Today is my top concern
I’d like to share my opinion on my top concern with you here and now with great honor. Actually, I concern about a great many things, like faith, honesty, love, knowledge, climate, pollution, etc. But my top concern is today, I concern about what I should do today and how can I do it well. As the saying goes, “the life of man consists of yesterday, today and tomorrow”. However, when growing up, I’ve gradually realized that we needn’t worry about yesterday and tomorrow.
No matter what you’ve got yesterday, mistakes and cares, honors and achievements, pains and happiness. Just remember they all have passed forever beyond our control. We cannot call it back like the sand in the hourglass.
Tomorrow is vague, ambiguous and unknown. No one can predict the possible adversities, burdens, promise, performance, joy or surprise. However, the sun of tomorrow will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds. It may be the fairest thing in the world. It’s with little help to worry anything in the future. So just let it be.
Then it leaves only Today. Anyone can fight in the battles of just one day. We can figure it out easily that it is not the experience of Today that drives men mad—it is regret or bitterness for something which happened yesterday and the dread of what tomorrow may bring.
We can do anything we want just in today, never live in yesterday or tomorrow.
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We all have dreams, but we can only fight for it today. We all have shortcomings, but we can only correct them today. All famous, successful people and the nature tell us that we can be anything if we seize today. On this point, I don’t think there will be an exception. Yeah, God creates the world in seven days, who can say they are not seven Today’s?
Well the history is the past today’s, and the future’s based on today’s. Build your dreams? Correct your mistakes? Why we regret or put off what you can do today until tomorrow? If you want, just do it today. So just live today never concern about yesterday and tomorrow.
Today is My Top Concern
We are all living in this world, and hoping a bright future and happiness. We really concern about future very much, even in our dream. But how to get it? In my idea, for getting a good tomorrow, we are planning in today.
Today is my top concern, because we just can work hard today to get a good tomorrow. Everything we do today will be something to be paid tomorrow. In this world, we were born to be survived by working day by day. We got all needs for paying our time and energy. No pains, no gains.
As time going by, things will change. So we can't predict what will happen tomorrow, will never ever know it. But today, we can grab it tightly, and try to make it more efficiently. It's just like a step to a gate of tomorrow, without steps, we can't
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reach the gate.
Life is just like a creative art work, we dream of the future, and do what we need to do in today to get it. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow, a series of events happened, happen or will happen. We are living in it, and we can't change the past, or change the future, but we still can do better work today. That's why Today is My Top Concern.
Thank you for everyone listening to me.
2012 is my top concern
As one of the most successful movies predicting disasters of human being, 2012 shocked a lot of people. After watching the movie, more and more so-called authorized scientists began to analyze the future. Frankly speaking, I believe 2012 and I do concern 2012. However, instead of trying to escape from the reality or pretending not to be afraid of death, I think more about life.
First of all, the top concern of 2012 let me learn to cherish our everyday life. We enjoy saying “I really should have done something.” What if the next day the plane you take will crash into the ocean? What if the next day you will be trapped under the ruin of the earthquake? What if the next day you will be covered in the debris flow? Will you regret not having made full use of today to do the meaningful things? Concern 2012, you will know how to spend everyday.
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Secondly, the top concern of 2012 let me learn to forgive others. In the last second of your life, will you regret not having greeted your parents in the morning just because you quarreled about your job last night? Will you regret being chaotic last evening so that you could revenge your neighbor for their noise at night? Will you regret handing in the quit letter just because your boss criticized you yesterday because of misunderstanding? Learn to forgive and try to be generous because you may lose the chance to say I am sorry for ever. Concern 2012, you will learn to smile instead of scold.
Finally, the top concern of 2012 let me learn to know the importance of protecting the environment. Environmental problems are becoming more and more serious all over the world. With the development of industry and agriculture， cars make great noises and give off poisonous gas. Trees on the hills have been cut down，and waste water is being poured continuously into rivers. Furthermore，wherever we go today，we can find rubbish carelessly disposed. Concern 2012, you will learn the urgency of protecting the environment.
Darkness would make us more appreciative of sight; silence would teach us the joys of sound; 2012 would let us learn the value of life. Regarding 2012 as top concern will let us live each day as if we should die tomorrow.
Future Is My Top Concern
As a sophomore student, who is preparing to graduate in less than two years, I still doubt that what kind of future I will have when I step into the society. As a
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daughter whose parents lie awake every night and wonder how they will repay the mortgage and save enough for their child’s college education, I still question what kind of future I will offer them as a better return for their selfless sacrifices. As a new member of the Party of the People’s Republic of China, I still wonder what kind of future I could create and build for my beloved motherland. Overall, no matter how long it takes or how steep the climb, the future is my top concern.
