Persuasive Speech Ideas These penguins are persuading their friends to take a dip in the cool water... but you can persuade our class on any of the following ideas or come up with one of your own. Remember these are broad topics so make sure you narrow your area and choose your side so that you can properly defend your position. Also I NEVER censor speech topics HOWEVER keep in mind I want the ideas fresh‚ some topics are very OVER DONE - for example: "smoking is bad for you"
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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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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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Persuasive Speech Title: Minority Organ Donation. General Purpose: To Persuade. Specific Purpose: To persuade minorities and my audience to become organ donors Central Idea: The need for organ donors among minorities are constantly on the rise and the process as a donor is relatively simple. Introduction I. How do you feel when you have to wait for something you really want? What if it was something you couldn’t live without? What if that something was a liver‚ or even a heart? Every
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Madison Leek Professor Smiley Speech 1113 27 October 2014 Persuasive Speech When signing up to be an organ donor you usually think only your major organs will be used; however‚ something as small as a ligament of yours is used in popular surgeries such as anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions. When someone tears their ACL they usually have a choice to have an autograft‚ or use one of their own ligaments‚ but they can also choose to have an allograft‚ or take a cadaver’s ligament to
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Alessandro Stipo November 26‚ 2011 ENG1DC Mr. Byrne Persuasive Speech Imagine that you trained all your life for that special moment of playing in your first NHL game. At the beginning of your first shift in the game suddenly another player’s stick comes up and strikes you in the eye. This incident ends your career. This could have been prevented if you wore a visor. I think visors should be mandatory in the NHL in order to improve a player’s safety. Statistics have proven players who
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Persuasive Speech Walking To Improve Health Purpose: To persuade my audience to start walking in order to improve their health. Introduction I. In today’s time we have it very easy because we have things like automatic dishwashers‚ riding lawnmowers‚ T.V. remotes‚ automatic garage door openers‚ power screwdrivers‚ remote controls for ceiling fans‚ and many more things. Well these things make us lazy and we don’t have to walk much and our health doesn’t be the way it should because we
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] Speech 101:Annotated Bibliography Annotated Bibliography for Persuasive Speech Tahiri‚ Y‚ Lee J‚ Kanevsky‚ J‚ et al. “The differing perceptions of plastic surgery between potential applicants and current trainees: the importance of clinical exposure and electives for medical students.” Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 21(3) (2013). 178-180. Academic Search Premier. Web. 07 Oct. 2013. This online scholarly journal describes the perceptions of plastic surgery of medical
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Persuasive Speech WHY BOTHER TO VOTE Introduction: Ever since this country was established citizens have fought for a right that often is not exercised by today’s youth; along with many others. This right that I speak of is the right to vote. In the beginning one had to be a white male landowner in order to receive this right. However through the years and many trying battles all citizens of the US that are 18 years and older have earned this right. Voting is something that many of us take for
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Abortion Persuasive Speech It is not a mother’s right to choose but a child’s right to life. At three months the child inside of you is alive and living with a heartbeat. Why should it be okay to kill that innocent child? Should it be okay of us to kill others? Pope John Paul the II once stated that a nation that kills its own young is a nation without hope. Abortion is wrong. It is an inhumane use of birth control and it should be illegal in all states. An abortion is a very dangerous
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