Abraham Lincoln is well-known for being one of the most successful presidents of all time. Because of the time period that he was president in, he was forced to deal with a very challenging issue: handling slavery and the civil war. Throughout Lincoln’s presidency, he delivered numerous speeches on the topic of slavery and tried his best to keep the United States together. Two of his most famous speeches came during his two inaugural addresses when he became president. Although his tone and…
After reading the article Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, I feel that Abraham Lincoln’s finest qualities were empathy, magnanimity and his Self-Control, which proved that he was one of the best presidents in the American history. From being an American statesman and lawyer from Springfield, Lincoln turned out to be the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln served from March 4,1861 until his assassination on April 15, 1865. From the 4 years that Lincoln served, he made a big impact…
In 1943, Abraham Maslow had introduced the Hierarchy of Needs Theory (Management Study Guide, n. d.). This theory is categorized into five levels, which are physiological needs, safety and security, social needs, esteem needs as well as self-actualization. Most of the time, it is showed as a hierarchical pyramid. According to The Peak Performance Centre (n. d.), it helps to motivate people to fulfill basic needs for rising life satisfaction. The most basic needs are placed at the lowest levels…
The Fiery Trials: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner is a historical non-fiction book which examines President Abraham Lincoln’s views on slavery from his years as a boy to the moment he signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Through an insight on Lincoln’s life the readers discover his personal views of slavery being the cause of the Civil War. Foner focuses on slavery in this biography for the audience to realize why Abraham Lincoln decided that it was a practice that needed to…
Lincoln was born in february 12, 1809, Hodgenville, KY. He was a great kid growing up.Lincoln was elected March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865. I think he was the best president when he walked in the doors the the white house. He lead us the north to a great victory and was anti-slavery. He was the only president to have a patent: Lincoln invented a device to free steamboats that ran aground.He practiced law without a degree. Lincoln had about 18 months of formal schooling.He wanted women to have the…
Abraham Maslow wrote a paper in 1943 entitled A Theory of Human Motivation, where he introduced a hierarchy of needs. The hierarchy consists of five tiers, the bottom being physiological or, basic human needs, ie: water, food, sleep. The second is safety, and the third love and belonging. The last two are esteem and at the top, self actualization. The theory states that you must fulfill the bottom needs first, before being able to move onto the next tier. Therefore, you cannot have love and…
America and politically for Abraham Lincoln. The Civil War, a loss of so many American lives, was coming to an end, but at an incredible cost. The U.S. Congress approved the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery. However, this act caused the assassination of President Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth after the end of the war on April 14, 1865. In May, the remaining Confederate forces surrendered. The estimated total casualties were 620,000 American deaths. President Abraham Lincoln’s Second…
In the chapter titled ‘John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: The Invisibility of Antiracism in American History Textbooks’, Loewen’s thesis is that American textbooks choose to omit information and concepts, such as antiracism, from their telling of history; even if by doing so, they are excluding ideas they might even agree with. In order to support his thesis, Loewen showcases times when textbooks have neglected to share vital information with its readers or when textbooks have used biased language…
This paper deconstructs President Abraham Lincoln’s address at the famous Gettysburg battlefield, and explores the United States’ 16th President’s art of persuasion, magnanimously rallying to bring together the slave-owning Southern states and the opposing North in a 2-minute speech. Asked to provide merely a few remarks on the occasion, Lincoln followed Edward Everett, who spoke for two hours beforehand. Ironically, the most eloquent speech ever given (McPherson, 1996), for this assignment is…
During the tumultuous time that was the Civil War Era, a single figure stands above many in the eyes of history: President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln pioneered the end of the Civil War and is known for his impressive diplomatic speeches. In one of these such speeches at his second inauguration, Lincoln uses several rhetorical strategies such as religious references and honesty to tap into pathos and ethos, and uses a positive tone and inclusionary language to encourage the nation to fight to end…