...America is a very competitive country, they always have to be number one in everything they do. During the twelve year space race, if the Soviet Union would have been the first to put a man on the moon, then America would have had to retaliate by spending more money, doing endless research on going to Mars and possibly starting a settlement. The space race would descend, but America would never settle being in second place for long. “President Kennedy was convinced that with a strong commitment of a free people, America could get there first. He appealed to the spirit of adventure, to patriotic pride, and to the cause of freedom. America responded with one of the greatest mobilizations of resources and manpower in U.S. history.”1 The love for...
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...At first, the government tried to hide to hide it, but pretty quickly everyone caught on that something colossal was happening. Eventually NASA released the information that an enormous asteroid was on a collision course to Earth, one large enough to wipe out all life. In the limited time the government had, they built a spaceship that could hold 1 million people. To determine who got to go on the spaceship and depart on a 13 year journey to another planet, the world leaders made a test. I knew I wouldn't pass the test. There are 15 billion people on the Earth and only the smartest 1 million could get on the spaceship. The test took 48 hours to complete and it covered every subject you could think of. I decided the only way to survive was to sneak onto the ship. The ship was departing in the Delta Sector of Los Angeles, about 550 klicks from my home in Santa Cruz. The day of the launch, I had my self-driving car take me to the airport and I took the earliest flight to Los Angeles. Roughly twenty minutes later I arrived. I could see the enormous spaceship all the way from the airport. As I got closer I saw an astonishingly long line of people, waiting to get on the ship. Every person had to get their DNA scanned before their identities were confirmed and they were allowed on the ship. I saw a few people get caught as being imposters and dragged away by security guards as they screamed insults. A force field separated the lucky 1,000,000 from a giant mob of...
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...July 20,1969 America won The Space Race as we were the first human or as we know of living beings on the Moon. Although we have proof of Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were, in fact on the moon, there are some people who choose to believe and deny that this ever occurred. Their reasons mostly include that the flag was waving in the non-existing breeze. Also, there are no stars in the pictures. Lastly, they believe that the moon landing itself was recorded either deep in Hollywood 0r in Area 51. In the pictures, you see of the lunar module you see there are no stars in the sky. You would assume that in space, of all places there would be tons and tons of stars. Well, Michael Rundle wrote on HuffPost, “The lunar modules skin is by far the brightest thing in the pictures which means the crew had to have a low aperture setting on their cameras. Aperture is the setting on how much light is coming in the camera, the stars are not bright enough to be captured by the camera lens. This statement proves that there shouldn’t be pictures of stars on the moon unless that is the only thing in the picture. A statement like this proves that deniers are incorrect in their assumptions....
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...“Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power To Alter Public Space” Stereotypes affect different individuals regardless race, religion, sex, and creed. In “Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space,” Brent Staples demonstrates how a stereotype on race and sex can intervene with one another. Each point, whether a narrative or remark, can have positive and negative outcomes on the audience Staples is trying to enlighten. His thesis, the ability to alter public space through racial stereotypes, affected him as well as many other persons of his stature and skin color. It not only influenced lives of people like Staples, but infringed onto the “victims” of Staples and others like him. Staples explains his thesis throughout the essay through narratives of incidents in his life. He explains one encounter with a young white women, “on a deserted street, in an impoverished section of Chicago” (556). She glances back at him and disappears off into the dark. In paragraph two, Staples understands her thoughts of him being a mugger, a rapist, or even a murderer; but “her flight” made him feel “like an accomplice tyranny” (556). It also made him feel like he was “indistinguishable from the muggers,” and laid on him and “unnerving gulf between nighttime pedestrians—particularly women” and himself (556). This confrontation not only shows how a stereotype affected the thoughts of a female walking at night, but how it negatively touched a black male...
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...My essay is about the space race. I will answer the following questions: What was the rocket that sent a satellite into space originally designed for? What was the space race and what caused it? Who was in the race? Did the US launch the first human into space, the first dog etc.? My essay will focus on the major events of the space race and on answering who won the space race and why. The first missile ever created was the V2 used by the Nazi’s in ww2. It was used to bombard and kill thousands of people. “American and Russian scientists raced to improve the range and accuracy of such missiles.”(history this day) Their goal was to have a missile that can travel a longer distance for the purpose of reaching the other side of the world to deliver...
