Part 1: Answer the questions below about Reagan's speech. Submit this part to your teacher for approval before proceeding to Part 2.

1. What is Reagan trying to persuade his audience to believe? Use the text to justify your answer.

Reagan is talking to Russian students and stressing on the fact that freedom is the key to everything. I'm assuming he wants students in Moscow, and all over Russia to understand that once you have freedom, you can acheive anything. He said, "We are seeing the power of economic freedom spreading around the world. Places such as the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Taiwan have vaulted into the technological era, barely pausing in the industrial age along the way." I believe he stresses on this because Russia has a different government policy then America. Russia was under the …show more content…
Find three places in the speech where Reagan seems to be leaving something out, and for each instance:
a. Describe what's been left out.
b. Identify if it's a case of oversimplification or subtlety.

"Your generation is living in one of the most exciting, hopeful times in Soviet history. It is a time when the first breath of freedom stirs the air and the heart beats to the accelerated rhythm of hope, when the accumulated spiritual energies of a long silence yearn to break free."
1a. He is making it seem like Russia doesn't have freedom and that he wants students to break free from their silence and demand freedom from the Soviet Union.
1b. I feel like this was mistake because he is trying to make peace between The Soviet Union and The U.S.A, yet he's words don't favor him as much.

"We Americans make no secret of our belief in freedom. In fact, it's something of a national pastime. Every 4 years the American people choose a new President, and 1988 is one of those years."
2a. This sentence sounds like he want's the Soviet Union people to stand up for their rights to vote and elect a new President and kick out Georgy Malenkov, who was the president of the