Rough Draft pt.2
We all have our differences and sometimes don’t like one another but that doesn’t mean that we can’t all show kindness to one another. Some people in the day and age don’t like other people because of their; race, religion, belief, or even how they look. Some people just don’t understand family and that’s what we all are is a family. I have a thesis that one all mankind will have to come together as one and defeat the evil that’s out there lurking in the shadows.
The Gettysburg Address was a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln the 16th President of The United States of America.He delivered it at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania which is how it was given its name on November 19, 1863 mid way through the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln
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Now in days it is highly illegal to own a slave or use someone as one. Here’s a little quote from his speech “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Once Upon a Time is a short story based in Africa when the apartheid was going on which was 1948 to 1994 down in South Africa. Apartheid was the segregation between whites and blacks. There’s a wife and a husband with their child and two pets a dog and a cat. The husband’s mom told them not to trust any stranger and to secure themselves. At the end of the story the little boy gets tangled up in the barbed wire on top of the fence.
We don’t know if that child survived or not, but what we do know is don’t let one thing take control of your life where you forget everything else or everyone else.
The Vietnam Wall is a poem written by Alberto Ríos. It’s an actual wall in Washington D.C. dedicated to all the men who died during The Vietnam War which was 1945 - April 30,1975.The war was about The poem gives a very detailed description of the wall and its
Lincoln’s Famous Address written by Roselynn Marquez talks about how Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was only 270 words, and it followed a two hour introduction by Edward Everett. Being short was not the only memorable point that the speech had. “Another was the simplicity of its language. As historian Allen Guelzo notes, ‘the address relies on crisp, plain vocabulary.’ He points out that most of the words are only one-syllable. Doris Kearns Goodwin concludes, ‘Lincoln had translated the story of his country...into words and ideas accessible to every American.’ By making his ideas easy to grasp, Lincoln gave them directness and power” (Marquez). The Gettysburg Address to this day is known as a unforgettable expression inscribing the war that took on in the country. In summarization, Abraham Lincoln is known widely for the Address he made in Gettysburg after the battle that took place
The persona in the poem reacts to the power the wall has and realizes that he must face his past and everything related to it, especially Vietnam.
The Gettysburg Address given by President Lincoln in the November following the Battle of Gettysburg acted as a call to arms. This speech gave the North a sense of pride and reassured them that they did have a chance at winning the Civil War. In The Gettysburg Address, Lincoln tells the audience not to let the men who died in the battle die in vain he tells them that their dedication will lead to a “new birth of freedom” in the nation(document D). This newly found sense of pride and hope led confidence which was something that the Confederate army was lacking at the
"We are told by his biographers, and apologists, that he hated slavery with a passion. But since he participated fully in the plantation slavery system, buying and selling slaves on occasion, and because he could not bring himself to free his own slaves, who often numbered upward of 200-250 on his plantations, one has to either question the verity of this passion or speculate that it was merely the abstract idea of slavery that he hated." (Smedley 189) Thomas Jefferson was always aware of the fact that slavery would soon one day be abolished but he made no efforts during his lifetime to accelerate the process. Jefferson was a wealthy plantation owner and politician that would speak out about slavery on a regular basis but would still employ slaves for his own use.
This quote is from Abraham Lincoln, The Lyceum Address, January 27th, 1838, “Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.” . The Lyceum Address was given by Abraham Lincoln at age 28. He wanted equality and this is what the Lyceum Address is about. Lincoln wanted slaves to be free, he wanted women to vote and Abraham wanted to raise awareness of the dangers of slavery in the United States of America. The Lyceum address also warned how someone from inside could corrupt the federal government.
Abraham Lincoln's position on slavery was the belief that the expansion of it to Free states and new territories should be ceased and that it eventually be abolished completely throughout the country. He believed simply that slavery was morally wrong, along with socially and politically wrong in the eyes of a Republican. Lincoln felt that this was a very important issue during the time period because there was starting to be much controversy between the Republicans and the Democrats regarding this issue. There was also a separation between the north and the south in the union, the north harboring the Free states and the south harboring the slave states. Lincoln refers many times to the Constitution and its relations to slavery. He was convinced that when our founding fathers wrote the Constitution their intentions were to be quite vague surrounding the topic of slavery and African-Americans, for the reason that he believes was because the fathers intended for slavery to come to an end in the distant future, in which Lincoln refers to the "ultimate extinction" of slavery. He also states that the men who wrote the constitution were wiser men, but obviously did not have the experience or technological advances that the men of his day did, hence the reasons of the measures taken by our founding fathers.
