The topic I am going to discuss today is Drugs in Sport. My contention is that drugs should not be made legal in sports. Drugs in sport is an issue that is always in the spotlight‚ especially during major athletic events such as the recent and highly controversial‚ Tour De France. However‚ now the issue has risen to such an extent that sport itself is almost a side issue. There have been numerous drug busts over the years as more and more athletes succumb to the temptation of an easy win by
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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 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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Drugs are a deadly killer that have entered our schools and are ruining the lives of countless students and families. Drugs destroy the adolescent brain‚ leading to undesirable consequences such as academic challenges‚ drug dependency and addiction. Drug testing in high schools is a solution that can prevent the use of drugs among teens and avert horrifying outcomes such as altered brain function and even death. Mandatory drug testing should be enforced in schools to prevent illicit drug use‚ which
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gives them a chance to get the illegal substances out of their body‚ but NCAA has started to do random drug testing that can catch those athletes. The association will spend more around three million dollars on drug testing. College athletes will take supplements to mask the use of steroids‚ so a laboratory in California is working to find different kind of supplements that will mask steroids so drug test can also pick them up. “Athletes frequently use supplements as a masking of real steroids‚ and
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Random Drug Testing: Waste of Time Her grades fell. She was always tired. She never seemed to be able to focus at school. Classes she used to be interested in became utterly mundane. Friends she used to care about became replaceable. She stopped spending time with her family. She sat on the bench at every soccer game instead of becoming the star player her coaches thought she could. This is what addiction to drugs can do to a young person ’s life. Addiction can take away everything that
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STUDENT NAME/SECTION: Addie Chan - 017 1. Topic: Do Not Procrastinate 2. Circle the General Purpose of your speech: (to inform or to persuade) 3. List the Main Points that you will develop: I. The disadvantages for procrastinating II. The advantages for not procrastinating 4. Method of organization: Circle One Method Below Chronological; Spatial; Topical; Cause/Effect; Problem/Cause/Solution; Problem/Solution; Comparative Advantages; Monroe’s Motivated Sequence: [Attention‚ Need‚ Satisfaction
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Persuasive Speech Outline “Computed Mediated Communication” I. Introduction: A. Attention-Getter: How many of you can actually remember the days when you had to communicate via the phone or through letters‚ when you had to actually write checks and present them to humans to get cash‚ or had to go to the library to do literally all of your research? B. Link-to Audience: Most of us can’t imagine life without email‚ ATM machines‚ or the Internet because we rely on these things everyday
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Welfare Drug Testing Trevor Brooks‚ SOC 110 11/09/2011 In today’s America‚ government aid is highly depended on. The US government has spent $498 billion dollars this year on welfare alone. The state of Tennessee has an average of 250‚000 residents on welfare and has $3 billion dollars this year alone. To help cut costs and help tax payers‚ 36 states‚ including Tennessee‚ have proposed a bill to drug test all welfare recipients. Since the beginning of the year‚ the welfare rate
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Persuasive Speech Outline Amur Saif AlAamri 93070 Topic: Housemaids should not be hired. 1- An opener on areas of agreement: I can admit that we all live under or encounter pressure in our daily life. This pressure can be triggered through studying‚ working‚ or having a bunch of home chores. In fact‚ I don’t doubt that we all would ask for help to manage or overcome such stress. Some people would seek a help from their siblings and some other people would ask for help from their close relatives
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