elocution on a courageous student
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Speech on Courage
There is an ancient proverb about fear and courage being brothers and it happens to be both apt and accurate. Today, we are discussing courage; the fact is that I even needed a bit of courage to come up here and give the speech in the first place. So what is courage? Courage essentially is being brave in the face of fear, and even though the fear may be unreasonable, the act of overcoming this fear itself constitutes courage.
Our past is scattered with noble examples of famous characters who showed courage under the most challenging of circumstances. Let us explore a few of these heart lifting examples.
Tenzing Norgay displayed great courage when he accompanied Sir Hilary above Mount Everest. They are recorded as being the first climbers to reach the peak of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. One slip and death was all around them. The brave expedition reached the main summit of Kedarnath at 22,769 feet (6,940 m) in the western Garhwal Himalaya. We know he was fearful at times. He wrote:
“It is only a row of snowy humps, one beyond the other, one higher than the other. But we are still afraid of the cornices and, instead of following the ridge all the way, cut over to the left, where there is now a long snow slope above the precipice.”
When World War II ended in 1945, six million European Jews had been killed in what we call, “the Holocaust”. More than one million of the victims were children. German Nazis, driven by racism believed Jews were, ‘vermin’.
Tens of thousands of Jewish children survived the horrific persecution, because many were hidden by local populations. The childrens’ identities were faked, and they were often physically concealed from the outside world. The youngsters faced constant fear, dilemmas, and danger and to needed to summon great courage every day to live. A secret whisper among neighbors and they could have been killed by the Nazis.