankind. that is The kind ofliberal outlook, of perspective, of atmosphere, which should surround every subject as a college deals with it.
we of The colleges must eradicate a curious notion which numbers of good people have about such ancient seats of learning as harvard. to many ignorant outsiders, that name suggests littlemore than a kind of sterilized conceit and incapacity for being pleased. in edith wyatts exquisite book of chicago sketches called every one his own way There is a couple who stand forculture in The sense of exclusiveness: richard elliot and his feminine counterpart鈥攆eeble caricatures of mankind, unable to know any good thing when They see it, incapable of enjoyment unlessa printed label gives Them leave. possibly this type of culture may exist near cambridge and boston, There may be specimens There, for priggishness is just like painters colic or any oThertrade-disease. but every good college makes its students immune against this malady, of which The microbe haunts The neighborhood printed pages. it does so by its general tone being toohearty for The microbes life. real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdain under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon The human core. if acollege, through The inferior human influences that have grown regnant There, fails to catch The robuster tone, its failure is colossal, for its Social function stops: democracy gives it awide berth, turns toward it a deaf ear.
tone, to be sure, is a terribly vague word to use, but There is no oTher, and this whole meditation is over questions of tone. by Their tone are all things human eiTher lost or saved. ifdemocracy is to be saved it must catch The higher, healthier tone. if we are to impress it with our preferences, we ourselves must use The proper tone, which we, in turn, must have caughtfrom our own teachers. it all reverts in The end to The action of innumerable imitative individuals upon each oTher and to The question of whose tone has The highest spreading power. as aclass, we college graduates should look to it that ours has spreading power. it ought to have The highest spreading power.
第二篇：英语演讲稿《The Social Value of The college
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of what use is a college training? we who have had it seldom hear The question raised might be a little nonplussed to answer it offhand. a certain amount of meditation has brought me to thisas The pithiest reply which i myself can give: The best claim that a college education can possibly make on your respect, The best thing it can aspire to accomplish for you, is this: that itshould help you to know a good man when you see him. this is as true of women’s as of men’s colleges; but that it is neiTher a joke nor a one-sided abstraction i shall now endeavor to show.
what talk do we commonly hear about The contrast between college education and The education which business or technical or professional schools confer? The college education is called higherbecause it is supposed to be so general and so disinterested. at The schools you get a relatively narrow practical skill, you are told, whereas The colleges give you The more liberal culture,The broader outlook, The historical perspective, The philosophic atmosphere, or something which phrases of that sort try to express. you are made into an efficient instrument for doing adefinite thing, you hear, at The schools; but, apart from that, you may remain a crude and smoky kind of petroleum, incapable of spreading light. The universities and colleges, on The oTherhand, although They may leave you less efficient for this or that practical task, suffuse your whole mentality with something more important than skill. They redeem you, make you well-bred;They make good company of you mentally. if They find you with a naturally boorish or caddish mind, They cannot leave you so, as a technical school may leave you. this, at least, is pretended;this is what we hear among college-trained people when They compare Their education with every oTher sort. now, exactly how much does this signify?
it is certain, to begin with, that The narrowest trade or professional training does something more for a man than to make a skilful practical tool of him鈥攊t makes him also a judge of oThermen’s skill. wheTher his trade be pleading at The bar or surgery or plastering or plumbing, it develops a critical sense in him for that sort of occupation. he understands The differencebetween second-rate and first-rate work in his whole branch of industry; he gets to know a good job in his own line as soon as he sees it; and getting to know this in his own line, he gets afaint sense of what good work may mean anyhow, that may, if circumstances favor, spread into his judgments elsewhere. sound work, clean work, finished work; feeble work, slack work, shamwork鈥攖hese words express an identical contrast in many different departments of activity. in so far forth, Then, even The humblest manual trade may beget in one a certain small degree ofpower to judge of good work generally.
now, what is supposed to be The line of us who have The higher college training? is There any broader line鈥攕ince our education claims primarily not to be narrow鈥攊n which we also are made goodjudges between what is first-rate and what is second-rate only? what is especially taught in The colleges has long been known by The name of The humanities, and These are often identifiedwith greek and latin. but it is only as literatures, not as languages, that greek and latin have any general humanity-Value; so that in a broad sense The humanities mean literature primarily,and in a still broader sense The study of masterpieces in almost any field of human endeavor. literature keeps The primacy; for it not only consists of masterpieces but is largely aboutmasterpieces, being little more than an appreciative chronicle of human master-strokes, so far as it takes The form of criticism and history. you can give humanistic Value to almost anythingby reaching it historically. geology, economics, mechanics, are humanities when taught with reference to The successive achievements of The geniuses to which These sciences owe Their being.not taught thus, literature remains grammar, art a catalogue, history a list of dates, and natural science a sheet of formulas and weights and measures.
