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Jimmy Carter Speech on Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
In response to an attempt to preserve nature, Jimmy Carter, in his foreword to ‘Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,’ he argues for the preservation of the Arctic Refuge. Jimmy creates an argument to persuade his audience that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge should not be developed for industry; it should be preserved. Jimmy wanted to convince American citizens that he is the U.S president, through logical reasoning and emotion appeal.
Speaker Carter uses ethos, logos, and pathos; the use of it was to deliver his point. To make the audience see the need to preserve Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Jimmy to the action taken by ex-president Carter and the efforts he made during his time. She adds ethics appeal to her speech when he says, ‘one of the most unforgettable and humbling experiences of our lives occurred on the coastal plain.’ The pathos used in the quote, ‘I was saddened to think of the tragedy that might occur if this great wilderness consumed by a web of roads and pipelines, drilling rigs and industrial facilities.’ (Banerjee, paragraph 6). His speech was also backing with durable logic. When he says, ‘we must look beyond the alleged benefit of short-term economic gain and focus on what is really at stake. At best, the Arctic Refuge might provide 1to 2 percent of the oil our country consumes each day.'(Banerjee, paragraph 4)
Carter also builds an argument to persuade the audience by anecdotes. The anecdote used when the speaker makes a short story about the real person or event. The speaker discusses her own experience or personal experience of another individual they understand or have heard. In the statement ‘one of the most unforgettable and humble experiences of our lives occurred on the coastal plain. We had hoped to see caribou during our trip, but to our amazement, we witnessed the migration of tens of thousands of caribou with newborn calves. In a matter of few minutes, the sweep of tundra before us became flooded with life, with the sounds of grunting animals and clicking hooves filling the air.'(Banerjee, paragraph 3). Anecdotes evidence in the above statement it seems to be attractive to the reader to read it, but it may be annoying if the speaker presented with dry, boring facts. The audience tends to trust the experiences if they have a personal relationship with adventure. Jimmy uses an anecdote about experiencing the wonder of nature. The speaker invited the audience to experience the majesty of witnessing the migration of the caribou vicariously.
The author has also used vivid language to persuade the reader. The vivid language is a composition of similes, metaphors, and adjectives. For example, jimmy carter used graphic language when he says, ‘…. show that what was a very dark country as recently as the 1950s is now nearly covered with a blanket of light.'(Banerjee, paragraph 4). The statement is relatively restrained, and she uses the metaphor of ‘a blanket of light,’ This is to emphasize more about Frizzle’s discussion of the light population (Banerjee, paragraph 6). The use of this vivid language has drawn the audience into the passage and put them in the speaker’s shoes.
Work Cited
Banerjee, Subhankar, and Peter Matthiessen. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land: a Photographic Journey. Braided River, 2003.