Daniel Aubertine Dr. Viera 10/11/2011 Final Draft Embarking Patriotic Immortality: Rhetorical Analysis of the Gettysburg Address The Gettysburg address was given on the grounds of a historical battlefield in Gettysburg Pennsylvania during the American Civil War on November 19th‚ 1863 by the late President Abraham Lincoln. The brief‚ powerful speech that he delivered to fifteen to twenty thousand people is regarded as one of the greatest in American history. It is considered the turning
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On November 2‚ 1963‚ President Abraham Lincoln received a letter from David Wills of Gettysburg. Wills explained in this letter‚ that the soldier’s dead bodies were buried in a special area and they were going to hold a memorial to honor the dead soldiers. He invited President Lincoln to attend and to deliver a view remarks. President Lincoln’s speech is known as the Gettysburg Address. The main speaker on that day was the most famous U.S. speaker‚ Mr. Edward Everett. He was a man whose voice was
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are‚ the person saying it‚ without a doubt‚ means it. What makes a speech so memorable? Is it possible to find similarities between two completely different speeches‚ such as; Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” and Emma Watson’s “Gender Equality is your issue‚ too” speech? A speech is a formal address or discourse delivered to an audience; however‚ it may seem to be a jumble of words spoken out loud‚ if it is not potent and meaningful. The use of rhetorical devices‚ persuasive techniques‚ and
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Andrew Olson ENGL 2130 20 Jun. 2013 President Abraham Lincoln’s Thoughts on His “Gettysburg Address” I am the 16th president of the United States‚ Abraham Lincoln. I come from humble beginnings and never finished school. My love for reading and learning led me to a career in law. I was able to manage this by “studying independently the law books of the time: Blackstone’s Commentaries‚ Chitty’s Pleadings‚ Greenleaf’s Evidence‚ and Story’s Equity and Equity Pleadings” (Levine 733). My law career
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long-conflicted morality of slavery. Four months after the particularly bloody battle at Gettysburg‚ Lincoln gave a speech that was only ten sentences and 272 words and was recited within three minutes. Despite being so short‚ the message of the speech resonated with the people of the Civil War and still is quoted by people today. Through one of the most important speeches of our history‚ The Gettysburg Address‚ Lincoln commemorates the dead and wounded
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In the ”Gettysburg Address‚” Abraham Lincoln incorporates literary devices in his address to achieve his purpose. Lincoln uses repetition‚ antithesis‚ and parallelism to remind those who were present of the lives that were lost and the dream that should continue to live on for them. Abraham Lincoln utilizes repetition in his speech to make it very clear what his point is. By repeating words it emphasizes Lincoln’s point and the importance of it. He says‚ “... we cannot dedicate- we cannot consecrate--
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people didn’t even listen but what he said was; that the living can honor the wartime dead not with a speech‚ but rather to continuing to fight for the idea’s they gave their lives for. Lincoln’s Gettysburg address was giving during the dedication ceremony for the soldiers that lost their lives in Gettysburg. The civil war was still in place during that time‚ and when Lincoln gave his speech he went back and referred to the begging of America. He goes back and he says that war is to fight for America
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Gettysburg The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in and around the town of Gettysburg‚ Pennsylvania between July 1st and July 3rd‚ 1863. Gettysburg is often portrayed as being the supposed “turning point” of the war‚ as the Union‚ led by General Gordon Meade defeated the Confederacy‚ led by General Robert E. Lee. Lee began the second campaign of the war‚ aptly named “The Gettysburg Campaign” after his success at the battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia in May of 1863. He hoped that while he
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In the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln it is about him trying to say sorry about how the people died and is talking about it in 3 different ways. It is about the past‚ present and then the future it is 271 words long and only in three paragraphs written in Pennsylvania. Based on the union of the battle and the southern. All together 51‚000 troops died‚ union 23‚000 union troops die and then 28‚000 southern troops die. This letter is talking an apology and explanation of their deaths to their
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The two speeches Ain’t I a Woman by Sojourner Truth and the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln were both similar because they were powerful speeches for equality. The two speeches were different because of their speakers‚ Truth and Lincoln were on completely different spectrums of the social scale and therefore seen differently by the public. Ain’t I a Woman by Sojourner Truth was a speech on equality of the sexes. Her speech was extemporaneous‚ and still had such an effect. She had a power in
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