Why the U.S. should finally make the switch to the metric system
General Purpose: To persuade.
Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that the U.S. should finally make the switch to the metric system.
Central Idea: The metric system is an easy to learn measuring and weighing system that is used by all countries in the world except for the U.S. and two others.
Introduction
When I started preparing myself for this speech I asked some of my soccer team mates to explain to me the relationship between inches, feet, yards and miles. Most of them could tell me how many inches are in a foot, or how many feet are in a yard, but at the latest, when I wanted to know how many yards are in a mile, they started pulling out their phones to ask Siri …show more content…
Also, we have seen that if the U.S. stays stubborn and keeps his old English system, international relationships and trade can be negatively impacted. Thus, switching to the metric system is necessary and indispensable if one wants to prevent such things from happening again. Also, as we will see in the following, learning this system it’s really not so hard.)
III. The metric system, or the International System of Units (SI), is much easier than the U.S. customary system.
A. It is a decimal system like out monetary system, and all units are related (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 2015).
B. There are seven base unit, from which everything else can be derived. This makes conversions really easy. For example, in the SI system there is one unit that is used to measure length: the meter. The U.S. system in comparison uses three completely different units of length: inch, feet, and yard. Having to know three different systems and their conversion factors is much harder than only having to know a single one.
(Transition: The point is that I was able to show in a really short amount of time how straight forward the metric system is, which leads us to the usage of this system in education and
General Purpose: To persuade.
Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that the U.S. should finally make the switch to the metric system.
Central Idea: The metric system is an easy to learn measuring and weighing system that is used by all countries in the world except for the U.S. and two others.
Introduction
When I started preparing myself for this speech I asked some of my soccer team mates to explain to me the relationship between inches, feet, yards and miles. Most of them could tell me how many inches are in a foot, or how many feet are in a yard, but at the latest, when I wanted to know how many yards are in a mile, they started pulling out their phones to ask Siri …show more content…
Also, we have seen that if the U.S. stays stubborn and keeps his old English system, international relationships and trade can be negatively impacted. Thus, switching to the metric system is necessary and indispensable if one wants to prevent such things from happening again. Also, as we will see in the following, learning this system it’s really not so hard.)
III. The metric system, or the International System of Units (SI), is much easier than the U.S. customary system.
A. It is a decimal system like out monetary system, and all units are related (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 2015).
B. There are seven base unit, from which everything else can be derived. This makes conversions really easy. For example, in the SI system there is one unit that is used to measure length: the meter. The U.S. system in comparison uses three completely different units of length: inch, feet, and yard. Having to know three different systems and their conversion factors is much harder than only having to know a single one.
(Transition: The point is that I was able to show in a really short amount of time how straight forward the metric system is, which leads us to the usage of this system in education and