Showing posts with label government course. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government course. Show all posts

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Riddle

Force Koran Heaven Yea Sago Hour Force Feathers Brought Fourth Upon Cis Continent Anew Neigh Shun conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle 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 so that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, [I cannot concentrate] 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 [yet I am supposed to memorize what they said there... :], 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 the 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.

I had to memorize that, so I typed it from memory. I am now thoroughly tired of the Gettysburg Address! Yes, it's a very good speech, but after mumbling it at random times of day and night, I'd like to have a break from it.
I am now finishing week three (I think?) of fourteen for my government curriculum, which means I'm way behind. Again. I should be further. I don't really have time to take all fourteen weeks, so I'm smushing it into seven. Oh, and by week three I don't mean "I'm almost half-way done." By week three, I mean "following the 14 week lesson plan, I'm on week three, but according to my smushedintosevenweekslessonplan, I'm only 1 1/2 weeks in." >=P
Until we remembered I had a government course to do, I was laughing at the people who complain about how busy senior year is. I'm sorry for laughing now.
~Kiwi~