Instructional Design Persuasive Speech

Credibility Statement: My mom is a pediatric nurse practitioner, and has always made me to get all of my shots and vaccinations. Over the past few weeks, I have spent a considerable amount of time reading up on this topic.

Imagine you’re listening to a speaker trying to convince you to donate money to help a foreign country deal with a natural disaster (hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, etc). The speaker doesn’t make eye contact, and you can barely hear him. He does nothing to appeal to your emotional side, and he doesn’t cite any evidence to support his argument. In fact, there are no facts or statistics to prove this country needs your support.

Now that I have given all of my four speeches in class, I don’t have to be anxious about giving another one in class. Out of all the four speech that have given, my personal favorite one I’ll say was the persuasive speech. Although the persuasive speech took a lot of time doing the research and had to be about eight minutes, I did sure enjoyed it. The reason that I enjoyed persuasive speech was I actually found many interested facts about global warming. I really couldn’t believe how over the years the planet earth has changed do to the effects of global warming. Not only that, but I felt that doing the research persuaded me to take of our environment and made me think I should recycle more.

Looking back, lots of children, remember being ecstatic during their dash down the stairs to find a mountain of presents ready to be opened by their tiny hands. There are lots of people who can’t do that because of the place they live. Brian Pellot says, it is especially bad in Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Uzbekistan. However, thanks to Countryside Community Church, some of those kids won’t have a blue Christmas!

For example, using a leftover coffee can for loose nails or screws, or even washing and reusing a plastic zip-loc bag instead of throwing it in the garbage. Thrift shopping is a way of reusing someone else’s unwanted goods. As I spoke about in an earlier speech about thrifting, I included many locations and ways to thrift, also the benefits to the shopper and the donator. One place in particular was shopping at the local boys and girls club. I personally shop there, keeping my eyes open for a good deal. For example, the pair of jeans that I am wearing today was purchased from this store just a few months ago. I paid only $8.00 for this pair of Lucky Jeans and according to buckle.com, a retailer for lucky jeans the retail price is $99.00 that is a savings to me of $91.00.I am not the type to worry about name brands, but quality usually does cost more. If I can get a quality pair of jeans at a fraction on the price, I am glad to shop at the thrift store. I am thankful to the person that made the donation of the lucky jeans and they can benefit from that donation. According to the IRS webpage, IRS. Gov it explains that an individual can donate items like clothing, household furniture and furnishings, a car or boat, even taxidermy. The donations are appraised, by the donator, and recorded. At the time of filing taxes if the donation equals at least $500 for the year, the donator may take advantage of the

Twelve years later, we're finally done. We have all spent the last four to eight years thinking we needed to make the decision to work, or have fun. There is no possible way we can do both, right? Now that we're going into college the choice just gets more severe, work, or have fun? Well, it is far from impossible to do both, and I think my friends and I are living proof of that. We have found many ways to work hard and get to where we need to be, but we find ways to have fun doing it along the way. Now obviously a scholastic setting isn't ideal for entertainment, but that can not stop you from making some good memories. Now, as Ellen Degeneres said in her 2009 commencement speech for Tulane University, “thank you to all the graduating class . . . I realize most of you are hungover and have splitting headaches and haven’t slept since Fat Tuesday, but you can’t graduate ’til I finish, so listen up.” (Degeneres)

Surveillance has become a great part of modern life because of the advancements in technology. Cameras on phones are forms of surveillance, which major companies have abused in the process of selling products. Companies have quickly jumped on the train of surveillance to make more money by holding and selling the data recorded. One of these sensitive areas is that of licence plate scanners, which read and record licence plate numbers. The scanners are usually used by law enforcement and repo agencies but other companies have used the scanners as a form of income. In order to persuade readers to act against or for a cause, the writer must use several techniques in his or her writing. The articles written by RT and In These Times implement techniques which target the audience by using ethos, pathos, and logos to address such controversial topic as is surveillance.

