Bill Gore

The Al Gore Climate Curse There are many titles oft bestowed upon Al Gore; Filmmaker, climate activist, Nobel Peace Laureate, Vice President, Presidential Nominee – all true and well deserved. Mr. Gore has dedicated much of his political career and beyond to solving climate change and its numerous geographical, political, economic and humanitarian consequences. As the first international figure to loudly, profoundly educate the public on the dangers of Global Warming in the widely…

In “Why Bother?” Michael Pollan describes how underwhelmed he was by Al Gore’s request at the end of, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Pollan was almost insulted at the fact that all he was being asked to do the after watching the film was to change a light bulb. He feels that after the film “scared the hell” out of him that there is a lot more he could be doing to help avoid climate change. Pollan goes on to argue though that even if he does go trough all the trouble of lowering his carbon emissions,…

Al Gore is the acclaimed winner of a Nobel Peace Prize, a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and was the runner-up for Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2007 1. He has received international recognition for his involvement in politics, business, and environmental activism. He was the vice president under Bill Clinton from 1993-2001, the Democratic nominee for the 2000 Presidential Election, a member of the board of directors at Apple, and a senior advisor to Google2. He has taught at…

a fascinating documentary about global warming by director Davis Guggenheim. The film is based on a multimedia presentation that gave Al Gore in over a thousand cities around the world in recent years and presents a disturbing picture of the destruction that is causing global warming and horrible future that awaits us if this problem is not addressed soon. Gore presents a graph demonstrating a connection between CO2 levels and temperature during 600.000 years based on samples of polar ice…

The Wall Street Journal “The Schneiderman Rules,” discusses New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman endorsing the Clinton campaign by abusing his powers. He is accusing Trump of “fraud upon the people of the state of New York.” People are questioning his timing on the offense because the elections are less than a month away, so he could have waited after Nov. 9th. The author agrees that New York citizens need to be protected as Schneiderman mentions, however, the actions Schneiderman is…

In 2007 Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize and in his acceptance speech, he urges people to think and act on climate change. He uses a lot of pathos or emotion in his speech to create the urgency of climate change. During most of his speech, Gore uses a lot of words that excite emotion to get people to want to change. He effectively uses pathos throughout his whole speech. Unfortunately, he is not as effective with logos (logic) and ethos (his credibility). Gore starts off with an anecdote…

Al Gore travels to share his vast knowledge on the issue of global warming. In 2006 his journey sharing this information all around the world was turned into a documentary titled “The Inconvenient Truth”. Rhetorical devices are Al Gore’s main means of making the threat understandable and intriguing to his audience. Gore uses emotions, logic, and credibility in his speech and presentation to make simple statistics and facts more interesting to the audience both in house and at home so the…

Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, making the argument that global warming is real and humans are the cause for it, but we can also do something about it. On the other hand you have Michael Moore film, Bowling for Columbine, who is trying to make the argument that the gun violence in America is in large part due to the fear that is present in our daily lives in America and that is why we have more gun violence than other countries. Although they both did a job in presenting their arguments,…

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…

An Inconvenient Truth An Inconvenient Truth is a documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore 's campaign to educate citizens about global warming through comprehensive slide show. The movie starts with Al Gore briefing about the first picture of the Earth from the space, which was taken on a Christmas Eve, 1968 during an Apollo 8 mission (Earth Rise) and tells us that the thin shell of atmosphere is filling up with pollution. The next…