Question

跪求适合初中生参加学校比赛的名人英语演讲

我们学校下周要举行演讲比赛了，我英语基础还算好，是英语课代表。我想找一些短一点的名人励志演讲，可以删减，大概3-5分钟左右。越简单越好。最好有视频和演讲稿。万分感谢！！！

Answer 1

介绍你一篇文章：为哥伦比亚号航天失事做的演讲 ——布什
内容如下：
Remarks by President Bush on the Loss of Space Shuttle Columbia

My fellow Americans, this day has brought terrible news and great sadness to our country. At 9:00 a.m. this morning, Mission Control in Houston lost contact with our Space Shuttle Columbia. A short time later, debris was seen falling from the skies above Texas. The Columbia is lost; there are no survivors.

On board was a crew of seven: Colonel Rick Husband; Lt. Colonel Michael Anderson; Commander Laurel Clark; Captain David Brown; Commander William McCool; Dr. Kalpana Chawla; and Ilan Ramon, a Colonel in the Israeli Air Force. These men and women assumed great risk in the service to all humanity.

In an age when space flight has come to seem almost routine, it is easy to overlook the dangers of travel by rocket, and the difficulties of navigating the fierce outer atmosphere of the Earth. These astronauts knew the dangers, and they faced them willingly, knowing they had a high and noble purpose in life. Because of their courage and daring and idealism, we will miss them all the more.

All Americans today are thinking, as well, of the families of these men and women who have been given this sudden shock and grief. You're not alone. Our entire nation grieves with you. And those you loved will always have the respect and gratitude of this country. The cause in which they died will continue. Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on.

In the skies today we saw destruction and tragedy. Yet farther than we can see there is comfort and hope. In the words of the prophet Isaiah, " Lift your eyes and look to the heavens. Who created all these? He who brings out the starry hosts one by one and calls them each by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing."

The same Creator who names the stars also knows the names of the seven souls we mourn today. The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

May God bless the grieving families, and may God continue to bless America.

布什总统就“哥伦比亚”号失事发表讲话

我的美国同胞们，今天传来噩耗，巨大的悲痛降临我们的国家。今早9点钟，位于休斯敦的航天地面指挥中心同我们的“哥伦比亚”号航天飞机失去了联系。此后不久，便发现得克萨斯州的上空有残骸飘落。“哥伦比亚”号失事，无一人生还。

机上的7名机组人员是：里克·赫斯本德空军上校、迈克尔·安德森空军中校、劳蕾尔·克拉克海军中校、戴维·布朗海军上校和威廉·麦库尔海军中校、卡尔帕娜·乔娜博士和以色列空军上校伊兰·拉蒙。这些男女宇航员为造福全人类承担了巨大的风险。

在一个太空飞行似乎已基本成为常规作业的时代，人们很容易忽视乘火箭飞行的危险性和在恶劣的地球外层空间遨游的难度。这些宇航员知道这些危险，但他们甘愿面对，因为他们知道自己拥有远大而崇高的人生目标。正是因为他们的勇气、胆量和崇高理想，我们会更加缅怀他们。

今天所有美国人都在牵挂着经受了这种突如其来的打击和悲伤的男女宇航员的家人。你们并不孤单，我们全体国民同你们一起哀悼他们。你们所爱的人将永远受到这个国家的尊重和感激。他们为之献身的事业仍将继续。人类正是在探索精神和求知欲望的引导下，超越我们的世界，进入到黑暗的外层空间。我们的太空之旅仍将继续。

今天，我们在空中目睹了毁灭和悲剧。然而，在我们看不到的远方，有着慰藉与希望。用预言家以赛亚的话说："抬起眼帘，望向天空。是谁创造了这一切?是造物主创造了点点繁星，并将其逐个命名。由于他的伟大才智与神奇力量，才无一遗漏。"

给群星命名的造物主也知道我们今天缅怀的7位亡灵的名字。“哥伦比亚”号航天飞机的机组人员虽未平安地返回地球，但我们能祈祷他们均已安息。

愿上帝保佑这些悲伤的家属，愿上帝继续保佑美国。

追问

有能激励别人的吗，谢谢

追答

如果你不喜欢这个话题，你可以选择奥巴马就职演讲，另附视频的都有。或许初中生对于经济和国家英雄的话题理解稍微有点费力也没有那么有说服力。
望自己斟酌。

Answer 2

很幽默 也不难 拿去看吧
Good afternoon,ladies and gentlemen:

I have a friend who just started his career as a teacher in a primary school.Weeks ago,he came and ask me to raise a topic for his mid-term composition test。I was curious why he chose me,because he is a teacher himself.My friend said that he wanted something that the student can really show their different ideas.Without thingking,I asked him to let the students to write about what they would do if they were given one million U.S.dollars.My friend left with salisfaction and I fell into my old memories.It reminded me of my time in primary school.In our Chinese class,our teather required us to write a composition with the topic.“My most unforgettable day”with our real experience.When papers came back.half of the students wrote about the first day they came to school,The reat were all about picking up money on the streets and give it to policemen or helping a blind man cross the street.of course,I was among them.But I remember very clearly that one student,Only one student,gave something different:He wrote about the day that he first kissed a girl.I read his composition.After all these years,I cant remember every word ,but I dare to say that shake spear may not be able to write equally well when he was 11years old.But the kid was scored zero.The composition was written out of real experience and genuine emotion.But our teacher thought the content was “unhealthy”,I am sure you know the chinglish meaning of this woed “unhealthy”.That was 15 years ago.you read about these compositions and you feel that half of our populations are blind,soall these kids can have a chance to help a blind man cross the street and every one of us has a hole in our pocket,So all these kids can have a chance to pick up lost money and give it to policemen.

A few days ago,my friend send me an e-mail of all the copies of his students compositions.I have to say,I was sally disillusioned,Among those papers,40% students said that they would like to donate their money to people in poveny so their children can have a chance to go to school.The rest were much more alike.Some wanted to support the panda protection project and some wanted to buy books to enlarge their knowledge.One student even said that he would like to spend his one million U.S.dollars on the effert to cure AIDS.I was more than astonished to know that a ten-year-old child knew what AIDS really is.Of course,that was a long time ago.

It has always been our dream to open the hearts of children.We enciyrage them to cleseribe their dream and we act in the way as if we are always ready to accept their thoughts.however,children are scared by the zero marked on their papers.They are trained to say what we want to hear.People compare children to flowers of tomorrow.And parents do dream about the scenery that roses,tulips.daffodils flourish in the future.but down the road we are going on in the future,or the future of future,only one kind of flower can be found.And that is the flower we like most.Thank you.

Answer 3

马丁路德金的《我有一个梦想》

I Have a Dream
by Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot turn back.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."?
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:
My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of
Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

追问

请问有短一点的吗？

追答

如果这片可以的话，你可以适当的删除一些段落。演讲主要靠的是你能否把气氛调动起来，让大家听你说。许多人演讲都没认认真听。