Ronald Reagan's Essay: Actions Speak Louder Than Words

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Leadership is not always about taking control, making things happen, or doing things your own way. It’s about how one can motivate, transform, and impel a person, or other people into something sumptuous. Many people say that actions speak louder than words, but that is not always the case. Actions are when you have total control, that you are vindictive is some ways and you as a whole can betide. In the speech of Ronald Reagan articulating on about the Brandenburg gate, his tone of voice was not impertinent or disrespectful . His tone of voice and inclination was empowering, it made the people understand the situation. Ronald Reagan was not trying to control or have leadership upon Berlin and the wall that divided them as a country.

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