Let’s begin from the end. It ends with a group of teenagers thrown into prison for assassination, attempted murder, and treason. And, to be fair, that wasn’t an unfair sentencing. We did, technically, try to kill the president. And we did try to overthrow the government. But who could blame us? This entire country had fallen apart, and no one else seemed to be doing anything about it. So, it was us, a group of four kids who decided to take a shot. Literally. We had all been friends for a while, meeting in a the fourth grade. C brought it up, I believe. We were at lunch. Suddenly, they mumbled, “could we kill him?”

When our founding fathers founded this nation, they had a vision of democracy and freedom in their sights, but since then we have strayed from this path in many ways. I would like to focus on an institution which I have been part of for twelve years of my life: the American education system. The goals of the education system, I believe, are to prepare students to help contribute to our society in an efficient and positive way, and to allow them freedom in their future endeavors. However, I think that the U.S. education system hasn’t been achieving these goals. Students aren’t given a realistic image of the future, and their freedom of choice is being restricted. This does not mean that the U.S. education system isn’t producing any results at all, for the majority of the world’s best universities are located here in the States and thousands of international students come to study here annually. However, there is still much reform that is needed to make it better.

Convincing someone to acknowledge the wrong they are doing is a difficult task. Proving that racism is still a problem is near impossible in the world today. As a child I made no decision on dealing with someone just because of their race. Being silently raised to think differently has caused tension for me now, but I am not the only one facing this issue. With all the violence and hatred being thrown around it is not difficult to see that line between white people and colored people. Just recently, many NFL players have been “taking a knee” during the National Anthem to protest police violence and inequality with all colored people. Half the world cannot accept that it is true while the other half is screaming that it is. There are so many different opinions on the subject that half the world is against the other half. The biggest problem is neither race wants to accept their fault in it all. Is it possible to convince someone of the wrong they are doing? There is a way, and that is to first convince them to acknowledge the problem. Peggy McIntosh successfully persuades most of her audience to acknowledge their part in white privilege.

Multiple students entered the high school classroom minutes after the tardy bell had echoed throughout the school. Those of us who had arrived on time, quietly watched to see how our teacher would react. Mr. Quesenberry rose from his desk and asked, “Is there a reason why I shouldn’t write all of you up for arriving late?”

Albert Einstein once said: “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid”.

Writers and speakers must be able to get the audience to listen to them and what they want to get across. The speaker uses three key types of reasoning: ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos is the ethics or reputation a person has. This can be shown when the speaker uses their reputation to show the audience knows that there is something to back up their words and that they aren’t just talking to talk. Speakers also use it as a way to show that they live, what they say and not just saying do as I say not as I do and this gives more credibility and makes people want to listen to the speaker more. The next key type of reasoning is pathos which is the emotional side of a story that a speaker will use. They will appeal to a person’s emotional side to help get their point across by getting an emotional response. This helps to draw in the people that listen to their emotions. The last type of reasoning is logos which focuses mostly on the logical side of a story. This can be shown in the way that a speaker uses facts or focuses on a more practical sense of what they are talking about. Speakers usually use a mix between pathos and logos to appeal to most of their audience to help get their point across.

Among the many rights granted to Americans in the Constitution, the right to Free Speech has caused many disputes. This right is highly valuable to United States citizens, but it can raise some complications when it comes to a school environment, where it may not be appropriate to convey every single idea or opinion. One such complication arose when two students enrolled in Homewood High school in Chicago, arrived to school in unapproved uniform to express their sentiment toward recent events in the country. After being suspended for refusing to remove the attire, the students filed a lawsuit against the school district arguing that their suspension violated their First Amendment freedoms. According to precedents set by Tinker v. Des Moines, Gillman v. School Board for Holmes County, and Isaacs v. Board of Education, the outcome of the case of Washington and Shultz should be in the plaintiff’s favor.

All High School students have said “I hate school” or “I can’t wait to get outta here” right? Then someone replies with “ wait till you get my age and you’ll wish you were there again”. They definitely weren't lying when they told me this. When I got into the Freshman Center most teachers mentioned “these next four years of school are gonna fly by”. Those teachers told the truth.