Declaration Of Independence / Gettysburg Address

From what I read, the articles talked about two of the most important documents in America history: The Declaration of Independence, and the Gettysburg Address.

To be honest, I didn't quite catch everything about this, because history's not my thing... usually. But in ways, I did pay attention, because of re-collections of learning about the Declaration in Middle School, and reading some for a project I did on the Civil War (learning about the Confederate General: Robert Lee).

Both these documents symbolize a type of freedom, of wanting men to be created equal. In ways today, thinking about George Carlin of how he discussed about it long as ten years ago (yeah, LONG ago, but still), the ways of how today people are like, doesn't show as much devotion to the documents like back centuries ago.



When I listened to the recording of Johnny Cash's interpretation of the Gettysburg Address, I was amused. The way he played the guitar half way through the piece, reminded me of one of those commercials on TV you would see, dealing with health care, or insurance. In ways, his piece, along with his reading, was quite interesting to hear in a mixture!

- As a side interest, it's kinda neat to hearing about how the writer emphasized the capitalization within the Declaration. They broke the 'rules' to writing, and only use it sparely, on parts that they wanted to emphasis to the reader much more.


That's all I can say about this topic really. I can probably get a better grasp in it in class personally, but it isn't to say I was COMPLETELY lost with what the topic was about.