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...which is still viewed by many as inferior to the male gender, and skin colors. The narratives of black women during these centuries encapsulate the worries, discrimination, and obstacles they had to suffer which others did not have to experience. This creates a unique perspective of these women and their way of interpreting the social inequities and historical events that transpired during their life. During slavery, black women were not only treated as sub-human due to their skin tones, but they were also often sexually abused or explicitly raped, and unable to turn to anyone for help. The understandings that black women authors had during this period of history generates an outlook which makes their novels both relatable to women of all races, but also distinctly important and relative to the African American...
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...My tone for this essay is being informative. My thesis is, although man has created many things, rockets are one of the greatest creations. My purpose for this essay is to educate people on the history of rockets, and I wanted to express why it is one of the greatest creations man has created. The horse and buggy were used to discover uncharted territories and now we are using rocket to explore the uncharted parts of space. This essay discusses the history of rocket fuel, past explorers of space, and the future opportunities in space. Although man has created many things, rockets are one of the greatest creations. Rocket fuel has changed drastically over many years, the first documented rocket was by the Chinese in the fourteenth century, and its fuel was black powder (“History of rockets- Spread of Rocket Technology”). This was the start of something big. Later in history, in the year 1261, Roger Bacon perfected the formula for the rocket; instead of just using gun powder he added saltpeter, carbon, and sulfur (“History of rockets- Spread of rocket technology”). By perfecting the formula he increased performance by staggering numbers. As people continued to experiment with rocket, a man named Robert Godard, invented a rocket that ran on liquid fuel, this was a big step for rocketry, his rocket only flew 41 feet, but the more he experimented, the higher it got (Stern). The pioneers in exploring space made it to different lengths in the space race. For instance, the...
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...minority communities in British society’ (Solomos 1989:2). Equality of opportunity in this sense is associated to the concept of racial equality, which can simply refer to ‘social equality for peoples of all races’ (Crenshaw 1988). In spite of this however, there remain deeply entrenched processes of discrimination resistant to legal and political interventions throughout society (Solomos 1993). This essay will discuss the claim ‘there ain’t no Black in the Union Jack’ in relation to these processes of discrimination which have encouraged the mis representation and exclusion of Black people within British society. The first part of the essay will outline the meaning of race and racism in the 21st century. It will then go on to discuss processes of exclusion, which are reinforced by the media and politicians representation of black migrants and the existence of so called ‘White spaces’. These exclusions of black people can be seen to prevent them from identifying as British thus excluding them from being part of ‘the Union Jack’. Whilst the concept of racism has been restricted by the notion of ‘colour’ as it has concealed the full range of ways in which racism has operated in Britain, including against Jews, Gypsies and the Irish (Jewesbury 2008), throughout this essay the term will only be discussed in the political sense to ‘denote people who self- identify, originate or have ancestry from global majority populations (i.e. African, Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin America)...
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...Yolanda Williams The Cold War American Intercontinental University Abstract This essay is on the cold war and the major events that affected it. It will be analyzing 2-3 major consequences the conflict had on the United States. It will also explain how the war affected American sensibilities, including the way Americans viewed the war and themselves. The essay will also answer: if the war changed America’s role in the world? And was the outcome of the war beneficial or detrimental to the United States or was it a combination of both. The Cold War: Containment By the time World War II ended, a large majority of the American officials came to a conclusion that the best defense against the soviet threat was a strategy called “containment”. George Kennan explained the policy: The Soviet Union, he wrote was “A political force committed fanatically to the belief that with the U.S. there can be no permanent agreement between parties that disagree”, as a result the only chance America could make was the long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. This way of thinking would shape American foreign policy for the next four decades. The Cold War: The Atomic Age In 1950, a National Security Council report known as NSC-68 had copied Truman’s suggestion that the country use military force to “contain” expansionism where ever it seemed to be occurring. The report called a four-fold increase in defense spending. American officials...
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...History Leaving Cert American Essay Notes By James Esses Mocks.ie History Leaving Cert Revision Notes James Esses Page 1 Contents 1.0 Essay 1: Changes in the US Economy from 1945-1989 ..................................................................... 3 1.1 Boom (1945-1968) .................................................................................................................. 3 1.2 Bust (1968-1989)..................................................................................................................... 4 2.0 Essay 2 Consumer Society post 1945 ................................................................................................ 6 3.0 Essay 3 Foreign Policy 1945-1972 ..................................................................................................... 8 3.1 Berlin ....................................................................................................................................... 8 3.2 Korea ....................................................................................................................................... 9 3.3 Berlin Wall ............................................................................................................................. 10 3.4 Cuba ...................................................................................................................................... 10 4.0 Essay 4: How did the US become involved in Vietnam and why did it escalate in...
