Topic Area: Gay Rights (Same-Sex Marriage) Position: Pro Specific purpose: To persuade my audience that we should legalize same-sex marriage in our country. __________________________________________________________________________________ Step 1: Attention: A. Story - Picture this... A man meets someone he loves. Someone he is sure will bring him happiness and someone he wants to grow old with. He wants to take the next important step in his life with a marriage proposal but oops...the person
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ENC 1102 Take a Stand “Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people” – Helen Keller. Since 1973 it seems that everyone in America has become deaf to the subject of abortion. Dividing this subject into two different parties‚ pro-choice and pro-life‚ everyone has an opinion but no one is listening. In 2012 Planned Parenthood reported about 88‚000 abortions in Florida and 333‚000 in the USA. This number doesn’t include the ones done by a third-party clinic due
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Trampoline I completed the Cody‚ and stuck the routine! All I had to worry about now‚ was the judges calculating my final score. If you don’t have a clue what I’m talking about‚ don’t worry‚ not many people wouldn’t either. I’m describing a scenario which happened at one of my recent trampoline competitions‚ a sport gaining popularity‚ but not as popular as the sport I left before joining my current passion. Trampoline is a popular sport that MANY people partake in either recreationally or competitively
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Saving money with coupons Introduction I. Attention-getter: Are you aware that an average household can save thousands of dollars simply by using coupons? II. Thesis statement: By the end of my speech my audience will have a better idea of how to save money on their grocery bill and in return have extra money to spend. III. Preview main points (First‚ I will tell you about the history of couponing. Second‚ I will tell you about the benefits of coupons. Third‚ I will tell you about getting
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Nobody decides to be gay. Nobody decides that‚ on top of all of life’s other problems‚ they’d like to deal with a never-ending barrage of slurs and comments about who they love. For some reason‚ the myth that people want to be LGBT for attention always lives on. It is‚ of course‚ perpetuated by those who haven’t experienced the effects of homophobia‚ biphobia‚ transphobia‚ or any other phobia we are affected by every day. When these things don’t impact you personally‚ it’s easy to turn a blind eye
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By: Anonymous Unidentified flying objects‚ or UFOs‚ are one of the most controversial mysteries known to mankind. From ancient to present times‚ unidentified objects have been seen in the sky by millions of people. The question is‚ of course‚ what is it that we are seeing in our skies? Are they foreign spacecrafts from distant planets‚ merely Air Force experiments‚ or only our imagination? Many people believe that extraterrestrial life is existent and far more advanced then us. Conversely‚ many
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Did you know that roughly 26 million out of 317 million children and adults in the United States have diabetes? That’s a whopping 8% of the American population. Not to mention another 79 million people are characterized as being prediabetic. I just so happen to be one of those 79 million. Americans‚ as a whole‚ need to become proactive in the prevention and onset of diabetes. Especially if your overweight or have a family history of the disease. According to the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet
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is 21 years old or older. This allows the driver to gain practice in a semi-controlled environment. The passenger in the front passenger seat is capable of pulling the E-brake at any time that he/she sees necessary. This passenger also acts like an active driving mentor they are capable of giving the driver some advice on situations that might happen‚ have happened‚ or occurred to them personally. This is practiced for a year and after this; the teenager who is now 16 can drive on his or her own. It
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II. (Reveal Topic): A lot of children around the world are deprived of one or more of the essentials to survival and development. III. (Relate to Audience): I am sure almost all of us in here will have kids in the future at some point. Imagine not being able to give your child food to eat on a daily basis. Imagine making your child walk six miles daily to retrieve water that is not even sanitary. These are some terrifying thoughts‚ but so many children are living in these conditions as we speak. You
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can mean disaster or death. One has to rise to the occasion‚ be on the guard‚ put up the best of the fight with his back to the wall. This fight makes him stronger‚ bolder and wiser. Adversity brings out all the qualities in human beings. It makes us humble‚ patient and self-reliant. Humility is the mother of other virtues. Thus adversity proves to be a much better school than prosperity. The history of the world is the story of the survival of the fittest‚ a story of those who
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