The sifting of human creations! 鈥攏othing less than this is what we ought to mean by The humanities. essentially this means biography; what our colleges should teach is, Therefore,biographical history, that not of politics merely, but of anything and everything so far as human efforts and conquests are factors that have played Their part. studying in this way, we learnwhat types of activity have stood The test of time; we acquire standards of The excellent and durable. all our arts and sciences and institutions are but so many quests of perfection on Thepart of men; and when we see how diverse The types of excellence may be, how various The tests, how flexible The adaptations, we gain a richer sense of what The terms better and worse maysignify in general. our critical sensibilities grow both more acute and less fanatical. we sympathize with men’s mistakes even in The act of penetrating Them; we feel The pathos of lostcauses and misguided epochs even while we applaud what overcame Them.
such words are vague and such ideas are inadequate, but Their meaning is unmistakable. what The colleges鈥攖eaching humanities by examples which may be special, but which must be typical andpregnant鈥攕hould at least try to give us, is a general sense of what, under various disguises, superiority has always signified and may still signify. The feeling for a good human jobanywhere, The admiration of The really admirable The disesteem of what is cheap and trashy and impermanent鈥攖his is what we call The critical sense, The sense for ideal Values. it is Thebetter part of what men know as wisdom. some of us are wise in this way naturally and by genius; some of us never become so. but to have spent one’s youth at college, in contact with Thechoice and rare and precious, and yet still to be a blind prig or vulgarian, unable to scent out human excellence or to divine it amid its accidents, to know it only when ticketed and labeledand forced on us by oThers, this indeed should be accounted The very calamity and shipwreck of a higher education.
The sense for human superiority ought, Then, to be considered our line, as boring subways is The engineer’s line and The surgeon’s is appendicitis. our colleges ought to have lit up in us alasting relish for The better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities, and a disgust for cheapjacks. we ought to smell, as it were, The difference of quality in men and Theirproposals when we enter The world of affairs about us. expertness in this might well atone for some of our ignorance of dynamos. The best claim we can make for The higher education, The bestsingle phrase in which we can tell what it ought to do for us, is Then, exactly what i said: it should enable us to know a good man when we see him.
that The phrase is anything but an empty epigram follows, from The fact that if you ask in what line it is most important that a democracy like ours should have its sons and daughtersskilful, you see that it is this line more than any oTher. The people in Their wisdom鈥攖his is The kind of wisdom most needed by The people. democracy is on its trial, and no one knows how itwill stand The ordeal. abounding about us are pessimistic prophets. fickleness and violence used to be, but are no longer, The vices which They charge to democracy. what its critics nowaffirm is that its preferences are inveterately for The inferior. so it was in The beginning, They say, and so it will be world without end. vulgarity enthroned and institutionalized,elbowing everything superior from The highway, this, They tell us, is our irremediable destiny; and picture-papers of european continent are already drawing uncle sam with hog instead of Theeagle for his heraldic emblem. The privileged aristocracies of The foretime, with all Their iniquities, did at least preserve some taste for higher human quality and honor certain forms ofrefinement by Their enduring traditions. but when democracy is sovereign, its doubters say, nobility will form a sort of invisible church, and sincerity and refinement, stripped of honor,precedence, and favor, will have to vegetate on sufferance in private corners. They will have no general influence. They will be harmless eccentricities.
now, who can be absolutely certain that this may not be The career of democracy? nothing future is quite secure; states enough have inwardly rotted鈥攁nd democracy as a whole may undergoself-poisoning. but, on The oTher hand, democracy is a kind of religion, and we are bound not to admit its failure. faiths and utopias are The noblest exercise of human reason, and no onewith a spark of reason in him will sit down fatalistically before The croaker’s picture. The best of us are filled with The contrary vision of a democracy stumbling through every error tillits institutions glow with justice and its customs shine with beauty. our better men shall show The way and we shall follow Them; so we are brought round again to The mission of The highereducation in helping us to know The better kind of man whenever we see him.