In the wake of growing up, a strong point knocked on me that there is no responsibility to shirk, no names of coward to take, and no carelessness to casually behave. And I know the challenges that tomorrow will bring seem like the biggest enormity of task lies ahead and gets in my way.
There must be setbacks and faults start. For instance, I may run into snags in countless interviews, my parents may feel disappointed with all the arrangement I offer for their remaining years, what I advise or suggest may be turned down by the government, you may laugh at me at this moment that I’m considering too much. While that’s it. Future is out of my control which makes me a little bit upset. But I am still confident that I will get it done by braving scorching heat and bitter cold. Because this time must be different. No one and nothing in the world would turn down the request asked for by a person who’s been making painstaking effort and backed up with the unyielding support!
So as far as I concern, I can manage my future quite well. I won’t stop chasing until a good job cuts out for me; I won’t pause the conversation between my parents and me until I got what they really want; I won’t prevent myself from
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keeping up with the modern society until I finally get there, until I finally get it done!
Ladies and gentlemen, I have never been more hopeful than I am standing here today that I promise you that I will get there, a place I dreamed of for a long time. To chase my future, to color my life! Thank you!
Change is My Top Concern
I was born in a family where changes seldom pitch on me. I attend local schools, got into college, seems like everything stays still, no change at all. Life is just plain and crystal clear. However, during my stay in Houston last fall as an exchange student, which I called it the period of exercising changes, some trifles did change me and raised the idea of change to my top concern.
Change enables me to have paradigm shift. I can still visualize the scene from the flashback. On my orientation day to the University of Houston, when my friend Robert and I walked through aisles on campus, I was startled that people come across just greet and smile to me. One lady did and I was curious. Why? Have I been famous in the school already? Or she just has a crush on me?” “No!” Robert cried out, “We often smile to strangers as a way to acknowledge the presence of others, showing friend lines sand wishes. You should try a girl.” I was a worrier then and a strong flow of hesitation just popped out and I was worrying whether I should adapt to changes or remain still. Heraclites said, “All is flux, nothing stays still.” So after the struggle of hesitation, I made a change and
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smiled to a girl confronted. The change I made frees me from a worrier constrained by dogmas to a warrior.
Charles Darwin said, “It’s the one most responsive to change that survives.” It is said that Chinese seldom smile to strangers. However, when I walked down our campus and tried to apply the idea of change by exchanging smiles with strangers, I was glad to see changes and positive responses. Under the circumstances of globalization and intercontinental communications, small changes will surely be pioneers to free us from cultural barriers.
Without changes, human beings won’t be revitalized from bitterness, scientists will lose their jobs and reforms won’t be formed. Without the idea of change, I wouldn’t be standing here, right here, right now.
There’re so many flavors tasting on the journey of change: Changes to take on responsibilities and share burdens, changes to inspire and to cast positive influences on others. When I tell my parents and friends about all this, they are inspired by me. And thus, make me a source of change to them.
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of phoenix and surely tops my concern.
Harmony Is My Top Concern
There is an interesting thing that I always want to do which is when I wake up
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in the morning. I stand by the window, stretch my arms and appreciate the nature.
The sunshine gets through the window secretly so that I feel energetic and have no intention to sleep, what comes to me is: the birds are singing so happily in the tree, children are playing games, women washing clothes by the small stream, the soft smoke coming out from the chimney and fly to the sky.
So beautiful a scene, So harmonious a world!
However, recently, the crash of boats between China and Japan has made a huge wave around the world. It has been involved in lots of problems of economic, politics, culture and military.
What if the people between the two countries couldn’t get alone with each other any more?
What if the trade couldn’t go smoothly as usual?
What if the military action will be taken?
What if demonstrations are on the street?
Why not keep calm and think of the solution; why not forgive and understand each other; why not contribute to a harmonious world.
Today, many people still suffer from the racial discrimination, belief and
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convictions difference and struggles against civil rights fights! Without hesitation, I believe harmony is my top concern.
Harmony is not only my top concern, but also your top concern; it should be our top concern.
Concern of harmony is to us what sunshine is to the morning, wish the sunshine brightens every corner of the world.
Share the same sunshine, share the same concern of harmony!
Cultivating Creativity is My Top Concern
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Today my topic is cultivating creativity is my top concern. I would like begin with my personal experience. As a sophomore student, presentation appears as our daily routine. Day after day, the same pattern repeated. In order to cause our audience's interest, my friend and I determined to convert the form. Later, we interviewed several students, recorded a short video and show our presentation as a TV program. At last, we harvested a plenty of claps and left an impressive memory to our audience. Experienced this, I tasted fruitful fruit that the creativity brings to me. Thus, cultivating creativity is my top concern.
