Gettysburg Address

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm

Summary: This speech is a commemoration of the soldiers lives and the cause that they have fought for. It is a source of empowerment for future fighting and sums up hte common mans ideal of the war and their part in it.


Move 1: Suspend Judgment
In this speech Lincoln does not suspend judgment between the south and north.

Move 2: Define Significant Parts and How They are Related
States phrases that cause the north winning to seem to be synonymous with the nation surviving.

Move 3: Make the Implicit Explicit
He relates the the death of the men that were willing to give their lives as an act more powerful than any living man can do right now, an form of empowerment used to inspire those still living and listening to be willing to give their lives for the idea brought forth.

Move 4: Look for Patterns
The repetition most prevalent is the repeating of the ground that the men have died on is a hallowed or holy place. That they are committed to history.

Move 5: Keep Formulating Questions and Explanations
What other speeches have been given over death to inspire life?
Was this speech stirring it created a profound impact on the rest of the civil war?
Could this speech not only have been about raising those that died for the North up for subversly condemning those that fought against?