Reagan assassination attempt

Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. He served as President from Jan. 20, 1981 to Jan. 19, 1989. During the 1980 presidential election, he beat the Democratic incumbent Jimmy Carter with 50.7% of the votes. He went on to win a second term in what can be considered a landslide victory garnering 58.8% of the votes. Depending on who you talk too, some would say Reagan made the country a much better place to live, while others would wholeheartedly disagree. Reagan's supporters…

listeners is that the state of the country is at an all-time record high. Reagan uses many examples to show this throughout his speech in ways that the audience can relate to and agree with, thus showing associational identification. These facts and examples are used in order to cover up what was actually going on at the time when it came to the status of the United States. Through the use of associational identification Ronald Reagan manages to ignore the rising federal budget in order to…

1) The event I would like to analyze is a Second 2016 GOP (Republican National Committee) President Debate, which happened on 09-16-2015. The point of the event was for eleven candidates from Republican Party to debate and answer questions. The event was aimed at candidates to promote themselves and tell about their plans and views to all people of America to try and persuade them to give their votes for them. Showing their beliefs, candidates tried to persuade the viewers in their…

President Reagan revived military programs that Carter had cut, as well as restart the arms race (Schultz, 2013). His efforts would restart the Cold War. Reagan would provide financial aid to developing anticommunist countries, such as El Salvador, which would become known as the Reagan Doctrine. During this time the Soviet Union’s economy had begun to collapse. This was the beginning of the end of the Cold War. In 1980 s series of strikes were staged by shipworkers in Poland. These strikes…

Outline President Ronald Reagan's Speech about D-Day is a very powerful speech. The speech was about the US Army Rangers that landed on the beaches in normandy France on June 6th, 1944. The speech was given in front of the memorial of the 2nd and 5th Ranger battalions who gave their lives on that cliff. This speech that uses a rhetoric style of writing. As a rhetoric style of writing it uses the devices of Logos, Ethos, Pathos, Telos, and Kairos to give a great speech. The use of Logos is shown…

children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,” quoted Ronald Reagan. I think what he meant by that was that you MUST fight for your education. It is not just going to be handed to you. So you have to work for it. Not everything in life is going to be handed to you. He was the the fortieth president. President Ronald Reagan was the best leader because in his early life he graduated from Eureka College in majors in economics and sociology…

Napoleon Dynamite, Justin Bieber, and da Bears, Ronald Reagan and his presidency are extremely polarizing. For years, republicans look to Reagan as a great example of conservatism, while democrats labeled Reagan as an extremist and a Great Prevaricator. Many policies and behaviors were neither flagrantly good nor bad, it merely depends on the political perspective of the individual. Undisputedly, the modern world still witnesses the effects of the Reagan era. The legacy of Reagan’s Presidency…

The war on drugs has been a term coined for the battle against illegal substance use that began in the 1970’s. People believe that this is the only solution to eradicate the ever-growing problem of drug use and addiction, but the reality is that the war on drugs is not working. It has failed the people of the United States. This war has led to an increase in the incarceration rate, failed policies, and the death of many Americans. The United States is known internationally as “the land of the…

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois, on Monday, February 6th, 1911. He graduated from Dixon high in 1928, as an athlete and Student body President and performed in many school plays. Reagan enrolled and attended Eureka college of Illinois on an athletic scholarship, where he majored in Economics and Sociology. He also played football, ran track, captained the swim team, served as student council president and acted in school productions. Graduating in 1932, he found an open…

Outside activist groups, though sometimes anti-Reagan, provided an alternative to his myth. Americas Watch Report published a write up on the state of human rights in Nicaragua in 1985 that painted a different picture then the one Reagan painted. While this group was aligned against Reagan, this perspective is still important as it allow us to understand that the truth was likely somewhere in between this and what Reagan was saying. The main message of this document was that the Sandinista…