Here is a common phenomenon happened every year: where there is a recruitment, there is an open-ended question. I remembered a question asked like this: three switches are installed in a room, while the lights the switches controlled
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are in another room. How can the applicant identify the match of the light and switch if he is allowed to enter the room with lights only once? According to traditional practice, it is an impossible task. However, how about we alter our thinking aspect? In fact, we can turn on two of the lights and turn off one of them five minutes later. Then, go to another room to check the temperature. Actually, to a certain degree, the answer decides whether the applicant can get the job or not. Hence, try to cultivate creativity as much as possible must be regarded as our top concern. Meanwhile, creativity, which means go another way is also an effective measure for us to save both time and money. As far as I know, the ordinary methods do not always function economically and practically. In this situation, what we should do is to put forward creative ideas to simplify issues. Besides, choosing an extraordinary way to achieve our goal is a brave attempt, which offers us excitement. Personally speaking, the procedure of each attempt is just like a record of our mind, which can resonate us with a feeling of enjoyment and achievement in our advanced years. Try to imagine, how gratified we will be once we succeed on the condition that we solve the issue through our own creative efforts!
To be creative men, we should rethink whether the solutions we have got are the best. To be creative men, we should rehearse the situation before we get started. To be creative men, we should adopt other’s constructive suggestion.
As college students, make creativity to be our top concern can not only help us when we are in college, but also benefit us when we step into the society. Therefore, cultivating creativity is my top concern not temporary but in perpetuity.
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Environment is my top concern
We live in the world every day. We eat food, drink water, wear clothes, watch TV, use computers and so on. We are producing waste every moment.
Generally speaking, there are four sorts of waste. They are material waste, organic waste, inorganic waste and poisonous & harmful waste. Now, we are going to talk about each sort of waste one by one.
Material waste: it means the waste of substance or things from which something else can be made. For example, people throw away the used metal products and buy a new one, so the old metal waste accumulates. At last, they become waste. For example, when people finish reading newspaper, the paper will become waste. When the glass is broken, it also becomes waste. Nobody wants to use a broken window or drink with a broken glass or wear a pair of broken glasses. Once it is broken, it becomes waste. The rate of using plastics is increasing day by day. People use plastic bags because they are convenient. When they get home, they throw the plastics way, paying no attention to the environment. The more convenience plastics brings to us, the more plastic waste is produced. This is called “white pollution” as most plastics are white. Some of our products we use every day are made of rubber, just like the types and the bottom part of our shoes. It’s true that rubber plays an important role in our life. However, it also brings us some trouble when it has been used for a long time and becomes old. The old types become waste because it can’t break down by nature. This is really a big problem.
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Organic waste: it refers to waste from living things, including waste from animals, plants and people. Some parts of vegetables are thrown away as waste because they don’t taste good. In the past, people cooked their food using burning coal, so there left the burned coal, which is useless, like the thrown vegetables. All this sorts of waste contain organism, so it is called organic waste.
Actually, we also have inorganic waste, the opposite to organic waste, including building waste, broken pottery and china, and cinder.
The last part is harmful and poisonous waste, such as used batteries, electrical apparatus and medical supplies. Computers and TV sets are one part of electrical apparatus. You see, the old electrical apparatus can set off some dangerous rays and make the soil harder, even damage the under ground water. Mobile phones are as dangerous as computers and TV sets. As we know, X-rays can be used to examine patients, but the X-rays machines are dangerous when they are thrown away without any treatment. They can’t be used to treat the sick, but they still can give off rays. For the normal people, they can be dangerous. So, we must think about this problem.
As waste has four sorts, we can sort them into each sort that they belong to. It’s convenient to treat them after they are sorted. Then we can deal with them sort by sort. We have thought out some methods like storing them in order to change them into plant food, or burning them in a huge stove and use the heat to make electricity. For the first way, the change rate is much too low and it may pollute the under ground water. For the second one, of course it’s wonderful if
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it’s easy to be tried out. But to build such a huge stove will cost too much. Not a good method. Now you see, treating waste is not an easy job.
From what has been discussed above, we can do something to our home-the earth. We should make full use of things. At the same time, we’d better reduce its harmful effect as much as possible.
We can do from the basic of waste. That’s to say, we can reduce the production of waste, and reuse and recycle them as much as we can. Take material waste for example. Nearly all of them can be recycled and reused. And, we should call for using things made of paper instead of plastics so as to protect our environment.
Protecting the environment is not one person’s duty; it depends on all of us. What can we do? Maybe a dozen..
In a word, use what can reuse as much as possible. Remember, environment protection is not one’s duty!
