Pesticides Persuasive Speech

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SPCM 1040 – Clare Proctor - FINAL FULL OUTLINE
Speeches 5-8 minutes, will be delivered at the last session
Judith Serwaah Agyenim-Boateng

Subject/Topic: Pesticides

General Purpose (GP): To persuade

Specific Purpose (SP): At the end of my speech my audience will know about the dire effects of pesticides on the environment will take measures minimize their use.

Central Idea (CI): It is important to know and reduce the effects of pesticides use.

Title: Save your Life! Save the environment! Minimize pesticides!

Organizational Patterns: Problem/ Solution

Introduction
Your Excellency, the Minister of the Environment; Representatives from various farmers associations; Members of the press, and ladies and gentlemen who are gathered …show more content…

Evidence (statistics): As you will see from the visuals, a scientific study of the results of live births in Minnesota agricultural communities to shows that there is a connection between the use of pesticides and a rise in birth defects. The study analysed families where only the father handled pesticides.

Pesticides: Birth Defects and Other Anomalies

Group Number
Live births 1,532
Family participants 696
Families with children 536
Congenital birth anomalies 70
Autism 2
Childhood Diabetes 3
ADD/ADHD 14
(Garry, Harkins, Erickson, Long-Simpson, Holland & Burroughs, 2002)

Body system of child with Birth Defect No. of cases Children less than one -year old One-year old More than three-year old Confirmed by medical records Adult children who refused examination
Central nervous system 14 7 3 4 11 3
Cardiovascular system 13 8 0 5 10 3
Gastrointestinal system 4 3 0 1 4 0
Urogenital system 9 6 1 2 8 1
Musculoskeletal system 27 17 4 6 17 7
Skin/Integumentary system 4 4 0 0 4 0
Cytogenetic /Metabolic 5 3 0 2 4 1
Total 78 18 8 20 58 15
More than 75% of the respondents reported birth defects that were medically confirmed and five children had more than one birth defect and more than one organ system involved (Garry et al., 2002).

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