Ronald Reagan's Inaugural Address

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In 1981, former president Ronald Reagan was inaugurated into office and just a couple days ago current president Donald Trump was inaugurated into office. When a president is inaugurated into house, they generally give an inaugural speech about what they will and can do for America. In Ronald Reagan’s inaugural address, he shares his thoughts about America and plans to come. Using different literary devices Ronald Reagan characterizes America as a broken country but, by using hard work and effort, America can truly be great. In Ronald Reagan’s speech he creates this idea of a broken and selfish country. America is founded upon a democratic government that has proved to be useful in that past but, in Reagan’s speech he says, “In this present …show more content…

He asks a question in his speech, “Can we solve the problems confronting us?” and then shortly after he answers, “Well, the answer is an unequivocal and emphatic, yes.” expressing the power of America by using great word choice. By using the words unequivocal and emphatic we see that Reagan is confident in America and his people. After stating the above, later on in his speech he says, “I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.” showing us Americans must work hard. Ronald Reagan clearly does not think making America great will just happen, he believes that people must work hard to achieve greatness. Reagan also says, “With the idealism and fair play… we can have a strong and prosperous America…” allowing us to see that greatness is there we just have to work for it. In his inaugural address, Ronald Reagan characterizes America as broken and selfish but, with hard work it can become truly great. America is the land of opportunity and we as Americans are very lucky to live here but, one cannot just think of himself, he must think of the country. No matter what shape or state America is in, there is always a way to make it better with hard

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