What would be a good topic for a persuasive speech?

Answer 1

Generally speaking....you will write the best persuasive speech if you find a topic that you feel passionate about. The last persuasive speech I had to write, I did on abortion because I have a passionate opinion about it and could speak persuasively about it pretty easily.

So, sit and think for a bit....find something you feel passionate about and then do a little reserach about it and you will find you can speak persuasively about it pretty easily.

If you're having trouble finding something you really feel passionately about, then try looking at some hot current events....at least there will be tons of material for you to research about one side of the issue or the other, making your research a little easier.

Good luck!!

Answer 2

I did one in college on stronger stalking laws.

I got the attention of the TA that would grade me right off since I began the speech telling three very obscure personal things about her to the class (with help from her boyfriend who I knew as a customer and had asked for his help to make this fly.) After the third point, I leaned forward and bellowed, "Helen, you have been stalked!" Boy, was she feeling it, too. After that attention grabber, gave info, sited sources, then ended with passing out stamped postcards to send to their representatives and a list of addresses. Easy A.

A second idea is to show how taking a cruise can be cheaper than a road trip with gas, accommodations, meals, and entertainment.

Good luck with your speech!

Answer 3

Compare the present state of affairs in the USA with George Orwell's utopian society in "1984." Show the similarities and persuade your listeners of the grave dangers we're facing.

Answer 4

Topic: How important vocal inflection is in public speaking

Way to be pursuasive: Do the entire speeck in monotone, while suggesting that it makes people sleepy when speakers don't use vocal inflection. People will be pursuaded that you're right as their eye lids close and they find it impossible to pay attention!

Answer 5

You can write a letter to your parents, persuading them to change your allowance, like give u a raise, and then have them write a letter back to u. keep both of them. write a report on why teens need more money than little kids, because there are things we need and think of what we need.

email me at [e-mail] and let me know how it goes.

Answer 6

Well, it depends what concerns you; honestly, as lame as it sounds!! But seriously, if you really care about what you are writing about ur arguments will totally be stronger and better!!! Have you ever just been like, "WTF, what is that person thinking when they say or do that?!" Like, what really bothers me, for example, (and i kno u prolly cant use this for an essay neways!!) but what really bothers me is how like white ppl cannot ever ever say anything that MIGHT single out sum black person sumwhere, but black ppl always joke about white ppl and stuff on like wild'n'out and stuff!! Like, yea, i think its funny cuz we white folk are just cracka-***-honkies, but "agh!!" Its just so lame, cuz they get outta hand sumtimes. Ya see, it can be someting as simple as that, that u come up with just watchin tv or something. Just really try to think of something that u feel strongly about!! ur welcome!!!
-cracka-***-honky

Answer 7

-Young adults are at significant sexual risk for HIV infection.
-Americans are getting fatter. Does it really matter?
-Is animal experimentation justified?
-International ban on ivory should be lifted to secure elephants from extinction.
-Is there a necessity for Americans to become bilingual?
-Should condoms be available at schools?
-Giving blood and signing a donor card is good for you.
-Everyday one out of four Americans eats fast food.
-Government must increase its efforts to counter-act global warming.
-Heart disease is the leading killer of American women.

Answer 8

Ecology

They were very different from each other, representing opposite values and traditions. I think it is appropriate for you to be reminded of them on this day because, sooner than you know, you must align yourself with the spirit of one or the spirit of the other.

The first group lived about 2,500 years ago in the place which we now call Greece, in a city they called Athens. We do not know as much about their origins as we would like. But we do know a great deal about their accomplishments. They were, for example, the first people to develop a complete alphabet, and therefore they became the first truly literate population on earth. They invented the idea of political democracy, which they practiced with a vigor that puts us to shame. They invented what we call philosophy. And they also invented what we call logic and rhetoric. They came very close to inventing what we call science, and one of them-Democritus by name-conceived of the atomic theory of matter 2,300 years before it occurred to any modern scientist. They composed and sang epic poems of unsurpassed beauty and insight. And they wrote and performed plays that, almost three millennia later, still have the power to make audiences laugh and weep. They even invented what, today, we call the Olympics, and among their values none stood higher than that in all things one should strive for excellence. They believed in reason. They believed in beauty. They believed in moderation. And they invented the word and the idea which we know today as ecology.

About 2,000 years ago, the vitality of their culture declined and these people began to disappear. But not what they had created. Their imagination, art, politics, literature, and language spread all over the world so that, today, it is hardly possible to speak on any subject without repeating what some Athenian said on the matter 2,500 years ago.

The second group of people lived in the place we now call Germany, and flourished about 1,700 years ago. We call them the Visigoths, and you may remember that your sixth or seventh-grade teacher mentioned them. They were spectacularly good horsemen, which is about the only pleasant thing history can say of them. They were marauders-ruthless and brutal. Their language lacked subtlety and depth. Their art was crude and even grotesque. They swept down through Europe destroying everything in their path, and they overran the Roman Empire. There was nothing a Visigoth liked better than to burn a book, desecrate a building, or smash a work of art. From the Visigoths, we have no poetry, no theater, no logic, no science, no humane politics.

Like the Athenians, the Visigoths also disappeared, but not before they had ushered in the period known as the Dark Ages. It took Europe almost a thousand years to recover from the Visigoths.

Now, the point I want to make is that the Athenians and the Visigoths still survive, and they do so through us and the ways in which we conduct our lives. All around us-in this hall, in this community, in our city-there are people whose way of looking at the world reflects the way of the Athenians, and there are people whose way is the way of the Visigoths. I do not mean, of course, that our modern-day Athenians roam abstractedly through the streets reciting poetry and philosophy, or that the modern-day Visigoths are killers. I mean that to be an Athenian or a Visigoth is to organize your life around a set of values. An Athenian is an idea. And a Visigoth is an idea. Let me tell you briefly what these ideas consist of.

To be an Athenian is to hold knowledge and, especially the quest for knowledge in high esteem. To contemplate, to reason, to experiment, to question-these are, to an Athenian, the most exalted activities a person can perform. To a Visigoth, the quest for knowledge is useless unless it can help you to earn money or to gain power over other people.

To be an Athenian is to cherish language because you believe it to be humankind's most precious gift. In their use of language, Athenians strive for grace, precision, and variety. And they admire those who can achieve such skill. To a Visigoth, one word is as good as another, one sentence in distinguishable from another. A Visigoth's language aspires to nothing higher than the cliché.

To be an Athenian is to understand that the thread which holds civilized society together is thin and vulnerable; therefore, Athenians place great value on tradition, social restraint, and continuity. To an Athenian, bad manners are acts of violence against the social order. The modern Visigoth cares very little about any of this. The Visigoths think of themselves as the center of the universe. Tradition exists for their own convenience, good manners are an affectation and a burden, and history is merely what is in yesterday's newspaper.

To be an Athenian is to take an interest in public affairs and the improvement of public behavior. Indeed, the ancient Athenians had a word for people who did not. The word was idiotes, from which we get our word "idiot." A modern Visigoth is interested only in his own affairs and has no sense of the meaning of community.

And, finally, to be an Athenian is to esteem the discipline, skill, and taste that are required to produce enduring art. Therefore, in approaching a work of art, Athenians prepare their imagination through learning and experience. To a Visigoth, there is no measure of artistic excellence except popularity. What catches the fancy of the multitude is good. No other standard is respected or even acknowledged by the Visigoth.