英语演讲比赛的即兴演讲稿.docx

英语演讲比赛的即兴演讲稿(laughter)camp was more like a keg party without any alcohol. and on the very first day our counselor gathered us all together and she taught us a cheer that she said we would be doing every day for the rest of the summer to instill camp spirit. and it went like this: “r-o-w-d-i-e, thats the way we spell row. row, row, lets get row.“ yeah. so i couldnt figure out for the life of me why we were posed to be so rowdy, or why we had to spell this word incorrectly. (laughter) but i recited a cheer. i recited a cheer along with everybody else. i did my best. and i just waited for the time that i could go off and read my books.but the first time that i took my book out of my suitcase, the coolest girl in the bunk came up to me and she asked me, “why are you being so mellow“ - mellow, of course, being the exact opposite of r-o-w-d-i-e. and then the second time i tried it, the counselor came up to me with a concerned expression on her face and she repeated the point about camp spirit and said we should all work very hard to be outgoing.and so i put my books away, back in their suitcase, and i put them under my bed, and there they stayed for the rest of the summer. and i felt kind of guilty about this. i felt as if the books needed me somehow, and they were calling out to me and i was forsaking them. but i did forsake them and i didnt open that suitcase again until i was back home with my family at the end of the summer.now, i tell you this story about summer camp. i could have told you 50 others just like it - all the times that i got the message that somehow my quiet and introv style of being was not necessarily the right way to go, that i should be trying to pass as more of an extrovert. and i always sensed deep down that this was wrong and that introverts were pretty excellent just as they were. but for years i denied this intuition, and so i became a wall street lawyer, of all things, instead of the writer that i had always longed to be - partly because i needed to prove to myself that i could be bold and assertive too. and i was always going off to crowded bars when i really would have preferred to just have a nice dinner with friends. and i de these self-negating choices so reflexively, that i wasnt even aware that i was king them.now this is what ny introverts do, and its our loss for sure, but it is also our colleagues loss and our munities loss. and at the risk of sounding grandiose, it is the worlds loss. because when it es to creativity and to leadership, we need introverts doing what they do best. a third to a half of the population are introverts - a third to a half. so thats one out of every two or three people you know. so even if youre an extrovert yourself, im talking about your coworkers and your spouses and your children and the person sitting next to you right now - all of them subject to this bias that is pretty deep and real in our society. we all internalize it from a very early age without even having a language for what were doing.英语演讲比赛的即兴演讲稿2What College Education Means to Methe title of my speech is “what college education means to me”.now reflecting on the past two and half years of my college experience, i e to realize how much it has shaped me.for me, college education is a rvelous ship-builder who designed me from kneel plates up.with great vision, college education has equipped me, first with a powerful propeller-the sophisticated knowledge in certain field and wide exposure to other disciplines. by dedicating myself to the engineering courses in the day and immersing myself in the rich banquet of the world literature at night, ive assed the driving force for the future and enriched my soul.besides, college education has also provided me with a precise pass-the sense of social responsibility. how can i best serve the interest of the public while achieving my self-fulfillment my one years experience as a part-time english teacher has testified: to be valuable to society as well as to find my place, i have to possess some actual strength and the ability to function well in the most challenging situation. amid the hectic schedule that balances club activities, sports, and academic courses, i feel the rhythm and beauty in the intensity of my high-pitched life, knowing that i m on the right way.and more importantly, college education has set up not only single ships, but also fleets with mon destinations. by interacting with friends of mon beliefs, ive acquired skills of relating to other people.now ,as a ship about to ke my iden voyage ,im still not in the position to tell whats waiting ahead of me ,but with a powerful propeller, a precise pass and ardent panions of sailing in the sea of society, im ready to be a great sea-explorer.thank you.英语演讲比赛的即兴演讲稿3i have the answer to a question that weve all asked. the question is, why is it that the letter x represents the unknown now i know we learned that in th class, but now its everywhere in the culture - the x prize, the x-files, project x, tedx. whered that e fromabout six years ago i decided that i would learn arabic, which turns out to be a remely logical language. to write a word or a phrase or a sentence in arabic is like crafting an equation, because every part is extremely precise and carries a lot of infortion. thats one of the reasons so much of what weve e to think of as western science and thetics and engineering was really worked out in the first few centuries of the mon era by the persians and the arabs and the turks.this includes the little system in arabic called al-jebra. and al-jebr roughly translates to “the system for reconciling disparate parts.“ al-jebr finally came into english as algebra. one example among ny.the arabic s containing this thetical wisdom finally de their way to europe - which is to say spain - in the 11th and 12th centuries. and when they arrived there was tremendous interest in translating this wisdom into a european language.but there were problems. one problem is there are some sounds in arabic that just dont ke it through a european voice box without lots of practice. trust me on that one. also, those very sounds tend not to be represented by the characters that are available in european languages.heres one of the culprits. this is the letter sheen, and it kes the sound we think of as sh - “sh.“ its also the very first letter of the word shalan, which means “something“ just like the the english word “something“ - some undefined, unknown thing.now in arabic, we can ke this definite by adding the definite article “al.“ so this is al-shalan - the unknown thing. and this is a word that appears throughout early thetics, such as this 10th century derivation of proofs.the problem for the meval spanish scholars who were tasked with translating this terial is that the letter sheen and the word shalan cant be rendered into spanish because spanish doesnt have that sh, that “sh“ sound. so by convention, they created a rule in which they borrowed the ck sound, “ck“ sound, from the classical greek in the form of the letter kai.later when this terial was translated into a mon european language, which is to say latin, they simply replaced the greek kai with the latin x. and once that happened, once this terial was in latin, it formed the basis for thetics books for almost 600 years.but now we have the answer to our question. why is it that x is the unknown x is the unknown because you cant say “sh“ in spanish. (laughter) and i thought that was worth sharing.(applause)8