【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ho give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job and there’s not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don’t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren’t right.But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life — what you look like, where you e from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at home — none of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school. That’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. There is no excuse for not trying.Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up. No one’s written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.That’s what young people like you are doing every day, all across America.Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn’t speak English when she first started school. Neither of her parents had gone to college. But she worked hard, earned good grades, and got a scholarship to Brown University — is now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being Dr. Jazmin Perez.I’m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who’s fought brain cancer since he was three. He’s had to endure all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longer — hundreds of extra hours — to do his schoolwork. But he never fell behind. He’s headed to college this fall.And then there’s Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Even when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods in the city, she managed to get a job at a local health care center, start a program to keep young people out of gangs, and she’s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to college.And Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell aren’t any different from any of you. They face challenges in their lives just like you do. In some cases they’ve got it a lot worse 10國家領(lǐng)袖 政治人物 商界精英 作家記者 娛樂名人巴拉克奧巴馬：夢想與責(zé)任Hope and Responsibility熱詞空間你們中有一些人可能沒有那些有利條件。或許你們生活中沒有成年人為你們提供你們所需要的支持。或許你們家中有人失業(yè)，經(jīng)濟(jì)非常拮據(jù)?；蛟S你們生活在使你們感覺不安全的社區(qū)，或有朋友逼迫你們?nèi)プ瞿銈冎啦粚Φ氖虑?。但說到底，你們生活的環(huán)境——你們的長相、你們的原籍、你們的經(jīng)濟(jì)收入、你們家中的境況——這一切都不能成為你們不完成家庭作業(yè)或在學(xué)校表現(xiàn)差的理由。你們沒有理由不服從你們的老師、或逃學(xué)、或輟學(xué)。沒有理由不付出努力。你們目前的狀況并不決定著你們的未來。沒有人為你們書寫命運(yùn)，因?yàn)檫@是在美國，你們書寫自己的命運(yùn)。你們掌握自己的未來。這就是像你們這樣的年輕人每天都在做的事情，全美各地都是如此。來自德克薩斯州羅馬城的賈茲敏 佩雷斯就是一個例證。她剛開始上學(xué)時并不會說英文。她的父母都沒有上過大學(xué)。但是她非常勤奮，成績優(yōu)秀，獲得了布朗大學(xué)的獎學(xué)金——她如今正在讀研究生，攻讀公共衛(wèi)生專業(yè)，不久將成為賈茲敏 佩雷斯博士。我想起了來自加利福尼亞州洛斯阿爾托斯城的安多尼 舒爾茨，他從三歲開始就一直與腦癌進(jìn)行抗?fàn)?，他不得不忍受各類治療和手術(shù)帶來的痛苦，其中一項(xiàng)手術(shù)曾影響了他的記憶，因此他要花更多的時間——要多出數(shù)百個小時——在功課上。但是他從未落后。他今年秋季將邁進(jìn)大學(xué)。我還想起我的家鄉(xiāng)伊利諾伊州芝加哥市的尚特爾 史蒂夫。她曾在芝加哥最困難的社區(qū)生活，寄養(yǎng)于多個不同的家庭，但她設(shè)法在一家地方醫(yī)療中心找到工作，并開始了一項(xiàng)幫助年輕人遠(yuǎn)離犯罪團(tuán)伙的計(jì)劃，她即將以優(yōu)異成績從中學(xué)畢業(yè)，接著將上大學(xué)。賈茲敏、安多尼和尚特爾與你們中間的任何一個人沒什advantage [?d39。v230。nt?d?] n. 有利條件，優(yōu)點(diǎn)，優(yōu)勢go around 足夠分配pressure [39。pr???] vt. 對……施加壓力； 迫使neglect [n?g39。l?kt] vt. 忽視，忽略destiny [39。d?st?n?] n. 命運(yùn)scholarship [39。skɑl????p] n. 獎學(xué)金endure [?n39。djur] vt. 忍耐，忍受memory [39。m?m?r?] n. 記憶；記憶力bounce [bauns] vi. 跳；躍11勵志演講影響你一生的名人off than many of you. But they refused to give up. They chose to take responsibility for their lives, for their education, and set goals for themselves. And I expect all of you to do the same.That’s why today I’m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education — and do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time each day reading a book. Maybe you’ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your munity. Maybe you’ll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look, because you believe, like I do, that all young people deserve a safe environment to study and learn. Maybe you’ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to learn. And along those lines, by the way, I hope all of you are washing your hands a lot, and that you stay home from school when you don’t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter.But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to mit to it. I want you to really work at it.I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work — that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star. Chances are you’re not going to be any of those things.The truth is, being successful is hard. You won’t love every subject that you study. You won’t click with every teacher that you have. Not every homework assignment will seem pletely relevant to your life right at this minute. And you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.That’s okay. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures. . Rowling’s — who wrote Harry Potter — her first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. He lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, “I have failed over and 12國家領(lǐng)袖 政治人物 商界精英 作家記者 娛樂名人巴拉克奧巴馬：夢想與責(zé)任Hope and Responsibility熱詞空間么兩樣。跟你們一樣，他們在生活中面臨種種挑戰(zhàn)。在某些情況下，他們的處境比起你們許多人更差。但他們拒絕放棄。他們決定要為自己的一生、自己的教育負(fù)起責(zé)任，為自己設(shè)定各項(xiàng)奮斗目標(biāo)。我希望你們都這樣做。因此，我今天呼吁你們每一個人為自己的教育設(shè)定目標(biāo)——并盡自己的最大努力來實(shí)現(xiàn)這些目標(biāo)。你的目標(biāo)可以是一件十分簡單的事情，例如完成家庭作業(yè)、上課專心聽講，或每天花一點(diǎn)時間讀一本書。也許你會決定要參加課外活動或在你的社區(qū)提供志愿服務(wù)。也許你會決定挺身而出保護(hù)那些因?yàn)樯矸莼蜷L相而受人戲弄或欺負(fù)的孩子，原因是你和我一樣認(rèn)為所有的年輕人都應(yīng)該享有一個適合讀書和學(xué)習(xí)的安全環(huán)境。也許你會決定更好地照料自己，以便有更充沛的精力來學(xué)習(xí)。順便提一下，除了這些事情外