2008 KS Bull Issue 2

'h4FSSA E,n,rqQ94 fi{F. rIrN gv"C IQA L li this issue of KS Bull, we bring you some of the best essays that our students in Gp and Kl have written over the past months. lf you are looking for good tips on how to commLrnicate with impact and how to write essays that are rnemorable, some good places to look areCommencement Speeches. Steve Jobs spoke to a Stanford crowd at the 2005 Commencement and inspired us with his down to earth stories buitt around lhree themes: connecting ihe dots, Iove and loss, and death. The speech is a compe ing read. coogle jt. .l K Rowling, best selling auihor of the Harry Potter series, spoke of the benefits of faiture and the lmportance of imagination at the 2008 Harvard Cornmeocemenl. Her text was simple yet powerfut, pepperecl wiih wisdom wroughi from personal and paintul experiences. One of the best exarnptes of rhetoric can be found in this paragraph: "ll you c|loose to use yout siatus and influence to raise yourvaice an behalf of thase who have no voice: if yoLl choase t.) identify nat only wjth the poweiul, but with the poweless; if you retajn the abitity to inagine yourself inlo the lives ol those who da not have you advantaqes, then it wi not only be your praud lamilies who celebrate your exislence, bul lhousands and mi tons of peapte vr'hose reatity yoLl ltave helped transforfit for the belter Wedo nat necd fitagic to change the wart.J, we cany at!the power we need inside aurcelves already: we have the powar to imagine better" Another compelling speech is Sama tha Power's, at the 20OB Commencement oJ pitzer Ctaremoni College, where she warncd Lrs.ro be wary of those who ctaim to have specialised kn.rwlectge on the way lhjngs should turrr out, in olrr lives or in the world: "The expefts deal in prababilities, but you al have the chance to decide an possibi'ties an.t make what Irower uses qLrotations, comp{!lling examples, humour, personat iltustrations and poiqnant stories devices used by the besl writers - to sLrpport five key themes by way of exhortinq the younq "As yau ligure out yout path in life, tty to fo aw your nase: be sure to crcaLe quiet time sa tou n axtmtse lhc chances yau will be able to hear your gut when it speaks to yau; by lar the most impoftant quality one needs in life is not in fact talent; jt is resiliency; find friends who tave your back; an.J please be a Reacl thc text lor yourself. Great advice- Great speech- Greal writing skilts Enjoy Auspiciunr Melioris Aevi- \^^-GA* Lim Lai Cheng {Mrs) Principal Raffles Juaior Colleoe i'_ ( xs nurl aooe ..: i ISSUE TWO .. -/^\ ,. l-i i- i,)

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