应届毕业典礼五分钟优秀英语演讲稿-范例

1、 应届毕业典礼五分钟优秀英语演讲稿演讲是人格魅力渲染的舞台介质，一场精彩演讲是足以影响到人一生，以下是给大家带来上台演讲的应届毕业典礼五分钟优秀英语演讲稿范文五篇，欢迎大家参考借鉴!英语演讲稿1But Holmes understood as we should by now as well that a tolerant society is necessary for the purposes of seeking the truth, that this is produced through an act of collective commitment to live accordi

2、ng to its values and that this requires constant vigilance and persistent reassertion of those values, yet we often lapse.Unsurprisingly then, history provides countless illustrations of these ideas colliding with people in government who felt threatened by the current of their time and chose to be

3、hostile to the imagination and enamored of their own power and belief.At the end of the first world war, western civilization had lost its way and the political and economic divisions were unraveling the status quo. Fears of Russia and the spread of communism and socialism along with growing unrest

4、among labor give rise to fear and panic among those who wished to preserve the world as it was.All these forces of instability, in turn, escalated into repression, censorship and the scapegoating of marginal populations, of radicals, dissenters, nonconformance, foreigner and immigrants. The leader o

5、f the American socialist party Eugene Debs was imprisoned for delivering a speech.Today, a century later, a new threat to our core values has emerged, around the world and in this country. The rise of authoritarianism often in the guys of democratically elected despots has become the defining featur

6、e of modern life. The tactics, unfortunately, are age-old and time tests.There must be an in-group, conceived around religious ethnic, racial or nationalistic lines and an outgroup. Typically, foreigners, immigrants, elites, or an opposing party.英语演讲稿2Passions are stoked, and the assault on truth be

7、gins. The necessary predicate for discrediting your opposition and for creating supporters. It usually starts with attacks on the press and journalists. And then it moves to universities and students and professors.Since truth is the real enemy, and whoever pursuit it must be declared the enemy. Evi

8、dence of nation after nation making this distressing turn is now all around us. We must be careful not to underestimate the negative consequences to our own values caused by this pervasive form of censorship and suppression.Given the ever-increasing integration of peoples of the world. Through the p

9、owerful forces of economic activity, communication, and movements across borders, we depend on professors, students, and ideas flowing freely through our community of institutions. We may therefore sometimes look at these acts of intolerance abroad as matters of here foreign consequence, but they al

10、most also have much more direct and immediate consequences for our own values.The most recent case that vividly makes this point is the hideous torture and murder of Khashoggi. A Saudi national and unsparing critic of that regime. A violation of international law and human rights, yes, it certainly

11、appears so. But it was potentially a violation of American law, and the interests protected by those laws for Khashoggi was a communist with the Washington post and a legal resident of the United States. With two children of his four who are U.S. citizens. As such he was protected by the first amend

12、ment for the things he said and for which he was killed. This is a crime under American laws against torture and violation of civil rights, for which there is extraterritorial jurisdiction to pursue prosecution. Though it is deplorable that no action has been taken in this country to bring this kill

13、er to justice and to vindicate U.S. interests. A precedent that should concern us all.Of course, there is no shortage of attacks on truth and on truth seekers right here at home. The undermining of honest discourse has occurred so far not through official acts of censorship, but more indirectly, if

14、not very subtlety, the means of suppression.英语演讲稿3The free press is labeled the enemy of the people, the irrefutable science underlining our understanding of climate change is portrayed as a fabrication propagated for political agenda, and universities are increasingly cast as incubator of intoleran

15、ce, and enemies of free expression, a sensationalist charge disproved by consistent presence on university campuses including Columbia of controversial speakers from both the left and the right. Some might argue that these verbal attacks on the press and universities as well on all. The other daily

16、falsehoods that accompany them are harmless, only a superficial attack without lasting consequences. For us, however, in the university, where truth is everything, we cannot accept that characterization. It cuts to our core.So what are to do? Fortunately, there is an experience to guide us in our re

17、sponse and nowhere is that experience more resonant than at Columbia. Precisely 100 years ago in 1919 during the chaotic and repressive post-world war I era. I referenced earlier, a moment of a civil peril laid bare a fight between imagination and ignorance. The fight was fierce and provoked two dis

18、tinct responses, each of them worthy of special note, celebration, and emulation today.First, the United States Supreme Court took three cases, including that involving presidential hopeful Eugene Debbs and began interpreting the words Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of

19、 the press. It took the court and the nation another 50 years to get it right, with the special help of the civil rights and the womens movement, but finally, we did… finally, we did and when it all came together, the United States had created the greatest shield for freedom of the thought an

20、d of expression of any nation history.英语演讲稿4The search for truth became its core animating idea and the American Universities flourished over time to institutionalize and idealize that way of life. Also, in 1919, at the more local level, on this campus, the new year-long required course for Columbia

21、 freshman has launched call contemporary civilization.Though today, we know C.C. is the Genesis of the famed curriculum, then it was nothing more than a bold experiment in higher education. The objective reflected in the course name was to apply learning and reason derived from classic texts to the

22、problems facing society in the aftermath of a cataclysmic war. The idea was to double down on the academic mission and it has made a difference as generation after generation has attested to its value in creating an open mind and intellect.Both of these century-old intellectual innovations arose fro

23、m the same sensibility. Both assumed that the best side of human nature includes the desire to learn and to live by the truth and to acquire and to create knowledge. And while our natural negative instincts activated by our fears, greed and lust for power sometimes divert us from that quest. A life

24、worth living will only follow from a determined effort to engage with ideas at the most profound levels, even those ideas we dislike and firmly believe to be in error.This time, your time presents the conundrum this is above all a moment when we must reassert our commitment to open inquiry, to reaso

25、n and to the sanctity of knowledge and understanding. As was the case a century ago, these pursuits are increasingly out of step with the currents of the broader world, making it all the more essential that we express our devotion to that endeavor.英语演讲稿5We must not, apologize for this but relish and

26、 champion it and find our own new contributions to this end. Yet at the same time, our world demands that we be more permeable as a university, more blended with life beyond the academy. The most striking physical manifestation of Columbias modern engagement with the larger world will our new Manhat

27、tanville campus, which is intentionally designed to be open and welcoming to the world.Indeed, all of us feel the moral imperative to be working on solutions to global problems that frequently appeal to be beyond the grasp of sovereign governments and our own mostly diminished international organization.Moreover to spend any time at Columbia is to be confronted