平成２７年３月
第１１回ドラゴンカップ争奪英語暗唱大会の御案内
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厳冬の候、貴大学の皆様におかれましては、ますます御健勝のことと御慶び申し上げま す。
さてこの度、当龍谷大学学友会学術文化局E.S.S.では、下記の通り、第１１回ドラゴン
カップ争奪英語暗唱大会を行う運びとなりましたので、ここに御案内申し上げます。皆様 の御参加を部員一同、心よりお待ちしております。
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一、日時 ：平成２７年６月７日(日)
一、場所 ：龍谷大学深草キャンパス内 顕真館
一 、 参 加 資 格 ： 母 語 ・ 公 用 語 を 英 語 と し な い 者 （ 各 大 学 ２ 名 ま で 応 募 可 ） 一、形式 ：Recitation Speech
こちらが用意した４種類の原稿の中より１つ選び、７分以内で暗唱して いただきます。
テープ審査によって１０名選出（他２名は龍谷大学内から選出） Q＆Aはありません。
参加の方はスピーチのみを録音したCD３枚に名前とスピーチのタイトルを書き、アプリ
ケーションカードと一緒に下記の住所に４月６日（必着）までに御送りください。 合格者には、５月上旬頃、メールまたは電話にて通知をさせて頂きます。その後タイム テーブル等の詳しい諸注意を同封したものを郵送させて頂きます。
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京都市伏見区深草塚本町67 龍谷大学E.S.S.
４種類のスピーチはこちらになります。
1．“Find Your Passion” by Randy Pausch
カーネギーメロン大学卒業式にて行われたスピーチ。「情熱を見つけること。またその情 熱に従うこと。これが充実した人生を送る要素となる。」ガンによって余命を宣告された 彼が残る人生の中で見つけたものである。このスピーチを通じて得られるものは多い。
2．“The Audacity of Hope” by Barack Obama
2004年アメリカの民主党大会にて、当時イリノイ州上院議員だったオバマ氏によって行わ
れた基調演説。長年人種によるコミュニティの分断が憂慮されている中で、「リベラルな アメリカや保守なアメリカは存在しない。あるのは各州が一致団結したアメリカ合衆国で あって我々はひとつの国民だ」と語り、融和と団結を強く訴えた。
3．“The Great Society” by Lyndon Baines Johnson
1964年アメリカのジョンソン大統領が打ち出したスローガンは「偉大な社会」。その骨子
となるものはすなわち「正義」「自由」「団結」。アメリカ建国の3つの理念である。こ
の3つの理念を軸に展開される演説には、アメリカの力強さの源が何であるかを垣間見る
ことができる。
4．“The Nobel Peace Praise 2004” by Wangari Maathai
ケニアの環境保護活動家であり、ノーベル平和賞を受賞しこともあるワンガリ・マータイ。 このスピーチでは彼女の設立したグリーンベルト運動について語るとともに、アフリカの 同胞に対し紛争や貧困を減らし生活の質を向上させるために共に努力することを呼びかけ ている。
尚、当E.S.S.のHPでも、本大会の詳細とスピーチの原稿及びアプリケーションカードの
ダウンロードが出来ますので、ご覧ください。
http://ryukokuess2014.web.fc2.com/
何かご不明な点がございましたら下記の方までご連絡よろしくお願いします。
連絡先：小澤 千尋
龍谷大学学友会学術文化局
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“Find Your Passion”
Delivered by Randy Pausch, May 18 2008, Carnegie Mellon University
I'm glad to be here today. Hell, I'm glad to be anywhere today. I assure
you it's
nothing compared to the charge you have just given me.
This is an incredible place. I've seen it through so many lenses. I saw it
when I was a graduate student that didn't get admitted and then somebody
invited me back and said "ok we changed our mind" and I saw it as a place that
hired me back to be on the faculty many years later and then gave me the
chance to do what anybody wants to do, which is follow their passion, follow
their heart and do the things they're excited about.
But there will be a short pickup basketball game later. Somebody said to
me in light of these numbers, "wow, so you're really beating the grim reaper"
and what I said without even thinking about is "we don't beat the reaper by
living longer. We beat the reaper by living well and living fully for the reaper will
and the time he shows up. Because when he shows up, it's too late to do all the
things that you're always going to kind of get around to."
