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He desperately wanted the role of George Gipp, a football player for Notre Dame who was terminally ill. After beating out dozens of actors, Reagan was casted for the part and critics considered it one of his best roles. Just a year later, in 1941, Reagan’s most memorable film came out called…

Some of our deepest secrets correlate with our wrongest doings. We hide the truth with the hope of either keeping ourselves from trouble or protecting someone from the truth. We make these decisions out of spite or personal pleasure not considering its long term effects. We believe that the truth won 't come out and we will succeed in getting away with it. It is not usually the fact that we lied that makes us upset but the fact that we got caught. Secrets are not exclusive to a certain age or…

Throughout history we have had 44 presidencies that spanned back to the early days of our nation. Each president, know for there great triumphs or terrible failures, has a place in the past that will never be forgotten. Of course some stand out more than others, especially a man named Ronald Reagan. Recent polls show show Ronald Reagan is now rated as one of the best presidents ever, better than Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt. He, in himself, is the essence of the American…

Since his service in office, Ronald Reagan has been known to be one of the few presidents that is still glorified today. According to the ABC News Poll, taken in February 16-20, 2000, out of 1,012 adults Reagan was ranked fifth. He was ranked above George Washington and below Franklin D. Roosevelt. As a president I think some of his best leadership characteristics shown while in office were his public persuasion, moral authority, and economic management. Even with his good approval ratings…

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, also known as L. Ron Hubbard was an author and the founder of the Church of Scientology. Scientology is a religion based off of a fiction piece of work, Dianetics. Dianetics describes a program of self improvement and spiritual awakening and continues to be the Scientology bible. The church currently has over seven hundred churches, missions and groups, and Dianetics still sells over four hundred thousand copies a year. As a result of L. Ron Hubbard’s determination,…

1979 President Carter was on the decline and his approbation rating was not looking good. It was Election time and Future president Ronald Regan asked a question to the Americans that was visually examining the debate as it was shown on TV “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” An astronomical majority of the voters in America verbally expressed No and elected President Regan by 10 points in the popular vote. The term was engendered in 1979 during a time in which the Coalesced States…

Rick Perlstein Nixonland takes us back to the 1960’s and 1970’s in America, during the time of Richard Nixon. Through times of riots happening in Los Angeles which were the Watts riots to America being divided within. Richard Nixon did not have an easy life with family hardships, and the death of two brothers it was not easy for Nixon. At school Nixon was a very good at debating which he became the Debate Team president, and the only way to his father’s attention which Perlstein wrote “the…

Prominent Leader: Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan is by far one of the most charismatic leaders I’ve ever heard of. His charisma is clear in all of his speeches and so simple to understand. Rallying Americans across the United States to take a stand and keep government small and the people’s interests big. Some of the issues he faced was a continued race war (which is still being fought now) throughout America. In a speech, as the Republican Presidential nominee he told a crowd of African…

“Cheerful”, “invigorating”, “large-hearted magnanimity” - these are the remarks Margaret Thatcher delivers to the American people in her eulogy honoring their former president and her close friend, Ronald Reagan. Her familiar tone, repetition, and use of juxtaposition help commemorate Reagan's life and legacy: hard work and devotion towards his country. In the passage, Thatcher begins with “ We [the American citizens and herself] have lost great president, a great American, and a great man”.…

Introduction: Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United states. Through his life he accomplished many great feats. Ronald Reagan was a man that was truly talented in many different aspects. He was involved in many different platforms as an actor, governor, and finally a president. As an actor he worked as president of the Screen Actor’s Guild. There he met Nancy (Davis) Reagan, his future wife. Throughout his entire career as an actor he appeared in more than 50 films. Soon after his…