Mother Hale Essay Research Paper General Topic

Mother Hale Essay, Research Paper

General Topic: Clara ?Mother? Hale

Purpose Statement: I want to inspire good will and admiration in the minds and hearts of

the audience toward ?Mother? Hale.

I.INTRODUCTION

A.Motivating Devices: ?A True American Hero? Ronald Reagan, 1985,

State of the Union Address.

Visual Aid: Picture of Mother Hale.

B. Thesis Statement: Despite overwhelming odds Mother Hale founded

and maintained a successful organization to help drug addicted and AIDS infected babies.

B.Preview:

1.Age

2.Lack of money

II.BODY

A.Age : According to www.Halehouse.org: Hale was 64 when she took in

first heroin addicted baby.

1.Sub-point: Addict story

2.Subpoint: 22 babies in months. Hands on caring

and love instead of drug therapy.

B.Lack Of Money:

1.According to the book Hale House by Lorraine Hale:

Mother Hale used her own money initially.

2.According to NY Newsday , 10/26/90, Mother Hale stripped of

over $36,000 a month.

3.Alternative funding.

III. CONCLUSION

A.Mother Hale?s fierce independence and devotion to service despite her age and lack of public funding made Hale House a success.

B.Closing Statement: Visual Aid: Hale doesn?t look like a hero but is one.