Ronald Reagan Rhetorical Analysis

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In 1884, Ronald Reagan was elected president, winning the presidency by huge margins. Many people that knew or have ever heard president Reagan speak, know that he is very talented in having effective communication skills when delivering speeches. The original purpose for Reagan going to the Brandenburg gate in West Berlin was to get the crowd and the leaders of Germany to oppose the Berlin wall. With Reagan's effective communication skills, he used a number of ways to convince the people of Germany that this would be very beneficial. Reagan uses logos when he is trying to support his argument that the elimination of the Berlin wall along with equality and freedom was more than constructive. “But in the West today, we see a free world that has …show more content…
“In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind- too little food.”“Freedom is the Victor.”(AmericanRhetoric.com) Reagan had hoped that by this fact that people would realize they do not want this for themselves, supporting the point that they do not have freedom, therefore they are not living affluent livelihoods. Trying to assemblage the people of Germany to take into consideration their unauthorized treatment around the causes of democracy and freedom. “But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and wellbeing unprecedented in all human history.”(AmericanRhetoric.com) Reagan wants the message to hit home to the German people that they should do what the west is doing if they want the same prosperity for their country. Reagan is using a comparison method to compare the East and West to show that Germany could be living at the same level of prosperity that the West is, making the leaders and people want that for their country as