Sample Persuasive Speech Self-Defense on Campus Speech Commentary Rebecca Hanson You’re tired; you’re hungry. You’ve just spent a long day at College Library and you can’t wait to get back to your room. Glancing outside‚ you remember how quickly it becomes dark. You don’t think much of it‚ though‚ as you bundle up and head out into the gusty wind. Not until you spy the shadows on the sidewalk or hear the leaves rustling beside you do you wish you weren’t alone. You walk quickly‚ trying to
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Tyesha Moore Monday 7p.m.-9:50p.m. PERSUASIVE SPEECH Operation Smile Tyesha Moore March 30‚ 2011 Public Speaking Honor Code__________Tyesha Moore____ Ms. Wills General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience why they should donate to Operation Smile. Central Idea: Operation Smile is a charity organization to help children around the world with cleft lip and cleft palates. Organization Method: Problem-Solution
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11-17-12 Persuasive archtype speech Hello my fellow americans‚ im sure you all know who I am. The one and only Captain America and im running for the title of best hero. Is there really any reason why I shouldn’t be picked? Of course not I fought for our great country against the axis powers. I stopped them from dominating our allies. Now some people may not see me as the best hero because I don’t have superpowers. But I don’t need superpowers to be a true hero. There are true
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Fast Food Nation The first half of the book Fast Food Nation written by Eric Schlosser expresses the profound outcomes of fast food in America starting from its creation to today. Some of these examples include: more employment opportunities for teenagers‚ the creation of successful franchise owners‚ and a new revolutionary way to buy food. Schlosser talks about the major effect that fast food companies have made in the life of teenagers. According to Schlosser‚ “Teenagers have long provided the
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Alessandro Stipo November 26‚ 2011 ENG1DC Mr. Byrne Persuasive Speech Imagine that you trained all your life for that special moment of playing in your first NHL game. At the beginning of your first shift in the game suddenly another player’s stick comes up and strikes you in the eye. This incident ends your career. This could have been prevented if you wore a visor. I think visors should be mandatory in the NHL in order to improve a player’s safety. Statistics have proven players who
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Persuasive Speech Introduction a. Attention Getter : When people ask me why I joined the military I think of all the reason that I did it for‚ but I think Toby Keith sums it up the best : “ ’cause freedom don’t come free.” b. Topic : Freedoms come with a great cost but yet we still do not care for our veterans well enough c. Preview: Today I will tell you how veterans suffer from Post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD and cant get help‚ how veterans are homeless and why they are
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John Doe COMM 120 January 1‚ 2013 A Persuasive Speech Outline (Monroe’s Motivated Sequence) I. II. Introduction – Getting Attention: Has anyone here been to a national forest? Well if you have then you’ve must seen a variety of the different wildlife and plants that live there. A. Problem Thesis Statement: I believe there is a problem with deforestation. B. Overview: Today I will discuss how many trees forests lose a year‚ the causes and effects of deforestation‚ and how it affects
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Madison Leek Professor Smiley Speech 1113 27 October 2014 Persuasive Speech When signing up to be an organ donor you usually think only your major organs will be used; however‚ something as small as a ligament of yours is used in popular surgeries such as anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions. When someone tears their ACL they usually have a choice to have an autograft‚ or use one of their own ligaments‚ but they can also choose to have an allograft‚ or take a cadaver’s ligament to
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The Truth Behind Fast Food The Fast Food industry‚ in some burger loving eyes‚ has been one of the smartest inventions this world has seen since the car itself. It has been driven by our preservative-filled stomachs for over 50 years now and you can bet that we’re still coming. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser is a book about charges that are backed up by some great research and some unsettling facts that will make you never want to eat that dollar burger again. The Fast Food Industry is so enormous
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In Fast Food Nation‚ Eric Schlosser makes the argument that fast food has become an integral part of our society. Schlosser argues in his book that the rise of fast food has badly affected the health of the nation; also that it has impacted negatively on the culture of America and is a bad influence on the rest of the world. In regard to his view on health‚ Schlosser demonstrates how fast food can lead to obesity by quoting many sources to demonstrate his point. Obesity‚ as well as other health
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