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With Donald Trump in power, it is easy to be pessimistic about the future of America. Mass shootings and weapons proliferation, terrorism at home and abroad, opioid epidemics, and anti-intellectualism threaten to undo centuries of progress. Selling out to big business means that everything we do is potentially tainted by commercialism, like the ways tobacco advertisements are still placed prominently in urban areas. The perpetuation of racism remains a critical concern too, as many Americans—spurred on by the president—believe that taking the knee is an affront to American values.
Yet young people need to remain optimistic. We are the hope for America’s future, and we can fulfill our goals if we are all willing to play a role in making our country truly great. Our participation in the voting process is of course important to ensuring the foundations of democracy, but beyond that, we also need to look inward. We need to become more aware of the biases and belief systems that are holding us back.
I believe that young people today are less biased and more interested in progress than our parents. When the story about Harvey Weinstein broke in the popular news media, we never questioned the next step, or our determination to stop these kinds of things from happening. We are the generation that unconditionally supports universal rights regardless of sexual orientation or religion. It is our generation that offers hope for an America that can once again be competitive on the world market because we improve our education system. We have hope that we can strengthen universal healthcare to mirror the ways intelligent countries manage their resources, rather than taking a step backwards as the Republicans suggest. It is more important now than ever before to cultivate a feeling of hope for the future. Let us work together, especially with people who are different from us, to create a better and safer future for everyone.
Speech -- Power of Optimism The Power of Optimism: How Optimism can Help Make for a Better Life Speech Outline The Power of Optimism: How Optimism can Help Make for a Better Life Attention Grabber: What is optimism? Why should we want to make our lives better? What is the power of optimism? How can people become more optimistic? How can people harness the power of optimism to improve their lives? The problem with life
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" In a 2008 interview, Theodore C. Sorensen, one of John F. Kennedy's speechwriters, compared the individual appeal of Bill and Hillary Clinton and the distinct styles of two great speakers of the classical period, Cicero and Demosthenes. Sorensen recalled how it was once said that when Cicero spoke, the crowds declared, "How well he spoke," but when Demosthenes spoke, the crowds exclaimed, "Let us march!" think it applies here," Mr.
Speech to the Young. Speech to the Progress-Toward. Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along. In the 1940s and 1950s, Gwendolin Brooks was one of the few black poets and writers to become part of the white literary
The U.S. Debate over Membership in the League of Nations After the end of World War I, the world was weary of war and the ravages that it had taken on the European continent and it would seem reasonable to suggest that policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic would be eager to form some type of league to resolve future conflicts. According to Margulies (1998), "Following the signing of the