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Persuasive Speech

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Imagine you’ve saved your allowance to buy a basketball. Then, you take said basketball, go to the park, and everybody at the park uses your basketball, but they don't let you play in the game with them. Everyone is just out there scoring with your basketball, passing it around, laughing and treating it as if they own it. These people don't even let you shoot on the opposite end with an old raggedy basketball that they’ve abused; you just have to watch these motherfuckers. But those are the rules or “the way things are done,” so you’re told to respect it and wait your turn, but by the time it’s your turn, it’s starting to get dark out and nobody wants to play anymore. So, now you’re walking home staring at your once new basketball with an empty park as your backdrop and you're pissed, but you learned your lesson. Next time you come to the park, you purposely come empty-handed because surely they remember how they used your basketball and wouldn’t disrespect you again, right? Wrong! Wrong! (R.I.P. Charlie Murphy) Not only do they tell you that you're not playing, they don't even let you stand on the sideline, you have to stand and watch from behind the gate; you’ve received no respect. You go back home, seemingly never to be seen again, and do more chores, but instead of buying a basketball, you build your own park because you’ll be damned if you’re ever out of the game again. Your park is new, it's clean, and it’s the thing. So, of course, they go out and buy new

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