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Hurricane Katrina

[Speech 1315/1321]

[Type of Speech]

[Date: 01st November, 2012]

Hurricane Katrina

Introduction

Attention Getter: It looks like a short story or a script of a horror movie, but unfortunately, it was a real disaster. Hurricanes are extremely dangerous! They can become deadly if the right precautions will not be taken. Today in my speech I am going to talk about an extremely dangerous hurricane which killed many people and caused various dangers.

Purpose Statement: Hurricane Katrina was an extremely dangerous disaster. It was basically a miscommunication between the government and people after the arrival of Hurricane Katrina that caused deaths of many people and still affecting many economy, society and environment. According to British newspaper The Guardian, the hurricane "Katrina" was pretty much a predictable disaster.

Preview: Well in this speech I shall be covering various brief description of the disaster, affects caused by Hurricane Katrina such as environmental, economic, and social effects. The number of people killed by this disaster etc.

Credibility Statement: I was reading about this disaster from an authentic website, the facts literally horrifying, huge number of people died and its effects causing serious problems to everyone living out there. The information provided in this speech is complete fact taken from reliable sources.

Goodwill Statement: This speech will let audience know how dangerous Hurricane Katrina was and can be for the world in near future.

Body and Discussion

Transitional Sentence: According, to the research Katrina is a name that was assigned to a tropical storm of 2005 and marked as the most powerful hurricane in the history of the United States.

Over the years, Hurricane Katrina of 2005 is one of the most powerful hurricanes of United States. 60% of the State of Louisiana was flooded (Virginia, 2009).

Hurricane Katrina is undoubtedly considered as one of the hurricanes that have affected the American nation. ...