An Obituary for Abraham Lincoln??

An Obituary for Abraham Lincoln??
so i have to write an obituary for lincoln.
what do you think he would have wanted people to remember him for?

Answer by Ice
Born in a log cabin, rises to office in Illinois, becomes President at a crucial time in the USA, and gives his life for the cause.

He didn’t smoke, drink or cuss. He stood by his family against all odds He was adamant in his opinions and dedicated to his cause.

Internationally acclaimed, he stands for unity and freedom.

Answer by Bison downunder
Abraham Lincoln Feb. 12th, 1809-April 15th, 1865
Devoted father and husband, preserver of the Union,
Man of conviction, defender and liberator of those held in bondage.
Commander and Chief of the Armies and Navies which crushed the rebellion of 1861-1865. Protector of the rights of man, faithful to the Democracy set forth by the “Founding Fathers”.

Out of the ravel of rumors and rememberances, stands firm the man, the truth, who can not be dismissed by an assassin’s dreadfull hand.
Our beloved Lincoln; He is gone: He is dead, but the Nation grieves and lives on, because of him.

Walt Whitman, poet and admirer of Lincoln wrote in “Leaves of Grass”, of this fallen hero of the American Union:

O Captain! My Captain! riise up and hear the bells;
Rise up -for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle trills.
For you banquets and ribbon’d wreaths-for you the shores a-crowding.
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning:

Here Captain! Dear Father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You have fallen cold and dead.

-Walt Whitman
Captain Oh Captain

Obituary for Abraham Lincoln?
I need to describe his careers, discoveries, and awards. I would greatly appreciate the help thank you

Answer by bob n
Born of the frontier, educated by firelight, a man of the law and the people. Tested in battle and true to the Constitution. Died for his beliefs and honored by the masses.

Answer by fat man goes to jail again
When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom’d – Walt Whitman
O Captain, My Captain – Walt Whitman

In Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles, Panthea Reid examines the complex life of this iconic feminist hero and twentieth-century literary giant.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Tillie Olsen spent her young adulthood there, in Kansas City, and in Faribault, Minnesota. She relocated to California in 1933 and lived most of her life in San Francisco. From 1962 on, she sojourned frequently in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Santa Cruz, and Soquel, California. She was a 1920s “hell-cat”; a 1930s revolutionary; an early 1940s crusader for equal pay for equal work and a war-relief patriot; an ex-GI’s ideal wife in the later 1940s; a victim of FBI surveillance in the 1950s;a civil rights and antiwar advocate during the 1960s and 1970s; and a life-long orator for universal human rights.

The enigma of Tillie Olsen is intertwined with that of the twentieth century. From the rebellions in Czarist Russia, through the terrors of the Depression and the hopes of the New Deal, to World War II, the Nuremberg Trials, and the United Nations’ founding, to the cold war and House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, to later progressive and repressive movements, the story of Olsen’s life brings remote events into focus.

In her classic short story “I Stand Here Ironing” and her groundbreaking Tell Me a Riddle, Yonnondido, and Silences, Olsen scripted powerful, moving prose about ordinary people’s lives, exposing the pervasive effects of sexism, racism, and classism and elevating motherhood and women’s creativity into topics of study. Popularly referred to as “Saint Tillie,” Olsen was hailed by many as the mother of modern feminism.

Based on diaries, letters, manuscripts, private documents, resurrected public records, and countless interviews, Reid’s artfully crafted biography untangles some of the puzzling knots of the last century’s triumphs and failures and speaks truth to legend, correcting fabrications and myths about and also by Tillie Olsen.

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Do You Need Any Intelligent Insults, Taunts and Rebukes (some here from the real pros)?
Particularly literate people have a way of delivering rebukes and insults. In fact, they do it a lot better than you do.

“A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.” –Louis Nizer

“I feel so miserable without you. It’s almost like having you here.” –Stephen Bishop

“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” –John Bright

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” –Winston Churchill

“A modest little person, with much to be modest about.” –Winston Churchill

“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.” –Irvin S. Cobb

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” –Clarence Darrow

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” –William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? –Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

“He had delusions of adequacy.” –Walter Kerr

“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.” –Abraham Lincoln

“You’ve got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it.” –Groucho Marx

“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.” –Groucho Marx

“He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.” –Robert Redford

“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” –Forrest Tucker

“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” –Mark Twain

“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” –Mae West

“She is a peacock in everything but beauty.” –Oscar Wilde

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” –Oscar Wilde

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” –Oscar Wilde

“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.” –Billy Wilder

Answer by momoftwo
These are great. They made me think of a sign hanging by the door where I work.

All of our members bring joy to our club…Some when they enter, and some when they leave.

Answer by dryheatdave
Grade – B+. Needs more Twain & Wilde.

Answer by mom_2scotty
Reminds me of one by Mark Twain.
Keep your mouth shut and let people think your ignorant instead of opening it and proving that you are.

Answer by smed
good stuff

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