Topic Area: Gay Rights (Same-Sex Marriage) Position: Pro Specific purpose: To persuade my audience that we should legalize same-sex marriage in our country. __________________________________________________________________________________ Step 1: Attention: A. Story - Picture this... A man meets someone he loves. Someone he is sure will bring him happiness and someone he wants to grow old with. He wants to take the next important step in his life with a marriage proposal but oops...the person
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May 7th‚ 2014 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington‚ DC 20500 Dear President Barack Obama: I am a Colorado citizen who has supported you throughout both of your presidential campaigns. I am writing you to express my concern of hydraulic fracturing. It has become a major issue in Colorado and the United States as a whole and I am troubled for the health and wellbeing of citizens and their animals. Hydraulic fracturing is a danger to air‚ water
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Have you ever thrown a banana peel out of a car window because it is “bio-degradable"? If so‚ you have broken the law. Littering is against the law‚ but the crime is often ignored. There are many reasons why people litter‚ but in reality there is no excuse that justifies littering. A rebirth of the no littering campaign (capitalize No Littering when referring to the campaign) would keep our world clean‚ save money‚ and prevent accidents. Littering is a serious problem that people do not realize
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GMO Speech Thesis - GMOs are ethically immoral and cause a threat to human growth in a variety of different ways. Genetic modification (GM) is the process by which DNA make up is perfected and altered. This procedure is completed by combining genes from other organisms. It may even involve the combining of plant genes with animal genes. The results of this process are also known as GMOs‚ genetically modified organisms. In recent discovery‚ geneticists have learned to genetically modify many
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At the end of the speech‚ I hope to persuade you to avoid using photo shop and find other methods to avoid using Photoshop on a picture of yourself or with someone else to make yourself look perfect. Introduction: How many of you take selfies then edit the picture and upload it to social media? Well I’m guessing the majority of you guys edit pictures. Most of you worry about getting likes especially‚ on instagram and if you do not get enough likes‚ your self-esteem lowers because it makes you feel
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How is language used to construct reality‚ inform and challenge? SEMESTER 1 2014 Teacher(s): J.Wilson‚ J.Francis‚ A.Arkwright‚ N.Malik‚ R.Coleman‚ J.Ward Assessment No. and Task Type e.g. #3 test‚ creative response‚ essay #1 Persuasive Oral Length – words/time 5 – 7 mins Evidence of Progress Due Date Week 3/4 Due Date Week 5 Learning Goals See Unit Outline - must align with Assessment Criteria & marking schema/rubric – use dot points - use the following stem ...This
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ENC 1102 Take a Stand “Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people” – Helen Keller. Since 1973 it seems that everyone in America has become deaf to the subject of abortion. Dividing this subject into two different parties‚ pro-choice and pro-life‚ everyone has an opinion but no one is listening. In 2012 Planned Parenthood reported about 88‚000 abortions in Florida and 333‚000 in the USA. This number doesn’t include the ones done by a third-party clinic due
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(Topic/Purpose) I will be covering reasons why not to wear contact lenses. IV. (Credibility) I have worn contacts on and off since the age of 13 and have felt the effects that contacts have had on my eyes and my bank account. V. (Preview) In this speech‚ I will discuss the risk/effects that contact lenses can have on the eyes‚ the long term cost of contact lenses‚ and what you can do to prevent these to occur. VI. (Defining contact lenses) Contact lenses are medical devices worn directly on the cornea
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Persuasive Speech Speaking out to persuade others . . . From Reading to Writing Martin Luther King‚ Jr.’s powerful “I Have a Dream” speech helped convince Congress to pass landmark civil rights legislation. It also continues to influence people of all ages to believe in and work to achieve their personal dreams. Persuasive Speech Speaking out to persuade others . . . Persuasive speeches such as Dr. King’s can move listeners to tears and inspire them to move mountains. Politicians‚ advertisers
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whether fighting should be allowed or banned in the National Hockey League (NHL). In generalization‚ most people see that physically fighting someone‚ fist-to-fist‚ is a negative conflict. However‚ in certain sports fighting is the main objective of the sport. For instance boxing‚ kickboxing‚ or the rising sport of UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship). Then people look at NHL‚ and point out that fighting is not the main purpose or goal of the sport. People who disapprove of the fighting also believe
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