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023. Write essay of 300words about one of your answers to question…
023. Write essay of 300words about one of your answers to question 5. Explain what you think is left out, why you think it was left out, and what would change if it had been included. You need to focus on a single place in the speech, but you can consider multiple explanations and effects if you’d like to.
5. Find three places in the speech where Reagan seems to be leaving something out, and for each instance:
a. Describe what’s been left out.
b. Identify if it’s a case of oversimplification or subtlety.
5.
1A. “The irresistible power of unarmed truth.”
1B. oversimplification
2A ” A people free to choose will always choose peace”
2B. subtlety
3A- “There was no answer save the bell pouring forth marvelous sound.”
3B – oversimplification
024- READ: Fellow-countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded itall sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without warseeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.
Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answeredthat of neither has been answered fully.
The Almighty has his own purposes. “Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.” If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to him? Fondly do we hopefervently do we praythat this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, “The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphanto do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
2. Describe this speech’s intended audience. Use evidence from the text to support your claims. He’s actually talking to the North. How can we tell?
4. Why does Lincoln use a passive construction and avoid referring to himself in the sentence beginning “While the inaugural address…” in the second paragraph? . He is avoiding being blamed for something…..what is it?
025. Watch two versions of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
1. Describe each version of the play that you watched in one or two sentences. Tell me if it was live or a movie or a recording of a live performance, if the actors were professional or amateur, when it was performed, etc. Provide an MLAcitation for each production you watched.
2. Choose one character from the play to respond to the questions below:
a. How would you describe the way the character’s personality was interpreted in each play? Write one sentence description of each interpretation.
b. What is the biggest difference between the impression of the character you were given in the two productions?
c. What concrete difference in the way the characters were portrayed played the biggest role in creating the difference you just described? (e.g. the actors’ voices, body language, appearance, pacing, added lines, etc
3. Why do you think Miller chose to show the audience what Willy is thinking, but not what anyone else is thinking?
4. Choose one scene that seemed really different in the two productions of the play you watched. Read this scene in the script of the play. Compare the versions of the scene you watched, and write 400word essay in which you:
argue which interpretation is truer to the script and which interpretation is better (they could be the same, or different)
analyze specific examples of differences between the versions you watched to support your opinions, making sure to note the relative importance of the examples you choose
5. Willy talks a lot to his family about what it means to be a great person.
a. How do you think Willy would define greatness?
b. How would you define greatness?
