Gettysburg Address

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…

about in this speech. The people now that live in the United States are what President Lincoln was telling about that day at Gettysburg, we have equality and freedom. He and the many people that have laid down their lives made it possible for me to be living here today, in a world where we all have our individual freedom. It is also very memorable because reading the address, it brings into realization that Lincoln showed these people what the deserved and what they needed to fight for and they…

Abraham Lincoln demonstrated himself to be one of America’s greatest leaders, leading the country through the Civil War, the bloodiest war in U.S. history. The Civil War took place in 1861 through 1865 in the United States. The conflict was fought between two sides, the Confederate States of America (CSA), formed by the southern states, and the northern state comprised the Union, which was led by Lincoln. The main reason for war was the demand for the south to dictate their own terms of…

It was a breezy, cloudy day, sometime around 1:15 pm on a Monday afternoon, with a slight chance of rain, and a lot of people present. Sitting there was President Abraham Lincoln, white faced covered in marble, facing the Washington Monument, another great historical location, about 1.5 miles apart from each other. Also surrounded by a lot of historical memorials like: The Korean War Veterans Memorial, and The Vietnam Veteran Memorial. Standing tall the Lincoln Memorial is surrounded by large…

War was won, all within three minutes. Lincoln stressed the importance of the representative democracy America had adopted, saying that “…government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Lincoln giving this address, and signing the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st of the same year, shows that his fight for not only freeing slaves but giving people their freedom, displays his genuine belief of allowing all Americans their rights to freedom. Many…

skills demonstrate how to effectively achieve what one desires to be the outcome of an argument. A letter from Birmingham jail is not the only example of this situation. Other prime sources that similarly achieve this goal are Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (1863), Robert Louis Stevenson’s Father Damien, a letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu (1890), and history.com for facts. Both Lincoln and Stevenson use specific language and argumentative techniques to counter their…

side of politics and decided to go in a more ethical direction when he became in charge. This caused him to become a more successful leader. Abraham Lincoln also had a very positive ethical impact in the eyes of his people. According to the Gettysburg Address, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Abraham Lincoln references where we come from as a nation…

The Lincoln Memorial was built and dedicated to the 16th president of the USA, and is now one of the busies and most commonly visited sites in the National Mall. Opened to the public in 1922, it has stood at the west end of the National Mall for 94 years. With its 44 ft. columns and 19 ft. tall statue of Abraham Lincoln, it is not a site to miss! This essay will be introducing information about the historical background, the physical description, and the significance of the Lincoln Memorial…

guidance, giving direction and providing inspiration for the journey ahead. Two moments in the history of the United States of America indelibly linked through the social and political scope of the time are President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 “The Gettysburg Address”, one hundred years later in 1963 The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. presents his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln monument. Speaking at pivotal points in history, both President Lincoln and Dr. King allude to…

Initially, when I sat down to write this, I commenced to compare Democracy with Communism, I contemplated why compare the two, we recognize through this country’s history the what differences exist. Therefore, in no way can our history books be questioned when it approaches to the topic of Democracy or can it? Thinking back to Plato, in his Republic, tells us that tyranny arises, as a rule, from democracy. Thinking through all kinds of historical documents for example the Constitution, along…