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St. Jude Charity Speech Essay

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LINDA NGUYEN
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CHARITY SPEECH
St. Jude’s Children hospital, fight for childhood cancer

Purpose: To inform my audience that there are kids out there that need our help and to have the audience persuade to donating.

INTRODUCTION
ATTENDTION GETTER/ RELEVANCE;
Think back to a time when you were younger, maybe the time when you played dress up using mommy’s make up. Maybe it was a time when you when you pretended that you were a power ranger, to tell you the truth I wanted to be the pink ranger! Think of when you said you want to grow up to be just like mom or dad! And maybe pictured how your wedding would be like when were older or if you’re really going to be a police officer or even a Pokémon trainer.

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Her parents then found out her chance of survival was 30% and as shocked and discourage her parents were they then found out that she could have been paralyzed.

C. After surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant saved her life. Now she is 4 and is taking ballet lessons, running and playing with other kid and her parents felt it was all thanks to St. Jude’s and our donations, that their daughter won the battle.

II. Another story that touched me was a girl name Lindsey, who wrote a poem to Danny which was “a man had a dream, Danny Thomas was his name, he touched people’s lives and they’ll never be the same, he built a hospital with the help of gods will, to save the lives of children who are deadly ill.”

A. She wrote this poem after she found out the she had acute lymphoblastic leukemia at the age of ten. When she found out she said thoughts flew her mind making her think that what was she going to miss? She thought that she’ll miss school, her graduation, growing up and going to college, falling in love, getting married or walking down the aisle or even have a child. B. At St. Jude’s she had three years of intense chemotherapy. But what she remembers the most was how the staff treated her like their own family, daughter, son, sister or brother. She also said when she arrived Danny

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