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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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    The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases Throughout history‚ minorities have been ill-represented in the criminal justice system‚ particularly in cases where the possible outcome is death. In early America‚ blacks were lynched for the slightest violation of informal laws and many of these killings occurred without any type of due process. As the judicial system has matured‚ minorities have found better representation but it is not completely unbiased. In the past twenty

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    Goal: To express my views on open campus lunch. Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to convince my class mates that open campus lunches should be allowed for high school students. Student lunch periods at a typical are crowded and rushed. Many students don’t have time to finish there meal and other students have a hard time finding food they either want to or can eat. And with certain meals‚ the food can run out before everyone has gotten through the line and receive their food. An easy alternative

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    Australian society has ultimately rejected the idea of the practice of capital punishment making a return into the Australian law books. However‚ events such as the September 11‚ 2001 terrorist attacks and the Bali bombings have ensured that the spotlight once again shines on the controversial subject. I am in favour of the practice returning to Australia for heinous crimes such as murder‚ child molestation‚ serial rapists‚ and people who commit acts of animal cruelty. This is because: • The death

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    Liberella was very nervous‚ but she was confident in her work. The moment came to announce the winner. She and Zachary were called on stage. Reporters from the local newspaper were there‚ ready to interview the winner. After a long speech from the announcer‚ the crowd was getting pumped. “The winner of the 25th annual science fair is… Isabella Ramos!” was announced over the microphone. The crowd applauded and gave her a standing ovation. Her father was teary eyed‚ he could not have

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    are few policies that produce as much debate‚ controversy and emotion in this country as the death penalty. Capital punishment has been around in this country since colonial times when people were killed for practicing witchcraft and today the death penalty is legal in 31 states. Since 1976‚ 1414 people have been executed in the U.S. (deathpenaltyinfo.org). People who favor capital punishment believe that if someone brutally take’s another person’s life then they should lose their own right to life

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    Like Jefferson and Pain‚ you can change your world with the persuasive use of words. Considering the problems faced in schools and in your community. I think one of the biggest problems or worries is suicide. What some people don’t know about suicide was that this is not a new thing with the ages of fifteen to twenty-four the rate was 49‚496 in 1970. With today’s society the teen’s suicide rate has gone from 8.8 deaths per every hundred thousand people to twelve point three per

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    F Derived credibility refers to the credibility of the speaker produced by everything she or he says and does during the speech itself. 9. T F Terminal credibility is the credibility of the speaker at the start of the speech. 10. T F Terminal credibility is the credibility of the speaker at the end of the speech. 11. T F Speakers who explain their expertise on the speech topic are likely to reduce their credibility with the audience. 12. T F A speaker can have high credibility for one audience

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    In Cold Blood tells the story of the murder of the Clutter family and its following case involving Dick and Perry. The author‚ Truman Capote‚ indirectly takes a stance against capital punishment. Throughout the story Capote sways his bias toward Perry‚ his emotion towards him alludes to the fact that he does not agree with the death penalty with an unjust and unfair trial. Capote shows this by pointing out the questionable decisions of the judge. During the trial‚ the judge made a ruling on not to

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    In her essay “Capital Punishment: Society’s Self-Defense‚” Amber Young discusses the death penalty. In the beginning‚ the author talks about the infamous case of Ted Bundy. He was a serial killer who took it upon himself to kidnap‚ rape‚ and kill many innocent young women. She expresses that the criminal justice system failed to keep the young women safe from Bundy. She declares in her thesis that‚ “Capital punishment is society’s means of self-defense.” Next‚ the author states some oppositional

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