Margaret Thatcher was an important and very accomplished European leader. She was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and was in office from 1979 to 1990. She was also the first woman to have held the office in the United Kingdom. This was already a major accomplishment. Margaret was very political by starting her own movements to help Britain out of their high unemployment levels, which is one of the most important things she did when she was in office. She was a great leader for the United Kingdom. One of Margaret’s main successes was how she helped Britain during their struggles. Not only did she help them get out of the low employment levels, but she also helped the economy recover. Everyone was grateful for how much she helped them. Her way of getting the citizens more jobs was by making labor units more flexible, making some of the businesses owned by the government given to people, and reducing trading company power. This big accomplishment shows that she is very political. She stills uses Machiavelli’s political advice. Margaret did follow some advice that Machiavelli had given. Machiavelli says “every prince should desire to be considered merciful” which Margaret was (71). She was loved by many people. Everyone loved her so much that she became very popular and even got elected for her third term. …show more content…
She was very political like Machiavelli, she had many great qualities of a leader, she was good at helping her country, and she is both loved and feared. If Machiavelli was there when she was ruling, he would say she was a perfect example of a leader. He said it was better to be feared “if one of the two has to be lacking” but luckily, Margaret had the perfect combination of both. She was loved by her country and feared by the others. Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for the time that she ruled the United
To apply this rhetorical strategy, she incorporates several crucial phrases and words to which one can appertain. One example of Thatcher’s use of diction occurs in line twenty-three of her eulogy when she refers to Reagan as “Ronnie.” While to the reader, this name is but a sobriquet Thatcher uses for Reagan, one must identify her use of diction to understand her intention for using this name. After analyzing the word’s connotation instead of its denotation, the reader can discover that she incorporates this word into her eulogy to give the reader a thorough comprehension of the friendship they shared. For the reader, this diction permits him or her to identify Thatcher’s credibility, and for Thatcher, she strengthens her claim by validating her relation with Reagan. Thatcher, however, goes beyond reinforcing her claim through credibility; upon analysis of her eulogy, one can recognize her use of diction to depict historical occurrences surrounding Reagan’s presidency. The reader can identify an example of this tactic when Thatcher states in lines five and six, “[Reagan] sought to mend America’s wounded spirit” (Thatcher). On a superficial level, this
On September 14, 1879, Margaret Sanger was born in Corning, New York. She was the sixth child of eleven children and realized early what being part of a large family meant; just making due. Although her family was Roman Catholic both her mother and father were of Irish descent. Her mother, Anne Purcell had a sense of beauty that was expressed through and with flowers. Her father was an Irish born stonemason whose real religion was social radicalism. Her father was a free thinker and strong believer in eugenics which meant Margaret possessed some of the same values. (Sanger, Margaret) Eugenics is the belief that one race is better than a different race just because they are not like them, kind of like Hitler and the holocaust. “He expected me to be grown up at the age of ten.” (Source 4.3 page 30) Coming from a family of eleven children she did have to grow up fast. Faster than most kids should have to. She left her house as a teenager and came back when she needed to study nursing. It was during this time that Margaret worked as a maternity nurse helping in the delivery of babies to immigrant women. She saw illegal abortions, women being overwhelmed by poverty, to many children, and women dying because they had no knowledge of how to prevent one pregnancy after another. This reminded her of the fact that her own mother had eighteen pregnancies, eleven children, and died at the age of forty-nine. Margaret dropped out of school and moved in with her sister. She ended up teaching first grade children and absolutely hated it. She hated children at that time. When Margaret was a child herself however, she would dream about living on the hill where all the wealthy people lived. She would dream of playing tennis and wearing beautiful c...
To sum briefly, Margret Thatcher did many positive things to the British country, as well as bad things. On the one hand, she fought for her country, regardless of how much it would cost the country, for instance taking back the Falkland Islands. On the other hand, she changed people’s view on women and she was part of making Britain what it is today. However, she was also responsible for high unemployment, poverty and a divide in the social
British princess. Born August 21, 1930, at Glamis Castle in Scotland, as the second daughter of King George VI of the United Kingdom (who ruled from 1937 to his death in 1952) and sister of Queen Elizabeth II (1952--). In the early 1950s, the romance between Margaret—then third in line to the throne after her sister’s two children, Charles and Anne—and Group Captain Peter Townsend, a highly decorated World War II fighter pilot and recent divorcé, caused quite a scandal both within and outside of the British royal family.
