Attention Getter For Persuasive Speech

I. Attention Getter: Robert Blum, a professor at Johns Hopkins University directed the “Global Early Adolescent Study” that found that children from a very young age and widely different backgrounds “will internalize this myth that girls are vulnerable and boys are strong and independent”.
II. Credibility: I have personally experienced gender stereotyping as well as gender inequality. Although it is not as bad as it used to be, inherit values within our society constrain women’s roles and opportunities.
III. Thesis: Gender stereotypes continue to repress girls at a young age by limiting their experiences and career choices. They have a limited perception of what women and girls can do based on how they were raised and their society. From childhood they already don’t believe in their own ability to do what boys can do. Overall, the argument is effective.
Body
I. Main Point 1:
Main Point 3: The visual elements include children, their drawings of men in the careers; doctor, pilot and firefighter. They used the women who held those careers to talk to the children and ask them to draw pictures of their careers before revealing who they were and what their professions were. The video uses repetition to emphasize the fact that almost all the children drew boys doing the jobs. The kids repeat the pronouns “he”, “his”, and “him” consistently. The kids are then asked for the people’s names and the clips that follow are all the kids choosing boy names. The tone in the first half of the video was downbeat with single piano notes and then the music stops when the women unveil that they are women who hold jobs in male-dominated fields. The kids look surprised and excited as they see their “costume change” and who the women actually are. The video ends with a drawing of a girl as a firefighter and the play on words “lets redraw the balance”. This ties the whole video together by concluding that we need to redefine gender norms and educate children on these new