L.A. Week 30 Day 5 March 22‚ 2014 Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln is more than America’s 16th president. He’s a model of leadership who demonstrates traits and characteristics that are essential for present day executives and business leaders. Like Lincoln‚ you face the challenge of executing a vision‚ while also managing competing priorities. Leading others to join you in that vision is a difficult task‚ and one that can be fraught with self-doubt‚ frustration and other negative emotions
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Emancipator Throughout history‚ people have debated whether Abraham Lincoln should be considered the Great Emancipator or not. Due to many factors that influenced his reasoning for his actions‚ his legacy has been greatly questioned. The freeing of slaves was not all because of one person but this act of great change in history would not have occurred without Abraham Lincoln and all his contributions to the cause. I argue that Abraham Lincoln‚ although at first his intentions to abolish slavery may
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has made the "Great Emancipator" into the "Great Enslaver" while accusing him of "ethnic cleansing." According to Foner‚ "If Lincoln had had his way; there would be no Blacks in America. "Lincoln’s real purpose as president was not to free the slaves‚ but to prolong slavery until he could put a plan in place to deport all Blacks to a foreign shore. Foner writes: "[Lincoln] did everything he could to deport Blacks and to make America a Great White Place."( Pg 22) Sound strange? It is. But‚ to his
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Abraham Lincoln‚ the sixteenth president of the United States‚ is in a tough position. America has been engulfed in war for four years and he has been re-elected president. In his second inaugural address‚ Lincoln expresses a desire to finally end the civil war in order to reunite the country. To accomplish this‚ he uses several unique stylistic elements in his address such as effective use of repetition‚ a religious tone‚ and comprehensible figurative language. Lincoln uses repetition in his inaugural
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Ronald Reagan’s Second Inaugural Address‚ 1985 Balance of Power‚ Defense‚ and Security In reading the excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural address‚ the three concepts that I found to be of meaning to me are the Balance of Power‚ Defense in terms of military strength‚ and Security for the means of protecting this nation at a time when super-power uncertainty between the United States and the Soviet Union was unbalanced. In 1985‚ the United States and the Soviet Union relations
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Abraham Lincoln’s killer‚ John Wilkes Booth‚ was a Maryland native born in 1838 who remained in the North during the Civil War despite his Confederate sympathies. As the conflict entered its final stages‚ he and several associates hatched a plot to kidnap the president and take him to Richmond‚ the Confederate capital. However‚ on March 20‚ 1865‚ the day of the planned kidnapping‚ Lincoln failed to appear at the spot where Booth and his six fellow conspirators lay in wait. Two weeks later‚ Richmond
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Inaugural Address Good Evening. I am standing here today to not only address the power of The United States of America‚ but to address the background that shapes we the people to be the country of opportunity‚ freedom‚ and love. This beauty of a nation holds years worth of patriotic moments and times of pain‚ but we must learn to face the issues head on. There is no time to waste because from July 4‚ 1776 to present day we have strived and have become a piece of history that no person will ever forget
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President Lincoln addresses the countrymen of the United States in his second inaugural address to discuss the closing efforts of the civil war and how the war should not go in vain‚ but that it should benefit the country and preserve the nation’s democracy amongst all the nation’s people. In his address he uses biblical references and literary devices to tell how he would ike the effects of the war to be progressive and not without reason‚ In lincoln’s opening paragraph he sets the tone for the
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Book Report “Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution” by Janes M. McPherson The author James M McPherson discerns Lincoln’s character in the transfiguration shaped by the Civil War. This book “Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution”. Contains seven thoughtful chapters that explains the emancipation of countless slaves‚ also the rebellion of the community and governmental command of the South. The Civil War was the utmost changing and significant involvement in the history
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Sarah Morris English 11 12/16/13 JFK Inaugural Address Rhetorical Analysis America in the 1960‘s were very vigorous due to Civil Rights‚ the Vietnam war‚ and the country slowly evolving as a nation. Presidency was very a important attribute to the country‚ so whoever was elected at that time‚ he needed to be efficient. John F. Kennedy was the perfect candidate. He was one of the best presidents in history so far. Kennedy administrated the New Frontier in outer space‚ saved the world from a thermonuclear
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