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Summary Of Artic National Wildlife Refuge By Jimmy Carter

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Due to the repeated proposals to open the Artic Refuge coastal plain to oil driling, writer Jimmy Carter argues that Artic National Wildlife Refuge should not be developed for industry, in his article "Artic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of life and land, a photographic journey by Subhancar Banerjee". The author uses sensory details, first-hand evidence and an appeal to nationalism in order to deliver a convincing argument. Carter starts his article off by describing meticulously the National Wildlife Refuge. Vivid language is used in order to inmerse the readers on a magnificent area as vast as wild. In using imagery and other sensory details, Carter puts the reader into a specific situation so it can empathize more readily with the argument being made. In other words, by reading the article the audience is able to fully amass the beauty of the wildlife, and consequently thay may share author's concern to preserv it. The author furthers the description by adding personal anecdotes and therefore, first-hand evidence. For example, he tells about the time when he signed the Alaska National Interst Lands Conservation Act. By telling those brief anecdotes the writer …show more content…

In the conclusion he wrote: "It will be a grand triumph for America if we can preserve the Artic Refuge in its pure, untrammeled state". In this manner, this paragraph has a fundamental role in the article: to arouse a feeling that affects every american in a very deep way. Now the audience will not only believe Jimmy Carter and support his argument, but also have a great reason to do so and to take action on the matter. Calling for people's nationalism has an enormous effect, because it does not matter if the reader is republican or democratic, wealthy or impoverished, young or old... national issues affects them all and invite them to work for a common

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