Prescription Drug Abuse Brenda DeRolf 3/5/2012 * Today I will talk about the growing problem of prescription drug abuse‚ some common drugs that cause abuse‚ their effects and some common treatments. Have you ever taken a prescription drug other than prescribed‚ or that wasn’t yours? Prescription drug abuse is the fastest growing problem in the U.S. right now. PDA is the intentional use of a medication without a prescription‚ or in a way other than prescribed‚ or for feelings it causes.
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Persuasive Speech Outline General purpose: To persuade. Specific purpose: At the end of my speech my audience will identify 2 consequences of drinking and drunk driving‚ and also 2 safe ways you can avoid those consequences. Central Idea: Drunk driving is against the law and it causes harm to many people‚ but with the right precautions‚ many lives can be saved. Introduction Imagine receiving a call from a police officer telling you that there’s been a terrible accident due to a drunk driver
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Audra McFarland Mr. Bergmann Sophomore Honors P6 28th September 2016 Conservation What if I were to tell you that your way of life is at stake? If I told you that your casual cruising around town or your habit of just tossing your drink in the trash without dumping it out was causing major harm to our earth‚ would you be concerned? Today‚ our carbon emissions are skyrocketing so alarmingly fast‚ the atmosphere has not been this warm in 66 million years. The excess carbon has caused a five degree
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international editor Richard Swift observed; “We are pushing a hundred species a day‚ four species an hour‚ into evolutionary oblivion”. Hunting and capturing animals has been practiced even before recorded history. Where this can be understandable to most in a survival perspective‚ there are people in this world who abuse this action and slaughter animals for other disrespectful reasons or no reason at all. This is identified as poaching and it should indisputably come to an end. Exceeding arrays of species
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I found the persuasive speech of policy to be difficult to put together. I put a lot of time into the organization‚ and practiced my speech many times‚ and I think overall‚ I did fairly well. With every speech though‚ I think there is always room for improvement. I felt my introduction went well. It was organized‚ and I felt that I was able to draw my audience in to want to know more. The topic was well suited for my audience since many are going into the medical field‚ and breast cancer is a topic
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Max walks out of the house and says‚” I’ll be home before nine.” And his mom says‚” bring Mark with you he is getting bored.” And Max says‚’’ fine‚ but he better not annoy me.” And Max and Mark walk down the street and hear groaning‚ and they think its just their neighbor. And then they turn the corner and see the street flooded with zombies and they scream there heads off. And then Mark says‚” what are we supposed to do?” And max says‚” are you dumb or something run.” As they are running there friends
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our class finished the last of the persuasive speeches. We were persuaded to take certain actions that could benefit our lives or the community around us. The speech that I was assigned to assess was Sam’s speech. His topic was why all division three colleges should have turf fields for out-door sporting events. He had positive techniques that he used in his speech‚ but there were also areas of improvement. First‚ I will begin with the positives of his speech. I was glad that he picked a topic he
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Animal Experimentation If you are a pet owner‚ like many you don’t wish for any harm to come to them or any other animal for that matter. However in this world there are organizations that mistreat animals and experiment on common house hold pets such as dogs or cats. The two reason for animal testing are “First‚ to find out more about the animals themselves‚ and‚ secondly to test substances and procedures to see if they are harmful (with a view to find out if they are harmful to human beings)”
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Persuasive Speech: By Sarah Wooten: You have heard it countless times before. “Pit bulls are heartless monsters!” Or you may have heard the ever famous claim‚ “Pit bulls are killers‚ dangerous‚ and keep your kids away from them!” But there are people like me out there that believe they are not monsters. They are just misunderstood. Training and discipline techniques from a young age are all it takes to have a lovable pit bull that wouldn’t hurt a fly. People seem only to focus on the negative
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minute persuasive speech on a topic of our choice. There were a vast range of topics that were spoken about but‚ Isabella’s speech was really something out of the ordinary. She choose to present her persuasive speech about the safety hazards the tourists who visit our island present. Isabella’s stance was that tourists who come to the island aren’t cautious when they’re driving so they should have special regulations. The criteria that Isabella was required to follow while giving her speech was that
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