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The Civil War was a period of racial injustice and a time of great loss for the people of America. During Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, he creates a moral framework for peace and reconciliation with the use of many rhetorical strategies. With a sincere but reflective tone, Abraham Lincoln highlights the reality of the troubled nation and the solution to all of the problems, which is unity. Lincoln repeats strong phrases to enhance the theme, references to a holy figure, and creates

“Fourscore and seven years ago” (Gettysburg Address) are the famous first words of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The Gettysburg Address was an epideictic discourse given in honor of the fallen soldiers in the Civil War. The address itself is very ceremonial due to the fact that it commemorates the brave efforts of the soldiers who had been fighting. The main purpose of an epideictic argument is to praise someone and Lincoln’s address does just that. He states in his speech “the

Brooks concludes his article by setting an example of how to establish a unifying “national narrative,” a common purpose of the American people. In his example, he alludes to Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, referencing the president’s vision of “[setting] the course for mutual forgiveness, not the cheap forgiveness that carries no weight but the kind that contains all the stages of proper rigorous forgiveness: mercy, judgment, confession, penitence, reconciliation and re-trust.” Much

On the date of March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln gave his second inaugural speech at the National Capital of the US. The speech had been given within less than 700 words making it one of the shortest addresses in history. This speech is also the most famous address in history. His second speech had not been of the happy moments during the time, but of the drastically sad ones. This was a time where the Civil War was beginning and slavery was near an end. Lincoln stated, "slaves constituted a peculiar

In "The Gettysburg Address" Abraham Lincoln addresses a speech to his peers to explain that the fighting men who died on the battlefield died with gallantry and honor. Therefore, he persuades his audience to honor the dead men because they died for a good reason. Abraham Lincoln expresses his message throughout examples of repitition, antithesis, and parallelism. First, the U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln utilizes repitition to convey a significant message relating to the deaths of the soldiers

Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln both wrote inspiring pieces during the Civil War. The excerpts are “The Gettysburg Address” by Lincoln and“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” by Douglass. Both authors use syntax to help develope their purpose and helps establish the tone and mood. They both use specific syntactical features to promote their individual purposes. Frederick Douglass uses syntax to explain how he must be independent because there is no one that he can trust and elaborates

There are two famous speeches made by two greatly famous people. These speeches are the Gettysburg Address, and the I Have a Dream speech,which can both be compared and contrasted in many ways. There are many similarities and differences in these two speeches , such as the purpose, tone, and structure of them. The first concept that can be used to decipher these two speeches is their purpose. Both of these two speeches have different purposes. Abraham Lincoln's speech, the Gettysburg Address

pilgrimage site, where communities of believers actually come together in the act of occupying a holy site, seeing a relic, reenacting a sacred event" (source A). The Lincoln Memorial meets the "criteria" by having the location pertain to Washington D.C. and Lincolns presidency and him living in Washington District of Columbia. The memorial itself contains no actual relic of Lincoln. it is pure representation- a colossal marble statue. (source A). The Lobsterman monument never really had a place, to begin

I pranced myself across the parking lot off the mall with a grin on my face because my parents were taking me to the local mall. I walked into the mall jubilant and ecstatic because the Polaris Mall had a mini-playground for kids and they had this climbing wall which I completely adored. I could have never foretold the events which took place next. The moment I walked in, I felt a fresh blast of air conditioner air on my face. I looked around, taking in the ambiance of the mall. The Starbucks to

Don't Tread On The Bear Rust, decay, and creeping vegetation infest monuments from before the Great War. Amidst the ruins of Washington, D.C., the Capitol; battered remains of the Washington Monument and the the Jefferson Memorial still stand in the desolate area that is now known as the Capitol Wasteland; the central hub of civilization in the ruins of the former capital city, New Aegis, which is based in the remains of a wrecked aircraft carrier, carried far inland and beached by a catastrophic