Persuasive Speech

During the persuasive speech I was really nervous. I know that this is the third presentation that I had to do, but I really had a hard time talking in front of everyone. That was very weird for me because I thought that I would already be used to speaking in front of the class since I’m always talking in class and participating. In my opinion, I feel that I did more wrong than right during this presentation. I know for a fact that I kept repeating myself. The reason for that was because I was really

During my persuasive speech, I used an attention getter with a story to put a face on the problem of the 5-day work week because it is something for the audience to get attached to. In my attention getter, Jeff Campbell suffers from a stroke from working long hours as an accountant. I believe it was effective in showing pathos to the problem of the 5-day work week. In my thesis, I clearly stated the topic and related it to my audience by telling them that it will affect all full-time employees in

In the United States of America, the Constitution has granted all its citizens the rights of speech, assembly, and suffrage. The entire nation was founded with the purpose of providing for a country in which principles of equality and liberty would be executed on a daily basis. However, what happens when there is an abandonment and obstruction of these basic rights? According to Biography.com, the Civil Rights Movement led the 54-mile Selma to Montgomery march in order to achieve African American

Stephanie Ethington SPE 103-02 Speech Outline Draft 04/20/12 Persuasive Speech Outline Topic: Blood Donation Purpose: To persuade my peers of the need for blood donations. Thesis: The need for blood donors is crucial it could save a life of someone you know or your own. Introduction: A. Imagine you or someone you know needed blood to save their life. For example, if you were born with a heart defect and required a transfusion for a chance at life. What if there was no blood

to Public Speaking 14 November 2010 Persuasive Speech Reduce Landfill Waste by Reduce, Reuse and Recycling and the financial benefits I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Over half of the waste that ends up in the landfill does not belong there because it could have been recycled or reused. B. Credibility Statement: Not only do I religiously practice reducing, reusing, and recycling, but I have done a great deal of research for this speech, also research for a recycling project

To be Persuasive we must be Believable An American literary theorist and novelist, Kenneth Burke, once said, “Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.” (Burke) Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr. and Fannie Lou Hamer all delivered powerful persuasive speeches that will go down in history. The use of these motivational individuals’ language and persuasion played a pivotal role within the civil rights movement, the movement that achieved the

The speech I listened to was from Ted.com and it was approximately ten minutes and thirty-eight seconds long. I realize it’s a little longer, but I really wanted to share it with the class. The speaker is Gill Hicks. It was taken at TedxSydney and was filmed in May of 2016. http://www.ted.com/talks/gill_hicks_i_survived_a_terrorist_attack_here_s_what_i_learned#t-96773 This speech was given to describe her experience of the London terrorist attack that took place on July 7, 2005. She’s sharing her

Speaker: Xiaorui Li Speech Title: More pets should be adopted instead of buying from a breeder. General Purpose: Persuasive Speech Specific Purpose: Nowadays, more and more people have the willingness to get their own pet. It is really a useful way to adopt the pet instead of buying from another place. Thesis Statement: Although many people will choose to have the pets through different kinds of ways, only a few people will actually want to adopt a pet. Introduction: " Getting Attention: Imagine

Kourtney Watkins 07/31/2013 Persuasive Speech I. Attention Step A. Right now in the United States of America murderers, rapist, and child molesters are being set free. Prisoners are watching T.V., eating a meal, and using exercise equipment while law abiding citizens are starving and living in gutters. Prisoners even have their own periodical. Dangerous criminals are walking the streets and crime is a way of life to many Americans. In America, crime does pay because our nations prison system

This speech is about a model called Cameron Russell where she admits that she won “a genetic lottery” because of her beauty: she is tall, pretty and an underwear model. In this speech, she talks about how industries transform her looking highly seductive at barely 16 years old. Also, In this speech Cameron talks about how she looks simple as a normal person like us. Cameron says that all those magazine and internet photos of her are just Photoshop, and they are not actual photos of her since she