...Commemorative Speech (Tribute) Manuscript Good morning everyone. Today I would like you to pretend you have no arms by simply secluding them securely (Alliteration) behind your back. Now take notes on a piece of paper of what I am about to present to you. It seems impossible right? Not quite. Jessica cox, who was born without arms due to a rare birth defect, accomplishes tasks like this on a daily basis. She has performed feats that most of us without so called 'physical challenges' would find daunting to emulate. She believes that by combining creativity, persistence, and fearlessness, nothing is impossible. This is how she turned what many thought was impossible into incredible accomplishments. Jessica Cox first inspired me when she visited my elementary school in Tucson, Arizona where she shared her personal life story with my class. Young at the time, my attention span was very limited. She happened to capture my interest long enough though to teach me a life lesson that I will hold dearly in my heart forever. She taught me to stop using the phrase “I cant” and start saying, “I can.” Jessica being born without any arms was thought to be at a disadvantage and therefore expected to do less then her peers. She didn’t use her birth defect as an excuse to not being able to do something; instead she used it as motivation to work even harder. She never once said, “I cant”, and pursued her goals until she reached them. A well known quote by Andy Menthe describes Jessica’s success...
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...We invite you to join us for the Isle of Wight Branch NAACP 18TH Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Banquet. The banquet will be held on Sunday, January 14, 2018 at the Smithfield Center, 220 North Church Street, VA 23430 at 3:00 PM. “Embrace Community and Justice is Served” is the theme for our 2018 banquet. The keynote speaker will be The Rev. Dr. Wendell Waller, the illustrious pastor of the Christian Home Baptist Church in Windsor, Virginia. Pastor Waller is a 1980 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, where he majored in Political Science and a 1983 graduate of the New England School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts, where he received his Juris Doctorate Degree. In addition to his legal studies, he also studied at the...
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...MEMORIAL MEDITATION Today is difficult; it is difficult because we have lost one of ours, a fellow Soldier, and saying goodbye is never easy. Death is not something we ever feel ready for, but especially not in the case of SPC Milo M. Shelton who died so young and unexpectedly. Some of you may ask, “How do we begin to move beyond grief, and how are we to process this tragic event?” I would like to share with you a few thoughts today, and I pray they give some hope and comfort in the midst of the suffering. First, we are a family and there is comfort in the ability to face difficulties together. SPC Shelton was not with us at Ft. Lee for long, but whether you have been a Soldier for 30 day or 30 years, you are one of us. The military brings us together in ways many don’t understand. It is like a second family, and SPC Shelton was part of that family, our family. He made the sacrificial decision to join the ranks of America’s best and we are thankful for his time and service here. We remember that service today and are thankful he chose to be one of us. SPC Shelton is remembered as a son, a friend, and a Soldier. We are honored to have been a part of his family. Secondly, there is an invaluable lesson to be learned even in the darkest of times -- Life is short and death can come suddenly. None of us knows what the next hour, the next day or the next year hold for us. John F. Kennedy once said, “We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide...
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...Stephen Sung 4/26/2011 Speech 100 JC Commemorative Speech Outline Joe, a Friend, an Inspiration, a Hero. Introduction Have you ever done something out of peer pressure from a friend or family member? My friend Joe has. In his case, that something was cigarettes. “According to the American Lung Association, as of 2007 20% of high school students and over forty-six million adults (18+) were current smokers” (Lung). Joe started smoking when he was 14 years old because all of his friends were doing it. He has battled with this addiction for most of his adult life. So, why is he a hero? For starters I am a current smoker and have been smoking for the better part of eight years. Most importantly, he is an inspiration because he is the only I person I know who has successfully quit smoking. Even though we've been friends for a long time, I had never thought to ask him about why he started and how he was finally able to free himself from his nicotine addiction. Body (Preview): It started the summer of 1999, the summer before our freshman year of high school. Joe began smoking cigarettes when he was fourteen years old. A) He was peer pressured into smoking his first cigarette by our mutual friends. 1) He felt that if he turned down the cigarette, he would be ostracized from that group of friends and forced to go through his high school years as a loser. 2) He figured that if had to resort to smoking to survive high school then so be it. B) Through...
