Ugly Rae update,, 9/11,, and S↑2C

SCM-285-85 Principles of Speech

Speech # 1: Self-Introduction

        I need to find something to do before I drop out of school. I am bored with my life and down in the slumps. After quitting/getting fired from my last job, I don't feel important or needed. It's the worst feeling in the world. Something's got to give because my disposition is affecting my grades. Avid student I was, but now? Avid tutor I want to be, but why? Making friends and keeping them will definitely make me happy. A doughnut for my first speech presentation in Speech class is definitely not what I wanted, but I would choose making friends over an A any day. It was a lose-lose situation, but I truly could not stand in front of class and talk about myself. This assignment was by far the most difficult assignment I have ever had. I am just now discovering who I am, so... I will get it together. I have to get it together. I need to do it for my country.
      September 11, 2001?? I don't even recall where I lived and what I was doing on this unbelievable day. I think I was in Japan. Then again, I might have been in Alabama. I had never been the type to engage in the news around the world. Although I was eleven years old, I should have known, cared, asked; however, for the past nine years, I have been listening to teachers, professors, students, television programs, and radio stations about 9/11. I have read material and stories about the event that took place in New York. Year after year, it gets more sad. Wearing a red, white, and blue shirt today has been more significant to me than ever before. To commemorate the lives lost in the terrost attack by merely thinking about them, people that I don't know, means a lot to me. It wasn't merely natural-born citizens of the United States that lost their lives. People from different backgrounds fell as well.
      I watched the S↑2C program on television last night, and it was beautifully delivered. Celebrities came out to honor those who died of cancer, those who are enduring cancer, and those who defeated cancer. The program was certainly informative and worth a watch. Because I am not close to my family and I have never had any friends, I have never known anyone that has battled cancer. Yes, I have heard of so-an-so with cancer, but I have never known anyone. Anyhow, I will give and continue to give and help those who can't help themselves.