Gettysburg

Robert. E. Lee was a very important person of the Civil War. Robert E Lee had a very successful life; with war and with wits. Robert E Lee was born in Virginia, the fifth child of Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee. In 1829 he was graduated as the salutatorian of his class at West Point without having a single demerit in his four years there. Commissioned in the Corps of Engineers, he served under General Winfield Scott in the Mexican War, in which he distinguished himself in the Battles of Veracruz,…

Washington D.C, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his most iconic speech in the history of Black American Civil Rights. On August 28th, 1963 King led the March on Washington. With over hundred thousands of people King started off by reiterating the Gettysburg Address. Then leading into his dream about America and the place he would want to raise his kids in. The Civil Rights Movement was a large part of King’s life, and ultimately leading the face of the revolution. However, the beginnings of…

From 1852 to 1855, Lee served as superintendent of West Point, and was therefore responsible for educating many of the men who would later serve under him - and those who would oppose him - on the battlefields of the Civil War. In 1855 he left the academy to take a position in the cavalry and in 1859 was called upon to put down abolitionist John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry. Because of his reputation as one of the finest officers in the United States Army, Abraham Lincoln offered Lee the…

way to present day there have been many significant events that have shaped who we are as a nation. The answer to this question is right in front of us. This question can be answered in the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address. By reading these documents, the reader might think that this democracy we have today did not come with a cost. But in all reality, America has a dark past that is looked over when reading these documents that America is based upon. The…

lessons, childhood obesity, and creating goals to achieve. The article “Have Sports Teams Brought Down America’s School?” is about two different school with two different test scores. Those to schools are Wroclaw, Poland and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Wroclaw, Poland beats Gettysburg, Pennsylvania test scores by a landslide. The main difference the two schools have that could possibly make such a difference is test scores is Wroclaw, Poland does not have any sports teams at all. The kids view of…

Representation of war is a theme that has been common throughout the history of art. War has existed for nearly as long as humans have, and each side has their own beliefs that justify the war. The art that is created about war generally represents one side, allowing the viewer to feel certain emotions towards opposing side. Two works of art that displays the theme of representation of war are The Third of May 1808, and A Harvest of Death. In 1814, Francisco Goya created the oil canvas of The…

Was the Civil War inevitable? probably not, since it created the Nation that the United States has become. Knowing that the Civil War was a war between the Union States (North) vs. the Confederate States (South). The two main causes of war were Slavery and Religion. The Union President Abraham Lincoln resounding "no" to the central provision of the Crittenden Plan and similar proposals stiffened the backbone of congressional Republicans.(American Stories, pg.363) The Union having triple the…

his speech was that all people are created equal. During that time black people were regarded as inferior and were treated as slaves. Martin Luther King argued his points passionately and powerfully. In his opening paragraph King references the Gettysburg Address as well as Emancipation Proclamation, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.…

The title “A Plan for Making America Great Again” borrows the rhetoric of the recent presidential election to immediately draw reader’s attention. Despite the title’s obvious ideological affiliation, the subtext makes it clear that the editorial is headed in a completely non-partisan direction. Thus, the title serves to pique the interest of the reader while the subtext ensures that those opposed to the candidate affiliation of the title are not immediately turned off. Simply put, the combined…

Abraham Lincoln gave the famous Gettysburg Address, establishing a “new birth of freedom” for slaves (Abraham Lincoln 1863). The significance of slavery’s role in the war became even more prominent after the Gettysburg Address. Although the riffs between sides had been settled, many southerners resented the Union. Some southerners in the deep south still hold a grudge today…