State of the Union (Obama Speech)

Obama's speech seemed very convincing and promising to the youth of the society as well as the adolescents, maybe a little too promising. I think he directed his speech to the youth, as well as our future and what he can do to make it easier for us. To me it all seems very convincing but I don't really believe what he is saying is all that true and I won't believe it until it happens. His goals for the education of our youth, and to have the highest graduation rate by 2020 are plausible but I think he is setting goals that are not in his reach. The fact that he is setting goals that are 11 years away, and seven years away from the end of his term, if he doesn't get reelected makes it seem like he is only trying to give himself more time to do other things. If he really wanted to do something about our education, I think he would set goals for achieving a better graduation rate year by year not in 11 years. The debts that he talked about were completely over thought, and when he spoke about the debt that his generation inherited, everyone rose as if they were proud of it. He is only persuading the people bit by bit to the point were he can say anything positive any everyone will stand up and clap without him even explaining what his approach to solve the problem is, that is if he even does. I will stay to believe that he is hoping that "we" will make the "change" and he is only there to keep us persuaded.

Graduation Speech

"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes." Gandhi Mohandas. High school went by faster than I had expected. Now my senior year has almost reached its end and I wonder where those four years went. I know now that those four years have been some of the most memorable moments of my life. There has been a lot of ups and downs but over all I have had a fun time. I can remember being a freshmen and the first day of school I thought i was going to get made fun of or be picked on, but that didnt happen. I was excepted as who I was and nothing more than that. At first I was nervous then as the days went on I started to enjoy being around those kids that your supposed to look up to. I remember once as a freshmen it was the first week of school and I was in pysical fitness class. There was this kid that knocked the books out of my hands and said "Welcome to High school". For a couple of weeks after that I tryed to stay away from that kid because I thought he was going to keep giving me grief. After a couple weeks I thought he was going to be the kid that picked on me for my high school years but that wasnt the reality of it. I found out that all the ups and downs of my high school years have been just nothing more than memories to remember and times to forget, for your thoughts are the product of your being, and what you want to be will be consumed by your thoughts.