Communications 111
Kendra Hietpas
Informative Speech
General Purpose: To inform
Specific Purpose: To tell my audience how Dorothea Lynde Dix’s prison reform impacted the world.
Central Idea: Dorothea viewed this issue as a major problem with our society and took matters into her own hands to change it.
INTRODUCTION
Attention Getting Material
I want everybody to close their eyes. Dark, cold, chains, starvation. Open your eyes. What you just imagined were the daily issues that mentally ill prisoners in early America had to suffer through. Citizens were led to believe that prisoners and the mentally insane were animals and they were to be treated as such.
In early America, our prisons were filled to capacity with criminals, children, and …show more content…
1. She had planned to visit East Cambridge Jail in 1841 to teach Sunday school to a group of imprisoned women as a favor to one of her friends of the church. 2. When she arrived there, she began to witness the brutal living conditions of the prisoners. 3. She noticed that the mentally ill prisoners were kept in an isolated room. They were screaming and out of control because they were cold, hungry, and they didn’t understand.
Dorothea viewed this issue as a major problem with our society and took matters into her own hands to change it.
Many of us have family members and friends who suffer from a mental disability. 1. The disability of many prisoners were as severe as Down’s syndrome or autism. They were looked down upon in society and were thought to be satanic. 2. Now days, our thought process is completely different and we treat the mentally ill with respect.
This movement was called the Prison Reform. 1. I will be talking about what Dorothea Dix wanted to accomplish, how she accomplished it, and what happened as a result of her …show more content…
She also noted that by removing mentally ill prisoners into what were called “insane hospitals”, they would be able to receive proper care. c. Dorthea was committed to this cause and was going to do everything in her power to change it. However, she had severe tuberculosis at the time and only expected to live for another year or so. He was determined to make her last year count for something. (Here is what she did.)
Dorothea made an effort to travel to many different penitentiaries across the state of Massachusetts.
She noted any brutalities that went on within these jails. What she did, was she wrote a letter to the state legislature in 1843 called The Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts.
This document had brought attention to her cause, not only by the government, but the public as well.
During this pre-civil war time, women’s opinions were often shot down by the men in power.
Once the Civil War began in 1861, her idea was essentially swept under the rug as being irrelevant to the country’s larger problems at the time.
Dorothea soon became a nurse in the Civil War, aiding to wounded soldiers. She had to set aside her idea of the prison reform.
Once the war ended, Dorothea once again, continued her idea of prison
Kendra Hietpas
Informative Speech
General Purpose: To inform
Specific Purpose: To tell my audience how Dorothea Lynde Dix’s prison reform impacted the world.
Central Idea: Dorothea viewed this issue as a major problem with our society and took matters into her own hands to change it.
INTRODUCTION
Attention Getting Material
I want everybody to close their eyes. Dark, cold, chains, starvation. Open your eyes. What you just imagined were the daily issues that mentally ill prisoners in early America had to suffer through. Citizens were led to believe that prisoners and the mentally insane were animals and they were to be treated as such.
In early America, our prisons were filled to capacity with criminals, children, and …show more content…
1. She had planned to visit East Cambridge Jail in 1841 to teach Sunday school to a group of imprisoned women as a favor to one of her friends of the church. 2. When she arrived there, she began to witness the brutal living conditions of the prisoners. 3. She noticed that the mentally ill prisoners were kept in an isolated room. They were screaming and out of control because they were cold, hungry, and they didn’t understand.
Dorothea viewed this issue as a major problem with our society and took matters into her own hands to change it.
Many of us have family members and friends who suffer from a mental disability. 1. The disability of many prisoners were as severe as Down’s syndrome or autism. They were looked down upon in society and were thought to be satanic. 2. Now days, our thought process is completely different and we treat the mentally ill with respect.
This movement was called the Prison Reform. 1. I will be talking about what Dorothea Dix wanted to accomplish, how she accomplished it, and what happened as a result of her …show more content…
She also noted that by removing mentally ill prisoners into what were called “insane hospitals”, they would be able to receive proper care. c. Dorthea was committed to this cause and was going to do everything in her power to change it. However, she had severe tuberculosis at the time and only expected to live for another year or so. He was determined to make her last year count for something. (Here is what she did.)
Dorothea made an effort to travel to many different penitentiaries across the state of Massachusetts.
She noted any brutalities that went on within these jails. What she did, was she wrote a letter to the state legislature in 1843 called The Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts.
This document had brought attention to her cause, not only by the government, but the public as well.
During this pre-civil war time, women’s opinions were often shot down by the men in power.
Once the Civil War began in 1861, her idea was essentially swept under the rug as being irrelevant to the country’s larger problems at the time.
Dorothea soon became a nurse in the Civil War, aiding to wounded soldiers. She had to set aside her idea of the prison reform.
Once the war ended, Dorothea once again, continued her idea of prison