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Examples Of Informative Speech On US Marshals

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General Goal: To inform
Specific Goal: To inform my audience of the creation of the U.S Marshals Service, The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration and The Department of Homeland Security.
I. Introduction
A. Did you know that the oldest federal law enforcement agency in the United States is the U.S. Marshals Service?
II. In this speech, I am going to inform you about the country’s motives for creating the U.S. Marshals Service, Department of Homeland Security
III. Body:
A. To begin with, on the U.S. Marshals official website, under the section titled “History”, it states that The U.S. Marshals was formed by the Judiciary Act of September 24, 1789. The Judiciary act was created by the first Congress, the …show more content…

In addition to this, the first president of the United States, George Washington, played a significant role in the forming of the Judicial Department
2. In April of 1789, George Washington proposed an address to the first congress, which gave the Judicial Branch a great emphasis to influence congress to create the Judiciary Act. The U.S. Marshals service website states Washington’s address, says, and I quote, “I will be pleased therefore to let a supreme regard for equal justice and the inherent rights of the citizens be visible in all your proceedings”. Washington wanted all citizens to feel protected and also wanted equal justice for all of the people.
3. After a numerous amount of debates and the selection of the proposed amendments, the Judiciary Bill was passed by both the House and the Senate on July 17, 1789. Then, a few months later the American Judicial System was born alongside the U.S. Marshals Service, this took place on September 24, 1789. Today, the agency is 226 years old and it is definitely the oldest federal agency, although many other agencies have argued that they are older than the Marshals, no context has yet been found to prove the other department …show more content…

Now that we have reviewed the development of the FBI and the DEA, I will like to finish off with talking about the Department of Homeland Security. In the September 2012 issue of Homeland Security, titled “Past, Present and Future”, author Roger L. Kemp, explains that after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the President, who at the time was George W. Bush, named the head director of Homeland Security eleven days after the attacks. He was not confirmed until January 22, 2003. The main focus of this agency is to protect the country against terrorism and to respond to any future attacks. Then, George W. Bush signed the “Homeland Security Act of 2002” on November 25, 2002.
1. In addition to that, the 2011 journal titled “September 11 Anniversary” under the section “Is the U.S. Safer?”, states that the director that was appointed by the George W. Bush was the former governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Ridge.
2. One of Ridge’s first actions was to develop a color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System to inform the nation of possible attacks. (Show Image on P.P). As you can see on this image, the system is composed of five threat levels, green means that the risk is very low and red means that there is a high risk for

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