Drop Pattern Persuasive Speech

As the Olympian watched the flaming torch blaze past him, he felt nervous and excited about representing U.S.A in the Olympics. Next, he walked with his teammates in the parade of athletes during the opening ceremony. The butterflies in his stomach fluttered more and more. In just a few days he will be competing in basketball. He hopes to win a gold medal and make U.S.A, coach, and family proud of him. Before he knows it, he will be standing on the champion podium receiving the gold medal around his neck with the U.S.A national anthem blaring in speakers and the crowd cheering loudly. With tears rolling down his cheek as he hold his bouquet of flowers high, and knows that he has accomplished something great!!

If we can eliminate the mandatory minimum sentencing laws, the country can save large sums of money.

Title: Oil Companies Need to Be Held Accountable Topic: Why oil companies need to be held accountable and how to make sure they are held accountable Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience how oil companies are not being held accountable for their actions and why it is important that they are. Thesis: Oil companies need to be held accountable for their actions. Introduction Attention Material: April 20th, 2010 was the mark of a very sad period.

Voting gives the population an equal opportunity completely blind of sex, race, origin, education in contributing to community development (Akande, 2011).

Specific Purpose: To help teach my audience about the importance of being an organ donor. Hopefully convincing them to become an organ donor themselves.

Persuasive Speech Outline--Creative Title: Specific purpose/proposition: To persuade my audience to change the current policies in Texas. Thesis/central statement: Health classes should be mandatory in school. I. Introduction a. Attention getter: Lao Tzu once said, “If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future.

I am going to need some audience participation. Everyone take a $5, $10, or $20 dollar bill out. How many of you are willing to rip your money up? You probably wouldn’t do it and think this is crazy, but we throw money away like this in the name of our car, television, or shoes every month. Let me give you an example.

It also ties into nature because it is reusable and better for the environment, which ties in with the quotes.

When your in a car what is it that your focus should be on: your car, the cars of others, the road, watching out for pedestrians, or watching for lights and signs? Well driving is all those thing put together and to add a phone to the mix is to many things for a single person to concentrate on. Some state have made it illegal for people to drive while using a hand held device and, I believe that is the right decision because while people are on their phones while driving they can: run into other car or hit pedestrians. Have you ever seen a car that's run a stop sign or light? Chances are you have and some of those times people are running late for something and don't notice it but i bet most times its because a person was too busy talking on their phone or even texting.

The dream of each surfer to travel the earth surfing the best waves the world has to offer. When you go through the same waves near you bored, it can at the time to pack your purses and surfboards and visit some of the greatest surf destinations in the earth. so, where should we go?

In chapter 4, we read about consciousness, sleep stages, different sleep disorders and the different drugs that help with sleep. Sleep is a very broad subject in my house, we either do not get enough or too much. Consciousness is the thoughts, feelings, and the mental awareness of the world outside and their surroundings.

Attention-Getter: Our attention getter is going to be a skit performed with two people at time, portraying the different panes, and their functions in relationships. Also we will be showing the pros and cons of each. This process will show how people have versions of themselves and they are represented to others. The model represents information- feelings, experience, views, attitudes, skills, intentions, motivation, etc. This all happens within the person or in relation to their group. The four panes are open self, blind self, hidden self, and the unknown self.

Homework takes up most of the time you spend after school which makes you social less.

1 Corinthians 10:31 Contemporary English Version (CEV) “When you eat or drink or do anything else, always do it to honor God”.

Central Idea: Drinking and driving is a very serious issue that needs to be looked at more carefully.