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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He wants to make sure children stay interested in NASA so America can one day win the Space Race.
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He knows that of all the people in America, children care the most about space.
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Most presidential addresses take a moment to speak directly to kids.
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He worries how children will be affected since one of the Challenger crew members was a teacher.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we’ll continue to follow them. I’ve always had great faith in and respect for our space program, and what happened today does nothing to diminish it.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main goal of the address was to help America begin to recover from the loss of the men and women on the shuttle and the loss of the challenger, to eulogize the seven men and women killed in the crash, and to keep the hope up in the American people.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following choices best summarizes Reagan’s remarks to “the schoolchildren of America” in Paragraph 4? He wants to assure that children will remain interested in NASA and help America one day with the Space Race.
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.