Negative Effects of Excess Money

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Topic: Excess Money
Narrowed Topic: To persuade the audience that they should also focus on themselves
General Purpose: To Persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that they should not focus on only achieving excess amount of
money
Pattern of Organization: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence
Introduction
Attention: The attention of the audience has been drawn through a story
Purpose: Making people aware of the negative consequences of acquiring excess money.
Credibility: The information is collected from reliable sources.
Significance to Audience: The simple example used in this speech is useful to demonstrate the audience
the harmful effects of possessing excessive money.
Preview :(Indicate each main point without completely giving away your solution)
Money affects the character of a person badly as a result the person starts growing bad habits:
Excess money may induce bad habits in a person. As the dreadful consequence of this the person may be
indulged in drinking gambling as well as improper and also unhealthy habits of eating.

Money foster drastic changes in attitude:
The change of attitude occurs when a person earns a vast amount of money which the person has never
thought of earning. In this situation, the transformation of the perception also occurs and the person starts
believing that, everything can be achieved with the help of money. For example, the richness of King Firaun his
made him think that he held the position of God , later it was observed that, this hubris was the prime reason
behind the downfall of his kingdom (Isbouts, 2019).
Money gives birth to unhealthy social behavior:
Excess money makes a person materialistic. As a result, he or she starts preferring people who are selfish and
ultimately get trapped inside the bad habits and negativity induced by excess money.
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Body
I. Need: (Problem claim): Excess money is responsible behind the overall downfall of a human being,
leading to a substantial decline in the morality, character and positive attitude in a person.
A. Evidence
One of the main evidence of this is the story of Egyptian ruler, king Firaun. As he was able to acquire the all
the riches of the world, he started projecting himself on the throne of God. His excessive pride over his wealth
made him arrogant an destroyed his prudency and accelerated his downfall.
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