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The Iran-Contra Affair, of 1986, quickly made the headlines in newspapers worldwide. The sale of arms to Iran that were to improve U.S. influence in Middle Eastern countries would become more than just that. The Iran-Contra Affair portrays how President Reagan and other politicians had broken their oath by giving into negotiation with terrorists and breaking other laws. There were many nations involved in this affair. The main ones were the United States, Iran, and Nicaragua (Weiss et al.1)…

President Ronald Reagan’s anti-liberal stance sparked a “conservative realignment” led by the “religious Right.” (pg. 1173-1174) More religious conservatives advanced their political agenda based off of faith and religion, taking over radio and television stations, organizing anti-liberal “mega churches,” and operating entire schools and universities. (pg. 1174) In 1979, religious conservative Reverend Jerry Falwell created a group titled the “Moral Majority,” a campaign that reflected the…

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…

Throughout “It’s Morning Again in America”, Ronald Reagan’s main point that he is trying to get across to the 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…

Bill O’ Reilly and Martin Dugard took it upon themselves to continue their popular series with an attempt at telling the great story of Ronald Reagan. Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and his story is very remarkable including a defining moment in his life when John Hinckley Jr. took an attempt on Reagan’s life. In Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency, the authors use that event as a basis for the book and look to show the significance of that event.…

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…

Much like 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…

Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan once said “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one who gets the people to do the greatest things.” Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States and served from 1981 – 1989. Reagan was an actor, who made many films in the time before elected to the presidency. Ronald Reagan was a strong leader because he inspired, protected, and united the American people. Reagan inspired the American people. He stated…

Introduction With recent events stirring controversy and interest in the 2016 presidential primaries, it may be time to look back at possibly the most controversial scandal in recent memory. On January 7, 1999, for the second time in United States history the Senate began impeachment proceedings against a sitting president. William Jefferson Clinton (Bill Clinton), the 42nd President of the United States of America, was impeached in the House of Representatives on December 19, 1998; and then…

In addition to the direct failures of the intervention, we can learn a great deal about the American failure through the consequences of Somalia. Domestic politics drives foreign policy, and in the case of Somalia, the domestic backlash sheds light on what was a step in the wrong direction for security as seen through Presidential Decision Directive 25. After the tragedy of the battle of Mogadishu and Black Hawk Down, President Clinton was facing mounting domestic pressure to ‘bring the boys…