Space Exploration, And In Event Of Moon Disaster By William Safire

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Writers use different methods to catch a reader 's attention, some can be caught by persuading the reader or audience using reasoning as well as facts towards the argument either positive or negative. Others could be convinced towards a certain argument over someone with authority. Stating the pros and proving them will make the audience agree with them. The audience’s attention could be shown by their reaction to a certain picture or imagine. What that picture could mean could vary and the audience uses their emotions to emphasize their statement. Space Exploration opens the mind of many audiences and can help writers catch their attention simply by using text, speeches, or pictures to make an argument of certain things about space that the audience will either agree or disagree and will release facts of their own or emotions just to back up their argument. In the article “Man Takes First Steps on the Moon” published by The Times, talks about how the atmosphere in space was when Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin were on the moon. As Aldrin reports back to base, “There are quite a few rocks and boulders in the near area which are going to have some interesting colors in them.” This is a fact given to the reader to expand their imagination on what the colors of the rocks could possibly be since they don’t state what actual color they could be. Later in the article Aldrin radios again, “We’ll get to the details of what’s around here. But it looks like a collection of every variety, shape, angularity, granularity; a collection of just about every kind of rock.” Instead of just regular shaped rocks and boulders now the selection of rocks and boulder can have many different characteristics like shape or how rough it is and how small or big it is. Aldrin later adds, “The color depends on what angle you’re looking at… rocks and boulders look as though they’re going to have some interesting colors.” Now that Aldrin stated all that it is evident that many combinations of rocks can be made based on the facts he gives and every reader will have different arguments about how the rocks will look, depending on what color they are or what size they are plus many more variations. The facts were given to the reader with freedom, so they can adjust their own arguments with a variety of facts to arrange their own argument and state their own opinion. The speech, “In Event of Moon Disaster” by William Safire was written in case of a moon disaster for President Nixon to read to the public after Apollo 11 launched. …show more content…
In the speech Safire mentions the word “mourn” several times because that’s what the people will do after the loss of “heroes”. If the President mentions it, it is because he is respected and can convince anybody to mourn the deaths of what would have come of a space disaster and deaths of Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin. In the speech, it also states, “These two men are laying down their lives in mankind’s most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding.” This is showing people that these two men should be recognized for attempting an honorary and noble goal because he himself, the president said it, then others will follow because he is the president who has major authority and sounds convincing towards his people and catches their attention that the two men did achieve the noble goal of trying to understand space. Safire also explains that the two astronauts are like sons to planet earth, “Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown” it makes the reader feel as if they lost a brother or relative since they too come from the same mother earth and the president convincing them that they are brothers being mourned by their other relatives that are still on earth. With the authority of President Nixon, he would have been able to convince his people on how to feel about a certain disaster or situation by simply talking to the public about the disaster and being televised for other people’s attention so they could also mourn or feel emotional because of the certain situation the President is addressing. Ayn Rand uses descriptive details

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