USA HISTORY

THE RISE OF POLITICAL CONSERVATISM 1980 1992

THE ELECTION OF RONALD REAGAN IN 1980

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What three groups did Reagan mention in his speech?
A
The crew, NASA, and school children
B
NASA, the scientists, and scientists
C
The crew, families, and school children.
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Through this speech President Reagan consoles the families of those who lost their lives, the American schoolchildren, and the American public as a whole. He also gives this speech to reassure America of the viability of the NASA program and the light in the future.

Detailed explanation-2: -What three groups did Reagan mention in his speech? The crew, families, and school children.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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-5: -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.

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