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1. What is Reagan's claim about the future of the space program 7
Reagan admitted his mistakes and claimed that the nation's space program will be safer and better prepared in the future to become a renewed source of pride, despite the setbacks resulting from the shuttle Challenger tragedy.
2. What premise about the space program does Reagan express in lines 22- 26? How does this premise relate to his claim?
Reagan just wanted to create a nondisastrous plan to implement a better plan to avoid unnecessary issues within the space program.
3. Analyze What specific groups of people does Reagan directly address in his speech? How do the assurances he makes to them impact his message?
President Reagan, in his speech about the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, mentioned the time, groups of crew, families, and school children.
4. What values does President Reagan suggest all Americans share in his appeals to their sense of patriotism?
Freedom, economic prosperity, opportunity, and the rule of law were some of the values mentioned by President Reagan in their Christmas talk about the family in the US. Presumably, he meant these were values shared by many Americans. While these are nice sounding phrases, I believe that many Americans would doubt that they benefitted supposedly from the implementation of these policies and they certainly weren't meant for other countries such as Nicaragua where he backed the contras to fight the Sandinistas who were trying to implement these things for the vast majority of the people who had suffered so much under Somoza.
5. According to Reagan, how are the Challenger astronauts similar to Sir Francis Drake? Is this a valid comparison? Explain why or why not.
According to Reagan, the Challenger Astronauts were similar to Sir Francis Drake because he died doing something he loved. "390 years ago, the great explorer, Sir Francis Drake died aboard a ship off the coast of Panama. He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried on it." The challenger Astronauts loved what they did despite knowing the risks involved. "They wished to serve, and they did" Just like Sir Francis Drake, the Challenger Astronauts lived as astronauts and also died as one, Sir Francis Drake lived as an explorer and died as one.
6. Identify two purposes of Reagan's speech. How do the style and content of the speech contribute to his purposes?
1. If the referred speech is the “Challenger Disaster” I could state that he pursued two purposes:
• Uplift a shocked nation
• Acknowledge the Challenger crew as heroes, who sacrificed themselves doing their jobs
2. Both objectives were achieved through the use of persuasive statements in his speech, by appealing to people´s emotions. In this order of ideas, the first purpose was to help people make sense of how they felt about the tragedy.
7. Is Reagan's statement that tragedies like the Challenger explosion are "all part of the process of exploration and discovery" valid? What types of evidence does Reagan provide to support this idea? What types of evidence does he not address?
Yes because tragedies like the Challenger explosion are ''all part of the process of exploration and discovery" because we are exploring horizons that are beyond our experiences. We only prepare for things that we have already encountered in life. When we go beyond our borders, we need to prepare for the risks and dangers that we will face. As we explore, we discover new things and we learned new things. We can only apply our learning in future endeavors after we have encountered them. There is a phase called "Trial and Error." We try and try and we encounter errors along the way but we do not give up trying until we achieve our desired output. We learn from our errors, we examine the cause, and the situation it is in and we apply this learning to ensure that no such scenario will happen again.
8. John G. Magee, Jr., died a few months after writing the poem "High Flight," which expresses his feelings about being a World War II pilot. Is Reagan's quote from the poem an effective way to end his speech? Explain your response
Reagan's speech from January 28, 1986, was a mournful speech after the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, the first in-flight explosion in space program history. Ending the speech with the quote from "High Flight" was a way of connecting both tragedies, all of the deaths of WW2 and these deaths in the Shuttle, and a way of saying that the nation and the space program will continue despite the tragedy, just as United States continued WW2 until tyranny in Europe was defeated.
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