Al Gore

Leonard DiCaprio’s Powerful Climate Summit Speech is a great persuasive speech. The claims Leonard DiCaprio makes during his climate change speech is based on pure fact alone, He clearly explained why and what will happen if nothing changes and if no one take a stand on the matter before our world starts to fall apart. He made a lot of good points toward his audience, justifying he does have a very well-constructed and proper speech. His research on the idea and the people he talked to are all…

Al Gore and Michael Moore effectively argue through the use of three rhetorical appeals in their documentary films. Al Gore talks about the world having to recognize the drastic effects of global warming. He stresses the urgency of the problem. Challenges the world to spread awareness and adjust their lifestyle. Michael Moore compares and contrasts, questions American`s morals, and conducts interviews, believing the United States should have socialized healthcare. Ethos refers to the audience`s…

resulted in global warming. Global warming is a gradual increase in temperature caused by greenhouse gases, but it has a profound effect on life. Al Gore, an advocate for reversing global warming and also a former vice president, have traveled across the world giving powerpoints on global warming to urge people to act before it’s too late. A 2006 documentary of Al Gore’s global warming…

The hot topic I will be summarizing is the same-sex marriage. This video talks about two lawyers that once went against each other in the case of Bush v. Al Gore. Now there teaming up together to get same-sex marriage approved. This issue was brought up when California had passed the same-sex marriage bill. Certain people were not happy with it and sadly proposition 8 was formed. What proposition 8 is that it eliminated all same-sex couple marriage in the state of California. There was no live…

robbing thousands of people of their right to vote for the president they wished to be in office, not to mention that it may have costed Gore the presidency. When the chad were first run through the counting machine they would add 3000 votes to Bush and subtract 3000 votes from Gore. After it came to light that the votes in Florida were illegitimate, Vice President Gore recanted his concession…

On Saturday, December 9th, the US Supreme Court voted 5-4 to abandon the hand recounts in the counties and set a new hearing for December 11th. This hearing lasted for two solid days, and on December 12th, the US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Bush v Gore and reversed the verdict made by the Florida Supreme Court. The court ruled that: not all ballots were being treated equally and thus a violation of the Constitution 's 14th amendment equal protection clause, the Florida Supreme Court would be…

is as followed: the use of torture can save lives and prevent future acts of terrorism. Through the process of torture, the US, was able to distinguish connections between Khalid Sheik Muhammed and Jose Padilla. The use of torture was conducted on al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah. Khalid Sheik Muhammed and Jose Padilla are two international terrorists that have committed terrorist actions m42k.p against the United States. When Khalid Sheik Mohammed was taken by the US in Pakistan, the use of…

Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address was a seminal document in our nation’s history. Lincoln used the opportunity to try and bring a wounded nation back together, employing several rhetorical strategies in his speech. Lincoln wrote his Second Inaugural Address himself. He had already been president for one term and had just been re-elected. He could have used the speech to celebrate himself and his efforts in the war, which was nearly over. He didn’t. Instead he tried to motivate his…

“I got my 12-gauge sawed off, I got my headlights turned off, I’m ‘bout to bust some shots off, I’m ‘bout to dust some cops off, Die, Die, Die Pig, Die!,” a quote from Ice-T most controversial song “Cop Killer” had everyone in rage. With words like these being said and being published without modifying the lyrics should say something about the artist and producer. From the society point of view, they would see this as hatred words being said as literal words towards cops and the artist intending…

popular election while winning the necessary number of Electoral votes should they win key states, thus securing the Presidency. This ‘electoral crisis’ (Spilerman & Dickens, 1974) can give rise to situations such as in the 2000 election where VP Al Gore won the popular vote by approximately 500,000 votes, yet lost the election to George W.…