why does this matter? boy, it matters a lot. because no one gets to the corner office by sitting on the side, not at the table, and no one gets the promotion if they don't think they deserve their success, or they don't even understand their own success.i wish the answer were easy. i wish i could go tell all the young women i work for, these fabulous women,"believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. own your own success." i wish i could tell that to my daughter. but it's not that simple. because what the data shows, above all else, is one thing, which is that success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. and everyone's nodding, because we all know this to be true.there's a really good study that shows this really well. there's a famous harvard business school studyon a woman named heidi roizen. and she's an operator in a company in silicon valley, and she uses her contacts to become a very successful venture capitalist.

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goiod evening,everyone.my name is zhao huan and i am from yunnan province.about a month ago,i entred sichuan university.how beautiful our school is!i believe that there are a lot of oportunity for me to improve myself.so,i take part in this activity in order to improve my speaking english.i will try my best to do well in this competition and i hope you will be satisfied with me.

i love sports very much,for example,tennis and vollyball are ballgames which i like best.i love swimming,too.i think we students shuold not only learn how to study,but also learn how to enjoy our life.having sports is a good way to relax ourselves and this is a healthy life style.

in the end,i want to tell you my favoirate words:just try my best,now or never.

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since the theme of this year’s competition was “globalization”, we have enjoyed various visions from contestants on thinking of what we young people should do to meet the challenges and the opportunities posed by globalization. but there’s one thing for sure: good english and communication skills are the gateway to the world arena. i hope some of man and woman in china who have conquered english to hold hands together to build up the bridge between china and the rest of the world with the world’s most widely used language!

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a word has that change the world ——smile and the world smiles with you good morning, ladies and gentlemen. today i am very happy to be here to share with you some of my thoughts on the topic of “a word has that change the world——smile and the world smiles with you “. first, please look at my face. do you know what i’m doing? yes, quite right, i’m smiling. i like smiling, because it makes me more confident and more popular. don’t you think it important? can you imagine a world without smiles? can you bear seeing sad faces here and there? what a gloomy world it would without smiles!

smile is so important of the world; it also can change the world! smile and the world smiles with you!

do you still remember the smiles from someone in your mind? what’s your feeling about that? the majority of people are trying to pursue happiness through their lifetime, but what is the root of happiness? i take the strong position that one of the secrets is smile. smile makes the world go around.

it’s easier to make new friends through charming and friendly smiles. smile always creates a good impression. maybe we cannot remember someone’s name after meeting each other for the first time; however, his

or her smile impressed us. but people sometimes overlook the importance of smiling since it is so simple. it seems that people are always in such a hurry for their own business that they complain a lot about the lack of happiness in life and some people even want to be harry porter to learn the magic spell of happiness.

ladies and gentlemen, every one of us want to know exactly well what the spell actually is and the spell is can change the world. what is it? so simple and just at hand. that’s smile.

smile is such a magic spell. it is a kind of emotional contact. it makes strangers becomes friends. it makes parents and children understand each other better and it makes the love between lovers deeper.

smile is such a magic spell. it’s also a kind of encouragement. it makes people feel warm in ice and snow. it gives thirsty people power to walk on in a dessert. it makes cowards become brave and it makes people see hope in desperate situations.

so please remember smile make your life brighter. smile and the world smiles with you. every time you smile you give yourself a perfect chance to enjoy life. every time you smile, you bring the brilliant sunshine to the whole world around you as well as to yourself.

a smile is the common language of the world, is the perfect way to communicate. smile to the world's stability and peace is hard to imagine that role. a smile can change the world , can change the way we live and

attitude.

so please smile, it will not only make your life happiness, will let others feel happy, still can let the whole world is filled with the taste of happiness!!!!!

my speech is over, thank you very much!

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i can't even notice that the men's hands are still raised, and the women's hands are still raised, how good are we as managers of our companies and our organizations at seeing that the men are reaching for opportunitiesmore than women?" we've got to get women to sit at the number two: make your partner a real partner. i've become convinced that we've made more progress in the workforce than we have in the home. the data shows this very clearly. if a woman and a man work full-time and have a child, the woman does twice the amount of housework the man does, and the woman does three times the amount of childcare the man does. so she's got three jobs or two jobs, and he's got one. who do you think drops out when someone needs to be home more? the causes of this are really complicated, and i don't have time to go into them. and i don't think sunday football-watching and general laziness is the cause.