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America "Fourscore and seven years ago ." These are the first 5 of only two hundred seventy-two words that remade America. In Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, the author, Gary Wills, informed us that Abraham Lincoln wanted equality among us and to unite as one. In Abraham Lincoln's own speech, he would not mention single individuals or even top officers. Everyone was considered as equal importance and was never any different. "Though we call Lincoln's text the Gettysburg Address, that title clearly belongs to Everett." 1 This is very true, which I think is interesting. Everett who was chosen by David Wills to commemorate the National Cemetery of Gettysburg, was supposed to be the speaker while Lincoln was only the dedicatory remarks speaker. Not only did Lincoln have the favorable speech, it was only three minutes while Everett's was two hours long. Lincoln also supposedly was not supposed to be there to speak; he actually just told a correspondent that he would be present. It's amazing to believe that a two hundred seventy-two word speech would say so much to thousands of people.
Because of his relentless efforts towards a slave-free country, the future of the United States has been forever changed.
Reading Lincoln’s first Inaugural Address, one wouldn’t think he would be the president to end slavery.Speaking on outlawing slavery, he says,“I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.” At the time, Lincoln wasn’t worried about slavery,
Four and a half months after the Union defeated the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. He gave the Union soldiers a new perspective on the war and a reason to fight in the Civil War. Before the address, the Civil War was based on states’ rights. Lincoln’s speech has the essence of America and the ideals that were instilled in the Declaration of Independence by the Founders. The sixteenth president of the United States was capable of using his speech to turn a war on states’ rights into a war on slavery and upholding the principles that America was founded upon.
He also powered his point by invoking juxtaposition into his speech. A good example of this is about halfway through his speech when he said, “Three hundred and ten years we worked in this country without a dime in return -- I mean without a dime in return. You let the white man walk around here talking about how rich this country is, but you never stop to think how it got rich so quick. It got rich because you made it rich.You take the people who are in this audience right now. They're poor. We're all poor as individuals. Our weekly salary individually amounts to hardly anything. But if you take the salary of everyone in here collectively, it'll fill up a whole lot of baskets. It's a lot of wealth. If you can collect the wages of just these
Seven score and fourteen years ago our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, brought with him a new definition to freedom. He did this in his Gettysburg address. Even though there are multiple versions of it, they all have the same message, that message was to treat everyone equally. In his speech he only uses 272 words, and in those 272 words Lincoln was able to strike a message that would stick not only with his audience, but one that would be remembered decades later. In Lincoln’s speech, he persuades the audience by being reverent while using parallelism and allusion. He does this to prove that we should continue what the soldiers started, so the people that fought to preserve the union do not die in vain.
At 7:30am, on Wednesday, July 1st, 1863, at the intersection of Knoxlyn Rd and US Rt. 30 Chambersburg Pike, a shot was fired by Lieutenant Marcellus Jones. This shot would not be forgotten, as it was the beginning of what would turn into one of the biggest turning points of the Civil War; The Battle of Gettysburg. This three day streak of combat would later be referred to as the “High Water Mark of the Rebellion.” With the outcome being an overall Union victory, the Battle of Gettysburg would mark the point at which the Union would place the Confederacy on the defensive and end General Robert E. Lee’s most ambitious attempt to seize Union territory. The Battle of Gettysburg was so critical, in fact, that it lead to one of the most vital documents written in United States history, the Gettysburg Address. How exactly did this battle guide President Abraham Lincoln to write the Gettysburg Address is a common question among many.
‘’Four score and seven years ago…’’(Lincoln, 1) You’ve probably heard those six words before, right? On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered ‘’The Gettysburg Address’’. Abraham Lincoln’s purpose in ‘’The Gettysburg Address’’ was to persuade listeners to finish what those who fought for died for by treating everyone else equally. ‘’The Gettysburg Address’’ is the most compelling speech due to its use of rhetorical devices.
In the summer of 2014, my family and I visited the Gettysburg battlegrounds. Being one of the most pivotal and important events of the American Civil War, it stands today as a reminder of the senselessness and backwardness that the conflict brought our country, alongside a solemn memorial of violence. My visit to Gettysburg invoked a variety of emotions, including disgust over the mass bloodshed and conflict, appreciation for the sacrifices of our countrymen, and love for the influence it had in steering our country to a brighter future in the aftermath.