The speech was 28 minutes long and 4628 words. Reagan’s speech was somewhat easygoing. He addressed the observers as equivalent to him and inserts some humor to corroborate his focus. He was more concerned with relating to and gaining the audience’s trust instead of sounding intelligent in order to impress the audience. “But again we do some arithmetic, and we find that we're going to spend each year just on room and board for each young person we help 4,700 dollars a year. We can send them to Harvard for 2,700! Course, don't get me wrong. I'm not suggesting Harvard is the answer to juvenile delinquency.” This was Reagan’s strategy to imbed humor to relate with the group of onlookers and get some interest. He was not dry or so monotone that the general population was compelled to listen to him. He knew how to read his audience and promote his views and opinions. …show more content…
Reagan’s speech was publicly reran multiple times. its value is still reflected on to this day to be one of the most effective speeches and is notable for redefining the conservative Republican party and a standout amongst the best every constructed to benefit a presidential candidate. Because this discourse was given with the motivation of convincing, instead of celebrating, or moving, there are relatively few illustrations or likenesses. However, he does use a repetitive
Politicians use many different ways to persuade the intended audience. The speech to the Berlin Wall, and the speech to the Virginia Convention were both similar in ways of impacting people and using the same form of persuasion, but different when it came to a sense of hope, time periods, and the reasoning. Reagan and Henry use different different modes of persuasion.
Former Prime Minister of England, Margaret Thatcher, in her 2004 eulogy for Ronald Reagan, exemplifies both his impact and legacy on the world. Throughout her speech, Thatcher memorializes Reagan’s performance in office as well as the decisions he made as a person by illustrating their time together to the reader. By utilizing these examples, the reader can then understand Thatcher’s overall claim that Reagan was one of the most profound leaders in history; however, the impact of Thatcher’s use of diction and sentence arrangement both provoke thought in the reader and allows him or her to comprehend her message on a more sophisticated level.
One of the most important aspects of Reagan’s time in office was his domestic policy. He knew to have a successful presidency and create a strong, the people of the United States needed to be cared for. His first goal was to turn the economy around from the stagflation it encounter in the Carter era. Stagflation is very similar to inflation. The main difference is that inflation is the result of a quick economic growth while causes the value of money to decrease with now economic growth. To accomplish the turn around, Reagan introduce his economic policy which became known as Reaganomics. Reaganomics was based in supply side economics. This economic theory says that lowering taxes through tax cuts increases revenue by allowing more money
Reagan’s speech on the night of January 28, 1986 dramatically “took the first step toward uniting the country in its grief (Ritter, 4)”. Ronald Reagan reached out to the schoolchildren of America and all other citizens of the United States to counsel them in time of tragedy. He gave hope to the nation through emotional and spiritual reference. He was effective in conveying his message but the way his thoughts were organized was in part ineffective. His speech is very unorganized, and he could have ordered his thoughts better. More importantly than disorganization though, Ronald Reagan reached out to a nation that needed him as there president. He gave the people of the United States hope and Reassurance, a task that the President has been expected to do since the beginning of our country.
Lincoln's style in this speech was inevitably persuasive. His rhetorical strategy appeals to not only the readers senses, but to their intellectual knowledge as w...
In his “Challenger Explosion” speech, Pres. Ronald Reagan comforts the nation in the aftermath of NASA’s Challenger Space Shuttle exploded shortly after takeoff killing all seven astronauts. In this speech, he used rhetorical devices, such as alliteration, allusion, anaphora, and euphemism to relay his feelings of sadness and grief.
This is a very serious speech and Reagan wants to respect this. He starts off with establishing a relationship with the audience by thanking them for praying for him and his wife Nancy, I believe he wants for his audience to have the feeling he belongs with them and not just the President of the United States, to help get his point across, he wants everyone to feel comfortable during this time. A few jokes are given to lighten the mood before feeling the trust is in his hands. He uses a joke related to religion to
The audience he was trying to directly get to was the people he understood were listening to it in the East. He also states, “I address my remarks to you just as surely as to those standing here before me.” To follow up with his statement of intended audience, Reagan says a powerful statement. A statement that is intended to the entirety of the audience. “For I join you, as I join your fellow countrymen in the West, in this firm, this unalterable belief: Es gibt nur ein Berlin.” The final sentence meaning “There is only one Berlin.” This is yet another instance in this rhetorical masterpiece that Reagan clearly states his objective of the speech, to unify
Reagan clearly displayed his credibility through the establishment of ethos during his speech. Reagan exemplified his credibility from the beginning due to his profession. The President of the United States is a position of high honor, respect, and power in this country. His address is very credible because he was the first person to brief the nation on the events that had taken place. Reagan began by sharing some background information and stories regarding the nation’s space program which shows that he was very knowledgeable on the topic he was discussing. Reagan was also extremely invested in the space program; therefore he was capable of knowledgably speaking on behalf of the space station. At one particular point in his address, Reagan quoted a historian on the life of Sir Francis Drake saying, “He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it.” He related this to the death of the astronauts by stating that they loved what they did and died doing what they loved. This use of ethos showed a sense of sophistication and that he used his authority to appropriately address the public in a suitable manner. The president had to overcome a huge restraint while writing this speech and that was to find a way to appropriately address the nation and to help calm the nation. Reagan overcame this restraint by delivering a speech that was not only appropriate, but
Eulogies are filled with deep feelings and great love. Margaret Thatcher’s eulogy for Ronald Reagan was filled with rhetorical devices that helped people feel the feelings that she poured out. Margaret Thatcher pours out her love and honor to Ronald Reagan through parallelism, repetition, and her language choice.
Thatcher uses repetition to provide insight into the late president’s life. In the first line, Thatcher stated, “We have lost a great president, a great American and a great man.” Thatcher used “great” three times within the line in a row to emphasize Reagan’s greatness through her own eyes. The repetition also shows that in all parts of his life he was “great.” By using
Reagan, Ron Jr. “Remarks by Ron Reagan, Jr., to the 2004 Democratic National Convention.” In Dynamic Argument. Ed Robert Lamm and Justin Everett. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. 428-30.
This speech is the Presidential debate which took place in New York in the University of Hofstra on September 26th 2016. In this speech I will be analyzing Hilary Clinton.
Bush’s method of topic by topic argument along with many emotional appeals was a rather effective way of winning the audience’s support. By appealing to the emotions of the audience Bush was able to give the audience issues they could relate to as well as issues they would feel strongly about. With an emotionally involved audience Bush was able to gather a great number of supporters of his party, just as he intended in his original purpose. The further reference to the character of the people involved in the issues really paid off by drawing the crowd closer to the people working for them. With the topical structure and the appeals used, the speech was a very effective tool in gaining support for the Republican Party from the northern Arizonan audience.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was always in the front of the public eye; Reagan’s first passion was that of an actor. From 1935-1965 Reagan was involved with in radio broadcasting, television shows and was staring in over 50 Hollywood films. Through out his early years Reagan was seen as a leader evident by his selection as the student body President in high school and later on at Eureka (Illinois) College. He enlisted in to the Army Reserve as a Private but was soon promoted to Second Lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps of the Cavalry in 1937. He was call to active duty in the Army Air Force and assigned to the 1st Motion Picture Unit in Culver City California where was involved with making over 400 training films from 1942 thru 1945. ...