Suicide

Our next speech, the actuative speech, is a kind of speech that allows us to help persuade the audience into believing a sort of idea that you may believe in. For my speech, I decided to go with the controversial topic of suicide. As far as paragraphs and ideas go, my main points will be dealing with the symptoms of suicide, for example depression, ways for the symptoms to be diagnosed in everyday situations, and lastly how the world would be if no one truly cared about those who are on the edge about life. Through Monroe's motivated sequence, I will be able to enhance my speech as to how the audience can interpret and visualize the information I will be presenting with. To begin, I am actually going to begin my speech with a true to life story that I had experienced personally. I am one person who suffered through depression, and am willing to open up about it to include credibility and emotional impact on my audience. Not only that, I am going to enter with frightening statistics and saddening ways that suicide have affected families. Then, in the body, I will go on to state the symptoms, and how to properly find them. Being a psychology major, reading some of the signs is simple, yet to an untrained person it may seem like nothing. After that, I will propose a situation/change that will need to be made in American society so that the symptoms and suicide itself can be avoided one person at a time. Lastly, visualization would be consisted of how to imagine yourself with the depressing symptoms and how it would be to live in a world where no one even notices or cares about how you are.