Ronald Reagan's Speech: The Battle Between Good And Evil

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What is this speech’s topic? Ronald Reagan's speech was a reference towards communism and how "evil" plays a vital focus in today's modern world, thus, the evil empire speech. What is the speech’s thesis or main point? The thesis or main point was to rise to the challenge as Reagan puts it, that the battle we are fighting is a spiritual battle that runs rampant and the evil that exists in the world is rooted from the causes of ego and sin. One of the main points was to make an address to the "nuclear freeze" that would affect America as well as Europe. What in the speech, if anything, suggests the speaker (or his speech writers) had analyzed the audience and adapted the speech to its needs? In the speech from what I have observed suggests either the speaker or the speech writers made it their main objective to entice their audience - meaning to speak on the main …show more content…

Throughout Reagan's speech, he used or rather talked about the issues that plague society today, such as combat, parenting, medicine/clinics and things of that nature. By him mentioning or hinting at these issues and using these relevant issues at hand it caused his audience to reflect on his speech as well as the so called prevalent "evil" that exists in today's world. Was the speech effectively organized? From beginning to end, Reagan delivered an organized speech while discussing the reason for the address. He started off with light-hearted humor to invite his listeners in, to estalishing control in the room which resulted into his final last point of why we must be the reasons to help change our world. Did the speaker use clear, interesting, and accurate language? Ronald Reagan also used clear and concise language, if anything he appealed to his audience from pathos and ethos langauge. He controlled his speech to suit his appropiate audience. Although, he is a man of many words, he did in fact came across as

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