7. Global Comprehension
"If Conservatives Cannot Do it Now..."
Decide which of the three answers best applies to Irving Kristol's views:
The Republican Party's chances of keeping power in conservative hands over a long period are: poor/fairly good/better than ever before.
Solving economic problems will lead to little/nwre/complete acceptance of the whole government.
The different groups making up the conservative coalition are less divergent than/as divergent as/more divergent than those that Franklin D. Roosevelt established.
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The
moral issues in this coalition are the
easiest/fairly
easy/the most difficult to
solve.The role intellectuals play in the conservative movement is negligible/of some importance/very important.
Reagan's ideas about foreign policy are not very clear/fairly well-structured/profound.
There is a natural cyclical pattern according to which a governing political party loses/ maintains/increases its impact on the people after some years.
In a severe crisis the dominant party will lose/keep/gain members.
The conservatives are going to improve/retain/do away with most of the social achievements made under Democratic Party rule.
10. The Democratic Party will have a chance to regain power by becoming right-wing/ moderate/left-wing.
8. Text Analysis
Reagan-Bush '84—Leadership You Can Trust
After taking a first glance at this pamphlet explain why you think it was issued.
Describe the layout of this pamphlet and explain the purpose of
the structure
the headlines
the photos
the diagrams
the quotation with Reagan's signature.
3. According to the pamphlet, what changes were brought about in the following fields of politics between 1980 and 1984?
• self-confidence of the people and confidence in government defense
nuclear arms control
foreign affairs
social policy
economy: taxes; inflation; interest rates;
government spending; production;
(un-)employment.
4. According to the pamphlet, which policies of the Reagan administration were particularly successful?
5. Of course, one would not expect such a pamphlet to admit any failures or shortcomings. Are there any problems not explicity mentioned here that have not been satisfactorily tackled and solved by the Reagan administration? If so, are they identical with the future tasks envisaged in the pamphlet?
9. Writing a Newspaper Article
Keynote Address by Governor Cuomo to the Democratic National Convention
Imagine you are a reporter for a small daily paper and you have been sent to San Frandscc to cover the Democratic National Convention. You have listened to Governor Cuomo's speech and taken the following notes. In the left hand margin you have indicated the main ideas for the different paragraphs of your article.
Now write such an article. Find a suitable headline and begin with a paragraph that not only presents the keynote of Governor Cuomo's speech but also arouses the interest of the reader.
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