Question

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 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."

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 8

what do you need help with?

Answer 9

Hi! I don't need help with the actual essay but just the ideas.
Make sense?

Answer 10

@curiousdreamer

Answer 11

oh yes it make sence its actually pretty good c: and im not saying it just to be saying it

Answer 12

Okay, so how should I start?

Answer 13

yes you shuld start i think it will be graet! c:

Answer 14

okay, so should i agree or disagree?

Answer 15

@curiousdreamer

Answer 16

agree

Answer 17

okay, what would I say then?

Answer 18

@curiousdreamer

Answer 19

I actually think you should disagree. The president did very well in honoring the dead as well as giving a motive for the living.

Answer 20

The Chicago Times is clearly bashing him with little support, as I'm sure no man's cheeks 'tinged in shame'.

Answer 21

okay.

Answer 22

Also, the quote "government of the people, by the people, for the people" has become incredibly famous and has touched the hearts of many Americans.

Answer 23

Did that help?

Answer 24

Yes!! It did! So, what should I write in my second paragraph.

Answer 25

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Answer 26

So, for my second paragraph, what should I write?

Answer 27

Um, I thought you just needed some ideas. I suppose you could choose some quotes and explain the pathos/ethos/logos it enhances.

Answer 28

Okay, I see! Thanks for all your help!!