HSC ENGLISH CREATIVE WRITING: PERSUASIVE SPEECH EUTHANASIA Imagine a world where anyone‚ even the curably ill or depressed‚ is easily assisted in suicide. Where someone else decides when you’re life is no longer worth living. Where it is a societal expectation to die rather than receive long-term care. Ladies and Gentlemen‚ this is the world that awaits us if we legalise euthanasia. Euthanasia‚ or assisted suicide‚ is defined as the practice or act of ending the life of a terminally ill person
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Assignment Delivering a Persuasive Speech You will be delivering your speech today. The rubric that your teacher will use to grade your speech is on the next page. Read the hints below and review the rubric. Then get ready to take the spotlight! Note: You do not have to turn this page into your teacher. Your grade will be based on your oral presentation. (75 points) |Score | | | Here are the elements to look for in your own speech and as you listen to
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AN OVERVIEW OF DRUGS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE A drug is any chemical substance which when taken into the body will modify or alter the way the body functions from its normal state or from the abnormal to normal state. Drugs can be orally administered‚ injected‚ chewed‚ sniffed‚ smoked or applied. Drug abuse is the non medical use of drugs that destroys the health and productive life of an individual. It is the intentional use of psychoactive substances for purposes of altering one’s psychological state
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Drug abuse is becoming more and more common. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse‚ twenty-seven and two tenths of students in high school abuse tobacco and other illicit drugs. There are several noticeable signs that people can use to tell if someone is abusing drugs. One very common warning sign is bloodshot eyes. This visual aid can really be helpful when trying to identify if someone is a drug abuser. Other common symptoms include frequent mood swings‚ unexplainable financial
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penalty for drug cheats in sport Hello fellow students of Taylors Lakes Secondary College. Today I will be speaking about performance enhancing drugs in sport‚ and why there should be harsher penalties for athletes who use them. In order to become a successful athlete‚ you must dedicate a large part of your life to that sport. This is the reason why athletes get paid so much‚ because they have put in so much work in order to entertain audiences. And its one of the many reasons why drug cheats should
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Sara E. Goergen Persuasive Speech Outline Public Speaking 101 Attention Getter: Are slavery and bondage still existant in the world today? This is difficult to imagine but sadly‚ true. Thesis: Sex trafficking is a major problem across the globe and as citizens we can help combat this large industry by having more awareness. Relevancy: Sex trafficking is the slave trade of the 21st century. It is one of the most profitable industries worldwide bringing in an estimated 9 billion dollars
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many people. About 135‚000 children are adopted just in the United States each year. We always want to be loved and looked after by our parents but some children don’t receive that. Good morning class‚ and Mrs Lee. My speech is about how adoption should be encouraged. In this speech I will be explaining the effects for the birthmother and birthfather‚ the effects for the adoptive family‚ and the effects for the child. I will also be talking about some reasons as to why anyone should adopt a child
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prescription drugs. “Prescription drugs are playing an increasingly larger role in U.S. life‚ with nearly half of all Americans taking one or more medications” (Thompson 2013-2014). “Since I went to pharmacy school‚ I learned Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) and FDA rules and regulation which made me wonder about how and why misuse and abuse of prescription drugs costs the country an estimated of $53.4 billion‚ which is very high compare to other countries. With such a strict Food and Drug Administration
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alcohol causes immediate changes to your brain. This article states‚ “What is considered now‚ a legal drug‚ varies between cultures and changes over time‚ however‚ the definition of drug abuse remains relatively constant‚ and regardless of which substance is ingested‚ the excessive and inappropriate use of a substance resulting in physical‚ psychological‚ or social harm is called drug abuse” (“Drug abuse‚” 2001). The author Sayette talks about‚ “The ingredients in the substances of marijuana trick your
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Question one – “Are sex‚ drugs‚ and rock and roll really “very good indeed”? Rock and roll music ethics are usually concerned about the most important topics like equality‚ freedom‚ non – conformity and individualism. Drug abusing is a big part of the subculture that falls under rock and roll music. “Straight Edge is a movement spawned within the hardcore scene in the ’80s. Its followers have made a commitment to abstain from using drugs‚ alcohol and tobacco products.” (Cooper). Straight edge was
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