Knowledge is my Top Concern
The famous football star Mara Dona once said, “Please tell the children not worship me, but to worship the knowledge. I stopped learning when I was young, and I think that he who only learn little deem to be a foolish donkey.’
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What he said is not to show his modesty, but to show that the knowledge is the most important and internal and precious wealth that men should get and cherish.
In modern society, if you want to live better, the most important thing is knowledge. Therefore, we must learn harder and harder to obtain more knowledge, only do this can we live better in this society.
Knowledge is the immeasurable wealth forever, because it is not the normal wealth, but the mental wealth. The disable but strong- minded people, Zhang Haidi, who became more and more firm because of her steadfast and persistent pursuit of the knowledge, and in the same time, the knowledge that she had studied gave her strength and courage. Although she was disabling, he got another wealth-that was knowledge. She was good at five kinds of language and translated many classics which written in Chinese or other countries. I think it is the knowledge that added many kinds of colors to her unlucky life, and made her a superwoman in life.
Knowledge is really important to us. As a modern university student, we should cherish big ambitions and study hard, so we can devote our knowledge to the blueprint of the new society.
Health is my top concern
Last year I had some unforgettable experience from which I deeply
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understand the importance of health.
My sister, a high school student, was suddenly struck by a disease named lupus. She had to stay in hospital for a month until the disease was under control and keep taking medicine for the rest of her life in case of relapse. A few days later, I went to visit her and found her was in a very bad situation, because the medical fee was very high. I felt deeply sorry for her and we all worry about her.
I think we should try our best to stay healthy in our daily life, and the most direct way is to keep a balanced diet. Fruits and vegetables containing rich fiber are no doubt the best choice, but remember to eat at right time, neither 2 hours before you sleep or after 10 o’clock at night. Secondly we should do sports regularly, as Leonardo Da Vinci once said: “motion is the source of all life”. Third, we have to avoid too much working pressure? Finally, We have to get rid of those bad habits that damage our health, such as drinking and smoking.
Health is far more important than wealth and wisdom. As Emerson says, “the first wealth is health.” Good health will bring us an enjoyable life and achievement of our dreams.? If you are in good health, you can do what you want to do. Therefore, we should concern more about our health, no matter what we need afford. Health is the first of your life.
Job is my top concern
Good morning everyone!
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It is a great honor and pleasure to come here on this beautiful Thursday to share with you my opinions about jobs.
Yes, job is my top concern.
My parents are both farmers, they except I can get a good job when I graduate rather than become a farmer. And I also hope they will live a better life. So I must study harder and harder for a good job some years later.
As well-known, the situation of global economy is not very good because of the financial crisis. More or less, it affects the economy in China and the pressure from employment becomes greater. In China, the number of graduated college student is massively increasing. Facing great pressure of employment, I have to consider that when I graduate from this university, where to go and what to do?
Now, what we have to do is to expand our knowledge, establish solid foundation, build a healthy body, take on some important tasks, and learn to be independent and so on. Hey, guys. Take actions for a good job in the future.
That’s all! Thank you!
Lonely seniors are my top concern
If I had got the topic earlier, I might have chosen some other topics such as the present affairs of our country, the environmental problems that people all around
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the world are concerned about or my favorite superstar. But just a month ago I have lost my grandmother, the nicest and the most kind and loving person I have ever known. That is why I choose to talk about the lonely seniors of our society.
In the modern society, most young people are too immersed in pursuing our dreams to look back to the people behind us. They have brought us up in sacrifice of their time. Now they are too old to go outside to experience the wonderful world. This is exactly why they need us to talk to them, to accompany them, and to protect them.
I always remember my light-hearted childhood with my grandmother. I always remember her busy shadow clearly in my mind. I always remember the taste of such delicious dishes my grandmother prepared especially for me that I can’t have any more. At the same time, I remember her clumsy movements and confusing expressions after she got Alzheimer's disease. I regret not having companied her often just because we couldn’t communicate like before. I regret always finding excuses to play outside instead of visiting my grandparents. When I was traveling or gathering with our friends, I couldn’t understand her loneliness, and her expectations for me. The more I think about her, the more ashamed I become.
I am standing here not telling a very sad experience I have had, not composing genuine statements and heartfelt appreciation to our parents or grandparents. I am standing here to try to make us young people aware of those who have brought us up and given us such selfless love. Give our appreciation to them by
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practical actions instead of just thinking about them. As college students, now that we can’t stay with them, we can call them frequently to see if they are well or give our sincere greetings to let them feel they are not alone.
Treasure every moment with your grandparents, because you will never know how much they mean to you until maybe too late.
That’s all! Thank you!
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