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Gettysburg Address Summary
691 words, approx. 2 pages
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The orator of the day was Edward Everett, a famed speaker, former senator, and candidate for vice president in 1860. Lincoln...
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Gettysburg Address Summary
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Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln Jn July 1863, it was not at all clear to President Abraham Lincoln or the rest of the nation whether the North or South would emerge victorious from the Civil War that threatened to destroy the country. In the midst...
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The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln Summary
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The Gettysburg Address Delivered November 19, 1863, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania The president mourns fallen soldiers "In a larger sense we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men,...
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Gettysburg Address Information
7,912 words, approx. 26 pages
Abraham Lincoln's carefully crafted address, secondary to other presentations that day, came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history. In just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the...


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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Gettysburg addressed
07/15/2001: 572 words, approx. 2 pages
Gettysburg addressed By DAN BENSON of the Journal Sentinel staff Sunday, July 15, 2001 Gettyburg, Day Three. By Jeffry D. Wert. Simon & Schuster. 320 pages. $27,50. Before July 1, 1863, Gettysburg, Pa., was a nondescript crossroads town known...
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
The Gettysburg Address
05/30/2005: 369 words, approx. 1 pages
The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-30-2005 The Gettysburg Address Date: 05-30-2005, Monday Section: OPINION Edtion: All Editions Editor's note: President Abraham Lincoln delivered this 10-sentence speech in November 1863, to dedicate a cemetery on the site of the battle of Gettysburg during...
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Doctors say Lincoln had severe smallpox when he delivered Gettysburg Address
5/22/2007: 692 words, approx. 2 pages
Abraham Lincoln has been dead for 142 years, but he still manages to make medical headlines, this time from doctors who say he had a bad case of smallpox when he delivered the Gettysburg Address.Physicians in Baltimore said last week that Lincoln might have survived...
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Ex-Chinese Leader Publishes Travel Book
8/15/2006: 664 words, approx. 2 pages
He speaks English and shows it off by reciting the Gettysburg Address. Now former President Jiang Zemin is adopting another Western custom: the post-retirement publishing binge. Ahead of his 80th birthday Thursday, government publishers have released a retrospective on Jiang's...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 92%
Theme and Form, Structure and Message in Three Famous Speeches
5,589 words, approx. 19 pages
Three examples of legendary speeches that combined theme and form with structure and message: "No Evil can Happen to a Good Man" by Socrates, Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address," and Paul Keating's "Funeral Service of the Unknown Soldier."
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Essay Grade: 86%
Rhetorical Strategies in the Gettysburg Address
622 words, approx. 2 pages
Explores rhetorical strategies used by President Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address. Describes how The Gettysburg Address stated Lincoln's opinion on the civil war by using subliminal rhetorical strategies to make the nation see his viewpoint without compromising his position as president.
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Essay Grade: 78%
The Construction of a Great Speech
1,537 words, approx. 5 pages
Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address," Vaclev Havel's speech on the contaminated moral environment of Czechoslovakia, and Mary McAleese's address to Harvard University on the defense of freedom are all great speeches that will transcend time. All three speeches were intended to bring together people who are divided, so that they might see the more important needs of society and form a singular goal. The deep, powerful meanings of these speeches are conveyed through their construction, content, a


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