1. Truthfully, Abe Lincoln did not miss anything critical in my eyes. He lists all the major things he should have addressed for a burial site. He explains how these men were great and how they will be remembered; he explains how they helped shaped the country that was so wonderfully sculpted years before. Abe covers all important things maybe except that the people’s family was hurt and maybe he should have given them his condolences directly, though he did it indirectly.
2. The significance of Abe’s last sentence to the Gettysburg Address was that they would not let those people who died lives is taken away unnecessarily and that the people of this country should fight for the government because it is for them and by them and revolves solely and purposely around them. The sentence also gives an ending to the speech that is most powerful and also empowering those who were family to the deceased. Those whom are dead only die in body- not in the heart of the soul- not in the nucleus of the spirit- but only in the container in which the essence subsist- those that love and care for the dead can feel them in their heart, in their soul, in their mind, and will contain that piece of them forever more.
3. Both the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address were used to empower a nation and a country in a time of need. The way they were both written made the purpose of the documents different. Jefferson uses a list form to show how many unfair rules were established by Britain, while Lincoln used lasting statements to show the people how much there was to say about the bravery and the courage of the fallen.
4. Martin Luther King’s, I Have a Dream Speech does the same with long statements like the Gettysburg Address, he uses them like Lincoln to get effective emotion and thought into his audience.
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