The North was on the verge of victory prior to Lincoln's 2nd inaugural address. He chooses words and analogies that are humble; he does not brag about victory nor blame one side. Why would he want to avoid blaming either side?

Take some time to create a cultural inventory. note the components of culture that have defined you and list as many as possible here. then write about the ways your unique culture affects your communication, i need i don't know how to start it off .

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

Throughout "sinners in the hands of an angry god," edwards uses imagery in an attempt to make readers feel angry at people who commit sins. respectful toward god and religion. fear about being sent to hell. confident that they will be saved.