Bixby coveys not only a sense of sympathy and compassion towards the anguished mother, but also a sense of gratitude and thankfulness for letting her sacrifice her sons for a greater cause. The deaths of a mother's sons prompt the president to write a personal and passionate letter to console and comfort her loss. The reader sympathizes with the mother and understands her lost, yet feels proud for the family who sacrificed five sons for freedom. ... Lincoln realizes that such a great loss must have crushed the household, especially since most American's had not seen War prior to ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

And a number of embryos are already donated to science through private funding why not through government funding also. ... Scientist argue that a five day old cluster of cells is not an embryo, not yet an individual, but a pre-embryo. He agrees it does have the potential for life, but it is not a life because it cannot develop on its own. President Bush talked about the United States" long and proud record of leading the world toward advances in science and medicine that improves human life and the world's highest standard of upholding good ethical practice. ... President Bush ...

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Overshadowed by the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon had a tumultuous childhood that included poverty and multiple deaths. ... When Richard Nixon was a child, he was not an aristocrat; his family was not in a position to belong in the upper class. ... Shaking the foundations of Richard's heart, Arthur's death gave Richard the burden of trying to make up for the loss of his dear brother to his parents by having them be more proud of him. ... Naturally, Richard took his oldest brother's death extremely hard. ... Originally one of five brothers, Richard had to endure two of his br...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate