Margaret Thatcher’s eulogy of the deceased president, Ronald Regan, had a purpose which was to comfort the people of the United States, and to brag on all of his policies that he created in his term. Thatcher uses various tactics such as antithesis, anaphora, and hyperbole to make her speech as appealing and comforting as possible for the American people. Using these rhetorical devices she is appealing to the mourning nation. The author uses antithesis connects his accomplishments with being hard and risk with being heavy. She states, “These were causes hard to accomplish and heavy with risk, yet they were pursuing with almost a lightness of spirit...” This aids her persuasion of the audience by creating a division of what is bad and good. As the piece continues, she adorns all of his many accomplishments. Thatcher respects how hard he …show more content…
Thatcher talks very highly of the former president and uses anaphora to get her point across to the audience. The author uses hyperbole to exaggerate the difficulties of the job that Reagan encountered. Thatcher said, “When the world threw problems at the White house…” this is obviously an exaggeration because you can’t literally throw problems at the white house. She is trying to imply to the people that he had a very demanding job and that he did the best he could no matter how difficult the task was. She appeals to the audience by making them comforted when she explains he did an amazing job when he was in office. Thatcher comforts the American people in many ways than just her rhetorical devices. As Margaret Thatcher finishes her speech, her purpose was the comfort the mourning American people from losing a beloved president. She uses antithesis to create a division of what is good and bad, anaphora to compare Reagan to how others dealt with different situations, and she then uses hyperbole to make the people realize the difficult job he was left with. Thatcher’s eulogy truly touched many American
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.
Clare Boothe Luce constructs the introduction of her speech to the Women’s National Press club in a very intriguing manner, to catch the attention of her audience. She writes her introduction, almost as if she is condemning her audience for their general tendencies to indulge in news stories, whether they are true or not. Luce’s unique introduction has captured many people’s attention by using an abundance of rhetorical strategies. Luce uses many persuasive rhetorical techniques to express the importance of the truth, especially in regards to present-day news corporations and organizations.
In his speech in the aftermath of the Challenger explosion, Pres. Reagan used alliteration to convey his feelings of sadness to the families of the seven astronauts lost. He repeats the words special, spirit, and says to show as to what high regards he held the astronauts. Pres. Reagan said that the astronauts “had [a] special grace, that special spirit that says, “Give me a challenge and I’ll meet it with joy” (Reagan 1). The repetition of the words special, spirit, and says means that Reagan believed that the astronauts had something no one else had that differentiated them from the rest of society. Additionally, Ronald Reagan
the facility of 3 is employed within the speech multiple times, that demands the audience’s attention and adds emphasises on key sentences. This repetition of 3 may be a common literature technique and utilized in different celebrated political speeches (e.g. Hitler’s speeches), as repetition extremely drives their purpose through. United States President additionally uses tiny and sharp sentences to grab the audience’s attention, these short sentences are terribly effective, a key example of 1 during this speech is “We mourn their loss as a nation together”. This sentence leaves a dramatic result on the audience. affective language is predominant throughout the whole thing of the speech. affective words and phrases are wanting to connect with the audience and to indicate support, samples of affective language within the speech are, mourn, our loss, and tragedy, of these words and phrases have a deep result on the audience. As key purpose of the speech is to unite the country and mourn the loss of seven space pioneers, inclusive words like, our, we and us, are wont to unite the state very tough time. (also change what’s written above make it sound better) Throughout Reagan’s speech he manages to connect with his audience through his personal emotive language, by using words such as I. Another example is when he say’s “Nancy and I are pained
I will be attempting to evaluate and analyse the term of Thatcherism'. I will raise issues and introduce her consensus and strategies as a PM. To what extent or degree has the Thatcher government dominated British politics.
Also to her generation to inform them how to set up our world to be carried out by the future generations. The tone of her speech is formal to show how serious the subjects she is talking about, sorrowful for the lives lost in the process of changing and hopeful for the future. The purpose of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s speech was to inform the audience while expressing her gratitude and feelings towards the subject.
Just barely twenty years old, Queen Elizabeth came into power during a time where few thought a woman could be a successful ruler. However, she defied all odds, bringing stability and power to her nation, allowing her to be seen as Britain’s greatest monarch. Her greatness stems primarily from her devote leadership skills epitomized in her speech in which she personally delivered to her troops, proving her to be an inspirational leader. As she stood in front of them, dressed in her white gown and silver breast plate, Elizabeth’s speech prepared her troops for the Spanish Armada heading their way in hopes of invading England. Along with preparing her troops and informing them of what was to come, Elizabeth’s words also persuaded her troops to trust in her and
Margaret Thatcher a former prime minister of Great Britain and a dear friend of former US President Ronald Reagan. She presents a eulogy about the years of working closely with Reagan and what a most wonderful person he was. She asserts her message for what Reagan has done for this country and what he has done for us as individuals as well. Thatcher supports her eulogy with the help of parallelism, pathos, ethos, and allusions .
Diana Spencer, princess of Wales, a young lady whose fame was overwhelmingly extensive was driven to death by the pressure of flashing cameras desiring the slightest image of the princess, she was pronounced dead August 31, 1997 at age 36 due to the crash. Her beloved brother, Charles Spencer honors and celebrates the life of Princess Diana in his eulogy he shared out with billions, shortly after the tragic death. Her death arose a wave of sadness throughout, a vast 2.5 billion mourned the tragedy of the loss. Despite the devastating death, rather than mourn in sadness about the loss of his dear sister, Charles effectively celebrates the life of Diana and voices how thankful he was to have her in his life.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Britain was going through a difficult time and the Government was facing many problems; a lack of free markets, the public’s lack of support and a failing economy. People were unhappy and unsatisfied and for many people living in Britain, Margaret Thatcher was the reason why.
In the movie, The Queen, the roles of others in her decision-making and leadership can be seen in the life of Queen Elizabeth II. (Frears, 2006) Through the course of this paper, I will analyze her resistance to change, her reliance on others in her decision-making process, and the roles Prince Philip, Prince Charles, and Prime Minister Tony Blair played in the week between the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and her funeral. I will share my thoughts on the most compelling styles of influence and how I would like to influence others.
Many consider Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain greatly for the better and re-established it as an economic force, others believed she damaged Britain’s manufacturing base and created a divided society. She showed by example that it was possible for a woman to rise to the highest office in British politics and to stay there. She was an essential and active historical agent that changed Britain economically by leading them out of the 1973 depression and became a role model for women in politics.
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
“that means recently there are a lot of women who did heroic action to help people life and them to have a dignity and welfare life one of those women is Margaret Thatcher when she worked in raising the number of housing ownership for English people. Thatcher’s project successes in her era in fact as stated in The Guardian’s article “The Thatcher effect: what changed and what stayed the same” there are almost one million people left the social housing and they had their own houses and to do that she used scheme to sale the local authority-owned houses actually, she sold 970,000 of them during her premiership and that more than what have been sold in the two decades since. She did that because belief in the human desire to home possession and how that can help her in long term plans to devolve her country
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