“Tear Down This Wall”
Started in the 1960s, the Cold War between the Democratic United States of America and the Communistic Soviet Union had become an ongoing issue around the world, and has implemented fear among the German Berliners. The Berlin Wall was built by Communists in August 1961 to retain Germans from departing East Berlin into West Berlin. The wall stood as a symbol of separation and the Cold War between the two countries. On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan, who was known as the “Great Communicator”, came to West Berlin to assure hope to the people of Berlin, both the west and the east. In the well-known speech, “Tear down This Wall”, President Ronald Reagan utilizes ethos, emotional appeal, anaphora, and rhetorical questions to persuade the West Berliners to never give up hope, and entice the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.…