Help With Gettysburg Address Essay?
Hi – some ideas that I think will help you. First of all, do you know what just happened at Gettysburg, for Lincoln to make this speech? The background is important. What message did YOU get from it? This is one of the most eloquent and moving addresses I think a US president has ever made. It’s timeless. Only you can answer whether or not you think the ideals expressed in this speech are still relevant to today. Reread this part, which will tell you all you need to know to write about ideals: “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.
