Sample Persuasive Speech Self-Defense on Campus Speech Commentary Rebecca Hanson You’re tired; you’re hungry. You’ve just spent a long day at College Library and you can’t wait to get back to your room. Glancing outside‚ you remember how quickly it becomes dark. You don’t think much of it‚ though‚ as you bundle up and head out into the gusty wind. Not until you spy the shadows on the sidewalk or hear the leaves rustling beside you do you wish you weren’t alone. You walk quickly‚ trying to
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Persuasive speech outline purpose: To persuade my audience to donate blood through the American Red Cross. Introduction: 1. Did you know that blood donated to the American Red Cross saves XXX lives per year? 2. People should give blood because it is easy and though there might be a little pain involved it is worth it because it saves so many lives and you get great snacks. Body: I. Giving blood is easy a. It only takes about an hour b. You just lay back and let the nurses do the work c. It
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11-17-12 Persuasive archtype speech Hello my fellow americans‚ im sure you all know who I am. The one and only Captain America and im running for the title of best hero. Is there really any reason why I shouldn’t be picked? Of course not I fought for our great country against the axis powers. I stopped them from dominating our allies. Now some people may not see me as the best hero because I don’t have superpowers. But I don’t need superpowers to be a true hero. There are true
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spend a quite a bit of time in a bar drinking milk laced with alcohol in the novel when he wrote: “Or you could [drink] the milk with knives in it‚ as we used to say‚ and this would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of dirty [gang violence]‚ and that was what we were [drinking] this evening I’m starting off the story with” (Burgess). The milk is laced with alcohol‚ and the bar is passing it off as regular milk‚ so it can be served to minors. By drinking milk‚ the characters depicted as innocent
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a personal decision which is not related to age or advertising. Robert A. Levy’s passage‚ “Alcohol Ads Do Not Promote Underage Drinking”‚ argues that advertisements are not to be blamed for a person’s decision to drink. While Robert A. Levy’s passage aims to defend alcohol advertisers‚ his passage contains some solid points about the personal choices surrounding underage drinking. First‚ Robert A. Levy underlines all the responsibilities an eighteen year old has without having the right to legally
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BMCC SPEECH 100-1810 Kemi Olukanni Public Speaking Assignment #4 The Persuasive Speech Outline I. Topic: Non-profit organization or charity organization General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade the class to give back to our nation’s wounded warriors. Claim of: One out of five veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are diagnosed with PTSD‚ veteran’s account for 20 percent of U.S suicide. II. Attention Getter: PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a psychiatric disorder
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Teenage Drinking. Imagine one weekend you decide to go out with your best friend to a party. She’s been begging you all week to go. You get there‚ people are offering you drinks‚ everyone around you is drinking‚ and you take the drinks without even thinking. You think to yourself “you’ve been out drinking before so it won’t even be a big deal”. You keep drinking‚ drink after drink. You’re enjoying yourself‚ meeting new people‚ having a good time. You wake up the next day not knowing what’s happened
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In 1984‚ the Uniform Drinking Age Act‚ a law which would severely penalize states who failed to restrict the drinking age to 21 or higher‚ was signed into law (Hoover). It is odd to think‚ in today’s day and age‚ that 35 years ago the drinking age was below 21 in over 70% of US states (“Minimum Legal Drinking Age…”)‚ however‚ this all changed when the federal government took away highway funds and dangled them in front of these states like a carrot‚ waiting for them all to raise their legal age
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Topic: S.992 Persuasive Speech of Public Policy I. Purpose of presentation A. General Purpose: To persuade B. Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to take action to urge their congress person to vote against S.992 - The National Nursing Shortage Reform and Patient Advocacy Act II Introduction / Attention A. Gain attention: Picture this. Your loved one had surgery yesterday. A nurse is fixing their morphine drip when their manager comes in and tells the nurse they are required to take
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Persuasive Speech Parts Explained PERSUASIVE OUTLINE Begin with an Attention Step that is an Opening statement of interest: (use one or more of the following) * A rhetorical question * A startling statement * A quotation * An illustration or story * A reference to the subject * A reference to the occasion Motivate audience interest in your subject by alluding to: (use one or more of the following) * The practical value of the information for your audience * A reason
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