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J.K.Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, gave this incredible commencement speech about never fearing failure and learning to embrace it in order to achieve success. She told the students about her rejections and the dark period she went through, before going on to become a best-selling author.   ➡️Connect with #BertMartinez: Twitter - https://twitter.com/BertMartinez Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/TheBertMart...  ➡️ Get a free copy of DominatingYourMind: https://amzn.to/2XuM9Xr While supplies last, limited time.

Joanne Rowling CH OBE HonFRSE FRCPE FRSL (/ˈroʊlɪŋ/ ROH-ling; born 31 July 1965), also known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. She wrote a seven-volume children's fantasy series, Harry Potter, published from 1997 to 2007. The series has been enormously successful: it has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into at least 70 languages, and spawned a global media franchise including films and video games. The Casual Vacancy (2012) was her first novel for adults. She writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, as Robert Galbraith.Born in Yate, Rowling graduated with a degree in French from the University of Exeter in 1987 and began working temp jobs as a bilingual secretary. In 1990, the idea for the characters of Harry Potter came to her while she waited on a delayed train; later that year, her mother died of multiple sclerosis. In the seven years before publication of the first Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), Rowling moved to Portugal, married, had a daughter, relocated to Scotland when her marriage failed, divorced, and earned a teaching certificate. She wrote while living on state assistance as a single parent, deeply affected by her mother's death. By 2008, Forbes had named her the world's highest-paid author.Rowling concluded the Harry Potter series with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007). The novels follow a boy named Harry Potter as he attends Hogwarts, a school for wizards, and battles Lord Voldemort. Death and the divide between good and evil are the central themes of the series. Its influences include the Bildungsroman (coming-of-age story), school stories, fairy tales, and Christian allegory. The series revived fantasy as a genre in the children's market, spawned a host of imitators, and inspired an active fandom. Critical reception has been more mixed. Many reviewers see Rowling's writing as conventional; some regard her portrayal of gender and social division as regressive. There were also religious debates over Harry Potter.Rowling has won many accolades for her work. She was named to the Order of the British Empire and was appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature and philanthropy. Harry Potter brought her wealth and recognition that she has used to advance philanthropic endeavours and political causes. She co-founded the charity Lumos and established the Volant Charitable Trust, named after her mother. Rowling's charitable giving centres on medical causes and supporting at-risk women and children. In politics, she has donated to Britain's Labour Party and opposed Scottish independence and Brexit. Since late 2019, she has publicly expressed her opinions on transgender people and related civil rights. These have been criticised as transphobic by LGBT rights organisations and some feminists, but have received support from other feminists and individuals.

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He was a major entrepreneur of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.Gates was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. In 1975, he and Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It became the world's largest personal computer software company. Gates led the company as chairman and CEO until stepping down as CEO in January 2000, succeeded by Steve Ballmer, but he remained chairman of the board of directors and became chief software architect. During the late 1990s, he was criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive. This opinion has been upheld by numerous court rulings. In June 2008, Gates transitioned to a part-time role at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the private charitable foundation he and his then-wife, Melinda Gates, established in 2000. He stepped down as chairman of the board of Microsoft in February 2014 and assumed a new post as technology adviser to support the newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella. In March 2020, Gates left his board positions at Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway to focus on his philanthropic efforts on climate change, global health and development, and education.Since 1987, Gates has been included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people. From 1995 to 2017, he held the Forbes title of the richest person in the world every year except from 2010 to 2013. In October 2017, he was surpassed by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who had an estimated net worth of US$90.6 billion compared to Gates's net worth of US$89.9 billion at the time. As of June 2022, Gates had an estimated net worth of US$123 billion, making him the fourth-richest person in the world.Later in his career and since leaving day-to-day operations at Microsoft in 2008, Gates has pursued many business and philanthropic endeavors. He is the founder and chairman of several companies, including BEN, Cascade Investment, bgC3, and TerraPower. He has given sizable amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, reported to be the world's largest private charity. Through the foundation, he led an early 21st century vaccination campaign that significantly contributed to the eradication of the wild poliovirus in Africa. In 2010, Gates and Warren Buffett founded The Giving Pledge, whereby they and other billionaires pledge to give at least half of their wealth to philanthropy.

