Robert W. Gore

One of the suggestions Al Gore makes at the end of An Inconvenient Truth, his documentary about global warming, is to buy a hybrid car. This seems like a simple solution to reducing our dependence on oil and decreasing our carbon dioxide footprints. However, as with any other technology, it’s important to know all of the costs and benefits before running out to the car dealer. These cars are expensive, and the technology is new, so consumers must inform themselves before taking such a big…

during the day. This dramatic change in routine made all the soldiers a little crazy, but nobody was as profoundly affected as Rat Kiley. He scratched at the bites from exotic bugs until he started to rip open his skin and could not manage the intense gore. O 'Brien describes how he behaved while trying to cope with all the death occurring around them. He says, “At first Rat just sank inside himself, not saying a word, but then later on, after five or six days, it flipped the other way. He…

“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…

question is, what did he want us to feel? In “An Inconvenient Truth”, Al Gore presents good points about global warming that targets all the skeptics. He provides many analogies and facts to combat everyone that says that global warming isn’t real and he proves that global warming is actually a threat to the Earth. Despite being made in 2006, the topic of the discussion is very prevalent…

Al Gore was going to be our president but then he lost. So he put all of his anger from losing into how global warming is affecting our home planet.In the movie he is trying to convince this audience that global warming is actually happening.In the Inconvenient Truth Mr. Gore uses ethos,pathos, and logos. Mr. Gore is a bold and loud man, who is not afraid to tell you how it is. He is dressed like a professional speaker in a business suit. The way he dresses and talks is a big influence on the…

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,…

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…

talk, “What Comes After the Inconvenient Truth”, Gore lays out lasting issues for everyone. He begins by talking about the Perma ice loss - within the last 25 years the Perma ice, which is in fact supposed to be permanent, has diminished to about ¼ of its original size (Gore, 2009). Throughout the year, it is a normal occurrence for it to shrink and expand as the seasons change, but as of this year the levels are at an all time low. On top of this, Gore expresses that Greenland is being heated…