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This assignment asks you to advocate a reasoned position drawn from your knowledge of a particular controversy. You need to give a speech to persuade the
audience in favor of one of the solutions you discussed in speech #3. For this speech (5-7 minutes) you are asked to 1) briefly reintroduce the problem for your
audience, 2) create a sketch of the different solutions people have with regard to it, evaluating them as you go, then 3) explain your own solution using these others as support and opposition. Make sure to persuade the audience that the solution presented meets a level of suitability that takes into account people's interests on
economic, political, and social levels.