TU Tuesday - Presidential Speeches

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I chose Abraham Lincoln's speech "The Gettysburg Address"  after the success over the win of the American Revolution. This speech brought a more of an uplifting and more positive mood over the mourning aspect of it. Abraham's speech was incredibly well thought out and written and put a huge impact of gratefulness over our own nation.  The two minute speech was given right after Edward Everett's 2 hour speech the audience was said to have been in shock because of the tone and grace of his speech it was such a great piece. In the whole piece I'd have to say my favorite part is "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live." I like that part because it states that not only did they come and fight until their final deaths but that the nation will still progress as one after all that it's been through through out the time fighting. Even at the end he writes "that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth." The ending is so powerful to me because it means that they are ready for a new start with our nation and are ready to pick up the pieces and start fresh. This speech is an amazing example of success and pure breathtaking master piece.