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...Welcome to Eventual Millionaire, I am Jamie Tardy and I am so excited to have Cole Hatter on the show. He is a serial entrepreneur, investor, runs Thrive, which is an amazing conference and you can check out his shirt, it looks awesome. Thanks so much for coming on the show today. Cole: Thanks for having me Jamie; I am looking forward to this. Jaime: I ridiculously appreciate this because we have tried to book you for 8 months now. I then had a whole bunch of Skype issues and you were like; I'm cool. So, apparently Skype is not a big deal in your world of craziness already. So, tell us what you do, how you got into serial entrepreneurship and if you could go through and name names on some of the companies that you actually started so we have a good idea. Cole: To keep it as brief as possible, I was not originally an entrepreneur, I was a firefighter. Some of your audience might already know that story, but I just wanted to help people. As I was in junior high school, evaluating what I would do with the rest of my life, I wanted to do something where I could see a tangible benefit in other people's lives. So, not that there is anything wrong with corporate America, but in that setting, working within a big corporation, I did not see how my hands would help people the way firefighting would. I pursued firefighting, got in a couple of accidents that put me in a wheelchair and I could not be a firefighter anymore, because I couldn’t even walk. I am healthy today...
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...SP2000-Week 4-Effective Commemorative Speech Exercise The late President Ronald Reagan began his commemorative speech expressing deep sincerity and empathy his reason for the speech. It was a sad occasion, and I remember that day very clearly as I watched the astronauts take off, and then, what started out to be a moment of great excitement quickly turned into a heartbreaking occasion. I could not believe what I had just witnessed. I was speechless and numb. President Reagan’s face said it all. As he spoke, you could see the pain he was experiencing from this great tragedy. His speech was similar to that of a eulogy as he recounted the names of the astronauts one by one as if he knew them like family. President Reagan praised them for their great sacrifice for this country’s quest to explore outer space. Stephen Lucas (2012) stated, “Eulogies, Fourth of July speeches, and dedications are...
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...The boy I am giving this speech on is not simply a friend. He's not even just a boy- he is a boy amongst men. He is a ninja amongst regular people. He is a ginger amongst...everyone else. He is... the ginga ninja. Caleb has impacted me by leading the front ensemble through work, fun, and breaking stuff. Caleb knew how to make lazy kids such as myself actually work. When I came to MOC as a freshman, I was a terrible percussionist. I couldn’t play timpani, piano, or mallet instruments, so I was placed on auxiliary, which basically meant I just played the cymbals. The front ensemble as a whole was awful, and we knew it. The pit was kind of a joke section to the rest of the band. We messed around a lot and didn’t get much done. The next year, Caleb took over as section leader. He helped push everyone in the pit to become better, which helped inspire me to work harder and learn to play mallet instruments. The all-male pit, nicknamed the FEGS, or Front Ensemble Guys, by Mr. Mangold, soared above and beyond what we thought we could achieve, mostly thanks to Caleb’s leadership. This past year, Caleb led the pit to become even better than it had ever been in the band’s history; being in pit was no longer a joke. Caleb helped us learn and memorize one movement of music per day at band camp, which was a great accomplishment. And his leadership showed at competitions too- at our first competition, the only section to get a caption award was the front ensemble after we scored higher than...
