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    living in America. As the social and economic standpoint of America as a world power grew, the American people needed to adjust their way of living. Starting with President John Kennedy as a republican president and ending this period of time with Ronald Reagan, a conservative president, the presidential shift represents the social, economic, and…

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    4, 1980 The presidential election of 1980 characterized a race between the following candidates: Ronald Reagan (for the Republican Party), Jimmy Carter (for the Democrat Party), and John B. Anderson (Independent), were running – at that time – for the presidency of the United States. During the period of time – and after – the president election of 1980, some democrats came to be recognized as “Reagan Democrats.” Democrats gave millions of pivotal suffrages to the Republican candidate. The…

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    culture today, and we have the lifestyle that we do because of the eighties. The main parts of the eighties that impact our culture today were Ronald Reagan, music and TV, and fashion. Ronald Reagan impacted the culture of the eighties, which continues to impact the culture today. He cut taxes, increased employment, and stimulated economic growth. When Reagan was president,…

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    discusses the notion of being a city on a hill. In Winthrop 's speech he tells his shipmates that they will to be a “city on a hill”. Many major politicians have referenced the “city on a hill” speech such a former presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Kennedy’s speech and Reagan’s farewell address use Winthrop’s “City upon a Hill” speech differently. Kennedy uses the speech in a positive way because he is about to enter the office for his presidency and therefore he doesn’t know how…

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    The former Prime Minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher, delivered a thoughtful eulogy to honor her close friend and former United States President, Ronald Reagan, to the American people on June 11, 2004. She honors Ronald Reagan’s legacy in her speech by attesting to his character as a leader, friend, and an American. Thatcher accomplishes this through parallelism, anaphora and juxtaposition. She also creates a fluctuating tone through her contrasting diction of playfulness and…

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    A Biography On Ronald Wilson Reagan Ronald Reagan began his political career as Governor of California from 1967-75, and was part of the Republican Party, although he was originally a democrat before his political views changed. After his term expired , he returned to acting until 1979, when he started to campaign for his presidential election. He became president and the Iran hostages were released. This led people to believe he had foreign power. On March 30, 1981, an attempt was made to…

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    play with it’s citizens’ emotions. The nation’s 40th president, Ronald Reagan, brought the citizens to the truth by one of his most famous quotes: “The most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” Those nine words may be the most terrifying words in the English language because of the US government’s past actions, current actions, as well as who and why are they helping. Ronald Reagan was able to use his usage of language to educate the…

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    Ronald Reagan, a Republican and a conservative, based his political career on cutting down taxes and increasing America’s defense system. The goal being to be supreme and make the Soviet Union back down. He was largely responsible for the end of the Cold War with Russia . The people liked Reagan because he supported capitalism, family values, good morals and appealed to many conservative, Christian…

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    government programs, and administrative decisions which are directly related to all things that directly affect the people in its own country ("Cambridge Dictionaries Online (US)"). I will be analyzing the three presidents: Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, on the basis of how strong or limited they were on their domestic policies. Bill Clinton was chosen for being able to balance the budget and bring the unemployment rate down to its’ lowest. William “Bill” Clinton was born…

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    policies and pass them so that the East part of Europe and the East part of The Soviet Union would corporate and agree to trade policies with the Soviet Union. In December of 1987 Mikhail Gorbachev signed an agreement with United States president, Ronald Wilson Reagan.(Tatyana Tolstaya) The agreement was for both the Soviet Union and the United States of America to destroy any and all stacks of nuclear tipped missiles because they caused many problems to both the Soviet Union and the United…

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