lincoln,bush,gettysburg adress and modern medicine?

Question

1) compare abe lincoln to george bush to war presidents
2) describe what you think life was like during the civil war without modern medicine
3) gettysburg address why do people consider it so great ,pls include a quote and why you think it good

Answer 1

1) Both Lincoln and Bush were President of a deeply divided country, and both were vigorously attacked and defended by the Opposition in the press. Still, George Bush's presidency is more comparable to Harry Truman's during the Korean War and the Presidencies of LBJ and Nixon during the Vietnam war. Both those wars were fought in small nations to control their internal polital structures. Both wars were fought out of fear of the consequences of allowing a different way of living to become predominant. Lincoln's war was also to establish a common way of life, but strictly here in the USA.
2) Life was often short and uncomfortable during the 1860's, because medecine wasn't as advanced as it was a hundred years later. Operations, especially battlefield operations, were unsterile and as swift as possible due to the lack of anesthetic, other than alcohol. While laudanum and opium were available to dull pain, they weren't used in the operating theater. Doctors generally "oversaw" the progress of disease because they could do little else. Typhoid, dysentary, tuberculosis and septicemia
killed those soldiers that didn't die of their surgery.
3) Several things make this a great speech, although the people of the era didn't see it that way. First, it's short and to the point. And the point was that, now that the war was over, it was time for the nation to begin healing itself. It paid respect to all those soldiers that died to hold the nation together but it's culminating statement was: " ...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."

Answer 2

Homeopathic medicine should not be confused with natural or herbal medicine, it is much more specific. Homeopathic remedies are prepared by taking small quantities of ingredients and diluting them over and over until as little as one molecule or zero molecules of the original substance remain. The main benefit of homeopathy is that people claim there are no side effects. I believe this is true because there are no effects whatsoever of taking, for example, one molecule of sand. (I saw a homeopathic doctor once who actually prescribed this - "silicea"). The "stronger" the homeopathic remedy, the more times it has been diluted. Homeopathy is fairly similar to witchcraft in that there is a very specific somewhat magical procedure for creating the medicine, a lot like casting a spell, but with no scientific reason to believe the medicine should actually do anything. I am not saying that spells cannot work for some people, but it is not a scientific process. Modern medicine uses plenty of natural chemicals as well as synthetic, however in the interest of purification and cost they often switch to synthetic over time. Additionally the drug companies are more interested in synthetic chemicals which they can patent in order to keep costs unnecessarily high. Natural and herbal medicines can and should still be used when there is scientific evidence that they work and are safe. Again, don't confuse this with homeopathy.

Answer 3

Bush great
hard
truthful "four score"