Written Speech due in 7 hours.

Part 1: Written Material

1. Topic: Child Labor

· The topic is huge. Make it specific.

2. Speech Goals: When I finish speaking I want my audience to understand why child labor is appealing, what the opportunity cost is on the matter and how it can be mitigated.

· Show where this problem is now and before years ago? In what country this happens the most? What are the jobs that the children usually work there? What ages?

3. Central Idea: Child labor is against human rights and every child deserves the freedom to live.

4. Three key points written in parallel structure:

a. Why child labor is appealing?

b. What is the opportunity cost?

c. How it can be mitigated?

· You need to choose one of the three key points that you wrote and then you write 3 key points out of that one point.

· You need to give the audience something that they don’t know. The audience must agree with what I am saying. They need to hear something new. Convince the audience in a clever way. We all know that this should not happen and we all don’t agree about it. But what you need to do her is show them more.

· 3 references needed so add on more.

· Show the problem, Convince people that this needs to be solved. Do not provide solutions to it.

· You have to use something visual. Like 1 minute video.

· If you understand Arabic please watch this, it will help you a lot and it has valuable info.

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbsPzQ-5Wyo

Introduction:

Attention getter: Hundred and sixty kids are dead today. You all seem a bit shocked to hear this. Are you feeling sympathetic? Or may be wondering the cause of death?

Connection to audience: The case I mentioned was 3 years ago where hundred and sixty children lost their life at the hands of child labor case in Hamas during tunnel construction (CASE, 2014).

Credibility: Why speak about child labor? I chose the topic because to a level I can empathize with those little souls who work throughout the days for pennies that wouldn’t suffice the hunger. That gives me chills; to research on the matter and address it to mass of people.

Central idea: Child labor is against human rights and every child deserves the freedom to live.

Preview Statement: Child labor has not just damaged the societies but apart from social issue it has even had a much dynamic impact on the economy.

Transition: What are the drivers of child labors?

Body:

1. What are the driving factors of child labor?

a. Companies are keen to hire resources that are cheap and can maximize their profit (Moulds, 2015).

b. Many companies often don’t show their labor force in financials that shows how effective a business is to investors.

c. Most of the children who tend to work for such companies are made promises of good wages, three meals per day and other benefits that sum up to be very appealing for a lower class family.

d. Parents of such children themselves are incapable to provide a better standard living to their wards and are compelled to send them over such jobs (Moulds, 2015).

e. Many of these children are hired because any educated staff member won’t go for a job that is in field such as cotton picking.

Transition: What is the opportunity cost?

Body:

2. What is the opportunity costs associated with child labor?

a. Many children who are hired for labor are deprived from basic education and that in turn is a loss to the economy.

b. Many children who are brought in child labor are extremely talented but due to their work are deprived of any platform to carry on their talents.

c. Working in the manner often limits the learning for the children and they grow to follow the same pattern to send their wards to such odd jobs. And therefore, the chain keeps rolling.

d. Referring to the case of Hamas, there are many cases apart from Hamas that have been suppressed from public knowledge where the children have lost their life in line of work (CASE, 2014).

Transition: How it can be mitigated?

Body:

3. How child labors can be mitigated or for that matter eradicated?

a. Eradicating the child labors would be near to impossible considering that there are about 260 million children who work according to International Labor Organization (Moulds, 2015).

b. Mitigation on the other hand can be achieved by numerous ways.

c. A governing body that regulates and investigates the manufacturers or agricultural sector for child labor.

d. Awareness should be provided to the parents to help them understand the risks associated with child labors.

e. Government or NGOs should provide basic funds to such families to help them educate their children.

f. School should be setup by NGOs where education is free for all the children in such rural areas.

g. Awareness in urban areas is also a key element. The youth should be made aware of such issues and promoted to not just support the cause but rather take an initiative. This would play a vital role in minimizing child labor by pressure groups.

Conclusion:

Summary Statement: In summary, child labor has affected the world’s economy thus it has been favorable for companies but on the other hand its opportunity cost is far worse to push the economy decades behind its true potential. Corporate Governance should be strict on companies to avoid such situations. Furthermore, NGOs should play their role in education and awareness campaign to have a dynamic impact on people.

Clincher Statement: NGOs along with social media have played an important role to bring to knowledge of public about issues that have existed since centuries but were always suppressed. They have done a remarkable job to research on these subjects and come up with numeric results that show us how deep the rabbit hole goes. It often surprises us to see such high statistics for issues that are despised by the community as whole. But ladies and gentlemen, these issues are around us and we must stand up for the rights of these children because if we don’t then our children someday might be victim to this plague.

2. The visual aid is the presentation I have prepared on PowerPoint. The presentation comprises of pictures that were captured in rural areas that clearly shows how these children work in fields. These pictures will give you the feel of how life is for them where access to basic necessities is unavailable. This will also help you understand the environment these children grow in and how it affects the psychologically.

3. Citations/References

References CASE, S. (2014). National Review. Retrieved from http://www.nationalreview.com/article/384004/child-labor-deaths-hamas-tunnels-are-no-surprise-spencer-case. Moulds, J. (2015). Retrieved from http://labs.theguardian.com/unicef-child-labour/.