Persuasive Speech: Poverty In The United States
Persuasive Speech #1
Introduction
Opener: Mother Theresa once said, “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” She understood that donating money cannot solve poverty alone and that it is more important to show that persons in poverty do not go unnoticed.
Background: The issue of poverty was really brought to my attention when it was a major part of the high school debate topic last year. I did a lot of research in order to find out what could be done and how to get it done.
Audience “Need to know” Statement: We should help the poor because they are fellow human beings. We cannot turn a blind-eye. We are all interdependent.
Thesis: It is important and beneficial to America if we help our fellow citizens that suffer from poverty by donating our time and effort and to lend them a hand when nobody else will.
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Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” ~Norman Vincent Peale
Works Cited
Bassuk, E. L. (2010), Ending Child Homelessness in America. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 80: 496–504. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2010.01052.x Ellwood, David T. Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family. United States Of America: Basic books, 1988. 14. Print. Green, L. (2006). Supportive housing. In S. Isaacs & J. Knickman (Eds.), To improve health and health care volume X (ch. 6) [Electronic version]. Princeton, NJ: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Retrieved April 17, 2007, from http://www.rwjf.org/files/publications/books/2007/AnthologyX_CH06.pdf Culhane, D., Metraux, S., & Hadley, T. (2002). Public service reductions associated with placement of homeless persons with severe mental illness in supportive hous- ing. Housing Policy Debate. 13(1): 107-163. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2006). HUD Perspective Presentation of Mark Johnston, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs, September 20, 2006, Continuums of Care
Introduction
Opener: Mother Theresa once said, “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” She understood that donating money cannot solve poverty alone and that it is more important to show that persons in poverty do not go unnoticed.
Background: The issue of poverty was really brought to my attention when it was a major part of the high school debate topic last year. I did a lot of research in order to find out what could be done and how to get it done.
Audience “Need to know” Statement: We should help the poor because they are fellow human beings. We cannot turn a blind-eye. We are all interdependent.
Thesis: It is important and beneficial to America if we help our fellow citizens that suffer from poverty by donating our time and effort and to lend them a hand when nobody else will.
Preview Main …show more content…
Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” ~Norman Vincent Peale
Works Cited
Bassuk, E. L. (2010), Ending Child Homelessness in America. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 80: 496–504. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2010.01052.x Ellwood, David T. Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family. United States Of America: Basic books, 1988. 14. Print. Green, L. (2006). Supportive housing. In S. Isaacs & J. Knickman (Eds.), To improve health and health care volume X (ch. 6) [Electronic version]. Princeton, NJ: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Retrieved April 17, 2007, from http://www.rwjf.org/files/publications/books/2007/AnthologyX_CH06.pdf Culhane, D., Metraux, S., & Hadley, T. (2002). Public service reductions associated with placement of homeless persons with severe mental illness in supportive hous- ing. Housing Policy Debate. 13(1): 107-163. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2006). HUD Perspective Presentation of Mark Johnston, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs, September 20, 2006, Continuums of Care