Ronald Reagan

people on government do dictate the flow of the country. The 1960’s initiated with a young President in John F. Kennedy and the rhetoric of the American people placed the government as a burden on the people. It was not until the Presidency of Ronald Reagan that the talk suddenly switched to a government that would lend a helping hand to the American families. This change of rhetoric can be attributed to the failures in the social, economic, and political spectrum that led to the lost American…

examples of ongoing situation during that time were: the cold war and consequences of the regean economics. They live, was one of the first movies to introduce the issue of consumerism and the Reagan era. Both the medium of film and 2-D art were greatly influenced by the dual factors of consumerism and reagan era economics (Reaganomics), and has also impacted many people in which one of them is: Shepard Fairey. One big influential factor in the movie, They Live, is consumerism. According to…

In June 1987, President Ronald Reagan gave a speech in West Berlin, calling for Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, to tear down the wall dividing East and West Berlin. Reagan's public speech was sincere and empathetic. He spoke of hope and freedom, and had a strong connection with his audience. Throughout his speech he truly showed the East his genuine concern for wanting to help them. His use of German phrases made it possible for people to empathize with him and feel his sense of…

Just say no,” was a popular slogan when I was growing up. Throughout the 1980’s President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy created a powerful anti-drug campaign that used images like an egg representing a brain, and an egg frying for a brain on drugs. As a kid I couldn’t watch Saturday morning cartoons without being bombarded with anti-drug advertisements. Today kids get a different kind of message, not all drugs are bad regardless of the law. They are getting this message through the…

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,” from…

Speech Analysis: President Ronald Reagan's Address on the Space Shuttle “Challenger” Ever had a day already planned out and then something happens that throws everything array? On the evening of January twenty-eighth in 1986, President Ronald Reagan's main goal of the speech was to mourn and remember the lives lost. Ronald Reagan delivered the speech because he was the President and also because he was fit to present this speech to the public because he's not personally invested in the lives…

It is still unclear whether Reagan himself was in charge of the Iran Contra scandal or if he was only aware of what his administration was doing and decided to neglect interfering with the issue. Either way, Reagan is to blame for this scandal due to his knowledge of what his administration was doing and his failure to stop what was going on. Nicaragua was primarily ruled by the communist Sandinistas until a rebel group, the Contras, emerged. The Contras were democratic, like the United States,…

On July 17, 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which he quoted, “The bill we 're gathered to sign today reflects the will of the American people. It takes the battle to stop drunk driving one crucial step further”. Since 1984 the minimum legal drinking is an on going debate for many U.S. citizens. According to Andrew Stuttaford, he believes that if eighteen year old are allowed to vote, marry, join the military and drive why are they not allowed to drink.…

13. Conduct research on Gary Webb’s death. Based on the information you were able to find; do you feel as if his death should have been ruled a suicide? Explain your answer. Based on the research I conducted on Gary Webb’s death, I think that his death should be ruled as a suicide. The reason Gary Webb’s death should be ruled a suicide because he died from a single shot to the head. The incident took place on December 9, 2004, when the U.S. Press was at the lowest, having recently helped and…

to hear, and with these truths comes some sort of way to distort the truth (Bachevich, 97). One man who appeared to be great at altering the truth was President Ronald Reagan. Bachevich explains that the culture climate is hard to measure, however, there is no doubt that attitudes on war went through a tremendous change during the Reagan era, especially in Hollywood ( Bachevich, 111). After the Vietnam War going to war was no longer the most attractive thing Americans wanted to do, with a…