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when i was about three or four years old, i remember my mum reading a story to me and my two big brothers, and i remember putting up my hands to feel the page of the book, to feel the picture they were discussing.

and my mum said, "darling, remember that you can't see and you can't feel the picture and you can't feel the print on the page."

and i thought to myself, "but that's what i want to do. i love stories. i want to read." little did i know that i would be part of a technological revolution that would make that dream come true.

i was born premature by about 10 weeks, which resulted in my blindness, some 64 years ago. the condition is known as retrolental fibroplasia, and it's now very rare in the developed world. little did i know, lying curled up in my prim baby humidicrib in 1948 that i'd been born at the right place and the right time, that i was in a country where i could participate in the technological revolution.

there are 37 million totally blind people on our planet, but those of us who've shared in the technological changes mainly come from north america, europe, japan and other developed parts of the world. computers have changed the lives of us all in this room and around the world, but i think they've changed the lives of we blind people more than any other group. and so i want to tell you about the interaction between computer-based adaptive technology and the many volunteers who helped me over the years to become the person i am today. it's an interaction between volunteers, passionate inventors and technology, and it's a story that many other blind people could tell. but let me tell you a bit about it today.

when i was five, i went to school and i learned braille. it's an ingenious system of six dots that are punched into paper, and i can feel them with my fingers. in fact, i think they're putting up my grade six report. i don't know where julian morrow got that from. (laughter) i was pretty good in reading, but religion and musical appreciation needed more work. (laughter)

when you leave the opera house, you'll find there's braille signage in the lifts. look for it. have you noticed it? i do. i look for it all the time.

(laughter)

when i was at school, the books were transcribed by transcribers, voluntary people who punched one dot at a time so i'd have volumes to read, and that had been going on, mainly by women, since the late 19th century in this country, but it was the only way i could read. when i was in high school, i got my first philips reel-to-reel tape recorder, and tape recorders became my sort of pre-computer medium of learning. i could have family and friends read me material, and i could then read it back as many times as i needed. and it brought me into contact with volunteers and helpers. for example, when i studied at graduate school at queen's university in canada, the prisoners at the collins bay jail agreed to help me. i gave them a tape recorder, and they read into it. as one of them said to me, "ron, we ain't going anywhere at the moment."

(laughter)

but think of it. these men, who hadn't had the educational opportunities i'd had, helped me gain post-graduate qualifications in law by their dedicated help.

well, i went back and became an academic at melbourne's monash university, and for those 25 years, tape recorders were everything to me. in fact, in my office in 1990, i had 18 miles of tape. students, family and friends all read me material. mrs. lois doery, whom i later came to call my surrogate mum, read me many thousands of hours onto tape. one of the reasons i agreed to give this talk today was that i was hoping that lois would be here so i could introduce you to her and publicly thank her. but sadly, her health hasn't permitted her to come today. but i thank you here, lois, from this platform.

(applause)

i saw my first apple computer in 1984, and i thought to myself, "this thing's got a glass screen, not much use to me." how very wrong i was. in 1987, in the month our eldest son gerard was born, i got my first blind computer, and it's actually here. see it up there? and you see it has no, what do you call it, no screen. (laughter) it's a blind computer. (laughter) it's a keynote gold 84k, and the 84k stands for it had 84 kilobytes of memory. (laughter) don't laugh, it cost me 4,000 dollars at the time. (laughter) i think there's more memory in my watch.

it was invented by russell smith, a passionate inventor in new zealand who was trying to help blind people. sadly, he died in a light plane crash in 2019, but his memory lives on in my heart. it meant, for the first time, i could read back what i had typed into it. it had a speech synthesizer. i'd written my first coauthored labor law book on a typewriter in 1979 purely from memory. this now allowed me to read back what i'd written and to enter the computer world, even with its 84k of memory.

in 1974, the great ray kurzweil, the american inventor, worked on building a machine that would scan books and read them out in synthetic speech. optical character recognition units then only operated usually on one font, but by using charge-coupled device flatbed scanners and speech synthesizers, he developed a machine that could read any font. and his machine, which was as big as a washing machine, was launched on the 13th of january, 1976. i saw my first commercially available kurzweil in march 19xx, and it blew me away, and in september 19xx, the month that my associate professorship at monash university was announced, the law school got one, and i could use it. for the first time, i could read what i wanted to read by putting a book on the scanner. i didn't have to be nice to people!

