Jonah+BC’s+Final+AmEx+2013+Speech

=Title of Speech= Compliments

=Text of Speech= Alright, who in this room doesn't like compliments? No one, good! I personally love being complimented, and not even for anything constructive or sometimes even relevant. I love receiving ridiculously broad and extraordinarily kind and uplifting compliments from people I rarely talk to. Why one may ask: "Do you appreciate this so much"? Well the answer is simple, it lifts my spirits. Just a little personality kicker, like a verbal five hour power.

In today's society, we human beings simply don't compliment each other anywhere near enough and because of this people go around with fairly low levels of self esteem and great misconceptions of their true self worth. In fact research at the University of Panama suggests that the more compliments an individual receives throughout the course of their day, the higher the likelihood this person has of actually attaining an enjoyable level of happiness over a much more bland emotion, known to many as simply just being "fine". Likewise, statistics out of the MidSouthern-NorthWestern University of Omaha suggest that this epidemic of "fineness" strikes at least 84% of the American population at any given moment and may cause such devastating side effects such as moping about, leaving for any given activity behind schedule, or even most frighteningly: The inability to simply "stop and smell the roses", meaning that of this 84% of people, there are at least two individuals that may not even posses the capability to simply enjoy where they are currently geographically located because they're attention is so diverted towards this false feeling of content.

We as a society have to work to combat this ill felt emotion, this sense of practical failure, this "fineness"; And so I propose that we as a nation work to compliment each other in greater frequency and with more enthusiasm than ever before! I want to be able to walk outside and immediately hear compliments wringing out in the quad, in the streets, every where I go I want to hear harebrained dally wandered poppycock that sounds amazingly appealing to the ears and bolsters not just the spirit but even the heart. So in line with this, I shall begin..."Celeste, you have a warm... face" - "Spencer, I am diggin the hair" - "Elliot, I love what you've done with your teeth"... And clearly just from these little comments, I have brought new sunshine to this special few today and class you can too!

In the America I wish to grow old in, I want to see a place where people aren't afraid to share praise with one another. I want to see a society that cherishes and upholds a tradition of compliments, a culture that promotes the encouragement of one another every day and not to instead put each other down. Too often do I see my classmates, my peers calling each other "retards" and exchanging words of idiocy rather than of encouragement. I mean then again, maybe these are words of encouragement, who isn't encouraged to work harder after someone calls them a dipshitiot? I certainly am.. But that's not the point! The point is that we need to change they way we work to encourage one another so that it actually has a positive and desirable affect, because clearly from the statistics I'm about to pull out of my ass.. I mean from the internet, things are not working so well.

There is a website called [|Gallup.com], that has taken polls almost every year, of Americans by phone (they're like telemarketers, but tele-surveyors) and according to their more recent statistics from only 2007, 42% of the Americans surveyed say they are "very happy with their lives" while in contrast, a much greater majority of 84% say that they are just merely "satisfied." Now I was actually very surprised that so many people would say they are at least "satisfied" with the way their lives have gone so far, yet to me that was still not enough. Hw could it be that in the land of "infinite opportunity", only 42% of people could be "happy". And so.... I wish to grow old in an America where at least the bare minimal of 84% of the population can say with true confidence that they are happy and not simply "just fine" or merely content. So lets whip out some smiles and bring on the compliments, we've got some work to do. Thank you Oh and on a side note, the MidSouthern-NorthWestern University of Omaha does not exist, however the University of Omaha does. And in addition to that, statistics from the MidSouthern-NorthWestern University of Omaha and the University of Panama have no real world relevance and are completely fictitious, thank you for your time.

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