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...I'm glad to get a chance to talk to you. Thank you so much for contacting me. What is it that inspired you to become an actress? Well, it's interesting because I'm from a really small town--in rural Manitoba. I've never really known anyone personally as an actor. The most famous people we met were hockey players. When my friends and I were in school, there was this traveling road show that would come to McCreary--the town I grew up in--and we would literally line up to see this live theater. And I remember seeing the audience and being totally transfixed in this world and loving it so much. But it wasn't until my English teacher , Darlene Grimstead, in high school moved to our town, and she created a drama club. And I joined it, and from the very first play we did, it was like I was hooked after that. She changed the path of my life for sure. So from there, what kind of training did you have to pursue this dream? Well, at that point, it was still something that was just kind of a hobby. I'm from a pretty practical family. My dad is a farmer, and he worked for the railway. And my mom was a secretary at the school we went to from kindergarten through grade twelve. There was just one school. So I went to the university originally to go into law. And I found out I didn't love all the reading and all the time spent in the library. So I changed my course, and I got into business. It was in my first year at the university, I'm pretty sure, I was scouted for modeling. So I started...
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...COMMEMORATIVE SPEECH I decided to take this moment and celebrate you. I wanted to let you know that you are one of the most important things in my life. Actually, I am not exaggerating when I say that I owe my life to you. You keep me alive and for that, I will be forever thankful. I can’t quite remember the first time we met. It was a long time ago. My mother introduced us and it wasn’t love at first sight, for sure. I didn’t really know you, so that first encounter wasn’t very pleasant. You were cold and I didn’t know how to handle you, so I cried. A lot. But I got used to you and we started doing things together. You are always around when I need and always do your best when I need a refreshment in life. And even when I’m sick of you and go for new experiences, you don’t seem to hold a grudge and when I go back to you it’s like we never parted ways. You are transparent, strong and never quit. Whenever there’s something in your way, you find your own way to go around it and get to where you want and for that I admire you. You bring life to the ones around you and it is such an amazing feeling to see what you can do with that gift. And even when someone needs you to, you take them to where they wanna go without question. My favorite moment with you is when you suddenly appear, unannounced, like you fell from the sky with your graciousness. All of a sudden you put a smile on my face and I feel like dancing. I can’t remember having one single day without you and I hope that...
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...My Grandfather – A Commemorative Speech Some people leave this earth without their names being immortalized in history books, but that does not mean that they are forgotten. They are remembered by their friends and family. And some special people are remembered by people they hardly knew. My grandfather was one of those people. My grandfather was a special man. What made him special? Why will he be remembered by not only friends and family but also by small acquaintances? It was because he was a very selfless and compassionate man. He put everyone before himself in every situation. This was a man who worked three jobs at a time to support his wife and six children. He struggled most of his life to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. But he did so with a positive attitude and a smile on his face. He didn’t just speak of compassion. Often he would let his children’s friends stay with them when their parents couldn’t keep them in their own home for various reasons. And though he wasn’t a rich man, he provided them with a roof over their head and food on the table, the same as he would do his own family. These children will remember the man who took them in when they had nowhere else to go. And he did not just speak of courage. He was enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Often he would treat me to stories of when he saved fellow shipmates from being thrown overboard in the middle of a typhoon. And when he pulled into the port of Nagasaki and saw the...
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...obtaining funding may take an ample amount of brainstorming. For PEACE Domestic Violence Agency, unfortunately, grants will not cover the cost to effectively run the organization. Alternative funding methods must be selected. Examples of alternative funding options to explore are fundraisers, opening a thrift store, soliciting local businesses, selling commemorative bricks and/or benches, and holding special events in the community. Fundraisers may include bake sales and carwashes organized and conducted by the staff only to protect the identity of the victims. PEACE will open its’ own thrift store selling donated items and handmade crafts the victims will create within a therapy group and all the proceeds will benefit the organization. Special events to take place in the community could be a talent search contest where the contestants pay an entry fee and the crowd will vote on the best performer. The event will also include information booths regarding domestic violence education and prevention and the specifics of what PEACE offers to victims and the community. Event goers will also have the option to purchase the commemorative bricks and benches in memory of loved ones and the proceeds go directly to PEACE. The most imperative alternative funding option is to solicit local businesses small or large. Considering the fact that donation are typically a one-time contribution, the business will have the option to agree and sign a “donation pact” with PEACE that states a regular donation...
