PERSUASIVE SPEECH PREPARATION OUTLINE
TOPIC: Why do we need to vote?
Title:
Why do we have to vote for effective leadership?
General purpose:
To persuade
Specific purpose:
To convince my audience that if we are not voting we
will create and face problems in the future.
Central idea:
A. To voice our opinions
B. To guarantee our freedom
C. To translate vision into reality.
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INTRODUCTION
"Effective leadership is putting first things first", is a
strong phases to shows our responsibility to choose a
good leadership. And we as citizens, it is our very first
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job in determine which leadership is the best for our
country. In recent days, we were exposed in the
media a lots about the internally arguments within a
country or a fighting between two countries for special
purposes.
Behind all these stories, I believe that effective
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leadership presence is a must and very important.
How old are you? Are you already registered for
voting? Do you know when our next national election
is?
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Today I will persuade my audience the importance of
voting with a speech entitled "Why do we have to vote
for effective leadership"?
In conjunction with our national 13th Public Election
that will held in just around the corner, I do believe
there are so many youngsters out there still do not
concern when is the election date, and even worst
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idea
most of them are still haven't registered as voters yet.
According to a survey held by Malaysia Election
Commission or Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR),
almost 6300 out of 7000 people are not registered as
electorate and most of them are in the range of 22 to
30 years old. I hereby stand that effective leadership
are relies on the people votes.
Therefore, I urge that this speech will allow me to
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explain the problems that we might face if we are still
not concern about election and voting the right
leadership.
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BODY
To Voice Our Opinions
“One vote can make a difference”. Voting is one of the
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most important activities individuals can engage for
their country. Who an individual votes for, can have
an enormous impact on the lives of our own. Election
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is all about selection. The right selection will represent
our voices.
We must vote because the importance of elections in
a democratic country is seen through the opportunity
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where citizens have to pick leaders of their choice to
represent them in governance structures such as
Parliament.
Sadly,
wrong
leadership
will
bring
many
disadvantages such as internal corruption, political
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conflict, or tension between different races. This is
what happened in Thailand, they didn’t manage to
elect the best leadership and as a result it brings
chaos and lives in fear
Therefore, I persuade all of the youngsters realize it is
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essential for us to vote in order for them to hear our
voices.
To Guarantee Quality Life of Citizens.
One of the importance of elections is to guarantee
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quality life that most of the citizen in this world
desires. I believe most of you satisfy and agree that
Malaysian are mostly live in peace and joyful.
Malaysians are lucky to have a good leader such as
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YBhg. Dato Seri Najib Bin Razak who concern and
love his citizens
Dato Seri Najib and his ministry team are always
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providing solutions for problems and issues that
terrorize in Malaysia for the sake of quality life to be
enjoyed by all multi races.
For example, we can see our leader is emphasizing
his effort to strengthen the unity of our citizen by “1
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Malaysia” campaign. Through 1 Malaysia campaign,
there are lots facilities will be provided such as 1
Malaysia minimarket, 1 Malaysia economical houses
and so on
Therefore, voting from us will determine what kind of
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life that we desire? A quality life or bad life?
The right election will provide the right path to bring
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those resurrection issues to be discussed on the
higher level and it is important for us to elect so that
our vision is clearly heard of.
With a proper administration and a team of good
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governance, an effective leadership is another factor
that contributes to translate citizen’s vision into reality.
In addition, a leadership that we have chosen will
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always ensure to fulfill our needs, interests and serve
the best services for society, citizens and our country
itself.
In terms of protection, our Malaysian Government
offers shelter and no legal alternative to repatriation
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for victim who face hardship or retribution in their
country. The majority trafficking victims were rescued
because of requests by foreign embassies.
What most important is they have the time to consider
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citizen voices and put an effort to provide solutions to
our problems
For example, in Malaysia itself, we can see there are
so many developments in progress whereas the
objective is to achieve our 2020 visions. As we can
see the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project, our
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government translate the vision most of Kuala Lumpur
population desire to have a better transportation
system. This project is will link from Sg.Buloh to
Kajang with approximately 60 km and it is estimated
almost 50% of population will use the service.
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Thus, voting the right leader will bring us as citizen’s
vision to reality.
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III.
CONCLUSION
As for conclusion, voting is a huge responsibility for
an individual can engage and it also considered as
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good contribution towards country. Besides that, a
good leaderships are relies in our vote, thus we must
aware the consequences if we ignore voting.
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action:
As young teenagers and lover to our country, we
should be aware and take responsible to overcome
human trafficking problems.
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