sequences like jail or they could take you to court . That is why it is important to vote be cause we have a right to. “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”-Abraham Lincoln. This quote means One of the reasons not to vote is some presidents are for bad stuff. One president was voting for abortion. And other bad stuff like really really bad stuff. But I personally like voting. Well kinda. Sometimes. The reason you should is because it is a honer. Some people don’t take it as a honer. But
very good leaders, but for every good leader there was a bad leader. Three of the best leaders in this world were Martin Luther King Jr., Adolf Hitler, and Abraham Lincoln. However where there is good there is always a bad. A bad leader in this nation would be Richard Nixon. Abraham Lincoln was man of many words. He never had it easy, from campaigning for presidency, to actually being president. According to Machiavelli, (2000) Lincoln would qualify as a good leader because he had the following
the death of President Lincoln and happiness about the victory of the North and the end of the Civil War. The Civil War (1861-1865) was set on American soil where Americans fought against Americans. The North (Union) wanted unity of the country and the end of slavery, while the South (Confederacy) wanted separation and the continuation of slavery. The war ended with a Union victory in 1865. The Civil War affected Walt Whitman’s writing of “O Captain! My Captain!;” he saw Abraham Lincoln as a much respected
Abstract As we know that everyone has human right to live, it ruled by norm that exists almost everywhere in this world. Human right is something universal, because everyone is born with and possesses the same rights, regardless of where they live, their gender or race, or their religious, cultural or ethnic background. America as a big country thus applied a kind of deviation human right around 19th century when it still stands with two big states, northern and southern. Racism is the belief that
Imagine, a man with a tall hat going up to the podium. The words coming out of his mouth increases the audience inspiration every second. Abraham Lincoln had a way with words, his best being shown through the Second Inaugural address and the Gettysburg address. Furthermore, these two documents had a special meaning at that time as well as today. The documents will be presented in a manner of similarities and differences, through purpose, syntax and rhetorical devices. The Second Inaugural address
Unforgettable Presidents in America Have you thought why you can live in a peaceful and modern America while your ancestors lived in a turbulent, suffering and behindhand colony. Have you imaged how hard the pioneers fight for present free and booming the New World. Have you considered to work for people in the nation even the world like American heroes. I’m inclined to think most of you haven’t thought it yet and be pessimistic to everyday without adequate energy to life. So today I want to talk
As a child, my grandma, Claudia, lived in a farm, preforming simple chores. Her family was not poor, but they weren 't rich, which wasn 't bad, but it wasn 't good either. Her life was "comfortable," as she states. When she graduated high school, she married, but she was already employed when she married. Her relationship was not bad, lasting 21 years, but she and her husband were not in the best of economic
There were three main causes of the civil war including slavery, sectionalism and secession. Slavery was a huge part of it and it led to the Missouri Compromise where any states below the border would be slave states and the anything north of that was free states. (Mrs. Wise) "The south feared the declaration of freedom for the slaves by government leaders in the North." Next, sectionalism. Sectionalism- loyalty to your state or lifestyle rather than to the whole country. The north was against
Walt Whitman was a very interesting man. The two poems O Captain! My Captain! and Pioneers! O Pioneers! were both about his present time situations. He included his thoughts on the situations that were presented before him. The first poem, O Captain! My Captain!, at first seems like a pirates voyage across the sea. The more digging that is done towards the poem leads to the conclusion that it is all just one big metaphor. This poem accurately describes the peoples reactions to the civil war from
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson is about the assassination plan of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. This assassination plan had strengths and weaknesses. John Wilkes Booth was a twenty-six year old actor who was a strong, loyal, and passionate confederate. Booth and his conspirators had a mission to take down some of the top leaders of the United States of America - the President Abraham Lincoln, Vice President Johnson, and U.S Secretary of State William Seward. In assessing this plan