Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about my personal perspective of how Temple Grandin is my hero. Thesis: Temple Grandin is a huge role model to me because she has pushed through much adversity in her life in the agricultural industry. Introduction: What do you want to be when you grow up? This question has been asked to kids by their parents, teachers, and grandparents for years. I have always know that I wanted to go into agriculture, but it wasn’t until my freshman year that I knew for sure. This is because I learned of a women named Temple Grandin who didn’t let other people define what she could and couldn’t do. Transition: Temple’s accomplishments didn’t come easy, and her struggles began the minute she was born. Temple was …show more content…
The ideas Temple has developed has changed the world for the better. As an autism activist, she brings awareness and ideas to the disease that weren’t there before. She has currently written nine books about how the austin mind works While staying at her aunts ranch, she saw that cattle were calmer in a squeeze chute. She made her own squeeze chute for humans to calm herself down. Her idea is now used around the world for autism patients (Biography.com Editors). As an doctor in animal science, Temple Grandin has brought her autism ideas to the beef industry. She has developed cattle working system to cut down on stress in the animals. She is famous for crawling around on her hands and knees through the working systems to get the cattle’s prospective. They are used all over the United States. She has also came up with designs for less stressful ways of slaughtering animals. Temple Grandin once said, “Nature is cruel, but we don’t have to be. She work’s with fast food companies to develop better slaughtering methods, so it is done more humanly. (Biography.com Editors). Transition: Temple’s work to better the world has inspired me to do the