I am going to introduce Jay-Z, my favorite rapper, who also known as Shawn Carter. I am going to tell you more about him, his achievement and the issue he cares about. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was raised up in Marcy Projects that was one of housing projects built for poor families. His father left him and his mother when he was a teenager. Since then, he had to support himself. He used to be a hustler in order to make money to earn his living. A hustler is a person who tries to trick people into giving him money. He was the one who successfully made his life a great change from poverty to wealth.
In his career, he made so many great hits and appeared in many other rap, R&B artists’ songs. He had a great achievement in his music. He released his first album Reasonable Doubt in 1996,but its chart position was only #23. After a year, 1997, his second album In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 the chart position became #3. Afterward he released many albums such as Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life, Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter, The Dynasty: Roc La Familia, The Blueprint, The Black Album, etc. all of these albums have very high chart position in Billboard.
He has the ability to create verse in his brain, without writing on a paper. He claimed that he used only two day to write album The Blueprint. This is the first album of Jay-Z I bought. Since then, I know more about him and rap music. In his albums, he talks about his life experiences, his thoughts, his career and so on. Jay-Z mentioned that his mother bought him a boom box for his birthday present. He became really interested in music. He started writing rhymes, freestyling, and listen to the many popular artists’ music.
Being a rapper, he not only cares about the music he made but some important issues of the world. There are many places that lack of water and caused many related problems. This is an issue that United Nation is concerned with. He and MTV president Christina Norman and some main United Nations agencies discussed how to let people know the importance of water. According to the report of UN, he said that after hearing and the lack of clean water, he wants to bring attention to young people. He knows that he can make a difference.
I love his music very much. When I heard that he would have a concert at Taipei in October, I was surprised! I said to myself I must go to his concert. And I had a great night there. Although I went back Kaohsiung right after the concert, I think that I am worth going there. If you hadn’t listened to Jay-Z before, you should try. I think he will impress you a lot.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Commemorative speech- Wright Brothers
Wright Brothers, Wilbur Wright, and Orville Wright, they invented the most important transportation- airplane for our efficient life. Without their invention, we have to spend much more time to get to another country. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to arrive in America in about one day. Without them, we won’t be able to save so much time. Today is the 110th anniversary of their first flight. Let me tell you the story from the beginning.
Since Wright brothers were young, they were curious about everything related to machinery. They helped their neighbors to solve the problem of sewing machine, fix the bicycle, etc. Despite that, they were also good at constructing wooden boards and wheels to make it useful. The two brothers loved to work together, creating new toys for the children in the town and also for themselves.
One day, Wilbur read an article from the newspaper. The article was mainly about a German called Otto Lilienthal who created the glider. The news interested both Wilbur and Orville. Flying to the sky is also their dream, they had been wanting to be like him. Wilbur said to Orville, he had sent a letter to professor Langley, who is a famous scientist in America, asking for some information and technical help. They also observed how the birds fly and wrote down some formulas on floating power. They revised their model again and again to make it better.
The two brothers were not the first one who wanted to fly. Some people invented the glider and the plane, but none of them succeeded. Wright Brothers also learned something from them. They kept trying and trying. Since they had been through uncountable failures, referred to others’ experience, finally, they build their own plane. They tried again and again, and had longer flight than before. The more they challenged, the more experiences they had.
If there were no Wright Brothers, there wouldn’t have been frequent contact with other country. Without them, we have to spend several months to go to another continent at sea. Without them, it will take much more time to send mail from this country to another. Nowadays, airplanes have become the most important transportation while we go abroad. We really cannot think of the lives of the international businessmen, if there were no airplanes. In fact, we cannot say the two brothers are the first ones to have the dream of flying, but they really are the pioneers of making our dream come true. Because of their continuous experiments to make the globe become smaller, we can get to somewhere distant easily. Each one of us should appreciate their contribution, the two brothers that made our life much easier--Wright Brothers.
Since Wright brothers were young, they were curious about everything related to machinery. They helped their neighbors to solve the problem of sewing machine, fix the bicycle, etc. Despite that, they were also good at constructing wooden boards and wheels to make it useful. The two brothers loved to work together, creating new toys for the children in the town and also for themselves.
One day, Wilbur read an article from the newspaper. The article was mainly about a German called Otto Lilienthal who created the glider. The news interested both Wilbur and Orville. Flying to the sky is also their dream, they had been wanting to be like him. Wilbur said to Orville, he had sent a letter to professor Langley, who is a famous scientist in America, asking for some information and technical help. They also observed how the birds fly and wrote down some formulas on floating power. They revised their model again and again to make it better.
The two brothers were not the first one who wanted to fly. Some people invented the glider and the plane, but none of them succeeded. Wright Brothers also learned something from them. They kept trying and trying. Since they had been through uncountable failures, referred to others’ experience, finally, they build their own plane. They tried again and again, and had longer flight than before. The more they challenged, the more experiences they had.
If there were no Wright Brothers, there wouldn’t have been frequent contact with other country. Without them, we have to spend several months to go to another continent at sea. Without them, it will take much more time to send mail from this country to another. Nowadays, airplanes have become the most important transportation while we go abroad. We really cannot think of the lives of the international businessmen, if there were no airplanes. In fact, we cannot say the two brothers are the first ones to have the dream of flying, but they really are the pioneers of making our dream come true. Because of their continuous experiments to make the globe become smaller, we can get to somewhere distant easily. Each one of us should appreciate their contribution, the two brothers that made our life much easier--Wright Brothers.
