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Lee Kuan Yew
Good afternoon Miss Yu and my fellow classmate. Before my presentation, may I ask you a question? Do you know who Lee Kuan Yew is? Yes, Lee Kuan Yew is the founder of Singapore. He changes Singapore from a third world into a developed country in 40 years. It is a miracle.

So, I have read a book called “The Singapore Story—Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew”, which is the biography of Lee Kuan Yew. This book shows the intelligence and experience of him.

First of all , although Lee had high popularity before the election and won the election, he also did some actions after the election. He ordered the ministers to take a series of well-publicised campaigns to clean the streets of the city and clear the beaches of debris. Why? It was because he wanted to keep the high popularity of the party for the long-run of government.

It indicates that one time of success may not give the second time. In our academic work, if we get a good result in the exam, we shouldn’t be lazy after the exam. We should also study harder after the exam in order to maintain or get a better result, just like the experience of Lee.

Moreover, for the government minister organized drives to induce the people and involved them in setting higher standards in civic consciousness, general cleanliness and preservation of public property. Through the minister’s cleaning in the street was the short-term action, it raised the awareness of civic participation in long term. It contributed to build up a modern society.

As a leader, problems should not be solved in short term only, our goals and ideas should mainly be focused on foreseeable long term. Solving the problems in short term would be short-sighted while the implementation of goals and ideas would contribute to success in long-run. Someone in western says that leader should not focus next election only, leader should focus next generation. For example, when we run the club, we should not focus on holding next activity only, we should focus on the

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