Gettysburg Address- honestly, after only listening to Johnny Cash's version I was more interested. I have previously learned about the Gettysburg address and was bored. As bad as it is to say that about a huge part of history it bored me. Johnny Cash adding the guitar and just his amazing voice saying it made it so much easier to follow and so much easier to listen to. The power point presentation just completely lost me. He made that HUGE speech into basically nothing. It was a short power point, at he same time it was kind of cool seeing how he outlined the main points and just threw them out there for people to absorb. Sometimes all we need is a bottom line.
Convergences - I find it amazing that someone like Abraham Lincoln had advisers help him with his speech. From what I have previously learned about President Lincoln was that he was an extremely intelligent, honest, and trustworthy man. I do not know why it just seems to crazy that someone like him, even that far back in time had to have others review his speech. It almost makes me wonder if he was truly as intelligent as history tells us he was, or did all the advising he had done make him appear to be that intelligent. If you think about it, we could be fooled everyday by the leaders of our country because of the people who work for them. Are our presidents really that intelligent? I realize that is not exactly where they were going with this, but that is all I could think about.
Yes...in the case of Cash, the medium makes the message much more palatable : )
ReplyDeleteIt bears mentioning that the Gettysburg Address was a SPEECH; it was meant to be read aloud, and at the time it may well have been riveting - but we don't always get that from reading about it in a textbook.