The Lottery Persuasive Speech

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Each time we walked pass by a lottery stand, we always ask ourselves, “Will I be the lucky one?” As you paid for your lottery ticket, you were most likely to draw no prize. Don’t be sad if you failed though. While people follow the lotto fever, take a minute now and think about this: if you win the grand prize, how will the fortune you win from lottery change your life? Maybe winning lottery isn’t necessarily good for us in some aspects. It’s certain that winning the jackpot is extremely rare and exciting. For some people, especially who’s in need of money, this can be a game changer for them; and for those who spends the fortune wisely, often ended up having a great life as well, so why, under any circumstance, that winning lottery will have …show more content…

Thomas and Denise Rossi were married for 25 years. They weren’t rich, but Thomas considered themselves as a lovely couple. However, things went down the hill pretty soon when Denise Rossi won the jackpot of the lottery. Before Denise informed his husband, she seeked a divorce with him, so that she wouldn’t need to either split or share the money with him. However, the law in California required married couples to disclose their assets before divorcing. Denise’s secret was exposed, and due to her dishonesty, the court awarded her lottery ticket to her husband …show more content…

However, people were still not satisfied by his doings, and some were even jealous of his sudden wealth and wanted a share of it, so wherever Whittaker went, people followed him and asked for loans. There were numbers of local rival companies which sued his construction site several times for public safety issues that never existed. The plaintiffs were waiting for the court to award his money to them. Whittaker started to realize that the friends around him only wanted his money, so he drifted away from his normal life. Upset and depressed, Whittaker started to go to pub, strip clubs and similar sensual locations. This was the time where his drink was poisoned, and half of his fortune was stolen away while he was comatosed. The supposedly miracle wore off, but the tragedy didn't end here. After Whittaker won the jackpot, he rewarded his granddaughter with fancy cars and large amount of allowances (22000 USD) per week, and soon she stepped into the wrong route as well. She got involved with drugs, and her luxurious sports cars attracted gangsters and criminals who obviously thought that she was wealthy, which was true. One night, she was abducted and murdered, the event exposed when her body was found two weeks later dumped in a

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