The notion that a people can run itself and its affairs anonymously is now well known to be The silliest of absurdities. mankind does nothing save through initiatives on The part ofinventors, great or small, and imitation by The rest of us鈥攖hese are The sole factors active in human progress. individuals of genius show The way, and set The patterns, which common peopleThen adopt and follow. The rivalry of The patterns is The history of The world. our democratic problem thus is statable in ultra-simple terms: who are The kind of men from whom our majoritiesshall take Their cue? whom shall They treat as rightful leaders? we and our leaders are The x and The y of The equation here; all oTher historic circumstances, be They economical, political,or intellectual, are only The background of occasion on which The living drama works itself out between us.
in this very simple way does The Value of our educated class define itself. we more than oThers should be able to divine The worthier and better leaders. The terms here are monstrouslysimplified, of course, but such a bird’s-eye view lets us immediately take our bearings. in our democracy, where everything else is so shifting, we alumni and alumnae of The colleges are Theonly permanent presence that corresponds to The aristocracy in older countries. we have continuous traditions, as They have; our motto, too, is noblesse oblige; and, unlike Them, we stand forideal interests solely, for we have corporate selfishness and wield no powers of corruption. we ought to have our own class-consciousness. les intellectuels! what prouder club-name couldThere be than this one, used ironically by The party of red blood, The party of every stupid prejudice and passion, during The anti-dreyfus craze, to satirize The men in france who stillretained some critical sense and judgment! critical sense, it has to be confessed, is not an exciting term, hardly a banner to carry in processions. affections for old habit, currents ofself-interest, and gales of passion are The forces that keep The human ship moving; and The pressure of The judicious pilot’s hand upon The tiller is relatively insignificant energy. but Theaffections, passions and interests are shifting, successive, and distraught; They blow in alternation while The pilot’s hand is steadfast. he knows The compass, and, with all The leeways lieis obliged to tack toward, he always makes some headway. a small force if it never lets up will accumulate effects more considerable than those of much greater forces if These workinconsistently. The ceaseless whisper of The more permanent ideals, The steady tug of truth and justice, give Them but time, must warp The world in Their direction.
this bird’s-eye view of The general steering function of The College-Bred amid The driftings of democracy ought to help us to a wider vision of what our colleges Themselves should aim at. ifwe are to be The yeast-cake for democracy’s dough, if we are to make it rise with culture’s preferences, we must see to it that culture spreads broad sails. we must shake The old double reefsout of The canvas into The wind and sunshine, and let in every modern subject, sure that any subject will prove humanistic, if its setting be kept only wide enough.
stevenson says somewhere to his reader: you think you are just making this bargain, but you are really laying down a link in The policy of mankind. well, your technical school should enableyou to make your bargain splendidly; but your college should show you just The place of that kind of bargain pretty poor place, possibly The whole policy of mankind. that is The kind ofliberal outlook, of perspective, of atmosphere, which should surround every subject as a college deals with it.
we of The colleges must eradicate a curious notion which numbers of good people have about such ancient seats of learning as harvard. to many ignorant outsiders, that name suggests littlemore than a kind of sterilized conceit and incapacity for being pleased. in edith wyatt’s exquisite book of chicago sketches called every one his own way There is a couple who stand forculture in The sense of exclusiveness: richard elliot and his feminine counterpart鈥攆eeble caricatures of mankind, unable to know any good thing when They see it, incapable of enjoyment unlessa printed label gives Them leave. possibly this type of culture may exist near cambridge and boston, There may be specimens There, for priggishness is just like painter’s colic or any oThertrade-disease. but every good college makes its students immune against this malady, of which The microbe haunts The neighborhood printed pages. it does so by its general tone being toohearty for The microbe’s life. real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdain under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon The human core. if acollege, through The inferior human influences that have grown regnant There, fails to catch The robuster tone, its failure is colossal, for its Social function stops: democracy gives it awide berth, turns toward it a deaf ear.
tone, to be sure, is a terribly vague word to use, but There is no oTher, and this whole meditation is over questions of tone. by Their tone are all things human eiTher lost or saved. ifdemocracy is to be saved it must catch The higher, healthier tone. if we are to impress it with our preferences, we ourselves must u收藏好 范 文，请便下次访问 The proper tone, whichwe, in turn, must have caught from our own teachers. it all reverts in The end to The action of innumerable imitative individuals upon each oTher and to The question of whose tone has Thehighest spreading power. as a class, we college graduates should look to it that ours has spreading power. it ought to have The highest spreading power.
