Speech and Essay Samples
Don’t know where to start? Get inspired by our FREE speech and essay examples.
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 (396 downloads)
- We should stand up for our gun rights (27389 downloads)
- The truth about gun control (11668 downloads)
- The controversy over gun control (7004 downloads)
- Speech against stricter gun control (7821 downloads)
- It’s up to society to solve gun problems (7409 downloads)
- Guns don’t kill people (18628 downloads)
- Does banning firearms help prevent homicides (8760 downloads)
- Criminals will be criminals (23500 downloads)
- What to do about Deadbeat Parents (7984 downloads)
- Why state aid applicants need to be drug tested (7667 downloads)
- Subculture is Mainstream (6451 downloads)
- Eating Healthy (47714 downloads)
- Teachers should be paid more (24590 downloads)
- Digital Piracy (9026 downloads)
- Minimum Wage (8350 downloads)
- Minimum Wage (5583 downloads)
- Drug Testing for State Aid (4709 downloads)
- Drug testing welfare (5213 downloads)
- Why snakes make good pets (8673 downloads)
- Why you need to quit drinking soda (14359 downloads)
- Why Everyone Should Learn to Play an Instrument (12644 downloads)
- Why Android is better then IOS 2 (7603 downloads)
- Why Android is better then IOS 1 (6855 downloads)
- Video Games Do Not Cause Violence (15121 downloads)
- Soda and Obesity (9491 downloads)
- Plastic Surgery 2 (6494 downloads)
- Plastic Surgery (10409 downloads)
- Maintaining A Healthy Lifestyle (19950 downloads)
- Human development depends primarily on environmental factors (13185 downloads)
- Donating Blood (20209 downloads)
- 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 (7801 downloads)
- Gun violence and control (16648 downloads)
- Gun control on campuses (6575 downloads)
- Wind Energy (11372 downloads)
- About Serial Killers (12353 downloads)
- John Candy (5167 downloads)
- Eating Disorder (13682 downloads)
- Robin Williams 2 (5812 downloads)
- Dream Types (24253 downloads)
- Diabetes (11535 downloads)
- Separation of Powers of the Federal Government (6349 downloads)
- Memory Loss (24897 downloads)
- Internet Black Market (10933 downloads)
- EQ (7655 downloads)
- Blood Donation (15246 downloads)
- Alcohol in Winter (7983 downloads)
- About Guitar (8372 downloads)
- 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
Essays
- Five Side Effects of Global Warming (17532 downloads)
- Global Warming Is Real (15664 downloads)