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ing normal american citizens, we are called childish, which really bothers me. after all, take a look at these events: imperialism and colonization, world wars, george w. bush. ask yourself: whoamp。s responsible? adults. now, what have kids done? well, anne frank touched millions with her powerful account of the holocaust, ruby bridges helped end segregation in the united states, and, most recently, charlie simpson helped to raise 120,000 pounds for haiti on his little bike. so, as you can see evidenced by such examples, age has absolutely nothing to do with it. the traits the word childish addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this agediscriminatory word when it es to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking. (applause) thank you. then again, whoamp。s to say that certain types of irrational thinking arenamp。t exactly what the world needs? maybe youamp。ve had grand plans before, but stopped yourself, thinking: thatamp。s impossible or that costs too much or that wonamp。t benefit me. for better or worse, we kids arenamp。t hampered as much when it es to thinking about reasons why not to do things. kids can be full of inspiring aspirations and hopeful thinking, like my wish that no one went hungry or that everything were free kind of utopia. how many of you still dream like that and believe in the possibilities? sometimes a knowledge of history and the past failures of utopian ideals can be a burden because you know that if everything were free, that the food stocks would bee depleted, and scarce and lead to chaos. on the other hand, we kids still dream about perfection. and thatamp。s a good thing because in order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first. in many ways, our audacity to imagine helps push the boundaries of possibility. for instance, the museum of glass in taa, washington, my home state yoohoo washington (applause) has a program called kids design glass, and kids draw their own ideas for glass art. now, the resident artist said they got some of their best ideas through the program because kids donamp。t t