The gettysburg address "fourscore and seven years ago 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 brave men, living 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." from the chicago times "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.

It looks as though this essay should be an argumentative/persuasive essay.  As such, there are two main ways to construct this.  Knowing you should refute two points from the article, you could do this by either mentioning the opposing viewpoints first then your refutes (known as the block method), or you could do this point by point by stating an opposing viewpoint, then refuting it in the same paragraph (known as the point-by-point method).  That said, here are two sample outlines assuming you mention two points:

OUTLINE 1 (Block Method)

Introduction

Body Paragraph 1

 -opposing viewpoint 1

 -opposing viewpoint 2

Body Paragraph 2

 -your refute of opposing viewpoint 1

 -your refute of opposing viewpoint 2

Conclusion

OUTLINE 2 (Point-by-Point)

Introduction

Body Paragraph 1

 -opposing viewpoint 1

 -your refute of opposing viewpoint 1

Body Paragraph 2

 -opposing viewpoint 2

 -your refute of opposing viewpoint 2

Conclusion

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.

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