AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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An author might dedicate a book to a friend.
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A chef might dedicate ingredients to a recipe.
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A doctor might dedicate an injury to a patient.
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A soldier might dedicate supplies to a knapsack.
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Detailed explanation-1: -These are examples of antithesis: “Man proposes, God disposes.”-Source unknown. “Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.”-Goethe. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”-Neil Armstrong.
Detailed explanation-2: -So, here “dedicated” expresses how the country is founded, or based on an idea or ideal. “We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Detailed explanation-3: -Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition 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.