Memorial Day

Two score and ten years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. uttered the words of the “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The speech is richly endowed with context as it came five score years after President Abraham Lincoln’s iconic “Gettysburg Address”. Lincoln’s proposition and steeled by Martin Luther King’s vision that our “nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”, could not long endure unless we make good on…

look up to be, who they want to be. Someone who can help fight off bad guys. Maybe, just maybe we shouldn't be so worried about Joker wanting to watch the world to burn, but instead the 7.6 million people who die from cancer every year (World Cancer Day), or global warming making it hard for animals like polar bears, caribou, narwhal, bowhead whale, beluga, and walrus (The Canadian Encyclopedia) to live. Heroism; the desire to help, protect and save things from little too large, no matter the…

We interact and experience architecture every day. It is physically impossible not to and because of this, it is incredibly easy to take it for granted and to forget about all the thought and care that was taken to create such huge feats. Worcester’s Union Station is located directly off of highway 190 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Thousands of people pass by it on a daily basis without even realizing that it is something more than a “pretty train station”. Before we begin, let’s answer the…

people. These memorials take years to build and cost an arm and a leg to design and construct (Roadside America). For something that takes as much time, dedication, and cash as a monument does, certain things need to be taken seriously into consideration. When building a monument, people should pay close attention to the strategic placement and specific design of the memorial. If these are not given careful consideration a monument will not be successful. At the beginning of a memorials…

If you were a sports fan in Hartford the day of my birth you had probably traveled to Dell Rapids the night before to see the West Central Boys basketball team. The Trojans, who defeated the Quarriers 76-68, were lead by Tucker Hansen, who had 23 points (“West Central 76, Dell Rapids 68” 4C). Also from around the Sioux Empire the police were searching for the driver of a truck that hit a pedestrian. The driver of truck hit a man from behind on 31st Street North and between Cliff and Van Eps…

Pete Hegseth once said “ Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.” It is important to defend your beliefs because positive statements rather than negative statements about others will be most effective. Last year, there were…

The three elements to compare and contrast “The Gettysburg Address,” and I Have a Dream Speech” is with the purpose, structure, and rhetorical devices of the speeches. The purpose of the speeches are similar and both different. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war.” “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. He is saying that even after slavery was over the colored is still not free. “We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote.” The purpose…

Rhetoric permeates our lives through everyday television, messages, advertisements, politics as well as speeches whether we realize it or not. A well-known speech, The Gettysburg Address, fuses many distinctive types of rhetoric such as diction, syntax, rhetorical devices along with the rhetorical triangle into a brief yet compelling speech with a lasting impact on the nation. The speech barely took one minute to deliver with only two hundred and sixty seven words, however Lincoln’s rhetoric…

Abraham Lincoln’s Jeremiad Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address in the Spring of 1865. With Lincoln’s use of biblical references and his overall providential interpretation, the second inaugural address was less presidential and more theological. The address did not reflect the typical format of a presidential speech, but rather the structure of the jeremiad. The jeremiad is a form of sermon that became popular among the Puritans in New England in the latter half of the…

malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right…”, where he repeats the structure of the first phrase three times, or in Kennedy’s “Inaugural Address” where he says, “...will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days, nor the life of this administration, nor in our lifetime on this planet.” Repeating the grammatical structure as well as the word “nor” help to convey a more powerful message. More often than not, sentences which…