"To me it's a symbol of peace and honor," said Jerry Burns, a school speech therapist who went to Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura for the annual Memorial Day service.
I say all this because naturalism nowadays is about as eye-opening and challenging, as formally interesting, as a school speech day.
10 Things I Hate About You and O, while employing contemporary high-school speech, found a patois so rich in neologisms and metaphors that it became a kind of poetry.
Mr. Levy, in an hourlong back-to-school speech at the New York Press Club, said the move was part of an effort to find classrooms for a system hard pressed to accommodate 1.1 million students in sometimes crumbling buildings.
When Valdosta High declined to show President Obama's back-to-school speech live to students in September, some black leaders called for the resignation of Cason, who is white.
But thanks to his dedicated teacher, Mr Burton, and the useful trick of listening to music through headphones as he formed his words, learned from the film The King's Speech, Musharaf (or Mushy as everyone called him) was finally able to speak haltingly but clearly in public – and ended up giving an end-of-school speech to his whole year.
The religiously conservative pre-1990 apartheid government did not talk openly about AIDS and condoms, and when President Nelson Mandela broached the topic of safe sex in a 1990 school speech, parents responded that he would give children bad ideas, so he stopped discussing AIDS for years, he said.
In the instance of the school speech, it was language buried in the suggested curriculum posted online — students were asked to "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president" — that proved to be the trip wire.
If the rebels have any cause, it is the Maoist belief that change must come from the barrel of a gun so, goaded by their superiors' idiocy, on school speech day Mick and his cohorts mount a confrontation armed with bazookas.
So it was a regular treat to cross paths with John Raper in a local shop, Norm Provan at your school speech night or in his furniture store at Rockdale, Reg Gasnier playing golf at Beverley Park, Brian Clay at the traffic lights in his truck, or, if your stove broke down, Bill Wilson of St George Ranges might be despatched to repair it.
