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=Title of Speech= The power of dreamers =Text of Speech= No. A simple word enough, but this one small word ignited a movement that wouldn’t end till the citizens of America saw Africans Americans as equals. It wasn’t until one woman on a bus said “No” to a white man asking for a seat. This woman, Rosa Parks, became an icon, a beacon of hope, and with the aid of Martin Luther King JR lead a generation to question the standard of living, to push back the segregation between whites and black. It is these people, like Rosa Park and Martin Luther King JR, who question their surroundings, who are not just satisfied with how things are; these people had the power of seeing a better future, and were able to act on it. John F. Kennedy inspired Americans into action, pushing forward the education of children, providing money to programs like NASA to build craft that would fly into space. John F. Kennedy’s speech to put a man on the moon might have been forced due to Russia and Sputnik, it still sparked Americans to help educate the masses and be the first country, the first of humanity to put a man on the moon. With the aid of AP classes and the mass education increases American soon became the first in everything, spanning from production of auto mobile, steel, and every other possible production known to mankind. America was truly number one, and look at how far we have fallen. I won’t give you a number of what places we are in education, production, heath care; this has been repeated in numerous TED Foothill talks. We only hold the big stick and the microchip, everything else that we had has become as rusted over as the rust belt and Detroit. I am shocked at how far we have fallen, and how at once everyone looked up to us but now different societies make fun and insults us behind our backs. When I look forward and imagine the world I want to grow old in, I don’t want it to be like the present. I don’t want America to be the laughingstock, to be a country where the only good thing we have is our large army. I am not calling for America to stop spending money on the arm, I’m quite far from it. Military spending has led to breakthroughs in so many different fields, the best and biggest example coming from the atomic bomb; created to kill yet leading to a new form of energy, and energy that one day can replace the fossil fuel dependence that humans have. We are a people of wonder, we have above our neck a vault that is ready to be unlocked, and inside there are possibilities that we can’t even dream for. I want a world that is filled with more dreams, more tinkers, more thinkers; I want an America where we are focused on bettering ourselves. We were able to put a man on the moon in only 8 years, imagine, if you can, what we could achieve if we put our minds to it? Imagine being able to colonize a planet, to be able to travel through space, to boldly go where no man has ever gone before, all of this and more is possible to humanity: all we have to do is grab hold and never let go. We need more dreamers because we need more people to question their daily life, to think of new ways to improve and most of all create in their mind new products as well as tool to advance humans along. We are a race that has the potential to do anything and everything; I want to be the generation of change, of risking everything to achieve greater heights. I know that I am not capable of this, that my passion lies in helping people through medicine but this speech I speak to you now are for all those dreamers out there, for all of those people who push the boundaries. Why, because I can’t, I have no urge to push them myself, I have no ambition to create or think of something brand new, but I know there are people right now, in this room who have the power to create new and amazing things and I want them to. I want the dreamers and people to be more like Rosa Parks, to push the normal, to question the norm, to be the revolutionist who started the revolution. In the America I grow old in I want not just America but a worldwide push in technology, creation of hover cars, space travel, coronations of other planets, space travel, I want an America who isn’t known for its big stick but to be the first country who let go of grudges, petty fighting, and be known as the country who started the spark to the furtherance of humanity, to be the country whose acts would lead to a better and brighter future.

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