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Use them to get the creative juices flowing. Don’t copy any of these examples! Since these speeches are available for anyone to download, you can never be sure that another student has not used them, and that they will pass plagiarism evaluation tools, such as Turnitin or Plagscan.
Whether you find a sample that is on your given topic or a closely related discussion, all of the speeches can help you get organized and focused.
Review multiple speeches to learn:
- How the presenter laid out the talking points and the number of points used
- What references and statistics they used to solidify their arguments
- How long the speech was for a given topic
- How the topic was introduced and summarized
- How the speaker engaged and interacted with the audience
By using these speech examples as an outline, you’ll have a fully formed presentation in no time! We also have this page with gun control speech examples, in case you’d like to see different examples on the same topic.
Persuasive Speeches
- Birth Control Persuasive Speech
- We should stand up for our gun rights
- The truth about gun control
- The controversy over gun control
- Speech against stricter gun control
- It’s up to society to solve gun problems
- Guns don’t kill people
- Does banning firearms help prevent homicides
- Criminals will be criminals
- What to do about Deadbeat Parents
- Why state aid applicants need to be drug tested
- Subculture is Mainstream
- Eating Healthy
- Teachers should be paid more
- Digital Piracy
- Minimum Wage
- Minimum Wage
- Drug Testing for State Aid
- Drug testing welfare
- Why snakes make good pets
- Why you need to quit drinking soda
- Why Everyone Should Learn to Play an Instrument
- Why Android is better then IOS 2
- Why Android is better then IOS 1
- Video Games Do Not Cause Violence
- Soda and Obesity
- Plastic Surgery 2
- Plastic Surgery
- Maintaining A Healthy Lifestyle
- Human development depends primarily on environmental factors
- Donating Blood
- Birth Control Persuasive Speech Example with Outline
- Social Media Persuasive Speech Example with Outline
- Texting and Driving Persuasive Speech Example with Outline
- Persuasive Speech on Sleep
- Persuasive Speech about Bullying
- Persuasive Speech on Organ Donation
Informative Speeches
- Guns and gun control - Texas
- Gun violence and control
- Gun control on campuses
- Wind Energy
- About Serial Killers
- John Candy
- Eating Disorder
- Robin Williams 2
- Dream Types
- Diabetes
- Separation of Powers of the Federal Government
- Memory Loss
- Internet Black Market
- EQ
- Blood Donation
- Alcohol in Winter
- About Guitar
- Social Media Informative Speech Example with Outline
- Texting and Driving Informative Speech Example with Outline
- Informative Speech on Sleep
- Informative Speech about Bullying
- Free Organ Donation Informative Speech
- Free Informative Speech on Caffeine and Its Effects