Tour De Cure Persuasive Speech

Persuasive speech outline purpose: To persuade my audience to donate blood through the American Red Cross. Introduction:

It was October 6, 1998 when he was lured from the bar that cold, fateful night. His skull was smashed with a pistol butt as he was lashed to a fence, left for dead in near freezing temperatures. Nearly eighteen hours later he was found by passersby and taken to a hospital where we remained in a coma for several days until slowly slipping away. At his funeral, picketers carried signs saying, "God Hates Fags" and *Fags Deserve to Die."

To explain to my audience the problem of cars that give off too much carbon emissions, and to persuade them to start using more eco-friendly methods of transportation.

With your permission, I would like to complete one of the apprenticeship bus hikes with you during the Blue Mountains end-to-end hikes. Let me know if it is fine with you two. I am thinking of the October 21st hike. Other dates are also possible.

The National Diabetes Statistics Report published in 2014, states that 29.1 million people or 9.3% of the U.S. population have diabetes amongst which about 21 million cases have been diagnosed and 8.1 million cases are still undiagnosed. Approximately 1.4 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes every year. Diabetes was found to be the 7th leading cause of death in the United States in 2010, with 69,071 death certificates listing it as the underlying cause of death, and a total of 234,051 death certificates listing diabetes as an underlying or contributing cause of death”. Diabetes also certainly poses a huge financial burden. In 2012, it accounted for $245 billion in total costs of diagnosed diabetes, $176 billion for direct medical costs, and $69 billion in reduced productivity (National Diabetes Statistics, 2014).

It’s the beginning of I.E. time at Appleton North. Students file into the classroom while chatting with friends about what they did last night or the test they have next hour. Eventually, everyone finds their seats. Some open up their Chromebooks and put earbuds, others are opening a textbook and some continue to chat with the people around them. Within a few minutes, everyone in the room stops what they’re doing. They all stand and turn toward the nearest flag to mindlessly drone the same 31 words they’ve been reciting every morning since Kindergarten.

Nameless lake here, and these blue waters they are my friend, am I near the end

They can be some of the best or the worst days in the year. Being a student-athlete is very difficult but it pays off in a lot of ways. Playing a sport drains your muscles, stains your clothes, and brings pain and stress to life. It also gives a close-knit, dependable peer family and teaches lessons of hard work, dedication, and how not to take life too seriously. However much I wax and wane about how much I hate cross country, there’s so much I love about it, too.

12:25pm — Friday. You take third lunch, so why are you still sitting in class? Your bio teacher wants to finish telling you the homework. Who cares? It’ll be on schoology. She dismisses you. You sling your bag over your shoulder and dart out of the classroom. Wait, where’s your phone? You slap your pockets; no phone to be found. You check the side pockets on your backpack; nope. Frustrated, you swing your backpack around your body and shove your hand to the bottom. You feel around a bit, shove the broken pencils and various pens around. Push that math binder out of the way and boom, got your phone. Next class starts at 1 o’clock. Time to move.

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.

Struggle is a natural thing in life. There is no escaping the struggles that life will throw at you. But when you struggle, there is always success soon to come. Surfing taught me that you must fall before you can stand. That you will struggle before you succeed.

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do it. Young man, Young woman, I say to you, my friend, you are a world changer, a difference maker, and a leader. Set the bar high, set it so high that your peers around you think that you will never succeed in your dreams, because I did it. Nobody thinks I could possibly manage to change the world , nobody sees me being the next Billy Graham or Clayton Jennings. Everything is impossible until you prove it to be possible. After a hurricane a young boy was walking the beach and millions of these starfish are washed up on the shore, so he begins to pick them up one by one and throw them back into the sea. An old man nearby sees this boy, and asks “why are you doing this? There is no way you will ever be able to save all these starfish. Stop trying to do this it is pointless.” He ignores the man and continues to one by one throw them back into the sea. “Are you deaf!” the old man exclaimed. The boy then looked at him and threw one of the starfish into the sea and said, “ I made a difference to that one.” There are billions of people on the earth you might not be able to help all of them, but one by one you can change their world. So many people get caught up in impressing other and being popular, and this affect how they treat people, and how they treat themselves.

“Do not change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.” Every single day of my life I have lived by this quote and have felt the effects of it but it was not until two years ago that I understood it. “MARGARET ANNE BECKETT get your butt out of bed!” my mom screamed from outside my door. I trudged out of bed in desperate need of caffeine. I have never been fond of the morning but this morning I was desperately hoping would just disappear. You know that day that you wish would just fall into the background and would never happen again. My first day of JROTC was just that. I despised the Army program with all my heart. Why did I have to do this stupid program it was full of people I didn’t know who would think I was the strangest person that they ever met. Taking the shortest shower known to humanity I threw on a hoodie I had permanently borrowed from one of my sibling and a pair of yoga pants. The smell of eggs wafted down the hallway and I knew in my heart that they were for me. I slowly trudged into the kitchen dreading the moment those yellow runny things slid on my plate. “Mom don't we have something else to eat for breakfast we have already had them 4 times this week and it is only Wednesday.” If there is a look that could make a grown man shut up and start crying that look my mom gave me was exactly that. I forced the rubber like food down my throat and jumped into the car. What have I gotten myself into? The only reason I had

I noticed this years ago when I was little, I noticed kids at school treating the dark girl in the corner differently and talking about her behind her back. I noticed my parents holding my hand a little tighter when a black man would walk by. The protestors are marching down the street in support of their loved one, not for attention of skin color. There are three types of people involved in the act, the peaceful, the violent, and the judgmental. I support the protesting. I support the friends and family members for trying to make a difference for the loved one they lost. I encourage them to speak out in a peaceful way. I encourage them, because that’s what I would do.

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” This quote it by Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein is a physicist that was born in Germany. Some of his accomplishments are learning that the universe was dynamic. He also created a major part in atomic energy, E=MC2. It's relevant because I tried something new that I’ve never done before.