Ronald Goldman

Thatcher’s speech to the Americans she conveys the belief that their former president, Ronald Reagan, was an outstanding leader who was able to keep an optimistic attitude during tough times. She supports this idea by describing what he was like in different situations, giving examples of his leadership, and by appealing to the Americans’ patriotism. At the beginning of her speech Thatcher is trying to describe Ronald Reagan as a great leader as well as courageous and able to deal with…

it. In the speeches by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, they use rhetorical strategies to convey their messages. In Tim O’Brien’s book The Things They Carried, rhetorical devices are found throughout his writing. Between these three different texts, rhetorical devices such as similes, personification, irony, and aporia are found throughout their writings as well as others. The authors use them to further expand their own personal purpose. President Ronald Reagan and his, “Evil Empire Speech,”…

American musician and songwriter Bruce Springsteen is considered to be one of America’s most talented rock artists. Much of his music consists of working class values and American culture. He rose to fame with his 1975 album Born to Run and became an even bigger sensation nine years later with his seventh album, Born in the USA. The album featured seven top 10 hits such including “Dancing in the Dark”, “Glory Days”, and “Born in the USA”. The album would go on to reach up to fifteen times…

Since 1969, America has seen an extensive range of presidents in terms of style, personality, rhetoric and overall demeanor towards the American people. A good deal of these qualities overlap in candidates who have won the election. For example most president-elects have said they have strong family values, support a strong American military, and promise to be tough on crime. While these stances have been pitched differently over the years, they all share the same basic ethos; reassurance. It…

resulting in high inflation that spanned Jimmy Carter’s presidency. The 1970s were considered a liberal era that transitioned to a more conservative mindset in the 1980s. This is in part due to the “Reaganomics” ushered in with former Hollywood actor, Ronald Reagan, as the 40th President of the United States. However, the public attitude of social disillusionment penetrated the public schools which “reflected the economic, racial, and social problems of the Unites States as a whole”…

When Jimmy Carter ran in 1976 he came in making himself out to be an outsider that could come in and fix the entire mess in Washington. At the time America was in need of a strong leader and Carter answered this need by coming in with the slogan "A Leader, for a Change". Carter was less known that the other candidates, but he made himself through the challenge with a bound determination. Carter seemed to offer what America was looking for in a strong leader at the time. Carter as a newcomer…

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…

Meaning- “Post-truth” has been named as the word of the year for 2016 by Oxford Dictionaries. It is referred with the meaning as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” According to Oxford Dictionaries, as this word is used as an adjective, it is mainly used in terms of politics and this term is known as “Post-Truth Politics”. HISTORY According to Oxford, it was first used in a…

quite 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…