Dr. Carson's Informative Speech
Dr. Carson was invited to speak to students a school in Chicago. Before he spoke, Dr. Carson attended a reception where many different school officials and religious leaders told him about the troubled school that he was going to speak at. All the rumors caused the doctor to worry about the welcome he would receive from students. When he walked into the auditorium of the school his worries vanished as students applauded, and cheered for their guest speaker. For his speech, Dr. Carson told a story about being seen as cool or being seen as a nerd. It started with the cool guy having a nice car, a beautiful girlfriend, a varsity jacket, and what seemed like the perfect and ideal life. Then there was the nerd riding on the bus with an armful of books and a very low social status. After a few years, the cool guy did not do well in school and ends up working at a fast-food restaurant while the nerd gets a scholarship and heads off to college. A few more years go by and the cool guy still works at the fast-food place and is still cool. The nerd finishes college and takes a job at a Fortune 500 company and gets contacts, some suits, and a new car. All the girls in his old neighborhood then want to know him, not the "cool"
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Cool kids supposedly have great lives and are cool for most of their lives. The nerds are shunned by their classmates and prefer to focus on their studies. You may choose being cool after hearing about their lives in school but later on the nerd goes to a good college while the cool guy flips burgers at a fast-food restaurant. After college the nerd gets a good job which he uses to get a car, and changes his normal attire into suits and no longer wears glasses. The nerd finally has a good life because he worked hard and the no longer cool slacker is stuck having the job at the fast-food place. I would much rather be a nerd half my life and successful the rest than be popular and then end up failing at life
Cool kids supposedly have great lives and are cool for most of their lives. The nerds are shunned by their classmates and prefer to focus on their studies. You may choose being cool after hearing about their lives in school but later on the nerd goes to a good college while the cool guy flips burgers at a fast-food restaurant. After college the nerd gets a good job which he uses to get a car, and changes his normal attire into suits and no longer wears glasses. The nerd finally has a good life because he worked hard and the no longer cool slacker is stuck having the job at the fast-food place. I would much rather be a nerd half my life and successful the rest than be popular and then end up failing at life