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NASA Funding: Beyond the Stars
Amiee Montano
Heidi Gornto
Public Speaking
Tuesday: 5-9:15pm
12/03/2012
Final Outline

Beyond the Stars

Speech Topic: NASA Funding
Speech Title: Beyond the Stars
Categories: Policy
General Purpose Statement: To Persuade
Organizational Pattern: Problem, Cause, Solution
Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade to my audience that we as tax payers should fund NASA.
Central Idea Statement: To persuade to my audience, that we as tax payers should fund NASA. By first, discussing why the majority tax payers don’t want to fund NASA, Second, by explaining the cause of not funding NASA, and finally, exploring the achievements NASA has created and improved that we all use today and the possibilities we could experience in our future if we were to fund NASA.
Main Points: I. Discussing why the majority of tax payers don’t want to fund NASA II. Explaining the cause of not funding NASA III. Exploring the achievements NASA has created and improved that we all use today and the possibilities we could experience in our future if we were to fund NASA.

Completed Introduction:
Tonight, I will be opening up my speech with a quote from a famous intelligent astronomer named Neil Tyson, in “Universe” History.com, November, 2011. He states, “Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe; we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.” As an inspired college student, majoring in animal science, funding The National



Bibliography: of seven published sources: * “Universe” By ‘Neil DeGrasse Tyson, History.com, November,2011. * ‘ Taxpayers Doesn 't Like NASA Funding Priorities.’ By Keith Cowing, NASA WATCH, October 27, 2012. * ‘NASA Technologies Benefit Our Lives.’ By John Jones, May 1, 2011. * ‘NASA Misuses $1.4 Million in Tax Dollars for Degrees Earned at For-Profit Colleges, According to OIG Audit.’ By GERRY WAGSCHAL, New York Times, Aug. 10, 2011 * ‘Why explore space?’ By Dr. Ernst Stuchlinger, NASA, January, 2008. * ‘Finding Outing for SpaceX’ by Kenneth Chang, NEW York Times, October 7,2012. * ‘G.M and NASA Desogn the Robo-Glove’ By Paul Stenquist, New York Times, March 18, 2012. * “National Aeronautics and Space Admininstration” Obama, Change.GOV, November,2012. * ‘Why Study Plants in Space” By: Barbara Patterson, on November 27, 2012, NASA

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