Question

I'm not asking anyone to do this for me, but I need some guidance and help. Thanks. :)

Answer 1

The Gettysburg Address

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 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 that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God 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."

From the Chicago Times
"Readers will not have failed to observe the exceeding bad taste which characterized the remarks of the President ... The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat, and dish-watery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the President of the United States."

Write an essay of at least two to three paragraphs analyzing this newspaper remark from the Chicago Times. Use specific quotations from the Gettysburg Address to support or refute the newspaper's claim.

Answer 2

First, do you know how many versions of the Gettysburg Address there are? Second, do you know which one Obama was asked to read?

Answer 3

I think we have to use the version given.

Answer 4

I don't know which one he was asked to read.

Answer 5

A lot of people attcked Obama for leaving out "under God" in what he said, but he was asked to read the draft, which does not have those words in it.

Answer 6

Oh.

Answer 7

http://www.gettysburgfoundation.org/41

http://www.learntheaddress.org/

Answer 8

So is the chicago times scolding him for the not mentioning god thing?

Answer 9

@Mertsj

Answer 10

If you will do a little research you will find out that many people, at the time the address was given, thought it had little substance and was an inadequate speech given by a president who was just not very smart. That seems to have been the attitude expressed by the writer of this article in the Tribune.
Notice that he says Americans would be ashamed by the address given by their president because the stuff he said was "silly, flat, and dish-watery".

Answer 11

@wwhitlock

Answer 12

Hi. It looks like the Chicago Times article referenced was written in Lincoln's time. I'm I getting that right?

Answer 13

yes, check your pm