Natalie Portman (born Natalie Hershlag, June 9, 1981) is an Israeli-born American actress. She has had an extensive career in film since her teenage years and starred in various blockbusters and independent films, receiving multiple accolades such as an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.Portman began her acting career at age twelve, when she starred as the young protégée of a hitman in the action drama film Léon: The Professional (1994). While in high school, she made her Broadway debut in a 1998 production of The Diary of a Young Girl and gained international recognition for starring as Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999). From 1999 to 2003, Portman attended Harvard University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in psychology, while continuing to act in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002, 2005) and in The Public Theater's 2001 revival of Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull. In 2004, Portman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for playing a mysterious stripper in the romantic drama Closer.Portman's career progressed with her starring roles as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta (2005), Anne Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), and a troubled ballerina in the psychological horror film Black Swan (2010), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She went on to star in the romantic comedy No Strings Attached (2011) and portrayed Jacqueline Kennedy in the biopic Jackie (2016), which earned her a third Academy Award nomination. Portman has also featured as Jane Foster in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films Thor (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013), which established her among the world's highest-paid actresses.Portman's directorial ventures include the short film Eve (2008) and the biographical drama A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015). She is vocal about the politics of the United States and Israel, and is an advocate for animal rights and environmental causes. She is married to dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, with whom she has two children.

Oprah Gail Winfrey (/ˈoʊprə/; born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African-American of the 20th century, was once the world's only black billionaire, and the greatest black philanthropist in U.S. history. By 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world.Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single teenage mother and later raised in inner-city Milwaukee. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teenage years and became pregnant at 14; her son was born prematurely and died in infancy. Winfrey was then sent to live with the man she calls her father, Vernon Winfrey, a barber in Nashville, Tennessee, and landed a job in radio while still in high school. By 19, she was a co-anchor for the local evening news. Winfrey's often emotional, extemporaneous delivery eventually led to her transfer to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company.By the mid-1990s, Winfrey had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, mindfulness, and spirituality. Though she has been criticized for unleashing a confession culture, promoting controversial self-help ideas, and having an emotion-centered approach, she has also been praised for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others. Winfrey also emerged as a political force in the 2008 presidential race, with her endorsement of Barack Obama estimated to have been worth about one million votes during the 2008 Democratic primaries. In 2013, Winfrey was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama and received honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard. In 2008, she formed her own network, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).Credited with creating a more intimate, confessional form of media communication, Winfrey popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue. In 1994, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Winfrey has won many accolades throughout her career which includes 18 Daytime Emmy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Chairman's Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, including the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, a Tony Award, a Peabody Award and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, awarded by the Academy Awards and two additional Academy Award nominations. Winfey was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.

The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has delivered the highly prestigious Harvard Commencement address, calling out social media as a threat to modern day democracy. She was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the university. Ms Ardern told the crowd of thousands that because of the speed of social media, disinformation is creating an ever increasing risk. However the biggest response she got from the crowd was when she talked about the changes to firearms law after the Christchurch mosque shootings. RNZ political editor Jane Patterson was there and filed this report.

The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivered the highly prestigious Harvard Commencement address this morning, calling out social media as a threat to modern day democracy. She was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the university. The editor of Harvard Magazine John Rosenberg covered the event and spoke to Susie Ferguson.

