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1、-范文最新推荐- Save resources respected teachers, my fellow students. today my topic is save resources, better tomorrow. as we all know, the pollution problem may be one of the greatest problems in the world. please look out of the windows! you may easily find: we have more cars but less petrol. we eat mo
2、re kinds of food, but have fewer kinds of animals; we have higher buildings and wider highways, but narrower points of view; we spend more, but enjoy less, why? because the natural resources are limited.however, people don't cherish what they have until it's gone.but what shall we do to save
3、 the resources? we can bring cotton bags with us instead of asking for plastic bags when we go shopping. when we are doing exercises in class we can use the both sides of paper to write on. we can recycle empty bottles and tins. we shouldn¡¯t use the wooden chopsticks.water, valued fresh
4、water, the gift of our generous nature. it is the blood of the earth. it¡¯s one of the most valued things and it¡¯s the beginning of all the lives. we can¡¯t live without water. nowadays, many people are getting sick because of lacking water. many animals are dying o
5、f thirst. many rich fields are becoming drier and drier and no longer can be used to grow rice. so to save water, we should use not too much water on the washing. we should remember to turn off the taps when we leave the toilet. we should use water for many times.pollution is one of the biggest prob
6、lems in the world. people always pollute the earth. the more people, the more pollution.as teenagers, we should ride bikes instead of going by car or by bus.if we do like that, our life will be better in the future. the earth is our only home. we should try our best to protect it. in this way, we ca
7、n ¡®see a world in a grain of sand¡¯, ¡®a heaven in wild flowers¡¯ and we can also see our bright future from all colorful lives around us! ours sprit is all for one, and one for all to make our homestead better.that¡¯s all. thanks for listening!
8、*this was an emotional day.the ceremonies honoring the fortieth anniversary of d day became more than commemorations. they became celebrations of heroism and sacrifice.this place, pointe du hoc, in itself was moving and majestic. i stood there on that windswept point with the ocean behind me. before
9、 me were the boys who forty years before had fought their way up from the ocean. some rested under the white crosses and stars of david that stretched out across the landscape. others sat right in front of me. they looked like elderly businessmen, yet these were the kids who climbed the cliffs.*we&#
10、39;re here to mark that day in history when the allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. for four long years, much of europe had been under a terrible shadow. free nations had fallen, jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. europe was enslaved, and
11、 the world prayed for its rescue. here, in normandy, the rescue began. here, the allies stood and fought against tyranny, in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.we stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of france. the air is soft, but forty years ago at this moment, t
12、he air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. at dawn, on the morning of the 6th of june, 1944, two hundred and twenty-five rangers jumped off the british landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs.their mission
13、 was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. the allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here, and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the allied advance.the rangers looked up and
14、saw the enemy soldiers at the edge of the cliffs, shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades. and the american rangers began to climb. they shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up. when one ranger fell, another would take his place. when one
15、 rope was cut, a ranger would grab another and begin his climb again. they climbed, shot back, and held their footing. soon, one by one, the rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of europe. two hundred
16、and twenty-five came here. after two days of fighting, only ninety could still bear arms.and behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs. and before me are the men who put them here. these are the boys of pointe du hoc. these are the men w
17、ho took the cliffs. these are the champions who helped free a continent. these are the heroes who helped end a war. gentlemen, i look at you and i think of the words of stephen spender's poem. you are men who in your lives fought for life and left the vivid air signed with your honor.i think i k
18、now what you may be thinking right now - thinking we were just part of a bigger effort; everyone was brave that day. well everyone was. do you remember the story of bill millin of the 51st highlanders? forty years ago today, british troops were pinned down near a bridge, waiting desperately for help
19、. suddenly, they heard the sound of bagpipes, and some thought they were dreaming. well, they weren't. they looked up and saw bill millin with his bagpipes, leading the reinforcements and ignoring the smack of the bullets into the ground around him.lord lovat was with him - lord lovat of scotlan
20、d, who calmly announced when he got to the bridge, sorry, i'm a few minutes late, as if he'd been delayed by a traffic jam, when in truth he'd just come from the bloody fighting on sword beach, which he and his men had just taken.there was the impossible valor of the poles, who threw the
21、mselves between the enemy and the rest of europe as the invasion took hold; and the unsurpassed courage of the canadians who had already seen the horrors of war on this coast. they knew what awaited them there, but they would not be deterred. and once they hit juno beach, they never looked back.all
22、of these men were part of a roll call of honor with names that spoke of a pride as bright as the colors they bore; the royal winnipeg rifles, poland's 24th lancers, the royal scots fusiliers, the screaming eagles, the yeomen of england's armored divisions, the forces of free france, the coas
23、t guard's matchbox fleet, and you, the american rangers.forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. you were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. yet you risked everything here. why? why did yo
24、u do it? what impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? what inspired all the men of the armies that met here? we look at you, and somehow we know the answer. it was faith and belief. it was loyalty and love.the men of normandy had faith t
25、hat what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just god would grant them mercy on this beachhead, or on the next. it was the deep knowledge - and pray god we have not lost it - that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberatio
