Margaret Thatcher is an essential and active historical agent that changed Britain economically by leading them out of the 1973 depression. Margaret Hilda Thatcher was born in 13 October 1925 and was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and is the only woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist called her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. (Evans, Eric 2004), As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism.
Thatcher’s early childhood influenced and motivated her to become Prime Minister.
Her family had little money when she was a child, they had no indoor plumbing or hot water, but her father believed strongly in education. She attended school and worked in her father’s grocery shop, which was located under her house. Margaret’s father bought her up as a Wesley Methodist, a separate Christian church, the ideology of helping the poor and the average person to help build them as a person. Margaret’s father was active in local politics and was a part time justice of the peace, where she often went with him to the courthouse. This is where her interest in law and politics came from. And by attending the Wesley Methodist church she had a strong interest in helping others.
She wanted to study law at university but her teacher told her there were no jobs for women in law, so she studied chemistry at Oxford University. From there she became the president of the universities Conservative Association. (Parker, Janice 1998). At the university he was influenced by political...
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...ts occurred that led to her downfall. They introduced the unpopular poll tax to fund local government. Margaret’s leadership of the Conservative Party was challenged when she was out of the country, in 1990. To her surprise she did not win outright in the first ballot of the leadership election. She realized that she was likely going to be defeated and she resigned.
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.
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
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