Read the excerpt from abraham lincoln’s gettysburg address. four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon 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. what is lincoln’s purpose in the excerpt? to recall the names of famous national leaders to suggest the need for a new government to emphasize the nation’s beliefs and ideals to demand an end to the civil war

alright, so here, the author clearly thinks that flooding the canyon was a bad idea and is showing bias against it.

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.