St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Finding Cures. Saving Children.
Moises Sandoval.

Specific Purpose:

To persuade the members of my audience in becoming a Partner in Hope by donating/volunteering to St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

Thesis Statement:

Since 1962, St. Jude hospital has been a symbol of hope for children and families in the need. As one of the world’s premier pediatric cancer research centers, St. Jude hospital continues to provide the quality of research and treatment relying on the support of many donors to continue its lifesaving mission of finding cures and saving children.

Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence.

Introduction (Attention)

I. Attention-Getting Device—Eggs dynamic: Draw faces on 4 eggs to make 4 members of the audience figure that those eggs were their children. Then, paint a mark on two of those eggs to show in one of them that the stain represented cancer and we didn’t know what caused it; the mark on the second egg would try to illustrate that we can try to remove the mark (or resolve the problem with cancer) ourselves but we are not able because it is not in our capacity and that would bring us to the breaking of the third egg that would represent that sometimes when we try to resolve so serious problems ourselves such as cancer we would only make it worse.

II. Introduce Your Topic—The topic of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is introduced in connection with the eggs dynamic by stating to the audience that this hospital based on its research and treatment does know how to help in childhood cancer cases.

III. Demonstrating the Importance—If we all did something to help those in need like children with different types of cancer, we would have the satisfaction of helping innocent children and their families to have a better and longer quality of life and we would have a greater sense