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    and The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln. These speeches were the two best speeches that America had ever heard. "I had a dream" speech was written about equality. The Gettysburg Address was written about equality also. The cool thing about these speeches was they were almost exact 100 years apart. These two speeches are telling us to treat African Americans the same as people treat us. This speech was spoken by Abraham Lincoln and written on November 19, 1863. The Gettysburg Address

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    In the narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave, and The Gettysburg Address, both Douglass and Lincoln believe in the fact that all men are created equal. They want others to believe that too, but not everyone is treated with respect, not everyone is equal. Douglass, who was a former slave, has experience of how not everyone was created equal. When Douglass was a slave he was neglected, barely any food nor clothes, Douglass got whipped for no reason thinking he would die in slavery

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    Many seminal U.S. documents have been written over the years. The “Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln, delivered on November 19, 1863, is a seminal U.S. document. One hundred years later, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech on August 28, 1963. Both speeches revolve around the common theme of freedom and both use rhetorical language to persuade their audiences.   Lincoln and King’s speeches both had a purpose of calling forth freedom and unity. King’s “I Have A Dream”

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    In the speeches “I have a dream” and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address both address the topic of freedom. At the time the speeches were really relevant. The speeches show how from the time Lincoln spoke to the time King spoke not much had changed. Both speeches address the topic of freedom in many ways. Some of the speeches address freedom are, both talk about the mistreatment of African Americans, both speak of freedom coming in the future, and both talk about how America has not changed. In the

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    At the beginning of Lincoln second term as president the Civil War was trying towards the clothes in their victory Lincoln had to determine how reconciliation with the self come about a large fiction impeding this reunion between the north and the south was the Northerners viewing the Southerners as their enemies and vice versa. Through Lincoln's use of anaphora diction and religion Aleutian he is able to offer a vision for the future union in which both sides are considered countrymen. Lincoln

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    He knew that thousands of lives had been lost; most of those dead bodies were buried there, at Gettysburg. President Lincoln also knew that no matter what he said, the past had happened and the lives that were lost would always be remembered. President Lincoln also used pathos in his speech. If he used any of the rhetorical strategies, pathos was the

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    The Tomb of the Unknown Solider is located Arlington National Cemetery which stands atop of a hill overlooking Washington, DC. The Tomb symbolizes all those who were lost or rendered unidentifiable by the action of war. It is there to represent all the missing and unknown service member who made the ultimate sacrifice of giving their lives, but also their identities to protect our country’s freedoms. On March 4, 1921 Congress approved for the burial of an unidentified American solider from World

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    Pericles Funeral Orientation was recorded by Thucydides during the Peloponnesian War. The primary purpose of the speech revolved around honoring those who had died in battle. The second purpose of the speech was to present Athens as an environment of courage and security. Also, the speech fixated on the importance and uniqueness of the Athenian government its self (democracy) which created arrogance that eventually destroyed their city-state. Pericles main point was “these men, who could not bear

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    The history of Kilburn is traceable back to the ninth century when Norse invaders began to settle in the valley. Its entry in Domesday Book is Chileburne which translates as Cylla’s or Kyle’s stream. The village comprises of two individual settle­ments known as High Kilburn and Low Kilburn, which stand about a quarter of a mile apart. High Kilburn rests peacefully on an elevated plateau with its houses arranged around a well-proportioned green. Nevertheless, the heart of the village is Low Kilburn

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    inspiring phrase, and there are many examples from the world that I can relate this phrase to. One of the examples from the world I like to relate this to is General George Pickett. General Pickett lead a famous charge in the Civil War in the battle of Gettysburg against the Yankees. General Pickett was the last in his class at West Point and look at him in the Civil War. He is leading half an army into battle. He was not discouraged at all by his lack of achievements in West Point. He obviously was not

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