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求一英文演讲稿 关于简奥斯汀的 500词~800词
April 6, 2005, Greencastle, Ind. - "It’s not about Harvard, it’s not about a prestigious school," says Liz Murray of her incredible and uplifting life story, which she shared with an audience at DePauw University tonight. "It’s not about that. It’s about learning, about educating yourself and gathering enough knowledge to find your way through any little crack or crevice you possibly can so you can move up and escape from that trap you were born into." The 24-year-old Murray, who went from living on the streets of New York City to winning a scholarship to Harvard University, delivered The Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture, "Homeless to Harvard: A Remarkable Journey," in Kresge Auditorium of DePauw’s Performing Arts Center. Working without notes and addressing her audience from the edge of the stage, Murray detailed how she was born to drug-addicted parents, and how as a child, living in squalor, her parents and everyone she knew was living month-to-month on government checks. "I didn’t even know that people worked when I was younger, ’cause you have to think about -- what does a kid seeing when they’re little. I saw that people cashed welfare checks... they were happy to see the mailman, he was like Santa Claus or something or some celebrity -- and we’d go to the check cashing store and there would be a line wrapped around the block for an hour-and-a-half" on the days checks arrived, she remembered. Her parents would spend the bulk of the money on drugs; about $30 a month was all the family of four spent on food, and Murray’s parents would go without food for several days at a time. Despite the tumultous environment in which she was raised, Murray says she has always loved her parents. Her life, already in disarray, unraveled quickly when her mother was diagnosed with HIV. Her mother moved out, her father went to a homeless shelter, and Murray, then a young teen, was sent to a group home. Her unpleasant experiences there led her to run away and she lived on the streets of New York City, eating out of dumpsters and sleeping at friends’ houses or on subway trains, but in her own words, "going nowhere." The year Murray turned 16, her mother died, and her view of life changed. "I got the sense that my life was in my own hands," she told her DePauw audience. "And I knew that already, but it’s different when a parent dies; maybe some of you know what I mean. You look around and strangers become more strange, big institutional buildings look scarier, everything looks more alien, nothing is friendly. There’s no person to think about yourself through. It truly is yourself in the world, and that’s it. I realized my own isolation and I realized there never would be somebody to kind of filter me in the world. And I went back with my friends, and without having her to think about anymore -- I mean I did, but not the same way -- I sat with them and I realized that I had been falsely relying on my friends. I realized that, at the end of the day, whatever I did or did not do with my life would stick to me, even if I hung out with them." Murray, whose story is chronicled in the Lifetime Emmy-nominated movie, From Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story, enrolled in an alternative high school at age 17; when most of the people her age were graduating, she was starting. Guided by an understanding teacher/mentor and fueled by a desire to make something of her life, Murray finished high school in two years while still sleeping where she could find a place to lay her head at night. When she visited Harvard on a school trip, a seed was planted. Murray applied for a New York Times scholarship and was one of six students selected out of the thousands of applicants. A story profiling the scholarship winners was published on the cover of the Times’ metro section. "I really didn’t understand the power of the media before that, but I found out," Murray said with a chuckle. "You know and brought me sweaters and clothing their kids weren’t using anymore. Some lady came just to give me a hug! Another came just with some cookies, then she said to me, ’I don’t have any money, Liz, but I have a stationwagon and a house. Do you have any laundry?,’ she asked me. ’I just want to do your laundry.’" Murray’s story was featured on ABC’s 20/20 and she was a guest of Oprah Winfrey, becoming the first recipient of the talk show host’s Chutzpah Award. Murray transferred from Harvard to Columbia University to be closer to her father, who is ill. She had been studying film, but after talking about her experiences in front of audiences around the nation and the world over the past few years, "Instead of just speaking about my life, I want that to be a footnote, and I want to offer strategies to people." 我知道，选我！！！！！me!me!!!!!!1
哥伦比亚大学SPS说来说值不值得去
哥伦比亚大学值得去吗？哥伦比亚大学是世界上非常有名的一个大学，如果你去那里上学前丽丽爱流血真是很愿意去的哥伦比亚大学（哥大，Columbia University），正式名称为纽约市哥伦比亚大学（Columbia University in the City of New York），于1754年始建，坐落于美国纽约曼哈顿，是一所位于美国纽约曼哈顿的世界顶级私立研究型大学，为美国大学协会的十四所创始院校之一，常春藤盟校之一。其前身为国王学院，是根据英国国王乔治二世颁布的《国王宪章》而成立。学校于1896年正式更名为哥伦比亚大学（1784-1896为哥伦比亚学院）并迁到目前所在的晨边高地校园。哥大是美国历史最悠久的五所大学之一，也是培养诺贝尔奖获得者最多的大学之一。哥大校园里还走出5位美国开国元勋，奥巴马、罗斯福等四位美国总统，34位各国元首和政府首脑，10位美国最高法院大法官。哥伦比亚大学拥有世界一流的法学院、商学院、医学院、新闻学院、国际关系学院、工程学院等，哥大新闻学院颁发的普利策奖是美国新闻界的最高荣誉。1767年哥大授予了第一个医学博士学位，这也是美国历史上第一个专业博士学位。