So I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is,
first off, remember, it’s a cliché, it is not the things we do in life that we regret
on our deathbed, it is the things we do not do. Because I assure you I've done a
lot of really stupid things and none of them bother me. All the mistakes and all
the dopey things and all the times I was embarrassed, they don't matter. What
matters is that I can kind of look back and say "pretty much any time I got a
chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it" and that's where my solace
comes from.
The second thing that I would add to that -- and I didn't coordinate on
the subject of the word but I think it's the right word that comes up -- is passion.
And you will need to find your passion. Many of you have already done it, many
of you will later, many of you may take till your 30's or 40's. But don't give up
on finding it. Alright? Because then all you're doing is waiting for the reaper.
Find your passion and follow it and if there is anything I have learned in my life,
money because the more things and the more money you have, the more you
will just look around and use that as the metric and there will always be
someone with more.
So your passion must come from the things that fuel you from the
inside, and honors and awards are nice things but only to the extent that they
regard the real respect from your peers, and to be thought well of by other
people that you think even more highly of is a tremendous honor that I've been
granted.
Find your passion, and in my experience no matter what you do at work
or what you do in official settings, that passion will be grounded in people and it
will be grounded in the relationships you have with people and what they think
of you when your time comes.
And if you can gain the respect of those around you and the passion
and true love, and I've said this before. If nothing else, I hope that all of you can
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"The Audacity of Hope"
Delivered by Barack Obama, July 27, 2004, Boston
Tonight is a particular honor for me because, let’s face it, my presence
on this stage is pretty unlikely.
I stand here today, grateful for the diversity of my heritage, aware that
my parents’ dreams live on in my precious daughters. I stand here knowing that
my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those
who came before me, and that, in no other country on earth, is my story even
possible.
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation, not because of
the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our
economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a
declaration made over two hundred years ago, “We hold these truths to be
with certain inalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness.” That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams
of its people, the insistence on small miracles.
This year, in this election, we are called to reaffirm our values and
commitments, to hold them against a hard reality and see how we are
measuring up, to the legacy of our forbearers, and the promise of future
generations. And fellow Americans – Democrats, Republicans, and Independents
– I say to you tonight: we have more work to do.
More to do for the workers I met in Galesburg, Illinois, who are losing
their union jobs at a plant that’s moving to Mexico, and now are having to
compete with their own children for jobs that pay seven bucks an hour.
Don’t get me wrong. The people I meet in small towns and big cities, in
diners and office parks, they don’t expect government to solve all their
problems. They know they have to work hard to get ahead and they want to.
they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a change in priorities, we can
make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the
doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better. And they
want that choice. In this election, we offer that choice.
Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us,
the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything
goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a
conservative America – there’s the United States of America. There’s not a black
America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the
United States of America.
I’m not talking about blind optimism here – the almost willful ignorance
that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don’t talk about it, or the
health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. No, I’m talking about
something more substantial. It’s the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing
freedom songs; immigrants setting out for distant shores; the hope of a
millworker’s son who dares to defy the odds; the hope of a skinny kid with a
face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!
Tonight, if you feel the same energy I do, the same urgency I do, the
same passion I do, the same hopefulness I do – if we do what we must do, then I
have no doubt that all across the country, from Florida to Oregon, from
Washington to Maine, the people will rise up in November, and this country will
reclaim its promise, and out of this long political darkness a brighter day will
come.
“The Great Society”
Delivered by Lyndon Baines Johnson, May 22 1964, Ann Arbor, MI
My fellow countrymen, on this occasion, the Oath I have taken before
you and before God is not mine alone, but ours together. We are one nation and
one people. Our fate as a nation and our future as a people rest not upon one
citizen, but upon all citizens. That is the majesty and the meaning of this
moment.
For every generation, there is a destiny. For this generation, the choice
must be our own. And our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the
unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.
Our forebears made a covenant with this land, conceived in justice,
all mankind; and it binds us still. If we keep its terms, we shall flourish.
