Specific purpose: to persuade the audience that secondhand smoke is harmful. Claim: Smoking should be banned from all public locations such as schools and hospitals‚ because of its danger to others. Do you know someone who smokes or do you smoke? Have you ever smoked in front of another person before or even worse a child? My interest in secondhand smoke arose when i was younger and my dad smoked. I was about 8 or 9 years old‚ however I lost interest until last semester when I researched a paper
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Dear Santa‚ If I could have my Christmas wish fulfilled I would want to have a little girl named Camryn to have her dream come true and to donate money to her. I make my request after thoughtful consideration and I hope to persuade you of the value of my request. Let me share my reasons with you. A six year-old with Wilms tumor‚ sad isn’t it? Her name’s Camryn‚ she was found to be suffering from Wilms tumor‚ a cancer of the kidneys. Her right kidney had several tumors and her left kidney had
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Even though David Leonhardt and Freeman Hrabowski both address the idea that college is worth it in the long run‚ Leonhardt provides a further convincing argument by revealing where exactly college fits into our constantly growing society‚ using persuasive word choice‚ and constantly incorporating facts and statistics. College is an immense
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Tina Yuan ENG3U1-06 Ms. Lawton November 30‚ 2009 Comparison and Contrast Persuasive Essay Being a girl who’s born and raised in a Chinese family‚ I always heard people making comments about how girls are useless. Maybe is because I am a teenager‚ now the more I hear about it ‚ the more I am rebellious to it. In my opinion‚ girls will always be superior than boys. From the inside to the outside‚ girls have better appearance‚ better personality‚ and even better social status. First of all
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Persuasive Messages Paper The new advances in technology allow businesses to reach different customer bases. This includes buying and selling products over the Internet. The online shopping process is considered e-commerce. E-commerce is made up of different behaviors but for the purpose of this discussion the three discussed are consumer-to-consumer (C2C)‚ business-to-business (B2B)‚ and consumer-to-business (C2B). The different behaviors have different mediums to reach their targeted audience
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The most persuasive essay that we have read in class at the moment is From “Resistance to Civil Government” by Henry David Thoreau. It explains why the people have the right to resistance‚ the importance of majority opinion‚ and go against the government. Thoreau uses strong logical‚ emotional‚ and ethical appeals throughout the story to express his reasons for standing against the government. Thoreau uses logical appeal throughout the story to persuade the people about how the government
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|Name: |Date: | Graded Assignment Delivering a Persuasive Speech You will be delivering your speech today. The rubric that your teacher will use to grade your speech is on the next page. Read the hints below and review the rubric. Then get ready to take the spotlight! Note: You do not have to turn this page into your teacher. Your grade will be based
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When massive oil giant Shell released plans to start drilling in the Arctic‚ an environmental protection group‚ Greenpeace‚ began lobbying against them on basis of environmental grounds as this plan had the real possibility of severely harming the entire Arctic ecosystem by exacerbating the melting of the ice caps and releasing toxins into the environment that would be difficult to clean (“The Dangers”). Ultimately they won by attacking Shell’s highly-credible and well-liked partner‚ Lego‚ in hopes
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Chapter 24: Persuasive Speaking Goal: reach desired ends through an honest means I. Persuasion ‘the art’ –faculty of observing in a given case the available means of persuasion. Persuasion is symbolic‚ non-coercive (not forced) influence 3 factors: Context—social‚ cultural‚ political climate Agent—persuader Receiver—audience **Equal opp. To persuade‚ Complete revelation of agendas—let audience know complete list of goals and how you intend to get audience there‚ Critical receivers—have
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Week Four Discussion Questions • What different persuasive approaches would you use on the following audiences: a boss‚ a peer‚ a challenging person‚ or an open-minded person? I believe the approaches will and must differ if you want to be successful. Persuasion is meant to win others over‚ not to defeat them. Therefore‚ it is important to be able to see the topic from different angles in order to anticipate the reaction others have to a proposal. Since individuals in each of the roles
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