Should We Pray About It: Mental Health in the Black Community Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience‚ particularly those of the African American community to seek mental health services when combating traumatic experiences. Central Idea: African Americans are victims of mental enslavement due to the urban community’s taboos and stigmas about mental health and the reliability of family‚ spirituality‚ and community for salvation. Introduction I. Mental health refer to an individual’s psychological
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Purpose and Description The purpose of our video is to increase awareness about cyberbullying because of its prominence in our communities. The increase of social media usage and numerous ways young adults can communicate with each other has created cyberbullying inflation. The ratio between the bullies and those being bullied is surprisingly even. Nearly half of the teenage populous admit they have cyberbullied at least once‚ while the other half of the teenage population have revealed that they
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I) Introduction: a. Personal Story: When my sister moved to the city to go to college‚ she lived in a small apartment in a very bad area of Santo Domingo‚ after a few months of living there her neighbor got robbed and shot in his own house… b. Topic: Recently mass shootings and an increase in gun violence in the cities has panicked the population of the United States‚ and many have decided to blame this violence on guns. II) Body: a. Argument: However‚ do we need to control guns or people? Isn’t
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Heartburn no more(tm): The top Acid reflux and heartburn product for you Introduction I believe each and everyone one of us has ever experienced heartburn. It is not a good feeling. Heartburn no more is a program designed to help us fight against acid reflux in our esophagus. How do we stop heartburn? I am asking this question because most medicines I have come across only relieve heartburn. Normal medicines cannot completely cure heartburn. I know most of you are asking if this program can completely
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Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to warm up and stretch before exercising I. Introduction: Shouldn’t it be the other way around where they are more likely to get inured than you? The secret is simple they know how to warm up and stretch before exercising their muscles. A. Attention getter: You ever wonder why you are prone to injuries compared to athletes who are constantly beating up their body? B. Establishment of ethos: I myself used to avoid warming up before a workout until I finally
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Andy Yowell Geoffrey Bennett Principles of speech 4/20/2015 General Purpose: To argue Specific Purpose: To argue the point that green cars aren’t any better than non green cars. Thesis Statement: The government and certain car manufacturing companies shouldn’t be promoting energy conserving vehicles as zero emissions vehicles because 1) the process of manufacturing electric cars pollutes the environment; 2) recharging the car uses a tremendous amount of fossil fuels; 3)The cost to manufacture
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Alyeska‚ Nick‚ Tessie‚ Tori‚ Vaughn COMM 1310: Fundamentals of Human Communication The Lack of Healthy Food Options on Campus Topic: Health Organization: Topically Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that the food provided on campus is not healthy and a change needs to happen. I. Introduction A. Attention getter: Do you know what its called when you gain weight freshman year? No? Well let me tell you it’s called freshman fifteen. B. Relevance: All of us here suffer from the negative health
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General Purpose: To persuade. Specific Purpose: To make you realize the problem regarding gender and persuade you to take action. Thesis Statement: There are many problem regarding gender‚ and today I am going to talk about some of them and how we can solve them. Attention Step (Attention Getter) There are many evidence that show that men and women are different‚ for example the fact that we don´t share the same hormones‚ sexual organs and biological abilities‚ men have testosterone and
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The Price of Life I. Thesis A. It seems that recently‚ the healthcare system has been placing labels on the values of lives. Doctors‚ hospitals‚ and pharmaceutical companies are separating patients on the sole bases of their finances. In these situations‚ individuals with health insurance are receiving priority care over those without health insurance. Doctors and hospitals are increasing waiting times of those without insurance‚ to take advantage of those with insurance. In addition to doubled-waiting
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Kevin Pearson 3-28-12 I. Attention Getter Have you never felt a sudden rush of panic when you saw something scary pop out of nowhere in a Horror movie? Have you never squirmed in you seat at the theatre or even in your living room chair because you saw something that was unsettling on the screen? II. Need Step Of course you have. All of us have. Every one of us has been afraid or startled by something or someone in the Horror movie medium. But‚ why? What make us so afraid of the
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