Lincoln's Gettysburg Address vs. Pericles Funeral Oration

Outline

I.
    a. Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States during the Civil War. This was a war in which the United States was fighting against itself. Many soldiers had just died in the war, and a funeral was being held for them. Lincoln takes this time to talk about how maintaining democracy is extremely important to make sure that the soldiers never will have lost their lives for nothing. In his Gettysburg address, Lincoln is addressing an audience of devastated families that have lost their husbands, sons, and fathers.
    b.Pericles was an Athenian leader during the Peloponnesian war. After the first battle of this war, Pericles used the time during a public funeral to talk about the values of democracy. He says that no one man can have only himself to depend upon and still be content. He is also addressing an audience of devastated relatives of soldiers that perished fighting for their country. It is Athens versus Sparta, Greeks versus Greeks. It is the same country against itself, just as in the civil war of the United States.
    c. Thesis statement: Abraham Lincoln does a better job striking a point across in his Gettysburg Address because he expresses more information about saving the country and what those who died were fighting for while Pericles talks more about how the Athenians need to stick together with themselves to win the battle; in short, Lincoln wants to solve the problems between the two sides, while Pericles wants to win the war, and not worry about the problems with the enemy.
II.
    a. Abraham Lincoln and Pericles both do a good job appealing to Patriotism, but Lincoln does a better job all around. In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln talks about how the country needs to be all together to function properly, and how in order