Why Abraham Lincoln Is the Greatest Leader
Why Abraham Lincoln is the Greatest Leader!
Kathleen Belger
English Comp II
Baker Flint
February 10, 2011
There was a boy born in the dust and silence of the country side, in a little log cabin, to a modest family of uneducated hard working laborers. Life was hard, yet simple. Days were filled with hard work and a yearning to survive. The absence of ambition and education within the community ran as ramped as the hills and forests that surrounded the community where the boy grew. Yet that boy rose up out of the dust and the trees in search for something more. That boy grew up, and took America by the hand, guided it through one of them most important changes in history. Abraham Lincoln is the greatest leader the United States of America has ever had. Abraham Lincoln was driven, but it was his charisma that made him such a likeable man. He also had the gift of speech, writing and delivering in a manner that resonated with many. His path to Presidency came at an important and opportune time. Abraham Lincoln preserved the Union, without him, this country would be different. Most importantly Abraham Lincoln changed this country, in a time when opposition could not be fiercer, by freeing the slaves.
Nancy Lincoln gave birth to Abraham on February 12, 1809 in Hardin (now Larue) Country, Kentucky. In 1816 Thomas Lincoln, Abraham’s father moved his family to Little Pigeon Creek in Perry (now Spencer) County, Indiana. The area was still wild, and wooded, the family had to tame and work the land. Two years after the family had settled in 1818, Nancy passed away. Thomas Lincoln remarried a year later. Sarah Bush Johnston, a widow herself, proved to be a kind and nurturing mother for Abraham. Life was filled with work, and not much time for education. It is said that Lincoln maybe received one year of formal education, split between five schools, spanning his childhood. When he was able to focus on his studies, he focused on penmanship, reading and arithmetic, yet
Kathleen Belger
English Comp II
Baker Flint
February 10, 2011
There was a boy born in the dust and silence of the country side, in a little log cabin, to a modest family of uneducated hard working laborers. Life was hard, yet simple. Days were filled with hard work and a yearning to survive. The absence of ambition and education within the community ran as ramped as the hills and forests that surrounded the community where the boy grew. Yet that boy rose up out of the dust and the trees in search for something more. That boy grew up, and took America by the hand, guided it through one of them most important changes in history. Abraham Lincoln is the greatest leader the United States of America has ever had. Abraham Lincoln was driven, but it was his charisma that made him such a likeable man. He also had the gift of speech, writing and delivering in a manner that resonated with many. His path to Presidency came at an important and opportune time. Abraham Lincoln preserved the Union, without him, this country would be different. Most importantly Abraham Lincoln changed this country, in a time when opposition could not be fiercer, by freeing the slaves.
Nancy Lincoln gave birth to Abraham on February 12, 1809 in Hardin (now Larue) Country, Kentucky. In 1816 Thomas Lincoln, Abraham’s father moved his family to Little Pigeon Creek in Perry (now Spencer) County, Indiana. The area was still wild, and wooded, the family had to tame and work the land. Two years after the family had settled in 1818, Nancy passed away. Thomas Lincoln remarried a year later. Sarah Bush Johnston, a widow herself, proved to be a kind and nurturing mother for Abraham. Life was filled with work, and not much time for education. It is said that Lincoln maybe received one year of formal education, split between five schools, spanning his childhood. When he was able to focus on his studies, he focused on penmanship, reading and arithmetic, yet
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