Steroid Persuasive Speech
Jesse Baker
Topic: The Use of Steroids in Professional Sports
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience of how the use of steroids are affective in professional sports.
Thesis Statement: It helps to understand how steroid use in professional sports affects both the sport and its audience in a positive and negative way.
INTRODUCTION
Attention Material: “Winning is the only thing that matters in sports” -Vince Lombardi
Thesis Statement: It helps to understand how steroid use in professional sports affects both the sport and its audience in a positive and negative way.
Preview: Through many years of professional sports athletes have been using performance-enhancing drugs and this has affected these athletes in many ways. This may also have an influence …show more content…
on the audience in different ways.
(Transition to body of speech: “Let’s begin by understanding “bad” steroids.”)
BODY
First Main Point: There are different types of steroids that can do bad things to your body.
Subpoint A: The type of steroid that is used in professional sports is called anabolic steroids.
Sub-subpoints: 1. Anabolic steroids are synthetically produced variants of the naturally occurring male sex hormone testosterone. 2. They can be legally prescribed to treat conditions resulting from hormone deficiency.
Subpoint B: Anabolic steroids are often used by athletes and body builders to build muscle and improve athletic performance.
Sub-subpoints: 1. There are many health problems that are related to anabolic steroids.
2. These health problems are: * Acne * Breast growth and shrinking of testicles in men * Voice deepening and growth of body hair in women * Heart problems, including heart attacks * Liver disease, including cancer * Aggressive behavior (Transition to second main point: “Now we will examine “good” steroids”) Second Main Point: Some steroids are meant to be taken to help your body. Subpoint A: Cortico Steroids Sub-subpoints: 1. Involved in regulating inflammation 2. Treatment of many diseases such as asthma, eczema, allergies, arthritis, colitis, and kidney
disease. Subpoint B: Androgenic Steroid Sub-subpoints: 1. Vascular manifestations of Behcet’s disease 2. Treats aplastic anemia and reduce itching of chronic biliary obstruction. Subpoint C: Anabolic Steroids Sub-subpoints: 1. Promote growth in children with pituitary dwarfism and other growth disorders. 2. Osteoporosis and patients receiving corticosteroid therapy. 3. Stimulate bone marrow function in hypoplastic anaemia. (Transition to third main point: It’s time to look at these drugs in professional sports now.) Third Main Point: Throughout professional sports anabolic steroids are being used. Subpoint A: These anabolic steroids can only be used to build muscle tissue and increase body mass. Subpoint B: Athletes take these drugs so they can improve competitiveness and performance. (Transition: “In conclusion. . .”) Summary Statement: Steroids in sports can be a good or bad thing depending on how the steroids are used. It can be frowned upon but other people don’t seem to care because it doesn’t affect them. Concluding Remarks: Steroids will always be around in sports and for medical reasons. What we choose to do with them is our choice.
Topic: The Use of Steroids in Professional Sports
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience of how the use of steroids are affective in professional sports.
Thesis Statement: It helps to understand how steroid use in professional sports affects both the sport and its audience in a positive and negative way.
INTRODUCTION
Attention Material: “Winning is the only thing that matters in sports” -Vince Lombardi
Thesis Statement: It helps to understand how steroid use in professional sports affects both the sport and its audience in a positive and negative way.
Preview: Through many years of professional sports athletes have been using performance-enhancing drugs and this has affected these athletes in many ways. This may also have an influence …show more content…
on the audience in different ways.
(Transition to body of speech: “Let’s begin by understanding “bad” steroids.”)
BODY
First Main Point: There are different types of steroids that can do bad things to your body.
Subpoint A: The type of steroid that is used in professional sports is called anabolic steroids.
Sub-subpoints: 1. Anabolic steroids are synthetically produced variants of the naturally occurring male sex hormone testosterone. 2. They can be legally prescribed to treat conditions resulting from hormone deficiency.
Subpoint B: Anabolic steroids are often used by athletes and body builders to build muscle and improve athletic performance.
Sub-subpoints: 1. There are many health problems that are related to anabolic steroids.
2. These health problems are: * Acne * Breast growth and shrinking of testicles in men * Voice deepening and growth of body hair in women * Heart problems, including heart attacks * Liver disease, including cancer * Aggressive behavior (Transition to second main point: “Now we will examine “good” steroids”) Second Main Point: Some steroids are meant to be taken to help your body. Subpoint A: Cortico Steroids Sub-subpoints: 1. Involved in regulating inflammation 2. Treatment of many diseases such as asthma, eczema, allergies, arthritis, colitis, and kidney
disease. Subpoint B: Androgenic Steroid Sub-subpoints: 1. Vascular manifestations of Behcet’s disease 2. Treats aplastic anemia and reduce itching of chronic biliary obstruction. Subpoint C: Anabolic Steroids Sub-subpoints: 1. Promote growth in children with pituitary dwarfism and other growth disorders. 2. Osteoporosis and patients receiving corticosteroid therapy. 3. Stimulate bone marrow function in hypoplastic anaemia. (Transition to third main point: It’s time to look at these drugs in professional sports now.) Third Main Point: Throughout professional sports anabolic steroids are being used. Subpoint A: These anabolic steroids can only be used to build muscle tissue and increase body mass. Subpoint B: Athletes take these drugs so they can improve competitiveness and performance. (Transition: “In conclusion. . .”) Summary Statement: Steroids in sports can be a good or bad thing depending on how the steroids are used. It can be frowned upon but other people don’t seem to care because it doesn’t affect them. Concluding Remarks: Steroids will always be around in sports and for medical reasons. What we choose to do with them is our choice.