Joshua Wolf Shenk wrote that one of Lincoln's adaptation strategies was "transcendence" (rising above or even using "melancholy" to achieve a higher purpose). According to Shenk, what was Lincoln's "higher purpose?" Provide a direct quotation from the article to support your analysis. What idea or insight in the full article would you recommend to others (a friend, perhaps)? Provide a direct quotation from the article to support your analysis.

Explanation:

Lincoln's Melancholy was a famous book written on the life of United States of America's first President, Abraham Lincoln. It was his biography showing his life and his struggle against all the odds in his life.

Lincoln higher purpose in life was to serve the people of America and and provide a good future to the citizens of America. He is considered to be one of the greatest President America had. This was his higher purpose to see a great Union.

Quote: As President, Lincoln argued his countrymen to accept their blessings and their burden, to see that their suffering had meaning, and to join him to a journey toward a more perfect Union."

I would like to recommend the idea of determination and self believe that is shown in this article by Shenk. Lincoln was very hard working and his country motivated him to achieve his dream of serving his country despite of all the suffering and failures in his life.  

This is provided by the quote, " This is the story of a man who joined great pain and  great power."

the berlin blockade was an international crisis that arose from an attempt by the soviet union, in 1948–49, to force the western allied powers (the united states, the united kingdom, and france) to abandon their post-world war ii jurisdictions in west berlin. in march 1948 the allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of germany into a single economic unit. in protest, the soviet representative withdrew from the allied control council. coincident with the introduction of a new deutsche mark in west berlin (as throughout west germany), which the soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the allies, the soviet occupation forces in eastern germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between berlin and the west. on june 24 the soviets announced that the four-power administration of berlin had ceased and that the allies no longer had any rights there.