Graduation Speech : The United States With My Country

Overcoming these obstacles has made me a mature and strong individual. I am proud of what I have accomplished, even with the hardships that I have had to face and my biggest goal is to make my parents proud.

A few weeks ago, I was assigned to give a speech in my communications class about my background. After giving my speech, my professor excitedly approached me and said “wow, that was very inspirational. When I saw you, I thought you were just a privileged, pretty boy whose parents worked in the tech industry.” Believe it or not, this is not the first time I have gotten this reaction.

First I want to thank you for contacting me as humbly requested by my friend, I was very surprised to hear from you but then I am also very grateful that you contacted me. I am 6"1, Irish/English by birth , 55 years of age,  raised in England. I came to the United States a year ago to help a British construction company set up a branch but due to some internal issues between the board of directors in England they had to shut down the company just before it even started so I decided to remain in the United States and started working as an independent Contractor. Currently I am in South Africa busy with a project and after completion of the project I will be back to the U.S in 4 weeks time.  Summerville, SC is home for me when I get back to the states.

The final seconds of a cross country meet when you are sprinting down the straight away, looking at the finish line, trying to beat just one more person, is one of the most mentally and physically exhausting moments I’ve ever encountered. In the Fall of 2014 things just clicked with our girls cross country team. Winning Bi-county, Conference, Sectional, and advancing to Regional and Semi-state, was unexpected to everyone around us. Losing five of our seven varsity runners the year before got us moved from our small school rank of 3rd to 13th. Getting moved ten spots on that list motivated us even more to prove to everyone what we could do without those graduated seniors.

A college degree is very crucial to the development of the national skills to match the market. However, the high cost of attaining the degree is driving many poor students from taking courses in universities. The possibility of an international student accessing equal education is the United States comes with a very high cost. For example, while a California community college student pays $46 per unit, an international student pays $250 per unit, which is very expensive and

I’m 34 years old and I’ve never seen the nation as fractured and divided as it is now. Maybe some of you have, and there might be a few of you who have experienced worse. Perhaps one of my closest friends was right when he said that the most fractured periods were in every single moment leading up to this one. It’s just that the division is getting attention on a large scale.

My Son, not once would I ever think I would be so disappointed in you. I’ve spent the past four days pondering on what I could have possibly done wrong. How can you rebel against the king like this? The second I heard the news that you became commander of those filthy rebels and the coward-like militia, I was absolutely disgusted. As a friend of the kings, I am entirely against your reason of rebelling. He has set our family up for an amazing life in the colonies! Who cares about extra taxes? We can surely afford it! There is absolutely no reason you guys need to fight our own leaders, may I add the most powerful army in the world, other than for an excuse to get yourself killed! Son, tell me now if you are suicidal because I will buy all the mental health counseling you and your SICK friends need!

First off, you must know that I completely and utterly adore you. I have never found a celestial being as extraordinary as you. I had the chance to see you in all your glory but sadly did not get to meet you personally, shake your hand and thank you for everything you do. I love your villainous ways (even though you are my HERO), being bad really never looked so good! Please don't take me as some weird fag-hag. I just enjoy you because you wreak havoc everywhere you go. I really wish those feminazis, and the other shameless people of the left had as much pride as you do. You make America Great Again ("Daddy's" just the cherry on top)! I don't have a question, I just ask that you keep being your beautiful amazing self, and offending all the

I just want to say thank you to all of the veterans out there and also for those who have been in a war. I believe that we can make America a better place not just for me or you but for everyone if we can make America better then we can just get along with each other. The America that I believe in is loving and caring, I think that we can make America better and that we can all get along with each other and that we will not fight over anything or anyone. I wish that was our America and it can be if we all work together, we can get our beautiful America to the way we want it to be if we can just stop with all of this fighting. After that we can get along with each other and we will get that America one day and I know that we will get that America if we can all work together.

I know that this is coming in very late, I know you probably won't even read this, I know that the opinion of an ordinary student from Mason City probably doesn't matter to you, and I know that my voice is only one in a sea of thousands of others, all of which are probably more capable, intelligent, and worthy than I am. And yet, I'm still writing this, and I still ask you to please listen to me, because I couldn't live with myself if I didn't at least try. So, I am here, politely asking, or more like begging, you to change your vote to Hillary Clinton tomorrow. I'm aware that this is unprecedented and generally incurs a small fine, but it is possible, and it is the only hope I have. Donald Trump wishes to "make America Great Again," but I believe that we can't let him do that. Donald Trump cannot make America

Hello, how are you? How’s the family? I hope you and the family are doing well. It has been a long time since the last time I saw you. I really miss seeing all of you guys. The last time I was over there was two years ago. I just got a job a few weeks ago, so I’m going to try and raise money to go and visit all you, I really miss mom, dad, Archie, Margo, and James. So, I don't know if you have heard but the colonies have been set free. We are free because we signed the Declaration of Independence. There are many reasons why it is a good idea for us to sign the Declaration and I think you should know about them. For example, the Declaration gives us the authority to govern our own people, other than to be govern by a king. We have all

I am an American with an ancestry of a Mexican . I know that I’m just a young kid and all you people don’t think I know , but really I do . I know that I will have a great education and maybe become a well known worker, and the kids in Mexico and other places could too. But if me and many other people have to leave, I will not become major neither will many other kids . Us kids are the future! Now, I don’t want to say names but many people are voting for a racist person, who you all think is major.. But really is not. I know that this person is conceited and really a horrible person . But of course you all are using him for his large amount of money. But just know that you are effecting us young kids with many hidden

I really enjoyed your speech today at Gettysburg, PA. What I think is overshadowing your plan is that reporters are only focusing on your comment:

A personal challenge that I was able to overcome was when my parents got the news that they were going to be deported. I remember I had barely started my high school education and I had been going through my own problems of getting accustomed to school and getting my grades up. It all happened when I

When the British won and took over almost half of North America that's when I knew they should be stopped since they are taking over too much land. They have even started to make acts about where we can and can’t go. The most recent act is the Proclamation Act. I think that the act doesn’t make sense since other people can’t go to their colonies if they are a colonists. After those acts there are even more that basically take our money from us and they then use that money for war or other things that they need to win their fights and ultimately there war.