Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe: Informative Speech

Name: Trisha McVicker

Assignment: Informative Speech Preparation Outline

Date: 29 March 2017

Speech Topic: Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe

Speech Title: Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe the Closest thing to Heaven on Earth

Organizational Pattern: Topical

General Purpose Statement: To inform

Specific Purpose Statement: To inform my audience about Sister Rosemary

Central Idea Statement: I would like to inform the class about Sister Rosemary by first, traveling through the history of Sister and why she does what she does, second, by explaining the work she has taught the girls how to make a living and why, and finally, to explain and show the true meaning of hope through Sister Rosemary.

Introduction

We all have that one person in our life that inspires

(http://www.prosforafrica.com/sister-rosemary)

In this article, it also talks on how out of the young women she’s given hope to many of whom were abducted, raped, tortured and forced to kill their own family members as soldiers of Joseph Kony’s army.

Prosforafrica.com reports that Sister Rosemary dedicates her life to helping girls formerly held captive by Warlord Joseph Kony and Lord’s Resistance Army. Sister gives them a home because most are shunned and persecuted by their own villages.

b. The book, Sewing Hope, co-authored in 2013 by Reggie Whitten and Nancy Henderson, states “ For 25 years Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army terrorized Northern Uganda. They abducted children and forced them to commit atrocities against their own families and communities.”

According to Sewing Hope, Girls as young as thirteen were degraded to sex slaves for Kony’s officers.

The book gives an abundant amount of information about Sister Rosemary’s life but most impressive is how she takes these girls that feel they are of no worth and restores hope in them and their

Sister lives her everyday and actions like the Legend of the Starfish, “A vacationing businessman was walking along a beach when he saw a young boy. Along the shore were many starfish that had been washed up by the tide and were sure to die before the tide returned. The boy was walking slowly along the shore and occasionally reached down and tossed a beached starfish back into the ocean. The businessman, hoping to teach the boy a little lesson in common sense, walked up to the boy and said, "I have been watching what you are doing, son. You have a good heart, and I know you mean well, but do you realize how many beaches there are around here and how many starfish are dying on every beach every day? Surely, such an industrious and kind hearted boy such as yourself could find something better to do with your time. Do you really think that what you are doing is going to make a difference?" The boy looked up at that man, and then he looked down at a starfish by his feet. He picked up the starfish, and as he gently tossed it back into the ocean, he said, "It makes a difference to that