2. Make sure your post on Patrick Henry's 'Give Me Liberty of Give me Death' speech are all ready and posted.
HW: Look at the speech by Abraham Lincoln at the bottom of this post. Answer the following questions about it in another post titled 'Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address'

1. What do you notice about the length of the speech? I don't think that It's as long as many other speeches but I think that is because he has put across all the points that he would like to put across.
2. What do you notice about the organisation? As i said above it really cut to the chase and the intro, body and conclusion are quite obvious in the speech.
3. What do you think is the thesis of the speech? He is trying to put across that they are going against what they said that long ago about "all men are equal". They are treating black people a lot different that white people and it has brought on a war, which Patrick Henry is trying to prevent.
4. Name two techniques (with quotes) which you feel are successfully employed and discuss why you feel they are so effective. He uses Pathos which uses emotion which really catches the audiences emotions and gets them listening and paying attention.
5. Why do you think that the concluding statement is considered so important and powerful by many Americans to this day? He is talking about the people that have died on the battle field and how they shouldn't have died. This is again using Pathos as he is referring to dead men who he thinks died in vain for a war that could have been prevented.

Four score 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.

President Abraham Lincoln - November 19, 1863