Remember Reagan Remember Reagan The 1980 US presidential campaign pitted Republican Ronald Reagan against Democrat Jimmy Carter. Why do you think Reagan beat Carter? Reagan inherited an economy that was in bad shape. The prime lending rate was like 15%‚ credit cards were 15-25%‚ there was gas rationing and soaring inflation that was 20%. He had an economic plan that was about cutting government size‚ taxes and building the US military back up. People got fed up with Carter and the government
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Daniel Pathammavong Fundamentals of Public Speaking Outside Speaker 12/14/14 This Saturday on the 13th I went to see a speaker talk in Minneapolis on Nicollet Ave. I had found out about the event from a website called Meetup.com. There was a travel author planning to speak at a meeting room in a coffee shop about how living internationally can change your perspective. I thought that was intriguing so I went! It was at 2p.m that Saturday and there wasn’t a time scheduled for it to end. When I
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Characteristics of Effective and Ineffective Speakers Effective 1. Confidence - Confidence comes from believing in what you are saying and being passionate about your subject. Self-confidence is developed by knowing everything you can about your subject and thoroughly preparing and practicing. 2. Likeability - As a general rule your listeners want to like you. When they do like you it makes delivering your speech easier. Your likeability is helped by smiling and being positive and friend
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international students have to take the same courses as native English speakers to get a college degree. International students should get some advantages because they are ESL students. However‚ some teachers have a same expectations of non-native speakers as native speaking students. Many Asian students choose to study business‚ economics‚ hospitality and tourism‚ and English as their major. Those majors’ instructors have many non-native speakers in class. Many instructors have the same expectation of ESL
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problems facing President Reagan when he takes office in January 1981 with those faced by Kennedy. What factors contributed to these problems? I consider the most crucial factor as too much government step-in. We should let the free market mechanism automatically correct the problems. Just as what he said at his inauguration day‚ "Government is not the solution to the problem‚ the government itself is the problem." 2. What were the key elements of the Reagan economic strategy? What is
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person that would take me around the world and try and explain their answer before actually giving it to me. I eventually choose to talk to my parents as I felt that they would have the most knowledge about the subject matter. They both were ok with Reagan and things that he contributed to the United States while in office. My father informed me that a gentleman by the name of Paul Weyrich actually started the New Right‚ and was the one that was responsible for the success of the concervative policies
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I have watched many speakers while in the military. There are many times that I come out of the room and I don’t remember the things that they had talked about because of the way they had put it out. It was 1 o’clock in the afternoon at the Sky Warrior Theatre where the audience was all military. It was a mandatory training that we have called Sexual Assault Prevention Response. The speaker was a spokesperson from The Naval Criminal Investigative Service. It was a big crowd and there was a microphone
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Lecture Outline May 20‚ 2013 The Reagan Revolution & Cold War in the 1980s I. Reagan Revolution and the Rise of the New Right The new grassroots conservative movement. it focused on a few themes: 1) focus on physical restraint: reigning in spending of the economy‚ the great society programs 2) Tax code revision 3) government efficiency: sense of urgency for this‚ because of how transparent the government‚ and what it owed to the u.s. public. a. Reagan’s views and
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Shelby O’Neal Bartlett English 102 November 2‚ 2012 Rhetorical Analysis: Ronald Reagan’s Challenger Tragedy Address “Sometimes‚ when we reach for the stars‚ we fall short. But we must pick ourselves up again and press on despite the pain.” The following quote was said by Ronald Reagan to 6‚000 NASA employees and 4‚000 guests 3 days after the space shuttle Challenger disaster occurred. January 28th‚ 1986 the Challenger was taking off for its 10th mission. Approximately 73 seconds into the
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Should speakers in college classrooms be able to choose any topic they wish? Should some topics be off-limits? Exposure to a variety of topics and issues are vital to college students. This is the perfect opportunity to solidify those essential skills for success‚ as well as the ability to critically analyze situations to gain better understanding of the world that we exist in. A presentation from a well-qualified speaker can allow student to explore topics that is unfamiliar. Nevertheless‚ speaker
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