Persuasive Speech Strategy Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that Capital Punishment does not deter crime and that it should be abolished. Central Idea: Homicide rates are lower in non-death penalty states when compared to states with the death penalty. Main Points: I. The death penalty has no deterrent effect. II. The costs of administrating capital punishment are prohibitive. III. States with the death penalty have higher murder rates than those without
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Persuasive Speech: Euthanasia Everyone‚ at least know one person that drinks. There is nothing wrong with having a beer or two every now and then. It gets dangerous when people mix it with other substances. And that’s exactly what Karen Quinlan did when she was only 17 years old. She mixed alcohol and valium. This bad combination put her in a persistent vegetative state. After fighting the New Jersey’s Supreme Court for over ten years‚ her parents were finally able to remove all artificial forms
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Persuasive Speech Outline (Using Monroe’s Motivated Sequence) Topic: Voting in Election Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to vote in democratic elections to voice out their opinions and beliefs regardless of their background‚ to decide for their future‚ and to preserve the essence of democracy. Attention: * Provide a vivid description of people struggling to fight for their voting rights in certain countries. * Share relevant facts /statistics of how a small number of votes
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Persuasive Speech Outline ALL 50 STATES SHOULD HAVE MANDATORY MOTORCYCLE HELMET LAWS TOPIC: Mandatory motorcycle helmet laws PURPOSE: To persuade the audience that all 50 states should enact and enforce a mandatory motorcycle helmet law. THESIS STATEMENT: Mandatory helmet laws save lives and dollars. INTRODUCTION Did you know that only 19 states and the District of Columbia have laws in place that require all motorcycle riders to wear a helmet? 19!? 28 states have laws covering
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Title: Caffeine: The pros and cons of consumption Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech‚ the audience will be educated on the what caffeine is and the advantages and disadvantages of caffeine consumption. Preview of Main Points: I will be explaining what caffeine is‚ the benefits and the effects it has on us. Introduction (Attention Getter) How many for you consume caffeine on a daily basis? (Central Idea (Introduce topic and relate it to your audience)) In an article from fda
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Malekah Isa Prof. Dwiggins-Beeler SPCH120-2577 11/5/14 PERSUASIVE SPEECH OUTLINE Increase Harsher Punishment for Cyber Bullying General purpose: To persuade the audience Specific purpose: To persuade the audience to increase harsher punishments for those who cyber bully. Central Idea: Cyber bullying needs to end and those who create others to suffer from cyber bullying need severe punishment. 1. Introduction: A. According to The Cyber Bullying Research
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Persuasive Speech Outline Format Name: Andrew Salazar General Purpose: The effects of bullying and how it hurts children. Specific Purpose: To find solutions on how to fix the childhood bullying problem. I. Introduction a. Attention-getter: Being the bigger person over another one is always a great feeling‚ you feel the rush and power like you can rule the world. Push‚ shove‚ kick‚ punch‚ slap‚ tease that’s all the dominant person sees when they are having “FUN” with someone
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Persuasive Speech Outline Topic: Sleeping Too Much Purpose: to persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to control the habit of oversleeping because is detrimental to our physical health‚ affects our cognitive abilities and shortens our lifespan Thesis: the habit of oversleeping is detrimental to our physical health‚ and my audience can do their part in controlling the habit. Being aware of the effects of oversleeping is number one step of controlling this unhealthy life habits. Attention
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Persuasive Essay—Cell phones and driving Suzy Campbell Title Balancing my coffee on my left leg‚ eating a donut with my right hand‚ using my cell phone with my left hand‚ driving with my right knee and having a conversation with a friend at the same time are surprisingly enough all legal‚ as long as they don’t interfere with my driving. While all these distractions can potentially interfere with my driving‚ the one most people often notice is the use of cell phones. Although using cell phones
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From a young age we were taught by parents‚ teachers‚ and police officers that drinking underage is unhealthy and can lead you to failure in the future. Although many of us listened and didn’t drink from a young age and waited till it was legal some of us didn’t. Alcohol is a drug. Every day more than‚ 4‚750 American kids at the age of 15 or younger take their first sip of alcohol. Kids who start drinking before the age of 15 or more likely to become an alcoholic or an abuser of alcohol. When teenagers
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