Former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, encourages optimism in her eulogy in honor of Ronald Reagan. Thatcher’s purpose is to remind the audience of Ronald Reagan’s qualities that help get through American challenges. She adopts a nostalgic tone to adjust the audience’s attitude towards a struggling society. Thatcher uses structure, shifts, and diction in the first two paragraphs of the eulogy. Parallel structure and a shift is used in the first sentence of the first paragraph shows her closeness to Reagan and parallel structure and a shift shows how the audience can relate to Thatcher. “We have a great president, a great American, and a great man, and I have lost a dear friend.” Thatcher uses this line to help establish the relationship/friendship she had with Ronald Reagan to allow the American people to see him through her own eyes. She exhibits her and Reagan’s closeness by calling him a dear friend but she also shows how the audience can relate to her by using the world “we.” The diction she uses sets the stage for the establishment of her friendship with Reagan, also. Thatcher states, “His policies had a freshness and optimism that won converts from every class and every nation.” Her use of “every” more than once is significant because she is trying to emphasize how Reagan …show more content…
He could connect with anyone’s needs. In the second paragraph, there is a shift of diction when Thatcher refers to Ronald Reagan as “Ronnie.” This
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.
“Should Reagan be offered the GE job, Nancy will make sure he takes it.” When Reagan challenges Ford in the 1976 Republican primaries and loses the nomination at the convention, “Nancy Reagan looks ahead to the day that her husband, Ronald Wilson Reagan, becomes the president of the United States in 1980. She will see to it.” After the assassination attempt, “Nancy decides whom Reagan will and will not see. This practice will continue throughout Reagan’s presidency.” So there you have it — the first theme, that Reagan’s entire career after he marries is inspired, directed, and controlled by his wife. Nancy goads him on. The second theme is that Reagan is passive, lacking his wife’s inner steel. He lets others make important decisions for him (not one example is offered) and is not very bright. The unifying theme is that the assassination attempt caused mental decline, accelerated the onset of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, and ultimately lead to the Iran-Contra debacle. Thus did the violent assault of March 30, 1981, change a presidency. In reporting Reagan’s first speech after the assassination attempt, the April 28 speech to a joint session of Congress,
Throughout the speech, Elie Wiesel makes clear his appreciation for America and President Reagan: “We are grateful to this country, the greatest democracy in the world, the freest nation in the world, the moral Nation, the authority in the world.” Firstly, Wiesel wishes to appease the American public: He establishes that he is grateful for America’s humanity and compassion and uses an apposition to underscore America’s greatness. In other words, Wiesel concedes that America has done much, but he then continues with a refutation: “But, Mr. President, I wouldn’t be the person I am, and you wouldn’t respect me for what I am, if I were not to tell you also of the
Margaret Thatcher, ex-prime minister of the UK, uses many different rhetorical devices in her eulogy to Ronald Regan. She effectively employs many different strategies. They all help make her writing more powerful.
Ronald Reagan adeptly utilizes Ethos Pathos and Logos in his Brandenburg Gate address, he attempts to sway the audience of the importance of success of the marshal plan and western values as a whole, and convince the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. Reagan begins his speech by addressing the people present and recognizing the “freedom” and “feeling of history” of the city of Berlin has. He makes his first reference to previous speakers by saying, “Twenty four years ago, President John F. Kennedy visited Berlin, and speaking to the people of this city and the world at the city hall. Well since then two other presidents have come, each in his turn to Berlin. And today, I, myself, make my second visit to your city,”( Reagan 361) His first usage of pathos is when he addresses the east berliners who were separated from the westerners by the Berlin wall and tells them, “I join your fellow countrymen in the West, in this
Her use of this rhetorical strategy elevates the level to which one can analyze her prose and the relation it has to her claim. The reader can identify Thatcher's use of sentence arrangement when she opens with a quote stating, “We have lost a great president, a great American, and a great man, and I have lost a dear friend” (Thatcher). Throughout this sentence are several perspectives and points of view from which Thatcher interprets Reagan. Thatcher uses a manipulated phrase order, beginning with a crucial and celebrated president and then diminishes the level of impact to then an American, a man, and a friend. By ending with “friend,” Thatcher can begin to draw the reader into her eulogy by creating a depiction to which one can relate on a personal level. While on a superficial level Thatcher depicts Reagan from several points of view, her purpose of this arrangement was to build upon her claim and the reader’s understanding. Furthermore, Thatcher uses sentence structure to affirm essential points with the reader to a place beyond where the surface prose suggests. To accomplish this goal, Thatcher uses a similar construct in sentence composition to exemplify Reagan’s achievements which one can identify in lines thirty
Ronald Reagan was one of the most liked Presidents. When being elected for his second term, he won by a landslide—winning all the states minus Minnesota and Washington D.C. Reagan addresses the people of the United States of America. He wants the American people to reflect on his presidency, and as all presidents do in their farewell addresses, he wants to say goodbye to the nation that he's led for the past eight years. Ronald Reagan uses repetition, parallel structure, and allusion to reflect on his presidency and to say farewell to the American people.
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
...speech to the world where he was quoted as saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” The speech was given at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin (“Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall: President Ronald Reagan”). This speech signified the beginning of the end of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. President Reagan’s foreign policy tactics are another reason why he was a great president.
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.
Millions of viewers tuned into the National Broadcasting Company television network for a special broadcast on the 27th of October. Viewers were anticipating Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing” speech. Reagan was acknowledged for his acting in motion pictures and television episodes since 1937, and was now being seen in an unfamiliar role. Reagan emerged in support of the Republican nominee Barry Goldwater. Barry Morris Goldwater was a businessman and five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's nominee for president in the 1964 election. “A Time for Choosing” was effective, because he gave personal examples to capture the audiences’ attention, and gave humor to a tough subject.
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
Spencer praises Diana in his eulogy by embodying ethos by drawing on the humanitarian aspects of Diana's life. He shows these aspects by saying that, "Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty." He wants the audience to know that Diana's achievements and beauty will not be forgotten.
In this passage, Susan Glaspell creates a mood of being timid and awkward. This creates a specific mood for each character too. Glaspell portrayed the mood Mr. Hale as hesitant and impatience when he had his conversation with Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Wright, on the other hand, had the mood of being tense and hesitant. Mrs. Wright show that there is something else on her mind when she is speaking to Mr. Hale. She answers back to Mr. Hale in one word phrases for most of the conversation. The only time Mrs. Wright answers in more the one word was when she said, “Cause he’s dead”. She also would reply to Mr. Hale in multiple gestures too. For example when Mr. Hale asked to see John, Mrs. Wright reply in a laugh. Another example would be when Mr. Hale
Thatcher thought of Reagan as a strong leader of the American country. In her essay she clearly emphasizes the extent to how positive Reagan’s persona was. The parallel rhetoric was used to show how “great” he was. She repeated it three times in one sentence and each time showing the greater position he took and that from every angle he was simply “great.” This anaphora in the first sentence connects to the whole population listening and then referencing herself and how she was impacted as well.