ENGL 2001 Chapter : Pg775 From Practical Argument Textbook
Document Summary
In abraham lincoln"s famous speech the gettysburg address he starts with relating the issues of that time period, the slavery of african americans, to how plainly that the declaration of independence states that all mean are created equally. Lincoln also uses pathos to impact the americans to come to terms with the idea that the living and dead soldiers fought for a reason and fought to create a new form of freedom for all. Abraham lincoln"s argument was mostly an ethical argument. Lincoln expressed that it would be wrong to allow all the soldiers" actions, dead and alive, which fought in the civil war to be forgotten or to be without a reason. This speech could also be viewed as a proposal argument because it was created it to justify president.
