Nancy Reagan

John Green made the right decision by opening his speech with a story. Even so, his delivery techniques could use improvement. For example, within the first thirty seconds Green activated his PowerPoint presentation by turning his back to the audience, and pointing the clicker directly at the screen. Within the first minute of his speech Green also stuttered, and added the filler word “uh” in unnecessarily. Green continued on with an inward tisk about a minute and seventeen seconds in. I counted…

Republican Nomination. In 1980, Reagan entered the Republican nomination battle with support from the Republican Party in the polls. At this point Reagan had been in the national political presence for around 16 years and in the movie/film presence for about 30 years before that. “There was some suggestion among journalists that he remained something of an enigmatic figure to the mass public. As Newsweek put it, "at the very hour of his coronation... as the Republican nominee, he remains only…

equate truth with bad news and we didn’t want bad news anymore, no matter how true or vital to our health as a nation. We looked to our government to protect us from the truth.” The Iran/Contra scandal under the Reagan administration only emphasized the point, Tesich argued: “President Reagan perceived correctly that the public really didn’t want to know the truth. So he lied to us, but he didn’t have to work hard at it. He sensed that we would gladly accept his loss of memory as an alibi. It…

presumptuous of man to believe that he is the only ‘intelligent’ life in the universe. So, I guess that means that I do believe aliens exist. However, I am not alone in my beliefs: Professor John Dewey, General Douglas MacArthur and President Ronald Reagan all acknowledged their belief in extraterrestrials during speeches: Professor John Dewey (Philosophy Columbia University) stated in 1917: “Someone remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some…

I will attempt to illuminate some of the important issues Mr. Grimes glosses over. In looking through the articles selected by Mr. Grimes selected, I was stunned there was no mention of the Economic Tax Recovery Act of 1981. In 1979/80, President Reagan campaigned on a pledge to lower taxes. According to the tax foundation, the effect of this was a 25% cut in marginal tax rates. This decrease in revenue coupled with a massive increase in defense spending led to an increase in the federal…

Is mass incarceration really the solution? Why is a drug like alcohol legal, and other drugs are not? Why does the misuse, and abuse of drugs, such as marijuana, and cocaine lead to harsher sentences than the misuse, and abuse of alcohol? The answer lies in on the War on Drugs. Before I lead in to the crux of my argument, let me juxtapose one more question, Was the War on Drugs even necessary? While I was always weary on the whole premise for making our communities safer by discouraging the use…

The presidential election of 1896 was among one of the most important in U.S history. The two candidates that face each other where the democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan, and the republican candidate William McKinley. The end result would be the savior of the three most powerful men in America.3 William McKinley a Governor from Ohio would be the republican candidate of the 1896 election. He would run supporting the gold standard and lean toward the side of big business in America. With…

Edwin Hubble was an Astronomer and scientist who changed our entire cosmology and revolutionized the field of astrophysics. Hubble’s research helped to prove the universe is expanding and he also created a classification system for galaxies we now call the Hubble sequence. He has been called one of the most influential astronomers since the times of Galileo, Kepler and Newton.On November 20th, 1889 in Marshfield, Missouri, Edwin Hubble was born to parents John Powell Hubble, an insurance…

election. Reagan had portrayed Jimmy Carter as being weak in these areas in order to win election in 1980 (Diggins 161). He used a similar strategy to try to paint Carter’s Vice-President as embodying a similar view. Under Reagan’s presidency defense spending had shot up dramatically Reagan’s first budget featured $36 billion more in defense spending than Carter’s, defense spending as a percentage of the budget had grown from 22.6 percent in 1981 to 26.8 percent in 1984 (Pomper 54). Reagan…

Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan was our 40th president and regarded as one of the best to ever step foot into the office. He is praised for his Republicanism, his ability to talk to people very easily, and his anticommunism. Becoming an actor gave him the edge on his ability to talk to people as if they were his friends. A president that can talk to the people is a president the people will love. This gave him a tremendous backing to anything he did and he used this power to take down Soviet…