The Gettysburg Address was a famous speech given by President Lincoln at Gettysburg in1863. The speech was influential and inspiring to many different kinds of people. The Gettysburg Address touched several topics such as human equality‚ peace and honoring soldiers. The Gettysburg Address is still relevant today due to its motivational words towards human equality and paying tribute to war veterans. To quote the speech‚ Lincoln said "Fourscore and seven years ago‚ our fathers brought forth on
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SEMINARY WORK George Langelaan The Fly Kelemen Kristián Bc 2. Aj-I 2010/2011 Prologue I have chosen this short story‚ because it seemed quite an interesting story‚ and as it has multiple screen adaptations‚ I thought it wouldn’t be a problem to find fifteen websites dealing with it. Unfortunately I was wrong with the second part. The story was very interesting‚ I enjoyed every minute of reading‚ although I’m not really into reading. After I finished it‚ I started to search for websites‚ and I
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In the article " A Hanging " written by George Orwell‚ the main idea is that warden and jailer in Burma should give prisoners a good time and mood to die or even not to die but with other punishment. Before the hanging‚ prisoners are alive like us. Each time they avoid the puddles and screaming in front of the gallows‚ the author feels an unspeakable wrongness. The author wrote this story with a emotional tone. He tried to pursaude us in a tone and mood but not actual detial. " I saw the mystery
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Confederate troops didn’t fight until after 4 pm even when the plan was to attack as early as possible. By the end of the day‚ the total casualty count from both days was nearly 35‚000. On July 3‚ the Union fought back hard‚ but Lee was stubborn. He sent George Pickett and less than 15‚000 troops to attack the Union infantry. This resulted in the deaths of two-thirds of Pickett’s men. In result‚ Lee had to retreat and unfortunately‚ the Confederates lost the Battle of
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John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address in January 20‚ 1961 was a good representation of the enormous amount of things that were taking place in that setting. Kennedy’s inaugural address enlightened America and the world on his goals for his presidency; within his speech he used a form of comparing and contrasting‚ repetition‚ and exposition. Applying these helps Kennedy’s address inspire his audience. Kennedy takes advantage of one of his most prominent strategies‚ repetition‚ to emphasize his various
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The Gettysburg Address 1. How does Lincoln honor the battle of Gettysburg in his address? Lincoln honored the Battle of Gettysburg in his address by acknowledging the great sacrifice made by the brave men who fought in the Gettysburg battle. Lincoln pointed out that while the ceremony may one day be forgotten‚ the service and deaths of the soldiers would forever be memorialized and serve as a lasting reminder of how precious and costly ensuring freedom for all is. You get the sense that Lincoln
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Introduction: George F. Kennan’s "Training for Statesmanship" (1953) characterizes America’s distribution of power as unique‚ stating that unlike other nations‚ the “United States lacks a national uniformed police establishment functioning as the vehicle of a central political will." Kennan’s most compelling observation is that power within the United States thrives in every aspect of American life---from the obvious courts of law to economic bodies‚ regardless of whether or not that is legal. This
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Cecilia Wheaton Pd: 6/7 George Washington’s Farewell Address George Washington gave a very heartfelt and meaningful farewell address. Not only was he attempting to help our country at that time with clues as to how they might make themselves better‚ he did it in a generous way. He kind of obviously hinted as to how they needed to make their coutry strong. There were two main warnings that he stated‚ in my opinion‚ would help our country be the best and strongest it could be. The main warning
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Steve Sheridan Mr. Vingo American History 17 December 2006 Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address similarities The Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address are two for the most controversial speeches/ documents in United States History. These speeches were both made in the civil war area and have many of the same ideas and points inside of them. The 3 biggest similarities of these 2 speeches are‚ both of these speeches have lead to Abraham Lincoln leaving a legacy behind
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Rhythm and Rhetoric: A Linguistic Analysis of Obama’s Inaugural Address Liilia Batluk Supervisor: Stuart Foster School of Humanities Halmstad University Bachelor’s thesis in English Acknowledgment My appreciations to my supervisor Stuart Foster for very helpful advice during the research. Abstract In this essay I shall analyze Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address‚ January‚ 2009 from the perspective of various linguistic techniques. More specifically‚ I shall propose and focus on the idea that the
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