Galesburg, Illinois

Before the election of 1860, Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln had already ran against each other in the senatorial campaign for Illinois in 1859. (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. “Lincoln-Douglas Debates.” Paragraph 1). During the senatorial campaign Lincoln and Douglas had seven debates throughout the state of Illinois, these were known as the Great Debates. Slavery was the main issue the candidates debated over, as it was also a popular topic during this time. (History.com staff,…

Hope is more than a word and more than an idea. It is a state of being that is not limited to one person. It is undefinable because it fits in so many categories. Barack Obama uses hope as a main idea for his 2004 Keynote Address speech for the democratic party. This speech is thought to be one of his greatest speeches and even inspired him to write a book called The Audacity of Hope. Throughout The 2004 Keynote Address, Barack Obama uses multiple devices to sway voters to chose John Kerry as…

Throughout this poem you will learn where some of the greatest wars in history were. (carl sandburg) It will make wonder and think about the past and why the wars ever even happened. The speaker in this poem is the grass. “Grass” was published in 1918 right after the end of the great war, Sandburg takes the issue of war head-on. (infoplease.com) Sandburg worked his way through school, where he attracted the attention of professor phillip green wright, who not only encouraged sandburg's’…

The Napoleonic Wars caused the deaths of up to 3,700,000 people while the American Civil War caused the deaths of about 1,264,000 people (Knighton; “Civil War Facts”). However, World War I was the most deadly causing the deaths of over sixteen million people (“How Many People Died in WW1?”). Each of these wars are referenced in the poem “Grass,” and the death tolls of each war are a reminder of the true devastating reality. For many people, these wars are something that will linger in their…

admiration for the nation’s people. Many people compare his work to the works of Walt Whitman and Robert Frost because all their writings show a great deal of parallel interest in Americana (Watts). Carl Sandburg was born on January 6, 1878, in Galesburg, Illinois. His parents were two Swedish immigrants named August and Clara. He went to school at Lombard College, but he had to drop out because he was forced to fight in the Spanish-American war. Before Sandburg left Lombard, one of his…

discovered her through Poetry Out Loud when I decided to read her poem All Hallows’ Eve. She was born on August 25,1910 and died not to long ago on January 31,2012. She somehow was about to live up to the age of 101. She was born and raised in Galesburg, Illinois. Unfortunately there isn't much information on her family and childhood. She attended Knox College for about 2 years before she went to Chicago and then to New York during that time she was a commercial artist. In 1946 she married an…

politicians running for the senate seat of the state of Illinois. The politicians were the republican nominee, Abraham Lincoln, and the democratic nominee, incumbent Stephen Douglas. The debates covered a series of topics, the most pertinent being the issue of slavery and its expansion into the newer western territories. The idea of the debates came forth after both Lincoln and Douglass had given speeches opposing one another in two of Illinois’ congressional districts. Lincoln and Douglas…

The American Dream Throughout history America has transformed since it first became a country; the geography has changed, and the people living here has become more diverse. With the country evolving the idea of the American Dream adjusted. As a result of the American Dream changing so much, it is no longer attainable for all citizens of America. The American Dream has transformed since the first settlers arrived in this country. The Declaration of Independence is an example of what the…

These debates would reshape America's view of slavery forever. The debates took place in seven out of the nine congressional districts in Illinois because before they agreed to debate each other they had already spoken in the previous two districts at two different times. The way the debates would take place is that one person would open and speak for an hour. Then the other person would do…

my dad’s parents were young, they took over the family farm. My dad’s parents, however, tried to push their children away from the farming lifestyle that they knew so well, to a suburban lifestyle. My dad’s side of the family grew up in LaHarpe, Illinois and my great grandparents and grandparents still live there today.…