privileged lot（求一篇英语演讲稿 题目是My college dream 在线急等！！！）

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• 求一篇英语演讲稿 题目是My college dream 在线急等！！！
• 关于“Federal Tax I. D.”的问题
• 用英语介绍下平凡的世界 急用多谢

求一篇英语演讲稿 题目是My college dream 在线急等！！！

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, I can say I am no less nervous than my fellow contestants and many of them are on the first time coming before this room. I can say ladies and gentlemen, that the problem we are facing before us, the problem that I have to deal with today, is what do I go to college for? In the past, only the rich and privileged had the opportunity to attend a university and their goals were very different. Coming from wealthy family, few of them would have to compete for a job after graduation, and most wised only to be considered well-educated. Now, people attend college or university for many different reasons. for example，we experience, career preparation, increased knowledge. But，for me, the main reason why I go to college is it can teach me how I can be a true man . Let me first tell you a story of a young male college student, not long ago, he was a very silent boy. He did not want to open his mouth and talk with others. The only thing he would do is reading, watching some TV shows and does some sports by him. He felt very shy, esp. when a stranger comes to him. He would rather stay at home than go outside. And he did not have a friend. After he entered the college, he found all the things were strange to him. At first, he had to speak with his roommates. They are talking about Jordan, Beckham and playing ball games on the ground together. Not long before he recognizes that he become talkative and outer. One of his classmates ever said to him:’ I never thought you are so pretty when you are smiling’. From then on, he become very popular and had his own close friends. He no longer is afraid of communicating with others now. My dear friends, now can you guess who that young college student is? It is me .who is standing here and speaking to you in earnest and sincerity. Besides, the college can make me mature. As is known to all, the college is a stage to the society. We shall face some realities. Maybe there ate problems I ever could not understand. And I always pointed out the faults on somebody directly. But now, I would never do it again. Because I know everyone in the society should have his own respect and face. If I need to make some question clear at sometimes, I will ask for the answers in an indirect and polite way. As I am working on the students union, I quite know the importance of teamwork. There is an old story suggest that in China:(众人拾柴火焰高)The college life just teach me some ways of involving the problems. Finally, the college provides me with individuals. There are so much spared time for us to do anything we like .For example, I like chess, so I join in the chess association in our college. Although almost I failed every time in the competition always start it again. I enjoy the course of this. So I can do anything I like. That is fantastic for me. I want to and my speed by quoting from Mr.Nixm:“Our dusting offers, not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.”I should try my best to hold every available opportunities in the college to make me better and better, and then be a true man. Thank you!你可以自已删选