First, justice was the promise that all who made the journey would share
in the fruits of the land. In a land of great wealth, families must not live in
hopeless poverty. In a land rich in harvest, children just must not go hungry. In a
land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die unattended. In a
great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and
write.
Justice requires us to remember: When any citizen denies his fellow,
saying, "His color is not mine," or "His beliefs are strange and different," in that
moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
Liberty was the second article of our covenant. It was self-government.
This has become more difficult in a world where change and growth seem to
tower beyond the control and even the judgment of men. We must work to
provide the knowledge and the surroundings which can enlarge the possibilities
The third article is union. No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer
and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working
shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all. We have
discovered that every child who learns, and every man who finds work, and
every sick body that's made whole -- like a candle added to an altar -- brightens
the hope of all the faithful.
So let us now join reason to faith and action to experience, to transform
our unity of interest into a unity of purpose. For the hour and the day and the
time are here to achieve progress without strife, to achieve change without
hatred -- not without difference of opinion, but without the deep and abiding
divisions which scar the union for generations.
Under this covenant of justice, liberty, and union we have become a
nation -- prosperous, great, and mighty. And we have kept our freedom. We
have been allowed by Him to seek greatness with the sweat of our hands and
the strength of our spirit.
sterile battalion of the ants. It is the excitement of becoming -- always
becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again -- but always trying
and always gaining. In each generation, with toil and tears, we have had to earn
our heritage again.
If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we
learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith that freedom asks more than
it gives, and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored. If
we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of
what we are; not because of what we own, but rather because of what we
believe.
We believe that every man must someday be free. And we believe in
ourselves. Is our world gone? We say, "Farewell." Is a new world coming? We
welcome it -- and we will bend it to the hopes of man.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2004
Delivered by Wangari Maathai, December 10 2004, Oslo City Hall
As the first African woman to receive this prize, I accept it on behalf of
the people of Kenya and Africa, and indeed the world. I am especially mindful of
women and the girl child. I hope it will encourage them to raise their voices and
take more space for leadership. I know the honor also gives a deep sense of
pride to our men, both old and young. As a mother, I appreciate the inspiration
this brings to the youth and urge them to use it to pursue their dreams.
This honor is also for my family, friends, partners and supporters
which was often accomplished under hostile conditions. I am also grateful to the
people of Kenya - who remained stubbornly hopeful that democracy could be
realized and their environment managed sustainably. Because of this support, I
am here today to accept this great honor.
In 1977, when we started the Green Belt Movement, I was partly
responding to needs identified by rural women, namely lack of firewood, clean
drinking water, balanced diets, shelter and income.
Throughout Africa, women are the primary caretakers, holding
significant responsibility for tilling the land and feeding their families. As a
result, they are often the first to become aware of environmental damage as
resources become scarce and incapable of sustaining their families.
The women we worked with recounted that unlike in the past, they were
unable to meet their basic needs. This was due to the degradation of their
immediate environment as well as the introduction of commercial farming,
which replaced the growing of household food crops. But international trade
reasonable and just income could not be guaranteed. I came to understand that
when the environment is destroyed, plundered or mismanaged, we undermine
our quality of life and that of future generations.
Tree planting became a natural choice to address some of the initial
basic needs identified by women. Also, tree planting is simple, attainable and
guarantees quick, successful results within a reasonable amount time. This
sustains interest and commitment.
So, together, we have planted over 30 million trees that provide fuel,
food, shelter, and income to support their children's education and household
needs. The activity also creates employment and improves soils and
watersheds. Through their involvement, women gain some degree of power
over their lives, especially their social and economic position and relevance in
the family. This work continues.
In time, the tree also became a symbol for peace and conflict resolution,
especially during ethnic conflicts in Kenya when the Green Belt Movement used
of the Kenyan constitution, similar trees of peace were planted in many parts of
the country to promote a culture of peace. Using trees as a symbol of peace is
in keeping with a widespread African tradition.
Excellencies, friends, ladies and gentlemen,
It is 30 years since we started this work. Today we are faced with a
challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops
threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her
wounds and in the process heal our own – indeed, to embrace the whole
creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. This will happen if we see the
need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we
have shared our evolutionary process.
In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to
shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time
when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other.
