Rhetorical Analysis Of Reagan's Farewell Address

Margret Thatcher depicted the greatness of Ronald Reagan in all aspects of his life in a eulogy spoken at his funeral after his unfortunate passing in 2004. Her eulogy accurately describes the legacy of Reagan, his relationships with the American people, and his hardships throughout his presidency. Thatcher used a variety of rhetorical strategies to convey message, and her creative use of these strategies allowed for unison and proper tone within her speech.

The purpose of Reagan's address was to inspire the people to revitalize the American government and rebuild the economy. Reagan emphasizes the importance of returning power to the people, and he motivates the people to take part in improving the economy by calling the everyday working man an "American hero." Reagan creates the argument that a better future is in the hands of the people, not in the hands of the federal government. He specifies that the people are the everyday heroes that keep the economy alive. Reagan builds unity and a sense of togetherness in the American people through the use of rhetorical strategies like Kairos, anaphora, and rhetorical questions. He also drives his argument home by directly addressing the people, and by

For the audience he gives them examples of how government interference hurts Americans and also allusions to past times such as the revolution and how the founding fathers did not want a big government. He shares that he has “an uncomfortable feeling that this prosperity isn’t something on which we base our hopes the future.” Reagan’s ability to connect with his audience was rare and unlike many of his colleagues. Whether the topics he spoke on were always relevant to that of the listener, it did not always matter.

Co-chair of California Republicans, Ronald Reagan, in his speech, “A Time for Choosing”, talks about assisting the Barry Goldwater campaign, switching from Democrat to Republican, motivating the public to vote for Goldwater/choosing for what’s right, how the government is taking away freedom and explaining the wrong things and changes in the government. Reagan’s purpose is to tell that, in 1964, it’s time for a change in America and to choose a campaign that will benefit the public. He adopts different moods by the way he talks and his body language, as well as different tones. Reagan’s purpose is to convince the voters that there will be a change in America and that the Goldwater campaign including his self are equal to U.S. citizens. Logos, ethos and pathos are used throughout the speech. In addition to rhetorical devices, Reagan uses anecdote, epistrophe, metaphors, similes, schemes and tropes.

Reagan integrates ethos, pathos, and logos to represent a solemnly optimistic tone which helps illustrate to the audience that we as a whole can overcome this tragedy for the future. Reagan uses a mixture of ethos and pathos during his speech to appeal specifically to the schoolchildren, parents, and family members who knew those from the incident. Reagan states that he and his wife are “pained to the core by the tragedy.” And that he knows “ it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things happen.” Reagan also uses logos during his speech. He refers to a perhaps forgotten famous quote by Sir Francis Drake. Drake said, “He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it.” Reagan says that we can compare what Drake said and refer it to the Challenger’s team dedication.

The most obvious way President Reagan delivers rhetoric to his audience is through his own ethos. Ronald Reagan wasn’t just your average president; he was a communicator. Reagan started his career as a sports announcer and continued on as an actor, which led to his later career in state and national politics. By the time President Reagan had delivered his address, the president had been in the spotlight his entire career and was looked up to worldwide. He had established an extrinsic ethos well before delivering this speech. By being the president of the free world, Reagan’s audience

Ronald Regan was a friend to some people, and just a president to others, but to Margaret Thatcher Regan was a "great president, a great American, and a great man." Thatcher's eulogy of Regan gave relief to his fellow Americans as she said the great things he has done for this country while he was alive. Throughout this eulogy, she makes her emphasizes her points made by using several rhetorical devices, such as repetition, shifts through her mood, and her diction.

President Ronald Reagan in his speech Address to the Nation on the Challenger, addresses the grief that is being felt throughout the nation. He supports this claim by evoking pathos through the usage of diction, flashbacks, metaphors, sentence structures, shifts, tone, analogies, and finally allusion. Reagan’s purpose is to address the grief being felt by the tragedy of the explosion of the Challenger in order to move forward together as a nation.

In the Ronald Reagan’s eulogy, many rhetorical strategies appear. Some of the most notable ones are pathos, logos, ethos, repetition and even contrasting type of rhetorical strategies like antithesis helped, Margaret Thatcher, the author, portray Ronald Reagan as a trusting, loving president. In the eulogy, Thatcher is able to convey her love and appreciation to towards Reagan with adequate diction, syntax and soothing and appreciative tone.

He uses a lot of pronouns in the speech to include the audience, which brings together the tone of confidence and the purpose letting everyone know it will be okay and that we will get through it together as a nation. Reagan’s speech has a strong message he achieved that through the use of rhetorical

Reagan begins his address to the nation by stating he postponed his State of the Union address to pay tribute to the Challenger Seven. He also appeals to the audiences pathos by stating he and his wife, Nancy, are “pained to the core” by this horrific tragedy. By stating this he appeals to the audience’s sorrowful emotions. He also declares “today is a day for mourning and remembering” and “this is truly a national tragedy,” which delves deeper into the audience’s sorrowful emotions. He, then, joins the nation in mourning this loss, to further unify the nation, and meekly admits that “we share this pain with all of the

Reagan outlined his vision of a future world order founded on the “essential human freedoms”: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. This Four Freedoms became Reagan’s favorite statement of Allied aims. America’s freedom of every person is to speak and express freely everywhere in the world, to worship God in his own ways, to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants, and to a point that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor. He strongly believed that Americans should have the right to be freedom to do whatever they want, which has happened. He wanted the world in order we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. We now became allies with many other countries such as Canada, Germany, and France. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. His beliefs made America a better place to live with

Lindsay Taxier Mr. Unger English III 4 March 2016 Hollywood Meets the White House Ronald Reagan became President while America was suffering the shocks of an economic and international crisis. Prior to Reagan taking Presidency in 1981, he was a Hollywood movie actor, television host, radio sports announcer, and Governor of California (Reagan). President Reagan grew up in a poor family with an alcoholic father.

Ronald Reagan, in his speech, (“Berlin Wall”, 1987), the former governor and President of the United States and at the time of the Cold War, “ the most magnetic public figure in the nation”(encyclopedia.com) elucidates to his audience the consequences of residing under the influence of the Soviet Union. Reagan supports his assertion through the use of various rhetorical devices to generate logos, ethos, and pathos. His purpose is to incite a feeling of an injustice done to the people of Berlin and Soviet Allies and to bring down the Berlin Wall as “the most visible symbol of the decades-long Cold War”(History.com) between the Americans and the Soviets during the Cold War. Reagan writes in perfervid tone generated toward the people of Berlin and other Soviet allies in hopes of bringing the Cold War to an end and it is reported by CBS News that he successfully “bolstered the morale of the pro-democracy movement in East Germany”(Brinkley).

Ronald Reagan gave a speech in Orlando, Florida on March 8, 1983 called, “The Evil Empire.” This speech was intended for the ears of all Americans and is one of the best known presidential speeches ever given. In his speech, Reagan uses multiple rhetorical strategies such as; metaphors, allusions, rhetorical questions, tone, pathos, and uses references from the bible. He talks about all the main points of abortion, teenage sex, drugs, the Soviet Union, and the practice of praying and God in our public schools. His speech was very well written, moving, and extremely influential. This speech shows the president’s belief that the