Need help

[EpsilonX]

I have to do a speech on thursday and I have to persuade people to do something....I have absolutely no idea what to write about...any suggestions?

[HamadaLFC8]

What are you trying to persuade them to do?

[EpsilonX]

Anything. It's just "speech of persuasion" and it has to be persuasive in nature. The first one was autobiographical, second one was biographical of somebody famous, third was just informative. I did myself for the first one obviously, arnold schwarzenegger for the second, and the loch ness monster for the third. absolutely no idea wtf to do for this one

[paecmaker]

Say its for the greater good.
patriotism
do it for nature
Do it for people that looking up towards you
Do it for someone you like
Do it for its the right thing to do.

My examples.

[EpsilonX]

Say its for the greater good.
patriotism
do it for nature
Do it for people that looking up towards you
Do it for someone you like
Do it for its the right thing to do.

My examples.

but what am I persuading people about?

[Synge]

Pick a frequently debated topic with generally 2 dominating opinions. They're the easiest to address because you can focus on whichever is opposite your beliefs. Global Warming comes to mind. Or abortion; For example if you're pro-life, focus on convincing pro-choicers why your opinion is the "right" one.

[LiNuX]

Speech class? I did something very similar...auto biography, biography, then there was this 2-minute speech (where you have to make your point in less than 2 minutes and make everyone understand), information speech (did this one about cyber crime), and a persuasion speech.

Will see if I can find that, might give you an idea.

But note that it was a while ago, i don't remember where I did it. If it was on my laptop then I probably don't have it as I switched out the hard drive about a year ago and didn't bother saving any school work from there (because it was school work and I hated it).

But for ideas, politics always works for persuasion. You could take the global warming thread as motivation and either try to argue that global warming is the cause of humans and we should all change our behavior OR global warming is natural and there is nothing we can do.

[EpsilonX]

Right now i'm just gonna persuade everybody to buy a cat. I'll just talk about cats the whole time and everybody will be like wtf.

[Saph]

Take for example persuading someeone to believe that Global warming is real?

That's a good one!

[Jokersvirus]

Convince everyone that the taco god is real and he needs your souls in order to make epic taco bell tacos.


All haul the taco god.

[Saph]

Taco Hell gives me diarhea, like seriously, their chaloupas makes me wish I **** marbles instead. :laugh:

But I think it would be really funny to kinda joke about it.

Tell them that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is real!!!

[HamadaLFC8]

convince people to buy electric cars! even tho I find that gay, but its better for nature
convince them to use public transit
convince them to not be racist/discriminate other people
convince them that video games do not make people violent

[EpsilonX]

That sounds like too much work...and rather bland. I think i'm gonna convince everybody to buy a cat, at least it'd be funny if anything.

"you should buy a cat cuz when you lift em up, they're floppy"

[Saph]

"you should buy a cat cuz when you lift em up, they're floppy"

If that doesn't give you a 30 min standing applause, nothing will, bro.:laugh:

[Muffincat]

Yes, and you can bring your kittens into class as evidence :P

[EpsilonX]

Yes, and you can bring your kittens into class as evidence :P

speech of demonstration is the only one we can use visual aids. I suppose I could demonstrate why cats are awesome, but then I won't have a topic for this one. :\

[Muffincat]

Oh man, save it then!

You can persuade people... to love you. XD