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This is the story of an “inquiring mind” who happens to be a journalist. Sewell Chan is the new editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune. But before his move to Austin, and before his previous roles at the L.A. Times, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, he was a kid growing up in an immigrant family in the outer boroughs of New York City, where his father drove a taxicab. Both his parents had seen a lot in their lives – but said little. Their New York was the New York of work, of their community, and of striving for a quiet, peaceful place to live, which ended up being in Queens. Yet when you meet Sewell, it's surprising that he came from such a quiet place, because he’s so engaged with the world, with history, with how people live and how things work. In this episode, Kevin Burke talks with Sewell about his coming-of-age years in New York, the meaning of home, and what the windows and doors were from where his family lived out to the larger world. Your Hometown is a show where the local is the epic. Visit yourhometown.org to subscribe to the podcast and our various social media channels. Our co-presenter this season is the Museum of the City of New York. For more, including information on live events, check out our NYC series page at mcny.org/yourhometown-podcast. Show Notes Archival WPIX Special Report: Blackout '77-City of Darkness from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0LV0zWFsVE Broadway's Lost Treasures - Me and My Girl from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swX0qlHRDV0 Dolora Zajick - Amneris - AIDA - MET 1989 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZNN0VqaSlE Bill Clinton 1992 DNC Acceptance Speech from https://www.c-span.org/video/?27166-1/bill-clinton-1992-acceptance-speech 1998 Harvard Commencement from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl9Uj6nq4Y4 Times’s City Room Advertisement from https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/1194817108917/a-changing-metropolis.html Music Frank Sinatra - New York, New York (1980) Ella Fitzgerald - Manhattan (1965) Willie Nelson - Texas on a Saturday Night (1985) Illustration Charlotte Yiu Poem Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” Part 52, Leaves of Grass (1855) “I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. “You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. “Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.”

Joanne Rowling, better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, film producer, television producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. She is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history. The books are the basis of a popular film series, over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films. She also writes crime fiction under the name Robert Galbraith. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/greatideasgreatlife/message

I am the flat bloater with fleshy legs, I like to read these books whilst listening to The De Trout Spinners of a Saturday.This week we discuss Episode 43 | 21 June 2003. Karl's holiday in Cornwall recap; Rockbusters and Monkey News now ended according to Ricky, but they do come back anyway; Monkey News from Karl's Dad and a Monkey News 'Extra' (Monkey Business). LISTEN TO THE ORIGINAL XFM SHOWS INCLUDING THIS ONE: https://bit.ly/3bw7sixRELATED LINKSThe Monkey Sanctuary: https://www.monkeysanctuary.orgJ.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHGqp8lz36cGET IN TOUCHTwitter: @SpinnersPodcast Email: SpinnersPodcast@gmail.comYouTube: https://bit.ly/3l0sMyYThe De Trout Spinner's Library: https://spoti.fi/2SQs0JDONATEPatreon: https://bit.ly/3fdc0KS Get more De Trout Spinners on Patreon! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bill Gates Harvard Commencement Address 2007 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/motivation-icandoit/message

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Jessi Glueck is an alumna of Harvard, where she studied English with a secondary in Classics. She delivered the Latin Oration at the 2017 Harvard Commencement. Jessi received a masters degree from Oxford before teaching at a boarding school in England for two years. She is currently a graduate student at Cambridge.

Renowned author JK Rowling delivered a speech at Harvard University on "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination," in the year 2008. This speech is still appreciated by many for the thoughtful use of rhetoric's. Here's our analysis of the speech

On today's episode of The Pickup Line we continue our reading and discussion of Walter Ong's "Orality and Literacy" as we learn about the evolution of rhetoric and the shaping of the modern academic rhetorical approach. Join me! J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement (2011) Gumboots (with the Boyoyo Boys) by Paul Simon || Graceland --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/justin-r-cary/message

Learn English with Sarah Abushaar. Ms. Sarah Abushaar first came into the limelight after her delivery of the Harvard Commencement address in 2014. Her speech, “The Harvard Spring,” is an homage to the 2010 political uprisings of the Arab Spring. For more, visit: https://www.englishspeecheschannel.com

Learn English with Bill Gates, one of the brilliant minds in the world. Business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, humanitarian, and principal founder of Microsoft Corporation. For more, visit: https://www.englishspeecheschannel.com

