•what is identity? to what extent do we determine our own identities? what influence does society have?

Identity is a set of acttitudes and characteristics that differentiate us from other people, identity begins to form inside the family nucleus and is determined mainly by the environment in which the individual develops, then adolescence shows up and society comes into play, there we adopt other values and even modify some of our own, the society in which we develop will tell us which values are more accepted than others, but when we reach adulthood, we are a little more capable of determining what we accept and what we don´t, but our identity has already formed. 

Was giving by lincoln on march 4, 1865-as lincoln prepared to speak, the civil war was drawing to a close-lincolns address of 703 words was the second shortest inaugural address-lincoln mentions god 14 times-505 of the words were one syllable -he used the word "war" or it's pronoun 9 times