Persuasive Speech- Having a balanced diet is good for health
Do you have any food that you dislike? For example, green pepper, carrot, pineapple or garlic? I firmly believe that each of those foods has its nutrition, however, people won’t force themselves to eat those foods, so do I. To me, it was really a terrible experience having pineapple and watermelon. I don’t like these two, anyway. Later on, I will tell you more about the importance of balanced diet and make you understand balanced diet better. Maybe after my speech, you will realize how good the balanced diet is.
The advantage of having a balanced diet is so much that everybody must know. If you find yourself tend to eat only meat or you yourself are a vegetarian, you may not be aware of its injury to your body at the beginning. However, it will harm your body little by little. After a long period of time, you might have these following syndromes, like your immunity against disease will become worse, and it may have influence on the development of your body, furthermore, our brain will also be influenced. Some children developed this bad habit since they were very young. I know there are some people do not eat vegetables. They love to eat meat only. People must know it is bad to have meat only, but they just don’t like it, so they don’t eat vegetables even a little.
According to the investigation of Department of Health, there is 98% of young people drink less than 2 cups of milk, 82% of them don’t eat enough vegetables, 65% of them have sugared-drinks, 53% of them don’t have breakfast, lunch or dinner, they have snacks instead. These figures show that nowadays young people’s everyday diet is not healthy. I think that each one of you must have learned the guide of balanced food that published by Bureau of Health Promotion, Department of Health. These foods are divided into six categories, like rice and noodles, milk and eggs, beans, fish, and meat, vegetables, fruit, and fat as shown on screen.
The reason why I am here to tell you the advantages of balanced food is that it is really bad for you to have a partiality for a particular kind of food. As what I said, do not eat only meat or vegetable. You should have a balanced diet. Many people may ask what a balanced diet is. Now, I am going to tell you.
It is hard to measure that how much is enough for an adult in a day. So, I prepared some figures for you to have better understanding. The suggestion from Bureau of Health Promotion, Department of Health that the quantity of an adult should eat everyday is shown on the screen, for example 1-2 cups of milk, 3-6 bowls of rice, one egg and so on. Thus, we will acquire the carbohydrate, fat, protein, vitamin and mineral substances to maintain our life. Our everyday energy comes from the calorie out of carbohydrate and fat. Protein is the necessity of body growth. So far I’ve talked about what balanced diet food is. And skipping meals is also usual for modern people. Did you have your breakfast this morning? Or you are that kind of girl who wants to have perfect figure skipping 3 meals a day, just have some yogurt and apples? Let me tell you that this is really a harmful way to lose your weight. Although many girls want to be slim, this is a totally wrong way to be slim. The correct one is to have, of course, a balanced diet and do some exercise.
All in all, what I just said is to show you having a balanced diet is better for your health. Also, it is much easier than having so-called health products, and you don’t need to spend more money on the products. To have a balanced diet and acquire nutrition from natural foods is the best way to lead a healthy life.
The advantage of having a balanced diet is so much that everybody must know. If you find yourself tend to eat only meat or you yourself are a vegetarian, you may not be aware of its injury to your body at the beginning. However, it will harm your body little by little. After a long period of time, you might have these following syndromes, like your immunity against disease will become worse, and it may have influence on the development of your body, furthermore, our brain will also be influenced. Some children developed this bad habit since they were very young. I know there are some people do not eat vegetables. They love to eat meat only. People must know it is bad to have meat only, but they just don’t like it, so they don’t eat vegetables even a little.
According to the investigation of Department of Health, there is 98% of young people drink less than 2 cups of milk, 82% of them don’t eat enough vegetables, 65% of them have sugared-drinks, 53% of them don’t have breakfast, lunch or dinner, they have snacks instead. These figures show that nowadays young people’s everyday diet is not healthy. I think that each one of you must have learned the guide of balanced food that published by Bureau of Health Promotion, Department of Health. These foods are divided into six categories, like rice and noodles, milk and eggs, beans, fish, and meat, vegetables, fruit, and fat as shown on screen.
The reason why I am here to tell you the advantages of balanced food is that it is really bad for you to have a partiality for a particular kind of food. As what I said, do not eat only meat or vegetable. You should have a balanced diet. Many people may ask what a balanced diet is. Now, I am going to tell you.
It is hard to measure that how much is enough for an adult in a day. So, I prepared some figures for you to have better understanding. The suggestion from Bureau of Health Promotion, Department of Health that the quantity of an adult should eat everyday is shown on the screen, for example 1-2 cups of milk, 3-6 bowls of rice, one egg and so on. Thus, we will acquire the carbohydrate, fat, protein, vitamin and mineral substances to maintain our life. Our everyday energy comes from the calorie out of carbohydrate and fat. Protein is the necessity of body growth. So far I’ve talked about what balanced diet food is. And skipping meals is also usual for modern people. Did you have your breakfast this morning? Or you are that kind of girl who wants to have perfect figure skipping 3 meals a day, just have some yogurt and apples? Let me tell you that this is really a harmful way to lose your weight. Although many girls want to be slim, this is a totally wrong way to be slim. The correct one is to have, of course, a balanced diet and do some exercise.
All in all, what I just said is to show you having a balanced diet is better for your health. Also, it is much easier than having so-called health products, and you don’t need to spend more money on the products. To have a balanced diet and acquire nutrition from natural foods is the best way to lead a healthy life.
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