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...I am using the article "The 1960s Science and Technology: Topics in the News.” as a source because it covers the majority of reasons we are pushing for space exploration. It covers the the need for more resources, possible answers to the origin of life, and even just appreciation of the stars because of astronomy. My claim is that space travel is important in the survival of the human race; it is vital to have a contingency plan, a way to get finite resources, and understand our planet better. This source covers two of my three qualifiers, as well as supporting my claim in the need for rare resources and understanding Earth, in order to survive in the future. The target audience is people who are science enthusiasts but also are interested...
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...IS MONEY SPENT ON SPACE EXPLORATION A WASTE? Running head: IS MONEY SPENT ON SPACE EXPLORATION A WASTE? Is Money Spent on Space Exploration a Waste? Name Institution Human beings have always been fascinated with the idea of visiting space. Scientists all over the world have scrambled on the opportunity to go and explore space. Rockets that were made back in the 20th century have made it possible for people to tour the area. Following the First World War, the Soviet Union and the United States made their missile programs, all aimed at space exploration. Knowing that space exploration is one costly affair, there have been raging debates whether it is necessary to spend tons of money on it. This essay begs to answer the question, "Is money spent on space exploration a waste?" It is better for countries to spend money improving the financial status of their country and its people. Countries should not channel their funds on sponsoring scientists to go to space yet their people are suffering back at home (Kranz, 2011). The money otherwise spent on space exploration could be used to take care of the destitute children, improve health care and the education quality. Some countries do not have enough employment for their youths. It could be logical to create resources that generate jobs then visit space. Jerry asserts that the earth is not entirely explored meaning that there is no need to go...
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...exception. hooks engages with a wide variety of problems and approaches to “education as the practice of freedom.” Her essays exposed the degree to which our traditional system of education reproduces and sustains structural inequalities. Equally important, these essays offered new ways of thinking about pedagogy, and new strategies for creating a liberatory classroom. The only major downfall I saw in this volume is that the essays often repeated themselves. hooks acknowledges as much in her introduction, saying that since she wrote each essay separately, a certain degree of overlap exists in the collection. I would perhaps recommend that readers space out the essays rather than attempting to digest them all at once; this will allow readers to digest her thoughts before moving on, and will help them avoid becoming frustrated by these overlaps. hooks states that she intends these essays to be “celebratory” (10), and indeed I found that the experience of reading them was often a joyful one. The degree to which she loves teaching and connects with her students is incredibly inspiring. Teaching to Transgress has earned a permanent place on my bookshelf; I anticipate that I will turn to it often as I begin to teach students and create my own pedagogical style. Intro: Teaching to Transgress bell hooks ushers the reader into her collection of essays with a description of the various pedagogies that informed her own education. First, she presents us with the exciting...
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...Between 1941 and 1991, the Cold War was occurring involving an immense amount of countries. This war was originally named by an English writer George OrwelI within an essay written called “You and the Atomic Bomb” published in 1945. The war began from a believed outbreak that Communism would dominate all governments by the USSR’s malicious leader, Joseph Stalin. The countries on the western hemisphere feared that the large territory of the USSR would continue to expand further into European countries, and a widespread fear spread throughout the west that the Soviets had constructed a perilous atomic bomb. Orwell begins his essay, “Considering how likely we all are to be blown to pieces by it within the next five years, the atomic bomb has not...
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...Discrimination Within Race and Society “Disgust.” “Alienated.” “Victim.” Since I have been working on the turnpike, I have witnessed many types of discrimination, where one or a few human beings are being targeted and singled out from the group just because of the way they look or speak. I have witnessed Muslim people casually walking into the lobby and EVERY other human in the building quickly walking in the opposite direction, sending nervous glances over their shoulders, or a white young American woman clutching her young five year old daughter to her hip just because a large black man walked up in line patiently waiting to order a sandwich. Both the Muslim and the black man left there standing alone wondering, “Why me?” After reading...
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