Why is the Gettysburg Address Still Relevant Today? Abraham Lincoln‚ the 16th President of the United States of America‚ summed up the ideals that would go on to shape one of the most powerful nations of the world. Although President Lincoln’s speech was about ten lines‚ in which he delivered in two minutes‚ he moved not just the people who had gathered for the honoring of the soldiers who bravely gave their lives in Gettysburg while fighting for freedom‚ but also people across the globe. In ten
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Ian Albert 2/19/2013 Research Paper 1 Lincoln/Johnson Reconstruction Intentions vs. Congressional Actions The Civil War‚ which lasted up until 1865‚ was the bloodiest battle that this Nation had ever faced. Making it even sadder was the fact that this Nation was divided‚ North against South‚ and brothers were killing brothers‚ fathers killing sons. It was indeed a tough time for President Lincoln who was sworn into office in 1861. He needed to end the war and figure out a way to bring
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What Makes Interstellar a Good Movie. With genres varying from horror and comedy‚ romance and sci-fi‚ everyone has his or her favorite movie. Their favorite movie is the one they think was so good and entertaining that they would watch it time and time again. However‚ other people may view the same movie as horrible. So what makes a movie truly good? How can philosophers help us come to a universal meaning “good” in the movie industry? Philosophers such as Plato‚ Aristotle‚ and Socrates can give
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Lincoln Financial Group (LFG) is a financial service firm that that has a strategic position as the manufacturer of three primary financial products; annuities‚ insurance‚ and mutual funds. LFG distributes these financial products through fough comon distribution channels: banks‚ idependent brokers‚ wirehouse broker/dealres‚ and managing general agents. Most of their customers had just one of these products ’on the shelf.’ LFG had to focus more on the customer to maintian an effective role as a
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The Outsiders movie was directed by Francis Ford Coppola in the year 1983. The author of the Outsiders is S.E Hinton. I think that the movie was intriguing. It had most of the plot but it was very short and cut out a lot of the scenes that were in the book. If they hadn’t cut out as many scenes as they did‚ it would have a better movie. The actors that were cast for the movie did a very good job; they captured the role of their character‚ and performed consistently. They played the role of their
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Abraham Lincoln 2. Assassination: When: 14th of April 1865‚ 10:15 pm Eastern Standard time. Where: Ford’s Theatre‚ Washington D.C‚ sitting in the presidential box. How: Shot by John Wilkes Booth. (Philadelphia Derringer pistol used) Who: John Wilkes Booth. He had two co-conspirators‚ Lewis Powell and David Herold. Why: John‚ the assassin‚ was a southern sympathizer‚ who wanted Abraham and two others dead‚ in order to inspire his country to win the war. John was mad at Abraham because
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V for Vandetta 2005 -V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea‚ Mr. Creedy‚ and ideas are bulletproof. -V: ...A building is a symbol‚ as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by people. Alone‚ a symbol is meaningless‚ but with enough people‚ blowing up a building can change the world. - Evey Hammond: No one will ever forget that night and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me. - Evey Hammond:
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Poetry in Movies: A Partial List What follows is a listing of the appearance of recognizable‚ often canonical‚ poems‚ or excerpts from poems. The catalog is necessarily incomplete; readers are invited to submit new entries to the page at movies@poets.org. The filmography will be revised and updated regularly. [pic] Addison‚ Joseph “The Campaign” My Darling Clementine‚ 1946 Apollinaire‚ Guillaume “L’amour” Peau d’ane‚ 1970 Arnold‚ Matthew "Dover Beach" Without Love‚ 1945 The Anniversary
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The Alfred Hitchcock movie‚ The Birds‚ was said to be based on the DuMaurier story by the same name. Both versions included birds going wild and attacking humans. They also included some of the same things‚ for example‚ in the movie and the book‚ they boarded up the doors and windows to repel the attack‚ and someone is found dead at a farm with their eyes pecked out. However‚ the similarities are not as numerous as the differences. There are many contrasts between the story and the film‚ particularly
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understanding for the play Fences. We discussed that throughout the movie‚ the dialogue flowed smoother compared to trying to understand and read it in play form. We also discussed how the movie brought out more raw emotions throughout the characters which made them more likeable on the screen than they appeared on paper. Our example is Troy; he seems like a horrible person and an unlikable guy reading the play but in the movie‚ his personality portrayed by actor Denzel Washington makes him a very
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