26、n and the use of force for conquest. you were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. and you were right not to doubt.you all knew that some things are worth dying for. one's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it&
27、#39;s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. all of you loved liberty. all of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.the americans who fought here that morning knew word of the invasion was spreading through the darknes
28、s back home. they fought - or felt in their hearts, though they couldn't know in fact, that in georgia they were filling the churches at 4:00 am. in kansas they were kneeling on their porches and praying. and in philadelphia they were ringing the liberty bell.something else helped the men of d-d
29、ay; their rock-hard belief that providence would have a great hand in the events that would unfold here; that god was an ally in this great cause. and so, the night before the invasion, when colonel wolverton asked his parachute troops to kneel with him in prayer, he told them: do not bow your heads
30、, but look up so you can see god and ask his blessing in what we're about to do. also, that night, general matthew ridgway on his cot, listening in the darkness for the promise god made to joshua: i will not fail thee nor forsake thee.these are the things that impelled them; these are the things
31、 that shaped the unity of the allies.when the war was over, there were lives to be rebuilt and governments to be returned to the people. there were nations to be reborn. above all, there was a new peace to be assured. these were huge and daunting tasks. but the allies summoned strength from the fait
32、h, belief, loyalty, and love of those who fell here. they rebuilt a new europe together. there was first a great reconciliation among those who had been enemies, all of whom had suffered so greatly. the united states did its part, creating the marshall plan to help rebuild our allies and our former
33、enemies. the marshall plan led to the atlantic alliance - a great alliance that serves to this day as our shield for freedom, for prosperity, and for peace.in spite of our great efforts and successes, not all that followed the end of the war was happy or planned. some liberated countries were lost.
34、the great sadness of this loss echoes down to our own time in the streets of warsaw, prague, and east berlin. the soviet troops that came to the center of this continent did not leave when peace came. they're still there, uninvited, unwanted, unyielding, almost forty years after the war. because
35、 of this, allied forces still stand on this continent. today, as forty years ago, our armies are here for only one purpose: to protect and defend democracy. the only territories we hold are memorials like this one and graveyards where our heroes rest.we in america have learned bitter lessons from tw
36、o world wars. it is better to be here ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. we've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent. bu
37、t we try always to be prepared for peace, prepared to deter aggression, prepared to negotiate the reduction of arms, and yes, prepared to reach out again in the spirit of reconciliation. in truth, there is no reconciliation we would welcome more than a reconciliation with the soviet union, so, toget
38、her, we can lessen the risks of war, now and forever.it's fitting to remember here the great losses also suffered by the russian people during world war ii: 20 million perished, a terrible price that testifies to all the world the necessity of ending war. i tell you from my heart that we in the
39、united states do not want war. we want to wipe from the face of the earth the terrible weapons that man now has in his hands. and i tell you, we are ready to seize that beachhead. we look for some sign from the soviet union that they are willing to move forward, that they share our desire and love f
40、or peace, and that they will give up the ways of conquest. there must be a changing there that will allow us to turn our hope into action.we will pray forever that someday that changing will come. but for now, particularly today, it is good and fitting to renew our commitment to each other, to our f
41、reedom, and to the alliance that protects it.we're bound today by what bound us 40 years ago, the same loyalties, traditions, and beliefs. we're bound by reality. the strength of america's allies is vital to the united states, and the american security guarantee is essential to the conti
42、nued freedom of europe's democracies. we were with you then; we are with you now. your hopes are our hopes, and your destiny is our destiny.here, in this place where the west held together, let us make a vow to our dead. let us show them by our actions that we understand what they died for. let
43、our actions say to them the words for which matthew ridgway listened: i will not fail thee nor forsake thee.strengthened by their courage and heartened by their valor and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died.thank you very much, and god bless y
44、ou all. good evening:this is the 37th time i have spoken to you from this office, where so many decisions have been made that shape the history of this nation. each time i have done so to discuss with you some matter that i believe affected the national interest. in all the decisions i have made in
45、my public life i have always tried to do what was best for the nation.throughout the long and difficult period of watergate, i have felt it was my duty to persevere - to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me. in the past few days, however, it has become ev
46、ident to me that i no longer have a strong enough political base in the congress to justify continuing that effort. as long as there was such a base, i felt strongly that it was necessary to see the constitutional process through to its conclusion; that to do otherwise would be unfaithful to the spi
47、rit of that deliberately difficult process, and a dangerously destabilizing precedent for the future. but with the disappearance of that base, i now believe that the constitutional purpose has been served. and there is no longer a need for the process to be prolonged.i would have preferred to carry
48、through to the finish whatever the personal agony it would have involved, and my family unanimously urged me to do so. but the interests of the nation must always come before any personal considerations. from the discussions i have had with congressional and other leaders i have concluded that because of the watergate matter i might not have the support of the congress that i would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interests of the nation will require.i have never been a quitter.to leave office bef