(laughter)

i no longer would be censored. for example, i was too shy then, and i'm actually too shy now, to ask anybody to read me out loud sexually explicit material. (laughter) but, you know, i could pop a book on in the middle of the night, and -- (laughter) (applause)

now, the kurzweil reader is simply a program on my laptop. that's what it's shrunk to. and now i can scan the latest novel and not wait to get it into talking book libraries. i can keep up with my friends.

there are many people who have helped me in my life, and many that i haven't met. one is another american inventor ted henter. ted was a motorcycle racer, but in 1978 he had a car accident and lost his sight, which is devastating if you're trying to ride motorbikes. he then turned to being a waterskier and was a champion disabled waterskier. but in 19xx, he teamed up with bill joyce to develop a program that would read out what was on the computer screen from the net or from what was on the computer. it's called jaws, job access with speech, and it sounds like this.

(jaws speaking)

ron mccallum: isn't that slow?

(laughter) you see, if i read like that, i'd fall asleep. i slowed it down for you. i'm going to ask that we play it at the speed i read it. can we play that one?

(jaws speaking)

(laughter)

rm: you know, when you're marking student essays, you want to get through them fairly quickly.

(laughter) (applause)

this technology that fascinated me in 1987 is now on my iphone and on yours as well. but, you know, i find reading with machines a very lonely process. i grew up with family, friends, reading to me, and i loved the warmth and the breath and the closeness of people reading. do you love being read to? and one of my most enduring memories is in 1999, mary reading to me and the children down near manly beach "harry potter and the philosopher's stone." isn't that a great book? i still love being close to someone reading to me. but i wouldn't give up the technology, because it's allowed me to lead a great life.

of course, talking books for the blind predated all this technology. after all, the long-playing record was developed in the early 1930s, and now we put talking books on cds using the digital access system known as daisy. but when i'm reading with synthetic voices, i love to come home and read a racy novel with a real voice.

now there are still barriers in front of we people with disabilities. many websites we can't read using jaws and the other technologies. websites are often very visual, and there are all these sorts of graphs that aren't labeled and buttons that aren't labeled, and that's why the world wide web consortium 3, known as w3c, has developed worldwide standards for the internet. and we want all internet users or internet site owners to make their sites compatible so that we persons without vision can have a level playing field. there are other barriers brought about by our laws. for example, australia, like about one third of the world's countries, has copyright exceptions which allow books to be brailled or read for we blind persons. but those books can't travel across borders. for example, in spain, there are a 100,000 accessible books in spanish. in argentina, there are 50,000. in no other latin american country are there more than a couple of thousand. but it's not legal to transport the books from spain to latin america. there are hundreds of thousands of accessible books in the united states, britain, canada, australia, etc., but they can't be transported to the 60 countries in our world where english is the first and the second language. and remember i was telling you about harry potter. well, because we can't transport books across borders, there had to be separate versions read in all the different english-speaking countries: britain, united states, canada, australia, and new zealand all had to have separate readings of harry potter.

and that's why, next month in morocco, a meeting is taking place between all the countries. it's something that a group of countries and the world blind union are advocating, a cross-border treaty so that if books are available under a copyright exception and the other country has a copyright exception, we can transport those books across borders and give life to people, particularly in developing countries, blind people who don't have the books to read. i want that to happen.

(applause)

my life has been extraordinarily blessed with marriage and children and certainly interesting work to do, whether it be at the university of sydney law school, where i served a term as dean, or now as i sit on the united nations committee on the rights of persons with disabilities, in geneva. i've indeed been a very fortunate human being.

i wonder what the future will hold. the technology will advance even further, but i can still remember my mum saying, 60 years ago, "remember, darling, you'll never be able to read the print with your fingers." i'm so glad that the interaction between braille transcribers, volunteer readers and passionate inventors, has allowed this dream of reading to come true for me and for blind people throughout the world.

i'd like to thank my researcher hannah martin, who is my slide clicker, who clicks the slides, and my wife, professor mary crock, who's the light of my life, is coming on to collect me. i want to thank her too.

i think i have to say goodbye now. bless you. thank you very much.

(applause) yay! (applause) okay. okay. okay. okay. okay. (applause)

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the problem with these stories is that they show what the data shows: women systematically underestimate their own abilities. if you test men and women, and you ask them questions on totally objective criteria like gpas, men get it wrong slightly high, and women get it wrong slightly low. women do not negotiate for themselves in the workforce. a study in the last two years of people entering the workforce out of college showed that 57 percent of boys entering, or men, i guess, are negotiating their first salary, and only seven percent of women. and most importantly, men attribute their success to themselves, and women attribute it to other external factors. if you ask men why they did a good job,they'll say, "i'm awesome. obviously. why are you even asking?" if you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

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