Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth

I just want to start out by saying that I love Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. I have seen the movie which is why I chose to read this article. The movie left me in awe and this article also astonishes me. I do think that global warming is a problem for the world, our communities, and nature. Al Gore does a great job in the article and in the movie of showing and detailing all of the effects that global warming has on everyone. A lot of people thought that Al Gore only put out this "horrific" movie and book because he was trying to regain some popularity. Many people thought that he was bitter for losing and that this was his only chance to show people that he could have been a great president. I do not see it like that. He did lose to Bush but he has science to back up all of the global warming claims, therefore he is not just pulling this out of no where. I have to say that I like the movie better then this article because you get better visuals and those visuals really help you understand the enormous inpact that global warming is having on us. I also think that politicans really need to do something about global warming because whether you want to believe it or not, science does show that it is really happening.

Go Back to Black

I find this article very interesting. I never knew that Jesse Jackson convinced America that black people should be called African American. I also find it interesting that in America the official name is American American, but in Britian which is close in culture and customs they say black. I found the fact that the author did not prefer to be called African American very interesting because African American was the term given to black people in order to give them a sense of having a link to Africa. It gave black people a sense of pride of enduring slavery for years then being able to overcome it. I thought that including Barrack Obama in this article was a good example of the term African American. The writer says that black people all over the world feel pride in the accomplishment of Barrack Obama, and that to me is cool. Race all over the world unites people whether you realize it or not and even people that do not live in this country feel a sense of pride in an African American getting the Democratic nomination.