THE RISE OF POLITICAL CONSERVATISM 1980 1992
THE ELECTION OF RONALD REAGAN IN 1980
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The crew, NASA, and school children
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The crew, families, NASA workers and school children.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ronald Reagan’s address needed to speak to the entire nation. His audience was the whole of United States. He needed to underline a sense of unity and send a message that they were all mourning together.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ronald Reagan’s speech on the disaster was a way to have the nation not blame the space program for the deaths of the astronauts, but a way to have the nation face the disaster with strength and push through the event with more courage than before and to continue exploration into space.
Detailed explanation-3: -Other family members included the widow of Challenger pilot Michael Smith, Jane Smith Wolcott, and daughter Alison Smith Balch; Sheryl Chaffee, daughter of Apollo 1 astronaut Roger Chaffee; and Scott McAuliffe, son of Challenger school teacher Christa McAuliffe.
Detailed explanation-4: -In this speech, he used rhetorical devices, such as alliteration, allusion, anaphora, and euphemism to relay his feelings of sadness and grief. 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.