Informative Speech on Rwandan Genocide Outline
Ben Johnson
Intro to Comm.
1320-04
11/8/12
Rwandan Genocide
General Purpose: To Inform
Specific Purpose: To share with the class that the Rwandan Genocide was a brutal genocide that most people know little about.
Thesis: The Rwandan Genocide is one of the lesser known, quickest, and most inhumane genocides this world has ever seen, and it is still affecting the people of Rwanda till this day.
Organizational Pattern: Topical
Introduction
I. Attention Getter: What some people do not know is that Rwanda was home to the most brutal genocide this world has ever seen. There is a book of testimonies where the survivors of the Rwandan genocide told their story of their struggle to survive called, Survival Against the Odds. There was one survivor named Dephrosa, and this is a quote from her testimony. "They brought us all in the sitting room and started forcing us to take our clothes off. The housekeeper rapped me. My husband wanted to intervene but they staved him off by hitting him with a masus [a club with nails] on his neck. He fell back in the chair." the husband was not killed right away they kept him alive to watch multiple men rape his wife and daughters for several days until they finally killed him.
II. Connection: I am not here to tell you my opinion about how the Untied States, the Untied Nations, or the world should have handled this historical tragedy. I am here to share with you what had happened to three-quarters of the Tutsi race in Rwanda.
III. Thesis Statement: The Rwandan Genocide is one of the lesser known, quickest, and most inhumane genocides this world has ever seen and it is still affecting the people of Rwanda till this day.
IV. Transition: When most people think about genocide the first thing that comes to their mind is the Holocaust, but what a lot of people don 't know is that the Holocaust wasn 't the worst mass murder our Earth has seen.
Body
I. The Rwandan genocide is one of the
Intro to Comm.
1320-04
11/8/12
Rwandan Genocide
General Purpose: To Inform
Specific Purpose: To share with the class that the Rwandan Genocide was a brutal genocide that most people know little about.
Thesis: The Rwandan Genocide is one of the lesser known, quickest, and most inhumane genocides this world has ever seen, and it is still affecting the people of Rwanda till this day.
Organizational Pattern: Topical
Introduction
I. Attention Getter: What some people do not know is that Rwanda was home to the most brutal genocide this world has ever seen. There is a book of testimonies where the survivors of the Rwandan genocide told their story of their struggle to survive called, Survival Against the Odds. There was one survivor named Dephrosa, and this is a quote from her testimony. "They brought us all in the sitting room and started forcing us to take our clothes off. The housekeeper rapped me. My husband wanted to intervene but they staved him off by hitting him with a masus [a club with nails] on his neck. He fell back in the chair." the husband was not killed right away they kept him alive to watch multiple men rape his wife and daughters for several days until they finally killed him.
II. Connection: I am not here to tell you my opinion about how the Untied States, the Untied Nations, or the world should have handled this historical tragedy. I am here to share with you what had happened to three-quarters of the Tutsi race in Rwanda.
III. Thesis Statement: The Rwandan Genocide is one of the lesser known, quickest, and most inhumane genocides this world has ever seen and it is still affecting the people of Rwanda till this day.
IV. Transition: When most people think about genocide the first thing that comes to their mind is the Holocaust, but what a lot of people don 't know is that the Holocaust wasn 't the worst mass murder our Earth has seen.
Body
I. The Rwandan genocide is one of the
References: "BBC NEWS | Africa | Rwanda: How the genocide happened." BBC News - Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2012.