in our essential function of indicating The better men, we now have formidable competitors outside. mcclure’s magazine, The american magazine, collier’s weekly, and, in its fashion, Theworld’s work, constitute togeTher a real popular university along this very line. it would be a pity if any future historian were to have to write words like These: by The middle of Thetwentieth century The higher institutions of learning had lost all influence over public opinion in The united states. but The mission of raising The tone of democracy, which They had provedThemselves so lamentably unfitted to exert, was assumed with rare enthusiasm and prosecuted with extraordinary skill and success by a new educational power; and for The clarification of Theirhuman sympathies and elevation of Their human preferences, The people at large acquired The habit of resorting exclusively to The guidance of certain private literary adventures, commonlydesignated in The market by The affectionate name of ten-cent magazines.
must not we of The colleges see to it that no historian shall ever say anything like this? vague as The phrase of knowing a good man when you see him may be, diffuse and indefinite as onemust leave its application, is There any oTher formula that describes so well The result at which our institutions ought to aim? if They do that, They do The best thing conceivable. if Theyfail to do it, They fail in very deed. it surely is a fine synThetic formula. if our faculty and graduates could once collectively come to realize it as The great underlying purpose towardwhich They have always been more or less obscurely groping, a great clearness would be shed over many of Their problems; and, as for Their influence in The midst of our Social system, itwould embark upon a new career of strength.
《英语演讲稿《The Social Value of The College-Bred》》第三篇：3分钟英语演讲稿 免费 The Value of friends
The Value of friends
i am losing friends left and right, well, actually, only left. some friendships, however, have been strengThened during this election. when i was 6, i learned a song: "make new friends, butkeep The old, one is silver and The oTher’s gold." even as a child, i was a born raconteur, so i always had lots of friends. but, by The time i got to fourth grade, i was already getting intopolitical brawls. early on, i began living my politically active moTher’s joke, "my name, it opens some doors and closes oThers."
i learned to tone it down a bit by The time i got to college. as a Theater major, it was fun in an acting class one day, when we each had to pretend to be anoTher student. i chose to mimic abeautiful petite girl with long dark hair. she was my polar opposite, this former
cheerleader-turned-hippie-princess named michelle. she got a kick out of my impression of her. i thought it was cool that she could laugh at herself. we began a friendship that has brought usto The present day.
yet we were always opposites. i am roman catholic, she is jewish. i am tall, she is short. one rainy afternoon on campus, michelle insisted on carrying The umbrella for both of us, i don’tthink i stood up straight until The next day!
back Then, she was as passionate a democrat as i was a republican. however, my friend and i still had something in common that was more important than all The differences. we shared The sameValues and They showed up in a dozen little ways. that is why we are friends almost 30 years later. furThermore, she had been moving in my direction politically before, but sept. 11, 2014,brought us to a new level of communication. we have bonded even more during this election.
sadly, i also have re-evaluated some oTher friendships as tensions increased due to The kerry-edwards demagoguery. this is The first time in memory that i’ve even been appalled by bothspouses of The democratic ticket. i raTher liked tipper gore and hadassa lieberman. i thought They were sweet. and that’s The way i used to feel about my liberal pals. but, now a teresaheinz-kerry-like irrationality/elizabeth edwards snotty innuendo has infected some of Them -- and it makes Them unpleasant to be around.
this election may leave those friendships in its wake. The outlook is definitely not good for Their christmas card inclusion.
sept. 11, iraq, The demonization of israel by kerry’s european fans, The beheadings -- all of The latter just doesn’t seem to change The ’90s mentality of those i know who are voting for Thedemocratic party ticket. like kerry, They still seem to consider The united states’ life-and-death struggle a nuisance. These liberal friends of mine are certainly not bad people, but deepdown, They still don’t get that we are at war with a greater evil than any of us has ever known. combined with The extremism culturally on The left, These people are becoming more than anuisance Themselves.
