Topic: Dogs can positively effect your life.
Purpose of speech: To inform people why dogs are man’s best friend.
Intended audience: Speech class.
Attention getting intro:
Opal was a pastors daughter in a small town. Her mother had left the family and she had no siblings. One day while shopping at the grocery store she rescued a stray dog who was running loose in the store. She named him Winn Dixie and he brought adventure and friendship to her life.
What is your thesis:
Dogs can positively effect your life.
Please summarizes your major points:
Dogs can provide unconditional love, assistances, and help you learn responsibility.
First point:
Dogs provide unconditional love and friendship.
Support for first point:
The story of Hachiko and Eisaburo in Japan. This story is about a Hachiko’s loyalty to his master even after his masters death.
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/pets/dog-best-friend1.htmSecond point:
Dogs can be great assistances to people.
Support for second point:
People who are handicapped have service dogs to help them with their daily life. Thousands of service dogs are used a year for service dogs.
Third point:
Pets can help you learn responsibility.
Support for third point:
Caesar Millian The dog whisperer.
Summarize of my speech:
Even though dogs can sometimes be hard to take care of, they can teach you responsibility, unconditional love, friendship and assistances.
Speech -
In the book “Because of Winnie-Dixie” by Kate DiCamillo she tells of a little girl named Opal who doesn’t have any friends. Opal is a pastor’s daughter in a small town. Her mother has left the family and she has no siblings. One day while shopping at the grocery store she rescues a stray dog that is running loose in the store. She names him Winn-Dixie and he brings adventure and friendship to her life. Dogs can positively affect your life. They can provide unconditional love, assistances, and help you learn responsibility.
Dogs can provide unconditional love and friendship. Japan’s state dog is an Akita, named Hachiko. His master was Professor Eisaburo Ueno. Everyday he rode a train to work and Hachiko went with him to the train station. And everyday when the professor came back Hachiko would always be there to greet him when he came off the train. One day Professor Eisaburo died at work and never returned to the train station. Even though the professor never returned to the train station, Hachiko went to the station everyday waiting for his master, but he was never there. Hachiko did this everyday for eight years until he died. Today there is a statue of Hachiko that reminds the Japanese of the dog that gave unconditional love to his master. This is just one of the many stories that shows friendship between a master and his dog.
Another way dogs can positively affect your life is when you are handicapped or have any special needs. They are very helpful in many ways. Service dogs can be used for people in wheelchairs, those who are blind or deaf, and people that have seizures. Rescue teams also used professionally trained dogs to assist them. Chris Hyatt is a forty-two year old quadriplegic from Austin, Texas who has a service dog named JJ. JJ assists Chris by picking up dropped items, opening and closing doors, and keeping him active and social. Chris says that his life has been drastically improved by having JJ.
Having a dog can teach you responsibility in many ways. As their owner they are solely dependent on you for all of their needs. You have to plan your day around the needs of your dog and make sure they get exercise and are fed everyday. Along with caring for their daily needs you have to be responsible for their medical needs. The financial responsibility can be expensive and you need to make sure that you have enough money to provide for their care. Being responsible for your dog also includes proper behavioral training. Cesar Millan says, “In the absence of a clear leader, a dog, even a submissive one, will seek to fill what they see as the vacant leadership role. The dog will ignore the owner, act out, and can lead to serious behavior issues.” It’s important to be your dogs pack leader and treat them as a dog and not like a four legged human.
As you can see there are many ways dogs can positively affect your life. It’s not always a walk in the park, but if they are trained the right way and are exercised daily they can become a great companion.
http://www.cesarmillaninc.com/tips/retrain_humanizing.phphttp://www.servicedogs.org/testimonials/index.html