believe that the following commentary was effective in achieving its purpose. In the text‚ Ana Rand presents the event as human greatness by using pathos and vivid illustrations. She starts with an eloquent description saying that the launch of Apollo 11 "began with a large patch of bright‚ yellow-orange flame shooting sideways from under the base of the rocket." This description helps an audience form a visual picture of the event. Most Americans would have already seen the remarkable and proudful
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mission. He states that it cost a total of 180 billion dollars of federal money that as 4% of the entire federal budget at the time. There was over 400‚000 people employed and 20‚000 different organizations that were part of the Apollo mission. A total of 24 people flew on Apollo and some people died. Pontin then explains how this was all a collective effort from everyone involved and ended up being the biggest technological advancement of our time. Pontin asks‚ why did we go? Many would say because Kennedy
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first civil rights bill was signed and passed. The government’s ambition was to show they were for racial equality. While it wasn’t the a fast acting movement they’d hoped for‚ it was a gateway to help other bills pass smoothly. On July 20 1969‚ apollo 11 was sent into space‚ landing Neil Armstrong on the moon. This was a huge advancement
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On the 25th of May 1961 in Cape Kennedy‚ Florida‚ John F Kennedy made a speech. He decided that an American was going to be the first to land on the moon. I‚ Neil Armstrong had the honour‚ to be one of the three astronauts chosen to go on the Apollo 11 mission. I was accompanied by‚ Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin and Michael Collins. On the 16th of July 1969 at 9:32am‚ Saturn V weighing 3million kilograms‚ launched from Cape Kennedy‚ Florida. Before we were beginning to start our launch I was very nervous
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EXPLORE The explorative spirit of the Americans inspired projects of manned space flights like the Mercury‚ Gemini‚ and Apollo projects put together by NASA. Projects like these were formed around the ultimate goal of eventually getting an American man to the moon (Webb‚ “Advanced”). On March 6‚ 1958 the National Security Council discussed the United States’s objectives in its response to the Soviet Union launching their satellite. The expectations of future explorations were discussed and the timeline
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Entering the Frontier Flight Museum was an educational‚ historical experience dating back to the first airplane in 1903 to present day airplanes. It included the history of combat airplanes‚ commercial airplanes‚ corporate and private airplanes. Walking into the main Richard W. Cree Exhibit Gallery‚ the room was divided into different labeled galleries with interesting exhibits to support each gallery. The first exhibit was the “Early Flyers” exhibit of a replica wooded hanger with the tools used
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The terrorists wanted a well-known church to be bombed on Christmas Eve in Egypt; they forced Pearl‚ a former CIA agent to take on this mission. Is Pearl going to find a way out‚ or is she going to kill innocent people to save one life – her kidnapped daughter?! On this bright windy night; the moon was shining as if to give a sense of distant hope. The smell of salty water filled the night. The meeting will be on Miami beach in Alexandria‚ Egypt‚ the city known as the Pearl of the Mediterranean
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On September 11th‚ 2001‚ it was a day as Franklin Delano Roosevelt said about the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ “A Date that will live in infamy”‚ in that America had suffered the worst attack since Pearl Harbor. It was attacked by terrorists from al-Qaeda‚ which was planned by their leader‚ Osama Bin Laden. 19 terrorists hijacked 4 airplanes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York‚ the Pentagon in Washington D.C.‚ and in a farm in Pennsylvania. Close to 3‚000 innocent people lost their
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The American people after Nine-Eleven attacks and the French people during the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte acted very similar towards the government. The Americans and French people experienced tragedy and were looking for help. Everyone was looking for someone to save them. The French just went through years of terror supervised by Jacobins. The Jacobins were the major political party. This party was responsible for imprisoning and beheading many people. Americans were shaken and ripped apart after
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Who would ever imagine that the begging of aerospace and the landing on the moon was going to be forty-three years before that the Apollo landed on the moon. What is even more surprising that this was going too occurred in a simple farm. Robert Goddard was a pioneer in Aerospace who was often ridiculed by many editorial and most American scientists. Most off them did not believe on his theories and nobody never took the initiative to do a bigger research in rockets with liquid-propellants. Robert
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