They just have to raise their hands.

Copy, transform and combine.

I was born and raised in the country.

I like it.

Then, when I was 17,

I was born in Osaka, but was brought up in Tokyo.

I was born in Osaka, but brought up in Tokyo.

I was born in Osaka, but I was brought up in Tokyo.

We were born on the same day.

The time is now.

I've also discovered something important.

And if you can do that, then you have life.

This is math, and this is science, this is genetics.

Other things could have happened. The Japanese could have discovered Monterey.

We altered our ecological niche by creating civilization.

My name is Melissa Perez.

I was envious of the students who had studied abroad.

To set some context, I thought I'd start from the beginning.

So, on June 1, we weren't disaster experts, but on June 3, we started faking it.

It happens that we have the same birthday.

I was born in Yokohama.

I was born in Kyoto.

I was born in Tokyo.

I was born in 1972.

I was born in 1988.

The will to live life differently can start in some of the most unusual places.

My father died before I was born.

And of course, we all share the same adaptive imperatives.

Well, it turns out that some of these differences can be explained by a third, very powerful influence on our lives, besides nature and nurture.

That is the house where I was born.

Next year, we'll be starting college.

We'll be starting college next year.

I visited the village where he was born.

I visited the house in which Shakespeare was born.

So that's minus 11 there.

My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born.

All the students clapped their hands.

My father also lived most of his adult life in East Africa.

My grandmother survived and married my grandfather.

We were both born in the same hospital.

(Laughter)

So, Mr. Gore, thank you.

But, that's not true.

I watched some of those same kids come through and say to her, You know, Ms. Walker, you made a difference in my life.

The teacher was surrounded by her students.