Ronald Reagan's Speech

The final ingredient to really understanding a speech is the audience. In President Ronald Reagan's speech, "Address to Students at Moscow State University," the audience seems pretty obvious (it's included in the title after all). But, we can really understand President Reagan's speech better if we take some time to understand the audience to whom he is speaking.

Begin by researching this speech. You should seek to understand the context, purpose, theme, and audience.

You will the write an essay that summarizes the speech. Your essay should be six paragraphs long and should include an introduction, a body paragraph for each of these 4 main points, and a conclusion. Submit your finished essay here.

First paragraph of President Ronald Reagan …show more content…
Constitution, trial by jury, freedom of worship and speech, "Freedom," he said, is the right to question and change, the established way of doing things." The students responded enthusiastically. Editorialized the New York Times: "When people someday look back to the milestones of the cold war, they are likely to remember the day Ronald Reagan extolled freedom, while Lenin looked on. “When President Reagan delivered this speech, he recognized that the United States and the Soviet Union stood at one of those historic moments when great possibilities were at hand but the future was impossible to predict. "We cannot know what will be the conclusion of this journey, but we are hopeful that the promise of reform will be fulfilled...We may hope that the marvelous sound of a new openness will keep ringing through, leading to a new world of reconciliation, friendship, and peace. No one knew that four decades of Cold War tension were virtually at an end. Nor did anyone suspected that the Soviet Union itself, which Reagan had called the evil empire during the early days of his administration, would disintegrate in …show more content…
The people wanted a message of peace so there would be goodwill and there would be hope, growing friendship and closeness between their two people. He had said he would like to talk to us as much as American kids and the realities in the world today then he said “the possibilities of tomorrow.” He says that “the first contacts between your country and mine took place between Russian and American explorers. The Americans were members of Cook's last voyage on an expedition searching for an Arctic passage; on the island of Unalaska, they came upon the Russians, who took them in, and together, with the native inhabitants, held a prayer service on the