TYPES OF SPEECH

DEFINITION AND EXAMPLE

PERSUASIVE SPEECH
The persuasive speech has the purpose to make the audience do a certain act. In doing
this, the speaker will first demolish the objections of the audience politely. After, the
speaker must prove to the audience that the argument he or she emphasizes is
acceptable. Finally, the speaker should impress the audience and convinced them that
the plan or his argument is desirable; by doing this the speaker will be receptive in his
plea for an action from the audience.

SAMPLE SPEECH
Dear students, how often have you been late to school? Do you always miss the service
or any vehicle in the morning? This just passed morning, are you annoyed because of
being hurried? Did you skip your breakfasts because of the fast-running time? Good
afternoon class! I know most of you already know me but let me introduce for once
again myself. My name is Aaron F. San Jose, a second year Bachelor in Secondary
Education, major in Biological Science student. A lot of students and for all I know,
some of you are experiencing this kind of dilemma every morning and it might lead to
your bad mood, stress, and might even your academic performances. It is very
exasperating to discern, yet we got only one solution with that problem. One of the
biggest reasons why we become late is that we are lazy enough of getting up early in
the morning. True, isn’t it? In able for you to not be late, you must set your alarm an
hour or two earlier your school call time. With this step, I assure you; you will have a
long time of preparation before going to school and won’t miss a ride anymore. This
will be very helpful in avoiding morning catches. Being late might give you bad temper
and might affect your academic performance for the reason that you will no longer
participate in the class and just start your whole day thinking you were late. Breakfast is
the most important meal of the day because it will serve as our energy source. But if
you missed it because of being late, it may harm your health and in some case, you will
become less active in class participation. Classmates, I know we really love to sleep and
our bed really loves us, too! But we should always remember our responsibilities in
school most especially during the chaotic morning weekdays. This is just a simple
urging for us to keep away ourselves from being tardy. If you follow this, instantly, you
will no longer be late. Promise!
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THE ARGUMENTATIVE SPEECH

The argumentation speech has the purpose to appeal to the intellect of the audience or
listeners so that the speaker can be able to win them over the speaker’s side. It can be
done using the force of logical interference and sound reasoning. The argumentation
speech further aims to persuade the audience to be able to assert the plausibility of a
debatable question in the speaker side.

SAMPLE
US Homeland Defence

Terrorism by its very nature disrupts international peace and security through
premeditated, political violence. The 11th September attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon disrupted the global economy. The attacks spawned and facilitated
widespread personal fear, panic and economic dislocation (Bergen, 2002).

According to the United Nations Security Council, one of the objectives of the terrorists
was to create a state of global anarchy by means of influencing the conduct of
government's vis-a-vis intimidation and coercion (United Nations Security Council,
2001).

There are no efforts to integrate conflict and consensus paradigms of social process,
which are rooted in the intuitive insight that in all human interaction one can discover
patterns of both collaboration and conflict.

The task for government is to discover when people will collaborate and when they will
fight. In other words, the control and regulation of collaboration and conflict in the
common interest posed a significant problem pre-11th September, 2001. Law and the
conceptions of law within the society post-11th September suffered a serious set back.
Make no mistake, law is a major - indeed a massive - instrument of social control.

Nonetheless, Homeland Security Act of 2002 is deemed unconstitutional, since it had

imperiled a number of civil liberties, including: the rights to freedom of speech, religion,
assembly and privacy; the rights to counsel and due process; and protection from
unreasonable searches and seizures.

Concerns about curtailment of civil liberties by the HSA were given a heightened sense
of urgency by media revelations in 2002, about another Bush administration initiative,
which created a new Pentagon agency under the direction of John Poindexter, known as
the Office of Total Information Awareness.

Keeping state and local officials in the loop regarding terrorist threats, potential
vulnerabilities, and issues of disaster response is certainly desirable. “In this case,
however, the four million people who could be granted access to sensitive but
unclassified information may view this privilege as a burden due to the corresponding
restrictions” (OMB Watch, 2006, p. 4).

