Sentence examples for from a commencement from inspiring English sources
He quoted from a commencement address he had recently given at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee: "Pericles was right when he told the Athenians that the citizen who takes no part in public affairs is not merely unambitious but useless.
He told the stories often: about the time his family was ejected from a train for not moving from the colored section; of being crammed into a hot, packed segregated train car returning from a commencement exercise in 1945, while four or five white men lounged in the otherwise empty car behind it.
After we make a class list, everyone realizes how much we've all learned in our lives from failure. 3. Gather Good Advice: Explain to students that the text in the quiz came from a commencement address, a graduation speech in which people traditionally give advice to students.
Human struggles against the pulls of solipsism and narcissism illuminate every page of this incisive collection — from a commencement address Franzen presented at Kenyon College, entitled "Pain Won't Kill You," to the title essay, about a recuperative bird-watching expedition to the South Pacific.
This post is adapted from a commencement speech given at Effat University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 14th , 2011
As it's graduation season, I asked the over-achieving rockstars in my senior journalism capstone class what they'd most like to hear from a commencement speaker.
Recent clear-cut plagiarism cases failed to lead to punishment for a literary icon who lifted passages from a sportswriter, a top editorial writer who stole from a young reporter and the chairman of a university's board of trustees who copied from Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Conan O'Brien for a commencement speech.
If you count these experiences I've named from college, the past year, and my plans for the next, you'll see that there are four from each, 12 altogether -- a perfectly predictable number for a commencement address from the Class of 2012, but it's one short for '13.
Nor am I suggesting as a legal or moral principle that "an author of … recognized brilliance should be barred from giving a commencement speech because one of his fictional works fell afoul of a … dogmatic religious precept," as commenter Jonathan DiMarco says.
This meant, as he recalled in the "Article on Utilitarianism" (1829), that "attached to the words 'utility' and 'principle of utility' were now ideas in abundance", from which "a commencement was made of the application of the principle of utility to practical uses" (1983a, 290).
The school board responded by withholding the diplomas of six of the editors of the Green Bag and the business manager, and by preventing the school from holding a commencement ceremony.
