Money comes and goes, but if you get an Honorary Degree attached, that stays with you until the end of your days. There are certainly speakers who are brought in because there is a hope that they have a particular interest in a program that will be initiated or is ongoing at the university. The university is honoring them because of the shared interest and hoping they will be donating to the university in the future. Many cases were Commencement Speakers and Honorary Degrees are targeted to people of means in the hope they will work with the university in building some particular program. Typically, they will not be offered any fee at all. The University Needs their money. Carey nelson is former president of the American Association of University Professors and he serves as an english professor at the university of illinois and our viewers can find out more at your website. I also think once you have announced the commencement speaker, withdrawing it is an act of cowardice. That has ha
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Plus short stories, nonfiction an historical novels. But stephen king is most known for his poor books, which hes decrease, iconic figures to pop culture. Well, the evil clown pennywise the rabid dog, who jo and he, himself became a character in the simpsons. 400000000 copies of his books have been sold worldwide. And yeah, shakespeare is well above that 1000000000 and even more. Harry potter books have been sold. But 400000000 is still a lot of readers. Thats more readers than the entire population of the united states. Meaning that you could make an entire nation out of stephen king readers, and it would out number all of the us americans on the planet. Maybe thats a concept for a new novel. Stephen king has one just about every award there is to win, and in 2014 president obama presented him with the National Metal arts. But there is one thing i dont think well ever see. With this years nobel prize and literature is awarded to speak with with lets just go with the thought experiment
Raise we know that many of those workers work in the fastfood industry. The c. E. O. Of a fastfood corporation makes, we figure, about 8. 7 million a year. While his average employees make something about around 19,000 a year. And i dont im not one of those that says, well, thats you know, they have to work a million hours to get to the 8 million a year, but just to put in perspective whats happened with wages. As wages for c. E. O. s and for top management have gone up and up and up, and weve seen productivity of workers go up and up and up, we know that wages for those workers have simply not kept up. Not just minimumwage workers but workers overall. So since the 1970s, and especially since 2000, profits have gone up, productivity has gone up, executive salaries have gone up dramatically, yet workers wages have been stagnant. No better example of that, mr. President , than the minimum wage. The minimum wage was raised my first year in the senate, my first speech on the senate fliewfl
A and that action has cost us dearly. It has cost all of us dearly. And so i believe that the investments that we have planned to continue building afghanistans economy, to continue building its capacity of its people and to continue to set it on a path for its own self sustainability is a critical opportunity that now more than ever we have to recommit too. Thank you. [applause] thank you all. Were trying to pack a lot in todays we dont have much time for question and answer, but i think we have about 15 minutes where we can take some questions from the audience. We have microphones that can be handed out, if you identify yourself. I would make a plea to keep your questions or comments short so that we a time for as many people to as questions as possible. So please identify yourself. We will start there, close to the microphone. I think probably afghanistan is the only democracy where there are no Political Parties which are so crucial for any democracy. So why it didnt happen when t