Death Of Reading Persuasive Speech

It was difficult to choose a topic. The purpose of this speech is to persuade you- young people. How I can do it? It is not easy; I am here just two years and have couple friends from my generation. Actually I don’t know what are your opinions and attitudes to many events and existing cultural differences do not make it easer. However, there are several problems that are the same for many countries and one of the more concerned is book reading.
I checked my guess in Internet. Yes, the results of surveys reveal that fewer people in the USA are reading books. That is mean more people I would like to preset you the results of two surveys conducted by Pew Research Center in 2014 and 2015 years which provide information about the groups more likely to read a book. There are women, young adults (those age 18-29), people with higher level of education and household higher income. And these surveys also reveal that the number of book readers has dipped from the previous years. The fist slide shows that the number of people who did not read a book whole year is increase from 8% in 1978 to 23% in 2014. Subsequent two slides present following
Reading is very essential for training because as Mitchell Stephens in his article “Death of Reading” wrote: Written words can be played with, analyzed, rearranged and organized into categories. The correspondences, connections or contradictions among various statements can be carefully examined... And when words are set in print, they gain additional powers…Our thoughts grow more abstract, more removed from situation in which we happen to find ourselves.”________ What is about a communication opportunity? Reading provides a unique opportunity for us to connect with author, to have some kind of a dialogue with a person, who opened for us his doubts, worldview. And this person may be Aristotle whose works we just study or our