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OpenStudy (lauluisa):

MEDALS and FAN!

OpenStudy (lauluisa):

Read this excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and then answer the question that follows: (1) Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon 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. (2) We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this 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. What does President Lincoln imply in this parragraph? Now we are engaged in a great civil war ... testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated ... can long endure. The people who started the civil war are not patriotic. It can be tough for a nation that is created in war to survive. Those in support of battle are not thinking of the families. It is in the Constitution that this is a just cause for the nation.

OpenStudy (lauluisa):

@Yuba @DullJackel09

OpenStudy (lauluisa):

What is the main purpose of the first paragraph of this speech? It clearly and directly states the counterclaim. It introduces the topic and hooks the audience. It gives the speaker’s history for common ground. It provides a transition between arguments.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Im not good with speeches x.x

OpenStudy (lauluisa):

It's ok I already got the answer xD.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

You dont need me D: You're smarter xD

OpenStudy (lauluisa):

I'm not good at this xD believe me.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Sure sure xD

OpenStudy (theaterlover):

@lauluisa what was the answer to the question?

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