Audience: A group of teenage girls
Topic: HPV vaccine
Speaking goals: To make sure women have a clear understanding of the basic points of getting vaccinated for HPV.
Main points: My main points are letting women know why it is important to get checked, how people get HPV, who is at risk and what the virus does to the human body.
Question:
Have you ever had a vaccine shot that you could immediately feel spreading through out your whole arm? Well, I have. I have recently received the vaccine for HPV, the Human Papillomavirus.
Quote:
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and, making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”
Intriguing or Startling Statement:
GARDASIL. Your probably don’t know if this is a medication for a headache or for a sexually transmitted virus. It is actually a name given to a vaccine, a vaccine that comes in three doses that helps protect against diseases caused by the human paillomavairus, such as cervical cancer and genital warts.
Tell a story:
When I was 17 when I was diagnosed with cervical cancer. I have had countless number of tests done. I go see the gynecologist more than anything. A few years back the doctors had to check because they thought it had spread into my reproductive organs. But Thank God it did not. Then, for about 2 years I received normal checkups but this year was not such a good year. I have another appointment to go to and see what is wrong now. I am bleeding when I am not supposed to be. The last doctor I saw said I was abnormal again and I said that is not uncommon for me but that I need to see my gynecologist as soon as possible. I am scared and I urge all women and their daughters get checked.
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