Sunday, January 27, 2013

Lincoln's  Obituary

A face we all will remeber




Abraham Lincoln, watching a play with his wife, was shot by John Wilkes Booth, he was a man we all will remember as a man of justice, he fought for equality among Americans. Born in Kentucky, he lived a hard life of constant battles to unify a country. He will be buried in Oak Ridge after a procession he will have in various states.  


Xivil Qar

Apologies for the bad quality, it was recorded with a cellphone, voice may sound weird because it was windy, I was outside so couldn't help the sound of the crickets.

Lyrics:

(Inspired from poems read online)

Soldiers runnig in the woods
with hats instead of hoods
thinking about wives and sons
many preparing their guns,

Soldiers dressed in gray
saying "We'll beat them one day"
Conferate army with their skills
could achieve a thousand kills

The war was fought 
and lives were lost
each side was right and wrong 
who pays that cost?

The north screams out
ALL MEN ARE FREE
the south shouts out
JUST YOU AND ME

The north screams out
YOU MUST LET THEM GO
the south shouts out 
NO FREEDOM NO

The screams turn into cannon blasts
the shouts turn into shots
The civil war has come
The civil war has come

And many will die
and many wives will cry
and many boys did lost their dads
the civil war has come

The war has come with terror in our days
O'er the land of the free?
O'er the home of the brave?













Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Newspaper



The Civil War




During the Civil War, Brady and his associates traveled throughout the eastern part of the country, capturing the effects of the War through photographs of people, towns, and battlefields. Additionally, Brady kept studios in Washington, DC and New York City, where many influential politicians and war heroes sat for portraits. 

In the picture we can appreciate a division in the civil war, camping on their territory, they look very calmed compared to the danger they are living constantly. We can see that they have primitive gun weapons and don't have a strong protection against bullets more than leather outfits, but then again they are not there to take care of their lives, the are there to defend in what they believe. Mathew Brady is in the same danger as they are, taking pictures in the battlefield


Mathew Brady was the first to undertake the photographic documentation of the American Civil War. Brady was almost killed at Bull Run, VA. He got lost for three days and eventually wound up in Washington D.C., nearly dead from starvation. Film maker Ken Burns who is famous for his television series "The Civil War" (1990), said his Civil War series could not have been made if it were not for Mathew Brady's photographs.