Question

In 140 characters or less, choose three sentences from the Gettysburg address and write them in your own words. Please identify the sentences you are rewriting. You are Lincoln and you want to tweet the three most important sentences in one tweet.

Gettysburg Address

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on 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. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. 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. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - Abraham Lincoln

Answer 1

"Our nation was created based on freedom and the concept that all men are equal." (First sentence of the first paragraph)

"Our men, with great courage, living and dead, fought to ensure that these concepts were respected." (Seventh sentence of the first paragraph.)

"In honor of the men who fought, we must give this nation a new beginning, where everything is done for the people, which is the most important thing we have." (Second sentence of the second paragraph.)

Step-by-step explanation:

What we've just done with the sentences presented above is called Paraphrase. The paraphrase is nothing more than the act of rewriting a sentence or a text, modifying the words used by the author of the original text, but keeping the meaning that the original text presents.

The sentences presented above are paraphrases of sentences from the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln's speech at the end of the American Civil War, reinforcing the need to create an egalitarian America that places its citizens above any kind of wealth.