Topic: Chicago Bears General Purpose: Speech to Persuade Specific Purpose: I want my audience to realize why they should be Bears fans Thesis Statement: Living in Grand Rapids Michigan‚ the Chicago Bears are obviously the best football team to be a fan of Organizational Pattern: I. Introduction a. Attention Getter: When I was about seven years old‚ I made one of the best decisions of my young life‚ and I didn’t even realize it at the time b. Reason to Listen: Sports are a big
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I never thought I would ever be in this predicament. I never thought that my own mother would kick me out of my home‚ my home where my mum raised me and feed me for 16 years‚ where she used to call my name sweetly‚ Joshua. Well‚ I have thought about it before. It was the main threat my stepdad‚ Doug used against me whenever I pissed him off. And I pissed him off every day. Maybe I was better off on the streets away from him; well that’s what I like to think. I turned back and gave my old home one
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A. Attention Gainer: According to Statista‚ over 263 million cars and trucks currently pollute our earth’s environment (“Number of vehicles…”‚ 2015). And that is just in the US alone. B. Reason to Listen: Yet more than 99% of the vehicles sold in the United States are populated by these types of polluting vehicles. C. Speaker Credibility (right to inform): Hello I’m Paul and I have been researching different types of vehicles and have seen the transformation of the automotive industry for the last
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I. Seventeen‚ young Trayvon Martin‚ a Florida resident‚ was violently gunned down at age seventeen. A. I understand that you my peers are also 15‚ 16‚ and maybe 17 years old. B. Think of all the things in life you still have yet to experience. C. Now think about this‚ according to an article retrieved from the Gale database‚ in one year roughly 200 people have been murdered with concealed weapons in one state alone. D. Today I’m going to talk to you about the
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Johnson Page 1 Paige Johnson Professor Horton English 1301 April 22‚ 2012 Research‚ Argue‚ Propose The World Wildlife Fund I. Introduction: As we all should know from our seventh grade history class or a one-hundred level history class here in college‚ the American Bison were hunted to near extinction in the 19th century. Thanks to organizations like the World Wildlife Fund‚ millions of animals and thousands of animal species that were near extinction‚ like
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everyone. Some people view a home as a physical structure that is a reliable place to live. While others view a home as a place of acceptance and family. Anna Quindlen worked a story on homeless people trying to find an answer to this very difficult topic. Quindlen met people who would socially be termed ‘homeless’‚ but Quindlen learned that maybe the conventional term does not quite cover it. A home can be a perfectly square house with a white picket fence and a golden retriever in the front
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As we approach I now notice the gentleman is propped up on a crate. His legs are crossed and appear to provide the perfect support for his resting arms and hand holding a sign “Homeless Veteran.” Is this crate what he carries his belonging in? Does he have belongings? A moral dilemma begins to erupt within myself. Am I intruding as I peer at him as he encounters each vehicle? Am I interrupting a private moment? Am I invading his
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The Homeless Teenager Experience By: Frances M Nelson Who could ever imagine a young fourteen to fifteen year old ninth grade freshman girl in high school would have been sleeping on subway trains in New York City. Surviving on two bags of crunchy cheese doodles‚ along with a chocolate twenty five cent swiss roll ‚and just barely able to take baths? Well that was life for me in the late nineties. I grew up in a middle class well off family. Although my mother was always at work we had everything
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Rethinking Homeless Shelters The Silicon Valley is known for containing magnates who rarely worry about financials. This however‚ does not mean there are not less fortunate people living in the area as well. More likely than not the average person is financially stable but this does not exempt the local government from improving the lives of the homeless to the best of their abilities. New York Times writer Christine Quinn‚ in a January article about rethinking the homeless shelters in New York
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Stages in Preparing an Effective Outline for a Presentation Giving a presentation can be a daunting task‚ especially for those not inclined toward public speaking. Still‚ even people with poor speaking skills have the potential to give an effective presentation‚ no matter how large the audience. The key to delivering a compelling presentation is to prepare an effective outline. You will need to follow several guidelines to construct an organized and effective outline. Rhetorical Purpose • Identify
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