Location
Parts of the World (Forgotten Regions)
Bartlet names these distant corners in his aid speech, painting them as realms of privation and fear where clinics stand empty, villages starve, and pleas for help pierce policy debates. Shadows of neglect cloak remote lands; American leadership promises light, turning despair into a call for global hope that ignites the chamber's ovation.
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Events with rich location context
S4E12
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Guns Not Butter
Century of Hope: Bartlet's Foreign‑Aid Appeal
The 'parts of the world' are evoked as the moral and human context for the bill — distant, neglected regions where clinics sit empty and people suffer; they give the speech its ethical urgency and tangible beneficiaries.
Atmosphere
Imagined as bleak and neglected within the rhetoric — a contrast that heightens the imperative to act.
Functional Role
Narrative beneficiary context that humanizes the bill and justifies intervention.
Symbolic Significance
Symbolizes global neglect that American leadership is being asked to remedy.
Access Restrictions
Not physically accessible within the scene; referenced as remote and marginalized.
Imagined poverty and neglect
Mention of empty clinics and communities controlled by warlords
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