Analysis Of Jimmy Carter Speech

Sam Stephenson
Mrs. Pitchford
14 March 2017
Jimmy Carter’s speech Protecting the wild life and natural environment has been a major issue for many years. Laws and restrictions put in place by politicians have played a major role in protecting the environment from oil drilling and big companies from destroying the environment. Jimmy Carter shows great example of persuading the people to not just sit back and watch the environment be destroyed, but to take action and help protect the environment. Jimmy Carter uses many methods of persuading the audience, he supports his own idea by sharing a story that related to the subject. He shares a story about a trip that took with his wife to the Arctic Refuge to show that he understand the issue. He pulls on the readers emotions by telling them on how “unforgettable” and “humbling” it was to see the newborn caribou calves being born. Cater using this experience to help motivate the reader to see and also appreciate the beauty that this area has and to show why it is so important to preserve it.

He then shows his interest and passion on preserving the environment by signing the Alaska National Interest Land Conservation Act. He then goes on to explain what the document does. Cater explains that the documents protects over “100 million acres of national parks, refuge, and forest in Alaska.”Creating “the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, that is double the size of the former range, also restricted development in areas that clearly incompatible with oil exploration.” This gives the reader more of an understanding of the act that shows the reader how he is dealing with the