Lincoln Memorial

monument. The first factor: that needs consideration before building a monument is, an important event in history that people can look back to and admire. The second factor: to consider before building a monument or memorial, is that it must be placed in a place that fits the monument or memorial. The third factor: the importance…

Abraham Lincoln, a man known for his honesty and optimism towards the future of the United States of America during the turmoil of the Civil War. A man devoted to his divided country and its suffering people. A man grounded in his Christian faith. This man, the sixteenth president of the United States of America, spoke with precision and elegance. Lincoln presented many speeches during his life, and even after his assassination scholars explore his writings. During Lincoln’s presidency, he…

our ethos, pathos, and logos. Through this he expresses his feeling about the Civil War; the motivation which made it come about and the outcome of the war. At this point the country had been a war for four years and tensions are high; President Lincoln has been reelected into his second term prepared to give a speech that will hopefully bring the nation back together so that they can “bind up the nation’s wounds”. Due to the fact that this is his second address, he felt that this one didn’t…

In this quote, Abraham Lincoln states that, he is not concerned about failing, but instead he is concern about being failed and not learning something to pass next time. Lincoln also urges people to keep trying and never give up. Everyone in their lives have failed multiple times and when Lincoln says “...whether you are content with failure”, he means that we should be happy of our failure as long as failure taught us something new, which helps us pass the next time. Lincoln ran for multiple…

That November day in 1863 was undoubtedly filled with many emotions to begin with, but somehow Lincoln managed to bring forth even more from his audience. In particular, the speech was being given on the very ground that the bloody battle of Gettysburg had been fought on just four months earlier. Lincoln had intended on delivering this speech in order to tell the people that this battlefield would be turned into a cemetery for those fallen in battle. But with the civil war still raging on, he…

However, the main arguments and steller ideas can be shown at a brief. Abraham Lincoln and Edmund Burke, two men that sparked debates in both the 1750’s and 1860’s; more than century apart, held similar ideas when it came to the role and limits of government in changing society. Both men held realist views that led them to take harsh and controversial positions when dealing with revolution. In modern day America, Abraham Lincoln is a well known and loved president. Despite this, during his…

Taylor In Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, he is addressing the country, it’s people, and it’s soldiers that were fighting in the Civil War at the time. Within his speech, Lincoln has included some anaphoras, specifically towards the end when he states “...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”. This is an anaphora as he is repeating the phrase “the people” three times in the same sentence. He is using this technique to persuade his…

Mistake History has teach generations and generation but hasn’t prevent generations from mistakes. As Edmund Burke once said, “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little”. During the American Revolution, Edmund Burke played role as opposing for taxes in the colonies. He believe constitutional government should be flexible enough to adapt to changing circumstances nationally or globally. Throughout years, Edmund Burke’s quote has reflect historical…

rebuilding the nation which had previously been torn apart by a civil war. The purpose of the speech was for the nation to march forward in unity; to achieve this goal, Lincoln utilized rhetorical elements such as figurative language, diction, syntax, persuasive appeals, and tone to reach his audience both present and future. President Lincoln consistently alludes to biblical quotes to not only appeal to common religious knowledge of the North and South, but to equally condemn both sides. He…

Lincoln’s “Letter to Horace Greeley” was a response to Horace Greeley’s editorial to Lincoln called “The Prayer of Twenty Millions.” In Lincoln’s, “Letter to Horace Greeley,” he informed Greeley that he didn’t mean to leave anyone in doubt of his plan to save the Union. However, if there were any assumptions that he knew were not accurate, he wouldn’t argue with them. Neither would he argue against false inferences. Lincoln made it clear that he had only one goal, and that one goal was…