Gettysburg Address

peace with the Confederates, but the Confederates were for slaves and wanted to break away or split apart from the Union and become independent. At this time Abraham Lincoln was the president and gave one of the most famous speeches called The Gettysburg Address. In the end the Union won the war. The Civil War had many causes, but one main one was to connect the Union and the Confederates again. The Union did not want to have slaves, but the Confederates did want slaves. This was a big deal…

The speech ‘I Have a Dream’ is by Martin Luther King Jr. He gave this speech on August 28th 1963 just outside of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. Martin Luther King Jr, gave this speech to make the american people realize the color of the skin should not matter because everyone in this country is human and the color should not be a motive to judge them but the character of the person should. Meaning the character of the person should matter more than just the color of the skin. This…

powerfully blends reality with what he wishes his America looked like: a place free of racial biases and violence; a place where his children can grow up safe and happy with equal opportunities. Despite challenges to his safety, Dr. King gave an address that would invoke change in a nation that gravely needed it. To begin, King used argumentative tactics to support his stance. Firstly, he alludes to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence (14-15), most specifically the rights…

A broadly known speech that makes evident the power of rhetoric is “I Have A Dream” by Martin Luther King Junior, which was delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. This civil rights leader proclaimed his views about human equality for all African Americans to have equals opportunities in the United States. His speech is known as one of the largest civil rights demonstrations in history. His symbolism, powerful persuasion, tone and diction helped to create an impact on his public…

William Safire links Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to the first anniversary of 9/11 very effectively. Safire showed how Lincoln shaped his text around images of birth, death, and resurrection to show when heroes die their deaths permit the rebirth of a nation. He links Lincoln’s words to the circumstances that happened on 9/11. I agree with Safire’s statement that, “the people, not the rulers, are sovereign.” The people get to elect who is in control of their country and if the leader does more…

From Segregation to Integration: Rhetorical Appeals in “I Have a Dream.” Martin Luther King Jr’s, “I Have a Dream,” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. is not just a speech. It speaks to men and women of all races. It addresses the issues of racism and how nothing has changed in over 100 years. It reiterates the work that Abraham Lincoln once tried to install with the Emancipation Proclamation. King knew the works of Aristotle with his thought of pathos, ethos, and logos, and he…

Although Abraham Lincoln needs to honor the lives lost, his true purpose is to unite the people of the United States; therefore, he creates a path to a unity through ideas of equality in a fractured nation. Together, in harmony, one-to prove that these terms can be true of America Lincoln needs a powerful statement. This statement presents itself in the form of a tricolon, which Lincoln uses to unite the nation under a common theme, “that government of the people, by the people, for the people,…

A quote from Arnold H. Glasow states “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” This quote says a lot to me. A leader knows when to take ownership of his or her mistake, as well as the mistake of his or her team. The team you are leading is only as great as the person who is leading them. Many people take the role of leader without know the characteristic that is needed to be a great leader. A great leader knows when to listen to…

The cartoon by Robert Ariail can be observed in numerous ways depending on what catches your attention when you first look at it. Looking at the cartoon, there are four people holding the American flag as they strive to place it into the ground while they are standing on the destruction of the scene, which can be seen as broken down buildings with smoke everywhere. There are many different things in this cartoon that your eyes will immediately first land on like the flag, the four people, the…

‘’ Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.’’(King,1) The time is now to stop black segregation and injustice; we are starting towards equality and freedom. The Martin Luther King speech ‘’ I Have a Dream’’ is the most compelling speech of all texts; it shows how our nation had once at a time fallen apart and didn’t stick to their morals. This speech had talked about the injustice of Blacks, our country was founded for freedom…