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The Happiest Refugee Persuasive Speech

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Headline: It is not all Happiness for our Little Refugee

Sub- Header/ grabber: Millions of people each year seek asylum for a restart on life; a new beginning. The famous Anh Do was no different to the rest of them. Madeleine Wilson investigates the life of Anh Do before his career life soared and and he became one of the most well known people in the world.

Lead: Imagine being a young child and having to move from the place that you call home; being in a small boat in the middle of the ocean cramped with 150 people. Your heart wrenching to see dry land but the horizon is filled with noting but blue.

Body paragraph 2: A million words come to mind you hear the world refugee; asylum, escapee, displaced person, runaway. Continuously attempting to get away from the cruel, harsh reality that they are forced to call home. …show more content…

The person who we all think has had the world in the palm of his hand has come to the truth that he has not had it as easily as you think.

Just shortly after releasing his multi-award winning autobiography in 2010, “The Happiest Refugee”, it came to be a fact to people that may have had it wrong about Do all along. While growing up as a young boy, Anh’s alcoholic aggressive Father left home leaving his mother struggling to be the only parent of three young children. Throughout the autobiography, Anh clearly depicted all the way through was that it is not relevant how much money that you begin with, there is always a way to slowly but steadily build yourself up and eventually achieve even the hardest goals you have in

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