EOTO REAX 1

 Throughout this assignment, I had a great time. Even through all of these presentations, every second of it I have truly loved. Sometimes I end up getting nervous, but I am able to act my way through it. Sitting there, I think that everyone else is about to be in my shoes too, and the positive thoughts that are going through my head are also going through theirs. This has been true throughout and even is relative to this topic. As we see people that had thoughts in their head and they stood up for what they thought and what they truly believed in, they looked for common interests between them. They looked for things that they wanted to fight for, and in this instance, it was the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Movement that swept across the nation faster than anything else at this time.

With the assignment, we were able to use AI to create the speech, which, in my opinion, worked extremely well for not just me but for everyone. It cut down on the stress of trying to find the smooth words that would flow for everyone. It made the presentation a lot more informative by the information that we were able to gather. Like in this instance: "Black voter registration increased from 2% to over 60% within months. Across the South, hundreds of thousands of African Americans registered to vote in 1965 and 1966, many for the first time in their lives." This is something that, yes, I could have looked up and read in an article for a while until I stumbled across it and not quite known what I was looking at, but instead, AI was able to give it to me in a very timely manner that also helped my learning comprehension on it and also adds a dramatic effect to it.

One of the major landmark events that took place that I found very interesting was when Governor Wallace said "segregation forever." This struck me hard, as I thought: what would drive such hate and rage into one person? Did he really see people as less than him, or was it a sense of power that he had that he felt that he personally should never lose? But in return to hate, there is always a sense of prosperity when two years later in 1965, black and white students attended classes together in Alabama universities. Lunch counters that had been battlegrounds became places of quiet integration.

These are all very big landmarks with very important people doing very important things. Most importantly was the non-important people, the people that we did not see, the everyday strugglers that were fighting their own private battles for a free and fairer America for all.