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    who never gives up never loses hope and is there when you need them. They will never let you down and will always be the one you can go to when you are in trouble or when you need help. A hero is honest and selfless and always put others first. Abraham Lincoln is one of my hero’s because of how he put the slave before himself. I have always admired him because of how he went out and freed the slaves and made it easier for them to become a citizen of the United States of America. Then he helped…

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    is viewed and defined differently depending on the culture or even person. There is a common thread that flows between multiple well-known leaders, which is that many experienced their peaks in leadership during some of the world’s bleakest times. Abraham Lincoln is one of those people who lead in one of the most ominous times in the history of the United States of America, the Civil War. It takes a specific type of person with certain leadership policies to lead an entire nation through such a…

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    Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America. He is remembered as one of America's utmost leaders because of his large influence on the country. Then, all of a sudden he was killed by John Wilkes Booth at a time when the nation needed him the most to finish the job he had started which was making slaves equal to everyone else. In summer of 1864, John Wilkes Booth began to develop a plan to kidnap President Lincoln, take him to Richmond, which was the confederate…

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    The Hierarchy of Needs Maslow’s Need of Hierarchy is a theory that is proposed by a psychologist Abraham Maslow that emphasize on the psychological needs and interpersonal needs in addition to physical needs and economic necessity which related to human motivation. (OB, 147) According to humanist psychologist Abraham Maslow, our actions are motivated in order achieve certain needs. Maslow labelled the five hierarchical categories as physiological needs, safety and security needs, love (social)…

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    Alison Manning September 8, 2014 Period 3 Lincoln (2012) Biography, Drama, History Steven Spielberg Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Best Achievement in Production Design The Truth: Abraham Lincoln was the president during most of the American Civil war. Inaugurated in March of 1861, he served as the president until his death in 1865. His election caused the first succession, South Carolina, from the Union. Other southern states…

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    Abraham Lincoln was an extraordinary man with many wonderful qualities, and he is also considered one of America’s greatest Presidents. He was the President who fought for equality and social tranquility in the United States. In his speech in Peoria he states that he hates slavery because of monstrous injustice of slavery and it enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt people as hypocrites. He totally disagrees with the slavery system and to make every state…

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    At number five I have the assasination of Abraham Lincoln. This was very hard for the Americans. They had just barely got done with a war. They lost about 600,000 men and most were from the south. John Wilkes Booth and a few others blamed Lincoln for the loss of these soldiers. So, Booth and his followers went to Ford’s theater and assassinated Lincoln. They tried to assassinate others but they had failed. This was the first assassination of a president and it told us that we need more…

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    course of history for the better and their ideas and beliefs are still relevant and important to this day. People continue to look up to these heroes as role models, gaining inspiration and hope from them. One such hero is America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln continues to be recognized as a hero because he achieved his goals despite many hardships, believed in equality for all people, and brought a divided nation back together again. Lincoln’s hardships and how he overcame…

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    Abraham Lincoln is one of the greatest men who ruled American and he has forever remained a hero following his numerous contributions toward the building of United States of America. He was inspirational leader and a great politician, and these are some of the traits that make Lincoln a man of ideas. In his book, Allen C. Guelzo says that Lincoln was an intellectual leader despite having meager education. His inquisitiveness pushed him into democratic political philosophy that helped him become…

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    true intention was to fight against slavery, but he chose the smartest way to tactically bring it up to the public. He started by publically announcing that the war was specifically to unite the nation again and not about the abolition of slavery. Abraham Lincoln was right to think that the cause of the war was…

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