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...ANZAC DAY A.N.Z.A.C - Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. Within Australia, ANZAC Day is the most important national commemorative occasion, that marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War and also serves to commemorate not only those who have laid down their lives for the freedom of our country, but also all those who have served, past, present and future. WHEN IS IT? ANZAC Day falls on the 25th of April every year. The reason for which this specific date was chosen was to pay homage to the date when in which the Australian and New Zealand soldiers came together to form a part of the allied expedition that had set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula...
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...funding may take an ample amount of brainstorming for PEACE Domestic Violence Agency as grants will not cover the cost to effectively run the organization. Alternative funding methods are an excellent alternative. Examples of alternative funding options to explore include fundraisers, opening a thrift store, soliciting local businesses, selling commemorative bricks and/or benches, and holding special events in the community .Fundraisers may include bake sales and carwashes organized and conducted by the staff only to protect the identity of the victims. The agency can open a thrift store selling donated items and handmade crafts the victims will create within a therapy group and all the proceeds will benefit the organization. Special events can also be organized and can take place in the community. A talent search contest where the contestants pay an entry fee and the crowd will vote on the best performer. These events can also include information booths regarding domestic violence education and prevention and the specifics of what PEACE offers to victims and the community. Event goers can also have the option to purchase the commemorative bricks and benches in memory of loved ones and the proceeds go directly to PEACE. The most imperative alternative funding option is to solicit local businesses small or large. Businesses can be given the option to agree and sign a “donation pact” with PEACE that states a regular donation, whether it is cash or non-cash, will be given on assigned...
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...Self-Evaluation Journal I. “Speaking from a Bag”: Overall, I did an okay job. I was been able to overcome my fear of speaking in front lots of people. The audience paid good attention when I was doing the speech. If I have another chance to do the speech, I will do better on the part attention gather, speak more loudly and clearly. I would maintain the good eyes contact. II. Commemorative Speech: I did not do well on this speech because of the content of the speech. I most likely like an information speech than a commemorative speech. During the speech, I was using so many of “ah uhm”. I would more carefully prepare the speech with the right topic. I would keep the cute style of delivering the speech and good eyes contact. I had improved a little bit on the voice and the volume when I speak. III. Demonstration Speech: I did a best demonstration. The audience paid good attention when I was doing the speech. I have a little problem that I didn’t make eyes contact for a while when I was more concentrate on the cooking. I would pay more attention on the eyes contact next time I do my speech. I have prepared well for the speech. I was nervous because I have to talk while demonstrate the cooking. This speech is the most perfect one that I did over all. IV. Delivery Video Clip: It was a short speech but I did a pretty good job on preparing a good video clip. The right video clip of a little speech of the good speaker. V. Persuasive speech: I didn’t do well on this speech over...
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...Commemorating the Berlin Airlift Events to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Airlift, and the outstanding contribution of UK Armed Forces throughout the campaign began yesterday (12 May) in Berlin. At the start of the Berlin Blockade, before the Airlift started, West Berlin had just thirty-five days’ worth of food, and forty-five days’ worth of coal. Without the involvement of the Allied Armed Forces, West Berlin would have been lost and the nature of post-war Europe would have altered significantly. British aircraft flew spent more than 210,000 hours in the air, the equivalent of 24 man years, and flew more than 30 million miles, which equates to flying to the moon and back 63 times. During the Airlift, British military and civilian aircraft lifted more than 540,000 tons. This included food, coal, liquid fuel, military equipment and other items, such as metal girders to rebuild the bridges in the city destroyed during the Second World War. The airlift sustained the population of West Berlin, at that time estimated to be around two million. Their daily requirement for food alone was 900 tons of potatoes; 641 tons of flour; 106 tons of meat and fish, 105 tons of cereals and so on, amounting altogether to some 1,800 to 2,000 tons of food alone every day. Nearly 45 per cent of the food and supplies taken in to Berlin were flown in British aircraft. Alongside the population of Berlin, there were also many Servicemen and women with their families stationed...
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