Worse than that, the Act promotes the creation of a global security system controlled by
the United States. Apparently, this agenda falls neatly in line with the plan for
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American global dominance endorsed by a number of experts, namely Cheney,

Wolfowitz, Powell, and Rumsfeld.

Finally, the Homeland Security Act was structured on the recommendations of a special
commission that was closely connected to, if not derived from, the Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR), which has had its hand in every major twentieth century conflict
(Bergen, 2002).

From the above evidence, it is clear that the analyzed acts are to a large extent
unconstitutional, though passed in response to terrorism threatening American society.
More than that, the drawbacks of both acts concern international community as well
since by implementing these acts the US reinforces its global dominance.

As is seen no anti-terrorism action could justify unlawful restriction of human rights

and civil liberties. The current state of affairs indicates that legislative measures should
be amended and altered to the extent where human rights and civil liberties are
violated.

This is an issue which is high on the agenda since September 2001. National
governments, NGOs and civil champions should take best possible effort to eliminate
terrorism without limiting citizens’ legal rights and freedoms, no matter what
consequences were caused by the terror.

9/11 act of terror and subsequent anthrax letter attacks necessitated the reconsideration
of the US homeland security policies, which implied offensive approach in combating
terror on both domestic and international levels.

Consequently, the war on terror widely supported by international community

necessitated every country of the world to stay alert and develop anti-terror measures
in close cooperation with its counterparts. Such measures cannot remain declarative for
long as the threat is just around the corner. Therefore, firm multilateral actions are
much needed to pursue and prevent the causes of global terrorism.

Economic liberalization and subsequent inequality due to expanding globalization

motivates terrorists by providing them with sufficient preconditions for bioterrorism
attacks. To name a few, faster and cheaper communications, accessibility to
informational resources, elimination of trans-national borders, advanced transportation
and transfer capacities in fact enable the spread of powerful biotechnologies. At that,
globalization really worsens the threat of bioterrorism attacks (Smith, 2004).

Apparently, bioterrorism presents global threat to all world countries, including

domestic communities, households, and workplaces. At that, no single state has
acquired immunity guarantee from either overseas or domestic bio-terror attacks, and
particularly US security agencies permanently monitor densely populated and highly
visible targets to prevent any attempt of possible terror attack (Gwerder and Beaton,
2001).
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THE INFORMATIVE SPEECH

The Informative Speech usually begins with a favorable attention in order to catch the
interest of the listeners. It will be then followed by the classification step which will
inform or clarify the listeners regarding the subject matter. The purpose of the
informative speech is to impart knowledge, clarify information as well as to secure
understanding.

SAMPLE
Smoking
Smoking is regarded as a fashion symbol in young boys. Despite the ill effects of
smoking, people still continue to smoke. Many young boys, who start smoking, feel that
they look broadminded and liberated if they smoke.

Most often, the teenagers adopt this habit just because of the company they enjoy.
Sometimes, they take a puff from their friend’s cigar. Later on, they develop the habit of
smoking as an indispensible part of their lives. With the passage of time, the followers
of this bad habit turn into chain smokers. It must be kept in mind that smoking is a toxic
habit that may develop lungs’ cancer. Moreover, the other toxic chemicals like arsenic,
carbon Monoxide, methane, acetic acid, nicotine, butane and cadmium present in
cigarettes are also highly damaging for health.

Currently, cigarette manufacturing companies are doing very well all over the globe.
Such manufacturing companies also inscribe warnings on the packets of cigarettes; still
people do not pay any heed. On the other hand, every year government increases the
price of cigarettes to discourage people using tobacco. Yet smokers go on smoking and
prove to be slaves of this bad habit.

The active smokers also harm other people around them known as passive smokers.
Here, it is significant on the part of the government to keep a ban on advertisements
that allure people to smoke. Moreover, the family members and close friends of the
smoker should also play their part to aware the smoker about the bad effects of this
habit. Although it requires strong will to stop smoking but once you plan to give up,
you can definitely do.