第一篇：英语演讲稿：TheGreatSociety
president hatcher, governor romney, senators mcnamara and hart, congressmen meader and staebler, and other members of the fine michigan delegation, members of the graduating class, my fellow americans:
it is a great pleasure to be here today.this university has been coeducational since 1870, but i do not believe it was on the basis of your accomplishments that a detroit high school girl said(and i quote), “in choosing a college, you first have to decide whether you want a coeducational school or an educational school.” well, we can find both here at michigan, although perhaps at different hours.i came out here today very anxious to meet the michigan student whose father told a friend of mine that his son’s education had been a real value.it stopped his mother from bragging about him.i have come today from the turmoil of your capital to the tranquility of your campus to speak about the future of your country.the purpose of protecting the life of our nation and preserving the liberty of our citizens is to pursue the happiness of our people.our success in that pursuit is the test of our success as a nation.for a century we labored to settle and to subdue a continent.for half a century we called upon unbounded invention and untiring industry to create an order of plenty for all of our people.the challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality of our american civilization.your imagination and your initiative and your indignation will determine whether we build a society where progress is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled growth.for in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the great society.the great society rests on abundance and liberty for all.it demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time.but that is just the beginning.the great society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.it is a place where leisure is a welcome chance to build and reflect, not a feared cause of boredom and restlessness.it is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.it is a place where man can renew contact with nature.it is a place which honors creation for its own sake and for what is adds to the understanding of the race.it is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.but most of all, the great society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work.it is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.so i want to talk to you today about three places where we begin to build the great society--in our cities, in our countryside, and in our classrooms.many of you will live to see the day, perhaps 50 years from now, when there will be 400 million americans--four-fifths of them in urban areas.in the remainder of this century urban population will double, city land will double, and we will have to build homes and highways and facilities equal to all those built since this country was first settled.so in the next 40 years we must re-build the entire urban united states.aristotle said: “men come together in cities in order to live, but they remain together in order to live the good life.” it is harder and harder to live the good life in american cities today.the catalog of ills is long: there is the decay of the centers and the despoiling of the suburbs.there is not enough housing for our people or transportation for our traffic.open land is vanishing and old landmarks are violated.worst of all expansion is eroding these precious and time honored values of community with neighbors and communion with nature.the loss of these values breeds loneliness and boredom and indifference.and our society will never be great until our cities are great.today the frontier of imagination and innovation is inside those cities and not beyond their borders.new experiments are already going on.it will be the task of your generation to make the american city a place where future generations will come, not only to live, but to live the good life.and i understand that if i stayed here tonight i would see that michigan students are really doing their best to live the good life.this is the place where the peace corps was started.it is inspiring to see how all of you, while you are in this country, are trying so hard to live at the level of the people.a second place where we begin to build the great society is in our countryside.we have always prided ourselves on being not only america the strong and america the free, www.xiexiebang.com but america the beautiful.today that beauty is in danger.the water we drink, the food we eat, the very air that we breathe, are threatened with pollution.our parks are overcrowded, our seashores overburdened.green fields and dense forests are disappearing.a few years ago we were greatly concerned about the “ugly american.” today we must act to prevent an ugly america.for once the battle is lost, once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured.and once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.a third place to build the great society is in the classrooms of america.there your children’s lives will be shaped.our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination.we are still far from that goal.today, 8 million adult americans, more than the entire population of michigan, have not finished 5 years of school.nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school.nearly 54 million--more than one quarter of all america--have not even finished high school.each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it.and if we cannot educate today’s youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary school enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? and high school enrollment will rise by 5 million.and college enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.in many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated.most of our qualified teachers are underpaid and many of our paid teachers are unqualified.so we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from.poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.but more classrooms and more teachers are not enough.we must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size.this means better training for our teachers.it means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor.it means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.these are three of the central issues of the great society.while our government has many programs directed at those issues, i do not pretend that we have the full answer to those problems.but i do promise this: we are going to assemble the best thought and the broadest knowledge from all over the world to find those answers for america.i intend to establish working groups to prepare a series of white house conferences and meetings--on the cities, on natural beauty, on the quality of education, and on other emerging challenges.and from these meetings and from this inspiration and from these studies we will begin to set our course toward the great society.the solution to these problems does not rest on a massive program in washington, nor can it rely solely on the strained resources of local authority.they require us to create new concepts of cooperation, a creative federalism, between the national capital and the leaders of local communities.woodrow wilson once wrote: “every man sent out from his university should be a man of his nation as well as a man of his time.”
within your lifetime powerful forces, already loosed, will take us toward a way of life beyond the realm of our experience, almost beyond the bounds of our imagination.for better or for worse, your generation has been appointed by history to deal with those problems and to lead america toward a new age.you have the chance never before afforded to any people in any age.you can help build a society where the demands of morality, and the needs of the spirit, can be realized in the life of the nation.so, will you join in the battle to give every citizen the full equality which god enjoins and the law requires, whatever his belief, or race, or the color of his skin?
will you join in the battle to give every citizen an escape from the crushing weight of poverty?
will you join in the battle to make it possible for all nations to live in enduring peace--as neighbors and not as mortal enemies?
will you join in the battle to build the great society, to prove that our material progress is only the foundation on which we will build a richer life of mind and spirit?
