A Forever Waiting

Class Three Ou Chenchen Ten years’ time only for waiting.

Ten years’ waiting only for one man.

When you hear these words, you may think it’s a beautiful love story between humans. Yes, it is a story about love, but between a dog and its master.

The real Hatchi, the dog in this story, was born in Japan in 1923. In the movie, Hatchi crossed thousands of miles by train, and then he met Parker (the main actor) in a snowy day. Parker took the lost Hatchi back to his home, and then kept it. After that, they ate together, bathed together, slept together and Parker taught Hatchi to play balls every day. Parker was so good to Hatchi that Hatchi decided to return his love with its whole life. So he waited for Parker to return from work at the station every day.

However, beautiful things don’t last long. One morning, Parker,

didn’t come back from his work forever. He died suddenly. Every

member of the family accepted the fact except Hatchi. Every day, no matter what happened, Hatchi just came to the train station at the same place and time. Then Hatchi spent ten years waiting for his master to

come back. Ten years time, maybe it is just one-tenth of a human life, but for a dog it means a whole life.

Hatchi’s story showed how great the loyalty and love is.However, how many of us can be as loyal as Hatchi for even ten years? I think nobody can.

Loyalty is a sense of responsibility. In fact, to be loyal to someone is easy to say, but hard to do. To be loyal, you should never forget the one that you loved.

Cruelty Hidden in the Beauty

Class Three Zhang Meiqi At first, I’d like to show you a picture. Can you name the animal in this picture? Yes, it is the most lovely animal in the world. Maybe you have seen it in the zoo before. They often jump out of the water and play

games to make visitors happy. However, i want to show you some cruel facts about the happy dolphins.

In the middle of September, the fishing village in the south of Japan will have a celebration called “Killing Dolphin Festival”. In the next six months, there will be more than 2000 dolphins to be killed. The dolphin meat can sell for about 4000 yuan. However, this is only a beginning. The number of the dolphins to be killed increases to 20000 a year. If this cruel behavior goes on, the dolphins will die out in the next few years.

However, the Japanese government doesn’t stop killing at all. The

government encourages the people to kill the dolphins for food. So our lovely dolphins are in great danger.

Once I saw a documentary called “The cove”. The blooded river, the sad screaming of the poor dolphins and the ignorant of Japanese people really shocked me so much. How they did such bad things to the lovely dolphins.

The documentary introduces us the sad situation of dolphins in Japan. It makes more and more people think about protecting dolphins. As

students, we should do what we can to protect animals in danger because they are our friends.

 

第二篇：国际英语演讲比赛一等奖稿子

Hello, Ladies and Gentlemen.

As we all know, we are here to discuss ‘Mapping of the Global Future’. But before doing that, let me give you just one figure - 15 million. Do you know what that figure means? It is the number of children that die every year because of starvation. Just think about it - 15 million children a year, that is 29 children every minute, leave us because they have nothing to eat.

Now tell me, what kind of ‘Global Future’ can we talk about when we still have such problems? It is easy for us to be here, in warmth and satiety, and discuss the possibilities of the world’s development. But think about all those children that will go to bed tonight without nothing in their stomachs. Some of them will be asking for food, not able to understand that their parents simply have nothing to give them. And some of them will simply be too weak to even cry.

For most of the starving children, famine will not be lethal. Nevertheless, the lack of vitamins and minerals will most likely give them blindness, deformities or brain damage, which they would never be able to cure.

Today in the world, there are more than 150 million starving children and most of them live in the countries of Africa. The reasons for their starvation are not military operations, draughts or floods. It is poverty, pure and simple.

And poverty means not only famine. Poverty also means that most of those starving children have to work full-time jobs because it is the only way for them to support their families. More than 250 million children all over the globe are working nowadays.

Poverty also means that those countries have no money to fight the natural disasters that strike their continent. It is questionable that the floods and hurricanes are the result of the developing technology, but it is clear that almost the whole continent of Africa is so poor that it cannot fight those catastrophes.

Poverty also means that most of the developing countries have no money to prevent or cure even the most widespread illnesses. Such diseases as measles or chicken pox, which hardly worry anybody today, account for millions of children deaths in the developing countries every year simply because nobody gave those children a shot. And this is not to mention AIDS, which is so widespread in Africa, that it accounts for 50% to 60% of all children deaths in such countries as Botswana or Zimbabwe.

Poverty also means that those children will never be able to get decent education, which makes it a vicious circle, because without education these children will never get a good job and thus are destined to starve throughout their whole life.

Of course, you will ask me - what can be done. And I’ll tell you - a lot. Let us leave alone any political aspects of helping the starving people get some food. Today they hardly receive any help at all. The world community is too slow to react when something happens, and the last years prove it. In 2005, for example, no country reacted in time when people of Niger had faced seve

re food shortage. At the same time, the existing organizations created to help starving people are so poor themselves, that they have to ask for public donations, which definitely do not give much.

What is the most stupid and absurd about this whole situation is how cheap it is to help the needy. For example, a bowl of soup for a hungry child costs only about 2 cents, and the set of all necessary shots costs less than a dollar. So, as you can see, not much is needed to prevent children from all over the world from dying from famine and diseases. How can we look those people in the eyes when all it takes to stop the starvation in the whole world is for one country to underproduce ten planes?

I’m not trying to convince you in something or make you change your point of view on certain issues. All I’m trying to do is tell you the bare facts about what is going on in the distant corners of our world, so that you can make your own choice. But let us not forget the words of John Kennedy, who said that ‘if a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich’.

And before I finish, let me remind you once again, while we here discuss the global future, 15 million children this year will not have any future at all.