1. Jane has written fourteen articles for the newspaper in the past year. Would you say that she has been prolific in her output?

Walt Whitman

WORD LIST 

ampler                      teeming                   vast                  breadth                prolific                      multitudes

A. DIRECTIONS: In each of the following items, think about the meaning of the italicized word or phrase, and then answer the question.

1. Would someone be likely to describe Whitman's cramped, tenement apartment in New York City as vast? Explain.

 

2. Which would be ampler: many acres of farmland or a studio apartment in the city? Explain.

 

3. Which person would you expect to have more breadth of experience, a seventeen year-old student or a fireman who has had 25 years on the job? Explain.

 

4. During the 1800 s, would you expect to find multitudes of buffalo in an area where many were hunted and killed? Explain.

 

5. Jane has written fourteen articles for the newspaper in the past year. Would you say that she has been prolific in her output? Explain.

 

6. The fishing boat discovered a shoal that was teeming with cod. Would the boat be likely to make good money when it returned to shore after fishing? Explain.

 

Fourscore and seven years apo 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 turave men, livng 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."

 

"Readers will not have failed to observe the exceeding bad taste which characterized the remarks of the President - The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat, and dish-watery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the President of the United States."

 

Write an essay of at least two to three paragraphs analyzing this newspaper remark from the Chicago Times, Use specific quotations from the Gettysburg Address to support or refute the newspaper's claim. (100 points)