The sobering fact is that These friendships are just too taxing in both senses of that word. those relationships have become like old prom dresses in that They just don’t fit anymore. Therecomes a point where some associations can become a fire hazard in one’s closet. it may be time to do spring cleaning, even if The season is autumn.
sure, friends can’t agree on everything, nor are They supposed to but though i may think someone’s a nice person, fun, etc., increasingly deep differences in our world view can’t be ignoredin These frightening times. three decades later, michelle is no longer The shorter-than-me actress who insisted on carrying The umbrella as we walked to class, though she is still shorterthan me. but she and i easily walk togeTher under an umbrella of shared concerns. a few weeks ago we sat side by side at a most moving event celebrating jewish and christian support of israeland each oTher.
yet, we still live very different lives. my college friend has been married for 25 years to The love of her life, The moTher of three and an executive in an entertainment corporation. andmeanwhile her single free-lancing writer/actress friend, even after all These years still does impressions of her only in print now.
happily, oThers have also come along to become comrades in arms this election. They represent a diversity in lifestyle that would warm any liberal’s heart although said liberal wouldn’t warmour hearts. There’s genie The stockbroker, cathy The casting director, robin The mom of one of my former acting students, sally The daughter of one of my moTher’s old friends and manyoThers. Their e-mail messages and calls let me know that though oTher friendships may wiTher during this election, i’m hardly alone. They all have a point of view that enables us to skip toshorthand. "did you read drudge?" "yep!" all of These women make up my own personal non-elitist version of "The view, The conservative cut."
yes, now those old children’s lyrics resonate with a new meaning in "make new friends, but keep The old, one is silver and The oTher is gold." regretfully, without shared Values even afterthis tumultuous election of 2014, some friendships may have turned to a tin that rings hollow in These perilous times.
by The way, i recently chatted with one of those former brownies who sang with me so long ago, she is a "security mom." she is voting for george w. bush and she will definitely be included onmy christmas card list. friendship
every one of us, rich or poor, should at least have one or two good friends. my friends will listen to me when i want to speak, will wipe my eyes when i cry, will take care of me when i amsick, and my friends will go togeTher with me side by side through this journey of life.
as students, we could share more time with our friends. The friendship in our young hearts is pure, fresh and simple. i often feel very lucky to have a lot of good friends. especially when ihad justin as one of my best friends. justin was my english teacher from The usa. i met him in 1996 when i was a student who could only speak very little english. justin was a vivid young manwith a bright smile on his face, and he always had his special way to make The class active and attractive. he taught us english by telling stories, playing games, singing songs, and evendancing. i could still remember very clearly that one afternoon when we fin-ished our class, we went to some oTher classes to sing songs for Them, just like what people do in The states onchristmas eve. it was so interesting and unforgettable. justin was an excellent teacher, because he taught us not only how to study english well, but also The way to find out The beauty ofThe world and The way to be angels to oThers’ lives. i know There was friendship and pure love in our hearts. facing this valuable emotion neiTher nationality nor age was important, The realimportance lay in faith, under-standing, and care. justin is The best friend i have ever had, and i know i will cherish those days of staying togeTher with him as The best part of my memory.
friendship is a kind of treasure in our lives. it is actually like a bottle of wine, The longer it is kept, The sweeter it will be. it is also like a cup of tea. when we are thirsty, it willbe our best choice, but when we have enough time to enjoy ourselves, it is also The most fragrant drink. however, in this fast-developing modern society, The reality is not that. more andmore people forget to enjoy The beauty of life and -The beauty of friendship. They work hard in order to gain a higher position, in The
society and to earn more money for Their work. of course, we don’t deny that it is important to find a bet-ter place in our lives, but we wish more and more people could pay a little moreattention to Themselves and Their friends. all of us have to spare some time for personal lives. we have to find The chance to express our emotion and love. when staying with our friends, wecan release ourselves completely. we can do whatever we want, we can laugh togeTher, talk togeTher, and even cry to-geTher. i should say that being togeTher with our best friends is The mostwonderful moment of our lives.
as we know, we would feel lonely if we didn’t even have a friend. but it doesn’t mean we could depend on our friends all The time. There is a famous motto saying that “a friend is like aquilt with cotton wadding, but The real thing that keeps you warm is your own temperature.” it is really true. we have to work hard togeTher with our friends, encourage each oTher and helpeach oTher. when we receive love and friendship, we should repay as much as we can.
finally, let’s pray togeTher now that one day, all of us could find The person we want to find, and could enjoy a real beautiful friendship in our lives. let’s pray The flower of friendshipbe-tween our friends and us would always bloom brightly in our hearts.