there are those timid souls who say this battle cannot be won;that we are condemned to a soulless wealth.i do not agree.we have the power to shape the civilization that we want.but we need your will, your labor, your hearts, if we are to build that kind of society.those who came to this land sought to build more than just a new country.they sought a new world.so i have come here today to your campus to say that you can make their vision our reality.so let us from this moment begin our work so that in the future men will look back and say: it was then, after a long and weary way, that man turned the exploits of his genius to the full enrichment of his life.thank you.good-bye
第二篇：英语演讲稿：TheGreatSociety
for once the battle is lost, once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured.and once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted..there your children's lives will be shaped.our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination.we are still far from that goal.today, 8 million adult americans, more than the entire population of , have not finished 5 years of school.nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school.nearly 54 million--more than one quarter of all have not even finished high school.each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it.and if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary school enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? and high school enrollment will rise by 5 million.and college enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.but more classrooms and more teachers are not enough.we must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size.this means better training for our teachers.it means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor.it means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.i intend to establish working groups to prepare a series of white house conferences and meetings--on the cities, on natural beauty, on the quality of education, and on other emerging challenges.and from these meetings and from this inspiration and from these studies we will begin to set our course toward the great society.nor can it rely solely on the strained resources of local authority.they require us to create new concepts of cooperation, a creative federalism, between the national capital and the leaders of local communities.within your lifetime powerful forces, already loosed, will take us toward a way of life beyond the realm of our experience, almost beyond the bounds of our imagination.toward a new age.you have the chance never before afforded to any people in any age.you can help build a society where the demands of morality, and the needs of the spirit, can be realized in the life of the nation.will you join in the battle to give every citizen the full equality which god enjoins and the law requires, whatever his belief, or race, or the color of his skin?
will you join in the battle to build the great society, to prove that our material progress is only the foundation on which we will build a richer life of mind and spirit?
those who came to this land sought to build more than just a new country.they sought a new world.so i have come here today to your campus to say that you can make their vision our reality.so let us from this moment begin our work so that in the future men will look back and say: it was then, after a long and weary way, that man turned the exploits of his genius to the full enrichment of his life.
第三篇：英语演讲稿
黑暗、阴沉的日子，总会如期而至，即便在这个婆娑的世上有太多的留恋，最终依旧是尘归尘、土归土，在生命最后的一分钟，似乎才恍然大悟！在匆忙而短暂的一生中，留下了什么？得到过什么？甚至失去了什么？这些都冲击着脑海。
曾经可以为爱执迷不悔！为之奉献自己的一切，那些一去不复返的往事，仿佛缕缕青烟，缓慢的消失在空气中，你曾经颓废！曾经丧气过！如今仅有的一分钟，你会以怎样的面容去面对你短暂的一生呢？
最后一分钟？你会怎么享受呢？怎么办？是哀悼吗？是乞求吗？还是尽情的微笑呢？仿佛一棵即将枯萎的大树，叶子满地飘零，树干即将弯曲，即使这样！它依旧是茂密葱茏的，因为它无悔的活过。
生命在分分秒秒的流逝着，人生这趟有去无回的旅行，生只是为死亡做的铺垫，死而是为生架起的一座桥梁，如果你因为只有一分钟而难过？那么请你追溯往事吧！追溯青春吧！在那里可以抚平你百感交集的心，在哪里，你可以陶醉在青春的花蕾里，在哪里，你可以与饱孕绿意的春天紧紧相拥。
忘记即将到来的时刻，用微笑结束这短暂又漫长的一分钟吧！
Two friends were walking through the desert.At one point,they had an argument,and the first friend slapped the other in the face.The other friend was hurt,but quietly he wrote in the sand:“Today my best friend slapped me in the face”
they kept walking,until they found an oasis,There they decided to cool off and swim.The other friend started drowning,but his friend saved him.After he recovered from the near drowning,he wrote on a stone:“Today my best friend saved my life”
The friend,who had both slapped and saved his best friend ,asked him,“After I hurt you,you wrote in the sand,andnow,you write on a stone,why?”The other friend replied:“When someone hurts us,we should write it down in sand,where the winds of time and forgiveness can erase it.But when someone does something good for us,we must engrave it in stone,where no wind can ever erase it.”
两个朋友穿行在沙漠中。在某个时刻，他们争吵起来，第一个朋友打了另外一个朋友一个耳光。这第二个朋友受到伤害，但他默默地在沙地上写下：“今天我最好的朋友打了我一个耳光”
他们继续往前走，直到发现了一片绿洲。他们决定凉快一番游游泳。第二个朋友溺水了，但他的朋友救了他。他从濒临溺毙中苏醒过来后，在一块石头上写下：“今天我最好的朋友救了我”
那位先打了自己最好的朋友、后来又救了他的人问道：“我伤害了你之后，你在沙地上写了一句话，而现在你在石头上又写了一句话，为什么？”
他的朋友回答：“当某人伤害我们时，我们应该将其写在沙地上，时间和宽恕的清风会把它吹走。但是对于有恩于我们的人，我们应将其铭刻在石头上，什么风也无法把它吹走。”
第四篇：英语演讲稿《Youth》
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind;it is not rosy cheeks , red lips and supple knees, it is a matter of the emotions : it is the freshness;it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite , for adventure over the love of ease.This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20.Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.We grow old by deserting our ideals.Years wrinkle the skin , but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.Worry , fear , self –distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.Whether 60 of 16 , there is in every human being ‘s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of living.In the center of your heart and my heart there’s a wireless station : so long as it receives messages of beauty , hope ,cheer, courag
第五篇：3分钟英语演讲稿
HI,My topic today is: word that has changed the world
A word that has changed the world Education of their children is highly valued by parents.To get education in the universities abroad has been the dreams for both the parents and their children.To realize these dreams, the parents have to save a large amount of money for the studies, because international flights cost a lot.In addition, the tuition abroad is not cheap.parents should also have to pay for the food, room and utilities for their children at the school abroad.The children also need some money for the entertainment and social events.The clothing will cost quite a little.Besides, they need extra money to cover some unexpected expenses, like long-distance calls and so on.All in all, the parents should check out how much the living and tuition will cost for their children to study abroad.They should get prepared in advance.Thank you.
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