parts of a persuasive speech. Attention Statement Show a picture of a person on death row and ask the audience: does an innocent man deserve to die? Introduction Briefly introduce the man in an Illinois prison and explain that he was released only days before his impending death because DNA evidence (not available when he was convicted)‚ clearly established his innocence. A statement of your topic and your specific stand on the topic: “My speech today is about the death penalty‚ and I
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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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Should the Death Penalty be abolished? Thomas Adam PHI 103 Kurt Mosser February 13‚ 2011 Introduction Capital punishment is the execution‚ as a punishment for a person convicted of committing a heinous crime against humanity. Crimes that are known as capital crimes or capital offences enforce capital punishment; crimes against humanity‚ drug trafficking resulting in loss of life‚ terrorism‚ murder‚ kidnapping resulting loss of life‚ etc. are considered capital offences. In this argumentative
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PERSUASIVE SPEECH GENERAL PURPOSE: To persuade the audience that pit bulls are nice loving dogs. SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To persuade the audience that pit bulls are not naturally dangerous. CENTRAL IDEA: Pit bulls are just like any other dog. It depends on how a pit bull or any other breed of dog is nurtured to determine the characteristics of the dog. Pit bulls are very loving and obedient INTRODUCTION I. Do you have a dog? Does anyone have a pit bull? Well I happy to say that I
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Persuasive Speech Outline I. Introduction A. Topic: Texting and driving is dangerous‚ weather it has affected you or not. B. Hook: Did you know that texting while driving is now one of the most popular distractions that take a driver’s eyes off the road? C. Link to audience: Imagine that someone in your family‚ your mom‚ dad‚ or sibling were to be killed by a driver who was sending a text message. Was that text worth losing someone you love? D. Thesis statement: Today I will persuade you into
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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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Debating the Death Penalty is authored by Hugo Adam Bedau and Paul G. Cassell. Hugo Adam Bedau is a retired professor of philosophy at Tufts University. Bedau has more than two awards and wrote for many newspapers as well as academic presses. He was an editor of the standard work on capital punishment “The Death Penalty in America” and several other books. Bedau also published three volumes of his own essays. Paul G. Cassell was a court Judge of Salt Lake City. Cassell was a professor of Law at the
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states and has also been used in the ancient times. Thirteen states right now don’t have the death penalty: Alaska‚ District of Colombia‚ Hawaii‚ Iowa‚ Maine‚ Massachusetts‚ Michigan‚ Minnesota‚ North Dakota‚ Rhode Island‚ Vermont‚ West Virginia‚ and Wisconsin. But all states should ban it because the American Civil Liberties Union believes the death penalty inherently violates the constitutional ban against cruel and unusual punishment and the guarantees of due process of law and of equal protection
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Persuasive Speech Outline General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that the "ozone hole" is not caused by man and therefore requires no policy against CFC’s. Central idea: The ozone layer/"hole" is caused by fluct. in the environment and CFC’s are little if any of the cause of ozone depletion. CFC’s are very heavy‚ they stay close to the ground and do not affect the stratosphere. Volcano’s put out approx 10X more times chlorine than man produces. Ozone Center of WA
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today and defines our personality. From the time we are able to comprehend what death and murder was‚ we knew and understood that it was morally wrong and was stated so in the Bible. We ask ourselves this question: “Do any of us have the right to determine who gets the death penalty?” Many are against the death penalty‚ some are for it‚ it all depends what side fits their code of personal ethics. Personally‚ I am against it. The Bible states that “Thou shall not kill‚” and I take that literally‚
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