by Hector De Leon | Aug 22, 2020 | Educational Speeches
At one point, he lived with two women, as husband and wives. The women shared the same first name. They lived in the same house. They had babies on the same day. He was in his twenties when I remember briefly staying in his house on a ranch near Brenham when we came...
by Hector De Leon | May 3, 2020 | Educational Speeches
Facing the early afternoon glare, our eyes are partly closed while my son, my wife and I are at a Metropolitan Transit Authority (METRO) rail station. It is the scene depicted in a photograph I found from 2004. A closer look shows that the squint and the prescription...
by Hector De Leon | Sep 10, 2015 | Educational Speeches
Cuando perdí a mi padre estaba terriblemente conmovido. Sentí que una parte de mí murio. Me sentía muy vulnerable y muy mortal. Se sentía como si tenía cinco años y estaba perdido en un lugar publico. Sin el escudo contra mis temores, mi sensación de seguridad...
by Hector De Leon | Jun 16, 2015 | Educational Speeches
How can I match what I did previously? This is a question public speakers face regularly. Repeating a successful performance presents a challenge because factors that impact communication change from moment-to-moment. Good speakers must be ready to adapt to fluid...
by Hector De Leon | Feb 24, 2015 | Educational Speeches
I aspire to communicate well in English. As an immigrant who arrived in the United States at the age of nine, a limited vocabulary and the lack of knowledge of how to use a period or a comma made learning to communicate an arduous process. Initially, the task was...
by Hector De Leon | May 19, 2014 | Educational Speeches
Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. I am very appreciative for the invitation. I am honored to be here but a bit apprehensive about speaking. You see every time I am asked to speak to teenagers I think about my years as a teen. And I think about the...