Margaret thatcher was an influential politician who changed the political landscape of britain over the 11 years that she was in power. Although many of her policies were not popular she held strong to what she believed was best for
Personality wise, she was persuasive, determined, confident, ambitious, risk-taking, and hardworking. Some of those personality traits are those of which I do not possess. However, they are traits that I desire to be able to portray and use in my life. I am, personally, not a very confident or risk-taking type of person so to attempt to apply these two traits to the way that I go about my life, might influence the way that I decide to try and accomplish certain things. I could use the personality trait of being confident for school presentations, or even sports events. Being the type of person who is risk-taking would allow for myself to be daring enough to go for what I desire in life, both academically and athletically. Margaret Sanger is someone to look up to because she wasn’t willing to back down, and stood up for what she believed in as well as what she thought was
In fact, many aristocrats and other members of the royal family did not find her common blood and strange customs to be in any way unique or charming. She was gossiped endlessly about. It didn't help that she was extremely interested in democratic philosophy and enlightenment, two concepts that were used by revolutionaries later on in history.
She was the first women prime Minister in British politics, she was the longest prime minister with 3 excessive victories (in 1979, 1983 and 1987) and leading the Conservative government for a total of 11 years. She was also seen as characteristic and a controversial figure, she was also idolize and innovative. What is factual is that she has constantly dominated British Politics, also 3 election wins in a row and only the first government to have 3 victories in a row in the past era. Conservative have not be very competitive aftermath of post war era.
Born in in 69 B.C., Cleopatra VII was esteemed the last ruler of the Macedonian era. Cunning and brave, Cleopatra would later be known for her notorious affairs with notably formidable men in possession of considerable wealth and prestige. She was born into power, but her test would be her capability to maintain it. Her own brothers became her opponents, so she had to fight to remain leader of Egypt. Cleopatra rose to power by forging alliances with leaders of foreign nations in order to back her claim of the Egyptian throne.
Cleopatra, born in 69 B.C., was an Egyptian Queen and the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. She was from Greek descent and a member of the Ptolemies, who ruled Egypt for nearly 300 years. In just her early twenties, Cleopatra became Queen of Egypt following the death of her father and the defeat of her siblings. Popularly, she is remembered because of her physical beauty, love affairs, and the tragedy of her life. But more importantly she should be celebrated as a commanding female leader who used her intellect to exercise considerable power and influence in a male-dominated world.
The Thatcherism ideology was part of the establishment of privatisation, cutting off the taxes and reducing public expenditure in health and care services in order to improve Britain’s economy, as a consequence more than 50 identities were privatised by
Princess Diana once said,“I would like to be a queen in the hearts of the people.”, and if there is anything she has done it has been to take over our hearts with her compassion and generosity. Princess Diana dedicated her life to helping others and using her fame to do it. She was humane and humble never seeing herself above others, even as royalty. This considerate woman would show up to hospitals just to talk and encourage people with her kind words. Princess Diana supported more than 100 charities in her lifetime, although she mostly impacted AIDS/HIV patients and landmine usage.
Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister of Great Britian. Margaret changed many policies and she also defended strongly other government policies.
Cleopatra was a very strong, power and courageous women. She is very known around the world because of her background history. She is most known for her love life and journeys she took around Egypt and Greece.
The literary movement during the 1980's in Britain was heavily influenced by the state of Britain's economy at the time. The people of Britain had become infatuated with politics due to the election of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to have held office. She was known as the “Iron lady” and the leader of the Conservative Party. Her influence on the British government with her use of Thatcherism did not leave behind a good legacy in the literature department. In a New York Times newspaper article, it is stated that, “The Thatcher years were a time of remarkable cultural ferment, in which the energies of an extraordinarily diverse roster of musicians, novelists, playwrights, critics and filmmakers — to say nothing of television comedians and puppeteers — were unleashed in opposition, glum and passionate, explicit and overt, to the prime minister herself,”(nytimes.com). Many literary figures have written novels in response to the events