Good afternoon My name is Al Gore and I would like to tell you about myself. I know a lot about hardship because I came into this world as a poor black child in a tiny town in the backwoods of Tennessee. I was born in a log cabin that I built with my own hands. I taught myself to read by candlelight and helped support my 16 brothers and sisters by working summers as a deck hand on a Mississippi Riverboat.My mother taught me the value of education, so every day, I would walk 5 miles to a one ...