第四篇：The Value of cooking烹飪cooking英语演讲稿
The Value of cooking
with The rapid development of The times, people try to use The most convenient way of cooking. however, in a busy life, what things are people loosing?
someone said: cooking is a passport for people to go around The world; it is a language for all The people in The world. look at ancient times, cooking program were set up Them too. tell me,how many people eat every day? yes, all The people need food, but how about cooking? cooking is a very important part. There is an old saying: 民以食為天. which means The taste of The food is veryimportant in our life; it’s like things we believe. but, now many women’s ideas have changed. They think cooking is hard, so They will not do that, and They will pay for oTher people to cook.some women think They need equality, if she cooks The food; her husband needs to wash The dishes. i don’t agree with These kinds of Values, but i think They lose The Value of cooking. howmany people know how to cook? how many people here love cooking? and how many people here always cook? in fact, a traditional chinese family will teach Their daughter or son how to cook. Thereason is not because They must cook, but parents think cooking is good for Their life, that is more useful in life than tests or exams.
i think learning how to cook, is The same as learning how to live. cooking will change your ideas, and sometimes it will make you feel successful and happy. in my opinion, loving something ismore important than knowing something.
in fact, community is in transition. you can find that people’s ideas are changing. people depend on restaurants, machines and maids. because everyone spends lots of time on studying andworking……but less time on cooking, people can’t find The interesting things from cooking. The most important thing is people are missing The joy of cooking from Their life.
第五篇：英语 演讲 The Social function of The news ——provide entertainment
The Social function of The news
——provide entertainment
严肃做事，轻松做人。在压力日趋严重的今天，每个人都要有一点娱乐精神。
serious work, easy life.everyone should have a little entertainment spirit，in today’s more and more serious pressure,
娱乐不是放纵，而是放松，是对束缚的抛弃，而不是对底线的逾越。
entertainment is not indulgence, but relaxed, is The abandon of bondage, raTher than on The bottom line.
新闻报道在传播知识、解答疑难、提供娱乐等方面的作用，和大学、文化宫不尽相同。 news reports in The spread of knowledge, answering questions and providing entertainment, and university, The cultural center is not The same.
它是按照新闻自身的特点来发挥作用的，带有明显的新闻性。
it is according to The characteristics of The news itself to play a role, with obvious news.
写新闻不能总是千篇一脉，陈旧呆板。
write news cannot always be same, old wooden.
如果一家报纸总是进行严肃的说教，没有一点幽默感，恐怕读者也会对它敬而远之。 if a newspaper always serious lectures, no sense of humor, i’m afraid that The reader will be away for it.
新闻报道要追求新颖的形式，新鲜的语言，要不拘一格，生动活泼，引人入胜，让读者如闻其声，如观其行，如临其境。
news reports to The pursuit of new forms, new language, should not stick to one pattern, vivid and fascinating, let The reader convincingly, such as, vivid.
切不能为传播知识而堆砌罗列知识，也不能为娱乐而到处猎取不健康的荒诞离奇的花边新闻。
cut can’t packing list for spreading knowledge knowledge, also can’t hunt around for The entertainment of unhealthy fanciful.
严肃做事，轻松做人。在压力日趋严重的今天，每个人都要有一点娱乐精神。娱乐不是放纵，而是放松，是对束缚的抛弃，而不是对底线的逾越。
新闻报道在传播知识、解答疑难、提供娱乐等方面的作用，和大学、文化宫不尽相同。它是按照新闻自身的特点来发挥作用的，带有明显的新闻性。写新闻不能总是千篇一脉，陈旧呆板。如果一家报纸总是进行严肃的说教，没有一点幽默感，恐怕读者也会对它敬而远之。新闻报道要追求新颖的形式，新鲜的语言，要不拘一格，生动活泼，引人入胜，让读者如闻其声，如观其行，如临其境。不能为传播知识而堆砌罗列知识，也不能为娱乐而到处猎取不健康的荒诞离奇的花边新闻。
serious work, easy life.everyone should have a little entertainment spirit，in today’s more and more serious pressure,entertainment is not indulgence, but relaxed, is The abandon of bondage,raTher than on The bottom line.
news reports in The spread of knowledge, answering questions and providing entertainment, it is not The same as university andThe cultural centeris.it is according to The characteristics ofThe news itself to play a role, with obvious news .writing news reports cannot always be same and old wooden.if a newspaper always serious lectures, no sense of humor, i’m afraid that Thereader will be away form it.in The form of news reports to The pursuit of novelty, new language, should not stick to one pattern, should be vivid and fascinating, let The readerconvincingly,can’t packing list for spreading knowledge, also can’t hunt around for The entertainment of unhealthy fanciful.
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