BMCC SPEECH 100-1810 Kemi Olukanni Public Speaking Assignment #4 The Persuasive Speech Outline I. Topic: Non-profit organization or charity organization General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade the class to give back to our nation’s wounded warriors. Claim of: One out of five veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are diagnosed with PTSD‚ veteran’s account for 20 percent of U.S suicide. II. Attention Getter: PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a psychiatric disorder
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Persuasive Essay on Euthanasia By fsaad101‚ Reno‚ NV More by this author Email me when fsaad101 contributes work The author’s comments: I started off writing this paper just for an English assignment but now I truly do support this cause. I hope from this article people gain some knowledge and can see how wrong it is for the government to force a person that is in unbelievable pain to endure life if they really do not want to. Sue Rodriguez was a mother in her early thirties who was
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Abortion Persuasive Speech It is not a mother’s right to choose but a child’s right to life. At three months the child inside of you is alive and living with a heartbeat. Why should it be okay to kill that innocent child? Should it be okay of us to kill others? Pope John Paul the II once stated that a nation that kills its own young is a nation without hope. Abortion is wrong. It is an inhumane use of birth control and it should be illegal in all states. An abortion is a very dangerous
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“Introducing sex education in middle school is very important as many cases of teenage pregnancy have been reported in the past few years” Final Persuasive Speech April 21‚ 2013 I am writing to persuade you of how it is important to talk to our young children in middle school about sex and teen pregnancy. Sex education is one of the most controversial issues in education. This has been hovering over educational institutions since ages. It is probably the most debated topic that will always
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Persuasive Speech Attention Getter: I would like to start my presentation off by telling you all to ask yourselves a series of fairly straight forward questions. I want you to take a look at you’re‚ any hand and ask your selves “Who’s hand is this?” Do the same with your other hand‚ and now both legs and your arms if you would like. If I am not mistaking the answer to all your questions are mine right. They are your hands‚ legs‚ and arms. What I am trying to get through to you all today is that
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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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Title / Topic Teen suicide and public awareness. Specific Purpose My purpose in speaking today is to inform my audience of the increasing teen suicide rates and bring awareness to the issue by supporting the work of the La Crosse Area Suicide Prevention Initiative through Central Idea Suicide is an increasing matter among many teens and young adults in the United States‚ but awareness through many organizations‚ including the La Crosse Area Suicide Prevention Initiative‚ is
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Teen pregnancy and media Specific purpose: Have teenagers aware the risk and consequences of teen pregnancy l. Today I will be talking about the way the authors and creators of a television commercial and newspaper article influence us to their opinion by writing the way they do. The topic that I am studying is Teenage Pregnancy. This topic is always going to be in the media for different reasons‚ and occasionally you hear about a story of a young girl getting pregnant due to un-safe sex. There
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Persuasive Speech “Donating Blood” Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to donate blood regularly if their blood is safe to be transferred to another human being. Central Idea: Donating blood helps save lives through a relatively simple and painless process that also provides numerous benefits to the donor. Introduction Attention Step: I. (Attention) One day while Jim was enjoying one of his favorite hobbies‚ flying small airplanes‚ the airplane crashed and Jim suffered broken bones and
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Teen Suicide Teen suicide has been a continually growing problem over the years. Each year thousands of teens are attempting or completing suicide. Suicide is the third-leading cause of death for 15-24 year-olds‚ according to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is also the sixth leading cause of death for ages 5-14. The risk of suicides increase tremendously when there’s access to firearms at home. Nearly 60% of all suicides in the U.S. are committed with a gun. That is
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