Happy Graduation Wishes

It's time for Graduation ! The sleepless nights are finally over for the young graduates ! Congratulate your son/ daughter/ friend/ dear one who is taking a bow this year with our Happy Graduation ecards. Send your best wishes for the days ahead with these fun-filled ecards and make his/ her Graduation a memorable one.

	Reach For The Stars ! Inspire all the new grads you know to reach out and soar high with this cool and cute new graduation ecard. [ Flash ]		Happy Graduation To You ! Send this cool and cute graduation ecard to wish all the new grads you know. [ Flash ]

	Wanna Celebrate With You ! Invite your dear ones to the Graduation party of your son/ daughter/ dear one with this elegant graduation ecard. [ Interactive ]		Scribe Happiness And Success ! A warm and inspiring graduation wish for your son/ daughter/ student/ dear one who has graduated. [ Flash ]

	Your Friendship Is A Joy ! Wish your friends who have graduated with this warm and touching ecard [ Flash ]		Hats Off To You My Friend ! Send this graduation ecard to wish all those gals who have graduated with you and have been a great friend. [ Flash ]

Graduation Gifts: Candles

Receiving a graduation announcement sometimes mean that you should give a gift to the graduate. When it comes to even normal gifts like birthday or anniversary gifts we wreck our brains trying to figure out what we have to give. So what do we give when it comes to graduation?!

Ronnie Halsema of Zionsville Candle Company has the perfect solution. Give candles -- and not just any candles, it's environmentally safe and organic. Zionsville Candle Company makes candles that are based out of oil. So if the graduate is into environmental protection or is conscious about organic products it's the perfect gift. If the graduate is not into those things then it's time to get educated on organic products out there.

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The best part about Zionsville candles is that they can customize the candle for you and include a name, date, graduation year, picture or any other memento that you'd like to be added. When the wicks burn, they burn off white soot because it's based on soy so it's environmentally safe and friendly. That's a nice thought to have thinking the graduate will be off in his or her new dorm or apartment smelling nice things and not inhale black soot.

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Bono Graduation Speech

I just found this speech by Bono (yes, of U2 Fame) who received an honorary Doctorate from Penn State – here's a snippet of it that I really liked --

"So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, "No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails." Well at best I've got one of the two of those.

But no, I never went to college, I've slept in some strange places, but the library wasn't one of them. I studied rock and roll and I grew up in Dublin in the '70s, music was an alarm bell for me, it woke me up to the world. I was 17 when I first saw The Clash, and it just sounded like revolution. The Clash were like, "This is a public service announcement--with guitars." I was the kid in the crowd who took it at face value. Later I learned that a lot of the rebels were in it for the T-shirt. They'd wear the boots but they wouldn't march. They'd smash bottles on their heads but they wouldn't go to something more painful like a town hall meeting. By the way I felt like that myself until recently.

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I didn't expect change to come so slow, so agonizingly slow. I didn't realize that the biggest obstacle to political and social progress wasn't the Free Masons, or the Establishment, or the boot heal of whatever you consider 'the Man' to be, it was something much more subtle. As the Provost just referred to, a combination of our own indifference and the Kafkaesque labyrinth of 'no's you encounter as people vanish down the corridors of bureaucracy."

You can also read the whole of the graduation speech.

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Graduation Poem: The Road Not Taken

Probably one of the most famous graduation poems is Robert Frost's “The Road Not Taken”. You can even use it in your graduation ceremony.

The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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The Graduation Song

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We all know the graduation songs that are pop songs. We all know who Vitamin C or who Green Day are. But what do you know about the graduation song that is played traditionally? Ya you know that tune you hear usually played by the high school band? It's called “Pomp and Circumstance Marches”. Originally it had 4 marches all together but the first one is most popular – plus we call it the 'graduation song' this side of the Atlantic. Here's a re-dub of the graduation song by Cubismo Grafico Five – a hip hop version!

Pomp and circumstance Marches were composed between 1901 and 1930. Edward Elgar set March No. 1 to words by AC Benson as a Coronation Ode of King Edward VII. It became the graduation song on June 8th, 1905 when Professor of Music Samuel Sanford had it play as apart of the Yale commencement ceremony. Edward Elgar – also a friend of the professor was the star of the ceremony and was receiving an honorary doctorate. The song was subsequently adopted by Princeton in 1907, Chicago University in 1908, Columbia in 1913, Vassar in 1916, and Rutgers in 1918 as their official graduation ceremony accompaniment. And the rest as they say is history!

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Graduation Wisdom

Graduation wisdom is hard to find. But there are a couple of sites that can point you to a direction. This is why started writing a bit on life after graduation -- so that I can share the tidbits that I find across the web on how to go about life after graduating. And among those things, I stumbled upon Gnorb's blog about what to do after graduation.

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I really loved his post because he not only gives you a bit of wisdom, he also gives you some stuff you should do and things you should read up on. So it's a resource in itself. Check it out at You Graduated. Now What?

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Graduation Trivia: Oath of Supremacy

In 1599 Queen Elizabeth declared herself Supreme Governor of the Church of England through the Act of Supremacy – almost a family tradition that was started by her father henry VIII. This act forced anyone holding public or church office to swear allegiance to the monarch.

This included people who were graduating from universities. Graduates or anyone refusing to swear by the Oath of Supremacy were committing treason and were subject to death or exile. Famous of being Thomas More. Here's the text of the Oath from wiki --

I, A. B., do utterly testify and declare in my conscience that the Queen's Highness is the only supreme governor of this realm, and of all other her Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal, and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual within this realm; and therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all foreign jurisdictions, powers, superiorities and authorities, and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear faith and true allegiance to the Queen's Highness, her heirs and lawful successors, and to my power shall assist and defend all jurisdictions, pre-eminences, privileges and authorities granted or belonging to the Queen's Highness, her heirs or successors, or united or annexed to the imperial crown of this realm. So help me God, and by the contents of this Book.

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Incidentally, this oath inspired the Oath of Citizenship of the US.

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Graduation Song: Good Riddance Lyrics

I posted Green Day's Good Riddance a while back so here are the lyrics if you guys are interested in singing along or memorizing them. ^_^

"Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth it was worth all the while

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

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Messages in Graduation Speeches

Graduation speeches are the peak of a commencement ceremony. Apart from humorous jokes and famous celebrities coming to your high school and college there are some great lessons to take home and on the journey to higher things. Here's a gist of what famous people have said in their commencement speeches to the graduates.

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“Find what you love.” -- Steve Jobs at Standford University, 2005

“Listen to your heart.” -- Thomas L. Friedman at Williams College, 2005

“Be your own story.” -- Toni Morrison at Wellesley College, 2004

“Fly, Eagle, Fly!” -- Desmond Tutu at Brandeis University, 200

“Learning and respect.” -- Elie Wiesel at DePaul University, 1997

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If you want to read the complete speeches – which I recommend you doing so you can read them at Commencement Speeches from Humanity.org.

Graduation Song: Good Riddance

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One of the best graduation songs that I really like is Good Riddance by Green Day. I managed to find the live version on You Tube -- feast your eyes.




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Did this happen in your graduation?

Graduation ceremonies are the epitome and the reward of what graduation is all about. It is one of the most memorable moments in our lives where it marks the end of our high school years or college years. Sometimes it becomes memorable because of the funny speeches or funny things that happen. Watch this video carefully and you'd understand what a commencement ceremony these guys had.

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