关于“Federal Tax I. D.”的问题

One of my favorite movies is The Matrix. The reason why I like it so much is because it is actually based on truth (like a lot of fiction movies are). While doing research on the things of this world, I have come to realize that a lot of things that we have been told, and things that we believe to be true, are not.For example, most Americans believe the following statements:Microwaved food is safe for human consumption.There is a law requiring citizens to have a social security number.Fluoride is good for your teeth.Michael Moore exposed the REAL truth behind 9/11.The cost of living goes up every year.Vaccines are effective, necessary and safe!High cholesterol causes strokes and heart disease.The house you live in is a good investment.The Federal Reserve Bank is federal and has reserves.There are no known cures for HIV/Aids.Now, all of the above statements are “known” facts. But if you would do your own research…. Wait, let me state that again. IF YOU WERE TO DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH, you would find that not only are the above statements false, but in most cases, they are the complete opposite of the truth.Now, I don’t have time to go through all this, so right now I will focus on the tax controversy.There are two basic types of tax. There is indirect tax and direct tax. The term indirect is in reference to a person’s labor. For example, gas tax, tobacco tax or sales taxes are all indirect taxes. Social security, Medicare and Federal income taxes are direct taxes on your labor. Generally speaking indirect taxes are avoidable, whereas direct taxes are not.Now, the Constitution states in Article 1, section 9, “No capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.”To make this real simple and plain, “No direct tax on labor is allowed unless it is split up evenly among everybody”By the way, if you are a federal employee, you are considered by the government to be privileged as opposed to a private sector worker. Since your income is derived from gains (tax of citizens), it is constitutional to lay tax on your wages. That is “considered” an indirect tax.Here is how the Supreme Court describes it;“An income tax is neither a property tax nor a tax on occupations of common right, but is an excise tax.”“The legislature may declare as ‘privilege’ and tax as such for state revenue, those pursuits not matters of common right, but it has no power to declare as a ‘privilege’ and tax for revenue purposes, occupations that are of common right”Simms v. Ahrens, 271 SW 720 (1925)Congress on the other hand has the right to tax gains or profits. Examples would be dividends, royalties, alimony, pensions and things of that nature.So doesn’t this mean that the Federal Income tax that we pay nowadays is unconstitutional? No it doesn’t!!! Let’s start at the beginning.The Beginning of Income TaxIn 1862, America was in the midst of a civil war. Abe Lincoln thought that this would be a quick and painless war, but it turned out to be long and bloody. President Lincoln had left the gold standard and started printing money (greenbacks) out of thin air to finance northern government. This caused inflation in the dollar supply. So on July 1st 1862, they passed the Internal Revenue Act of 1862 (which was a revision of an earlier flat rate income tax passed in 1861) to combat inflation and finance the war.This was the first income tax and it was put on the pay of government workers and it was withheld. Luxury taxes (remember the monopoly board?) were imposed on a long list of commodities, including alcohol, tobacco, jewelry, yachts, playing cards etc. The act taxed licenses (on almost all professions) and also gains and profits (receipts from corporations, interest and dividends) as well as stamp tax and inheritance tax.This Act established that income is ‘gains’ or ‘profits’. This is the reason why only government workers paid it. If income meant anybody’s wages that had a job, then obviously everyone would have been taxed, and of course, that would have been unconstitutional. A person’s labor is his own personal property and cannot be taxed.“It has been well said that ‘the property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of the poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his own hands, and to hinder his employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbor, is a plain violation of this most sacred property’.”Butcher’s Union Co. v. Crescent City Co., 111 U.S. 746 (1883)The Sixteenth AmendmentIn 1894 Congress enacted another federal income tax. This tax would allow for not only salaries but ANY OTHER compensation that was paid to anyone who was in the privileged sector. The Supreme Court declared that this was unconstitutional because if you tax gains from personal property, then that is just like taxing the property itself, and is therefore a direct tax.“The power to tax real and personal property and the income from both, there being an apportionment, is conceded: that such tax is a direct tax in the meaning of the Constitution has not been, and, in our judgment, cannot be successfully denied:…”Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust, 157 U.S. 429 and 158 U.S. 601 (1895)But this created a loophole. Someone who had otherwise “taxable income” could attempt to get out of paying taxes by assigning that income to his/her personal property which would take it out of the category of indirect and make it a direct tax. To make a long story short, this is what led to the 16th amendment.The 16th amendment reads “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States....”So, did this amendment authorize everyone to be taxed, or did it just close the loophole? If you notice, it doesn’t say that congress has the power to lay and collect direct taxes. So in order for this amendment to be compliant with Article 1, section 9 of the constitution, it would seem that it could only mean the same indirect tax that it had always meant. What did the Supreme Court have to say about it?"The 16th Amendment does not extend the power of taxation to new or excepted subjects, but merely removes the occasion for apportioning taxes on income among the states. Neither can the tax be sustained as a tax on the person, measured by income. Such a tax would be by nature a capitation rather than an excise."PECK v. LOWE, 247 U.S. 165(1918)."The 16th Amendment conferred no new power of taxation, but simply prohibited the previous complete and plenary power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged."STANTON v. BALTIC MINING CO., 240 U.S. 103 (1916)."The 16th Amendment must be construed in connection with the taxing clauses of the original Constitution and the effect attributed to them before the amendment was adopted."EISNER v. MACOMBER, 252 U.S. 189 (1920).So, it looks like the fact that it is said that international bankers (J.P. Morgan, Paul Warburg, and John D. Rockefeller) bribed Secretary of State Philander Knox into fraudulently declaring that the 16th amendment had been properly ratified when it had not, really didn’t matter. Even after the 16th amendment, only a small percentage of Americans paid “income” tax.So why are we ALL paying it today? Hmmmm... Stay tuned.Until next time,Free Your Mind!

用英语介绍下平凡的世界 急用多谢

英文介绍：

Ordinary World is completed by  Lu Yao  in May 1988 of a million words long masterpiece. Is a panoramic view to the performance of urban and rural social life in contemporary novels. The book is three.

On a broad background in the last decade, through complex conflicts and disputes of all walks of life depicted the image of many ordinary people. Labor and love, frustration and the pursuit of pain and joy, life and enormous social conflicts, complicated and interwoven, deeply era show ordinary people in the historical process of the path traversed by difficulties and setbacks. In particular the plight of the hero to face the spirit of hard work, today there is still a great impact on people.

中文介绍：

平凡世界是由路遥于1988年5月完成的一百万字长的杰作， 是当代小说中城乡社会生活表现的全景， 全书为三本。

在过去十年的广泛背景下，通过各行各业的复杂冲突和纠纷描绘了许多普通人的形象， 劳动与爱情、挫折与追求痛苦与欢乐，生活与巨大的社会矛盾，复杂而交织，深刻的时代表现了普通人在历史进程中经历的艰难与挫折之路。 特别是英雄面对艰苦奋斗精神的困境，今天对人们的影响仍然很大

扩展资料：

《平凡的世界》是从1975年开始创作的，而20世纪80年代中后期的文化背景是各种文学新思潮风起云涌，现代派、意识流等文学观念风靡一时，文学创作在形式和技巧上的求变求新令人目不暇接。与此相反，传统现实主义创作却受到“冷落” 。甚至有批评家认为，路遥的另一部小说《人生》的现实主义创作手法是落伍的，但路遥仍然坚持创作完成了这部小说。

路遥三年准备、三年创作，为了扩充视野、掌握资料，他进行了大量的阅读，包括近百部长篇小说，前后近十年的报纸以及其他相关书籍，过着“早晨从中午开始”的生活，同时，他还奔波于社会各阶层体验生活。第一部初稿的写作是在一个偏僻的煤矿医院开始的，从他的创作随笔《早晨从中午开始》可以看到他对文学事业执着的信心和付出的代价：“写作整个地进人狂热状态。身体几乎不存在；生命似乎就是一种纯粹的精神形式，日常生活变为机器人性质”。第二部初稿的写作是在黄土高原腹地的一个偏僻小县城进行的，因为生活没有规律，路遥身体严重透支，最后病倒了。后来吃了百余副汤药，身体略有恢复，他依靠一股精神力量，继续写作。第三部的初稿改在榆林宾馆进行。1988年5月25日，路遥终于完成了《平凡的世界》的全部创作。