I believe a PowerPoint would’ve taken away from what President Lincoln was trying to say. Lincoln was a powerful speaker and I do not believe he needed any aids in helping him get his point across. The way this particular slideshow was set up was annoying to me. The main points that they supposedly stated were mostly just pieces of what he was he saying at that particular time in the speech. It was very distracting as well and surely President Lincoln or any other president for that matter will ever use PowerPoints while giving a speech. I was in the military and they love to use PowerPoints. Any time we were forced to sit through training on fraternization, drinking and driving, and sexual consent it was via PowerPoint. They were the driest and boring aspect from my time in the NAVY. Everyone dreaded having to do training simply because they were so terrible and dated. Honestly, I’m not sure what the difference between a good slideshow and a bad slideshow considering all the ones I have been forced to sit through were not…show more content… These pictures would project the values in which America stands for. Symbols such as the American eagle or white dove that represent freedom. Perhaps it could have some broken chains in the pictures considering that is what those men who gave their lives were trying to accomplish. I mean it is one the most famous speeches in history, so I’m not too sure that it needed any changes or additives. In certain ways, visuals could lessen the power of spoken especially if the visuals are not thought out very well. In many great speeches of our time they had no visuals and were perhaps the most famous and well said rhetoric in history. For example, Martin Luther King Jr’s I have a dream speech would’ve probably been lessened with visuals. It simply did not need any and stood out on its own by the words that Mr. King so eloquently spoke to get his point