It's our annual Supreme Court term roundup, with special guest Ian Samuel. We discuss, natch, one case, Carpenter v. United States, which concerns the need for a warrant to get records from cell phone companies concerning the location of your phone. But there's much more, including: hard drive upgrades, the sum total of human writing, audio vs. text for messaging, emojis, AI and grunts, Supreme Court-packing / balancing / restructuring (16:37), what rules of procedure an enlarged Court should set for itself and what rules should be imposed on it (29:00), podcast lengths and listening habits (51:04), Carpenter v. United States(01:02:06), Batman movies, and Hold-Up. This show’s links: First Mondays (http://www.firstmondays.fm) Ian Samuel’s writing (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=936551) Ian Samuel, The New Writs of Assistance (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3075587) Snopes, Did Facebook Shut Down an AI Experiment Because Chatbots Developed Their Own Language? (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/facebook-ai-developed-own-language/) (no, but interesting) Oral Argument 134: Crossover (http://oralargument.org/134) Christian Turner, Amendment XXVIII: A First Draft (https://www.hydratext.com/blog/2018/7/12/amendment-xxviii) Ian Ayres and John Witt, Democrats Need a Plan B for the Supreme Court. Here’s One Option. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-need-a-plan-b-for-the-supreme-court-heres-one-option/2018/07/27/4c77fd4e-91a6-11e8-b769-e3fff17f0689_story.html) Oral Argument 37: Hammer Blow (http://oralargument.org/37) (with Michael Dorf); Oral Argument 38: You're Going to Hate this Answer_ (http://oralargument.org/38) (with Steve Vladeck); Christian Turner, Bound by Federal Law (http://www.hydratext.com/blog/2014/10/29/bound-by-federal-law) (including links to posts by Michael and Steve on the issue of state courts' not being bound by federal circuit courts) Carpenter v. United States (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-402_new_o75q.pdf) Radiolab, Eye in the Sky (https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/update-eye-sky/) Ian Samuel, Warrantless Location Tracking (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1092293) Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=659168721517750079) Florida v. Jardines (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2570635442757547915) Justice Souter’s discussion of Plessy and the role of history in judging (http://www.c-span.org/video/?284498-2/america-courts) (watch from minute one until about minute fourteen) and his Harvard Commencement speech (http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/05/text-of-justice-david-souters-speech/) on Plessy Hold Up! (http://www.hydratext.com/blog/2015/7/24/hold-up) Special Guest: Ian Samuel.

"The stories that we love will live in us forever".   In this raw and 'unpolished' episode of the Ten Words Podcast I go on a personal and professional journey with J.K. Rowling to uncover what drove her success, how she coped through the darker days and what inspired her to be a writer. I talk about her commercial success and the demons she's struggled with along the way and look at why she chose to mention the word "failure" thirteen times during her epic Harvard University Commencement speech in 2008.   J.K. Rowling is an incredibly impressive woman who held on to her vision as she turned down by the first twelve publishers who she approached with the Harry Potter manuscripts. And when her book was finally accepted, she was told not to give up her day job and write under the name of J.K. (instead of Joanne) because "boys won't read wizard books that are written by a woman"! But as with all magical fairytales, this one turned out beautifully and has a gorgeous ending that can inspire us all.   This show is also slightly more emotional than usual, given that J.K. Rowling inspired me to write shortly after I became bankrupt and lost my house, car, savings and marriage, and also dealt with failure and depression. I hope the sentiment of this show is OK and my personal feelings don't get in the way of you being inspired by J.K. Rowling yourself. We all have huge challenges and wonderful opportunities which we may or may not choose to chase and embrace.   "You can change the world just by sharing your story".   It is my wish that this podcast, in some small and tiny way, helps people to tell their story a little bit better, by listening to other people tell theirs.    SHOW LINKS Transcript for J.K. Rowling's 2008 Harvard Commencement speech J.K. Rowling Harvard Commencement 2008 Speech analysis tool powered by IBM Watson J.K. Rowling tweeting writing advice Evan Carmichael's 10 Rules of Success for J.K. Rowling J.K. Rowling HATES My Video J.K. Rowling & Oprah "Harry Potter & Me" J.K. Rowling BBC Interview Mind UK The Mental Health Charity for anyone struggling with depression or wanting to help someone else who is.     MY SHOW NOTES

