The purpose of the Democratic National Convention of 1968 was to <em>find a new presidential candidate for the Democratic Party</em>, as President Lyndon B. Johnson had announced he would not seek reelection. Finally, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and Senator Edmund S. Muskie were selected as the new President and Vice President, respectively.
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(i) First, it is important to remember the context. America was in the midst of a bloody civil war. Union troops had only recently defeated Confederate troops at the Battle of Gettysburg. It was a the turning point in the war. The stated purpose of Lincoln’s speech was to dedicate a plot of land that would become Soldier’s National Cemetery. However, Lincoln realized that he also had to inspire the people to continue the fight.
Below is the text of the Gettysburg Address, interspersed with my thoughts on what made it so memorable.
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.
“Four score and seven” is much more poetic, much more elegant, much more noble than “Eighty-seven”. The United States had won its freedom from Britain 87 years earlier, embarking on the “Great Experiment”.
(ii) The Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment brought about by the Civil War were important milestones in the long process of ending legal slavery in the United States. This essay describes the development of those documents through various drafts by Lincoln and others and shows both the evolution of Abraham Lincoln’s thinking and his efforts to operate within the constitutional boundaries of the presidency.
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Albanian people are - in large part - believed by historns to be descendants of the Illyrians.
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Andrew carnegie is really famous for creating a monopoly in steel industry in the united states during his era.
So, the type of business practice that andrew carnegie pioneered with carnegie steel corporation would be : controlling the entire market place for a single product in order to set prices
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