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how can we reduce, reuse and recycle at home and at school?  our school recycles printer ink cartridges and old cell phones.  we have tried to reduce the amount paper we use by using computers to do most of our work.  also we try to reduce the the amount of electricity we use by shutting our computers off at the end of the day,  since our school is new we have automatic lights that cut off after so long so abraham lincoln wrote the gettysburg address in 1863. the speech was given because abraham lincoln was reminding people about the billions of people that died from the battle of gettysburg during the american civil war and because he was asked to speak a few words at the dedication ceremony for the soldiers national cemetery in gettysburg, pennsylvania. the short speech given by president lincoln at the dedication of the new cemetery at gettysburg several months after the battle – what we now know as the gettysburg address – has, over time, had a tremendous political impact on americans. president lincoln had a  clear understanding of the american founding.. in gettysburg, pennsylvania on november 19, 1863 abraham lincoln made this speech:. 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. 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.