With Charles Barzun, we discuss Justice Souter and the nature of legal justification. But we take the long way around to get there, starting with some of Souter’s opinions, moving on to philosophy – the nature of moral reasoning and its relation to fact and intuition – and then back to legal theory and Charles’s insight concerning Justice Souter’s jurisprudence. This show’s links: Charles Barzun’s faculty profile (https://content.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/clb6x/1144315) and writing (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=546584) Charles Barzun, Justice Souter’s Common Law (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3035402) Justice Souter’s discussion of Plessy and the role of history in judging (http://www.c-span.org/video/?284498-2/america-courts) (watch from minute one until about minute fourteen) and his Harvard Commencement speech (http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/05/text-of-justice-david-souters-speech/) on Plessy Some Souter opinions Joe loves: Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16686162998040575773), Markman v. Westview Instruments (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5582995013670943601), and California Dental Assoc. v. Federal Trade Commission (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8595505836313744277) Old Chief v. United States (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2711105174348004240); Oyez’s Old Chief page, including links to the oral argument and hand-down (https://www.oyez.org/cases/1996/95-6556) Planned Parenthood v. Casey (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6298856056242550994); Oyez’s Casey page, including links to the oral argument and hand-down (https://www.oyez.org/cases/1991/91-744) John Burnett, Border Patrol Arrests Parents While Infant Awaits Serious Operation (http://www.npr.org/2017/09/20/552339976/border-patrol-arrests-parents-while-infant-awaits-serious-operation) Noah Feldman’s Constitution Day interview of Justice Souter (https://www.c-span.org/video/?288993-2/former-justice-souter-constitution) Special Guest: Charles Barzun.

Published on May 30, 2017Absolutely blown away and so inspired by Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard commencement address. Here are my favorite highlights: 1. Don't think someone will do it..YOU do it. 2. Attach a purpose greater than yourself. 3. Take on BIG meaningful projects 4. No one knows exactly what to do when they sit down. Don't wait for the eureka moment. Just begin. 5. Prepare to be misunderstood. 6. Don't focus progress but rather purpose. 7. But measure your progress by how many people have a role they feel has meaning. 8. Create a community 9. change starts local. Start small so your wave can one day reach the world.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke to Harvard's class of 2017 and called on them to find their sense of purpose to help make the world a better place. Zuckerberg also spoke passionately on equal opportunity, what's wrong with our political and economic system, and how to fix it. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What’s your favorite case? It’s a difficult question, but in this episode Christian answers it: the infamous decision in Plessy v. Ferguson that upheld racial apartheid under the “separate but equal” principle. Joe accuses him of cheating a bit, because Christian’s “favorite” is actually Justice Harlan’s celebrated solo dissent. Its greatness, though, does not lie in any sort of perfection. Severely flawed and yet great, at the same time. This show’s links: Plessy v. Ferguson, which you should scan through as bit, as recommended during the show Some background here and here on Homer Plessy and his act of civil disobedience Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Plessy v. Ferguson: Who Was Plessy? Justice Souter’s discussion of Plessy and the role of history in judging (watch from minute one until about minute fourteen) and his Harvard Commencement speech on Plessy United States v. Wong Kim Ark, in which Harlan joined a dissent arguing that those children of Chinese citizens who are born in the United States should not receive citizenship; see here for a summary Gabriel Chin, The Plessy Myth: Justice Harlan and the Chinese Cases

At the 1995 Harvard Commencement, honorary degree recipient Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic, spoke to graduates on the common human threads uniting all nations, even those seeking to divide and destroy.