Jimmy Carter

Compared to the personal speech assignment, I felt the informative speech, in general, is a more challenging assignment. Since it basically combines a research paper and a speech, it was very time-consuming to finish all the requirement, especially it was in the midterm period. But after all, I found a way to balance the time to finish this assignment and gave a effective speech to the class. And I found myself gradually gain experience and confidence in the speech class. Based on the previous…

In the classroom, you have many things that can help you faster. Such as an instructor/ teacher, other students, and also you can learn from others with the help and different ways of doing and thinking things. Online however, is better to me because you have to force yourself to read, do homework, and make sure you have the right management. Where in school you may not have to work as hard because there are others around and some people like myself can get easily distracted. At home on the…

Home, college town, and memories made are all things I could say to remind myself of the house I used to live in on Perry Street. Here memories were made and things about myself were learned. I used to never be familiar with the town of Albion until I started my time of living here for so long. When living on Perry Street the town seemed distant and massive to me, little Corey didn’t know how the world worked or how my life would continue after having so many experiences here and finally leaving…

More Chronos Kairos talk What makes you happy and a good use of your time? We need to ask ourselves, if we are spending our limited time here. Not here. Online. I mean on this existence plane. I know, I know. Dude whats with the "use your time" stuff. Hear me out. In Japan they have Ikigai. Translates to "A reason for being" Iki meaning Alive; Life and Kai meaning effect or result. It is a 4 ring intersection of the following. What you Love, What you are good at, What can get you paid, and…

violence, and lack of appreciation for the importance of education. Jimmy Carter overcomes growing up in the rural South at a time when racial slurs were normal, and when a definite class system categorized his family as poor white folk, which is of equal class as the African Americans who worked on…

Energy Crisis in the 70’s Throughout the 1970’s, the United States of America had some trouble maintaining the amount of resources they previously had. The shortages of these resources stirred up arguments in America. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter spoke about all of these issues in the country. Conflicts in the United States of America included claims that the president didn’t actually care, parts of the energy crisis, and how the government was said to be ineffective during all of this. But,…

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr. was born on October 01, 1924 in Plains, GA. Growing up, his father, James Earl Carter Sr., was a peanut farmer on a small plot of land, and his mother, Bessie Lillian Gordy, was a registered nurse. Carter moved to Archery when he was around 4 years old. There, at the age of 10, Carter started to work at his father's store. As a kid Carter loved watching baseball with his dad, and listening to politics on the radio. Before joining the Naval ROTC program at the to…

birth, to the towering Brooks Range where Dall sheep cling to cliffs and wolves howl in the midnight sun.” Here, former President Jimmy Carter is portraying the beauty and diversity in the Arctic National Wildlife refuge. In the Foreword of Subhankar Banerjee’s book “Arctic national wildlife refuge in: seasons of life and gland, a Photographic Journey”, President Jimmy Carter attempts to persuade his audience that the Arctic Wildlife refuge should not be developed for industry. He proves this by…

Jimmy Carter said that he did not want to waste money on this problem because he did not expect it to matter in the future. The final outcome to the talk with Jimmy Carter was that anybody that was pregnant would be able to move. The country did not want anymore birth defects (Carter). Finally, the state provided money for all seven hundred fifty families to move (Anderson). At last, the country…

Jimmy Carter applies a crafty choice of words in his foreword, beginning with his representation of the wildlife reserve. He mentions how he gazed at the “brilliant mosaic of wildflowers, mosses, and lichens” and reminisced when “the sweep of tundra before [them] became flooded with life.” By pointing out the elegance and allure of the ANWR, he presents the refuge as more than simply mountains and trees. He portrays it as an area with depth, soul, and life, touching the hearts of the audience.…