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    from battle and makes an excuse to Idomeneus, he is urged back into battle. Homer states, “And he went on to war as grim as murderous Ares, his good son Panic stalking beside him, tough, fearless, striking terror in even the combat-hardened veteran…” (13. 351). The gods controlled the actions of Meriones, which resulted in him gaining courage and returning to battle. Another instance where this is displayed is when Hector and his armies enclose the Argives, so they are pushed back against their…

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    The 2014 Oscar winning film Interstellar- directed by Christopher Nolan- shadows the protagonist Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) an ex-NASA pilot and engineer. The storyline begins in an apocalyptic America were the environment can no longer sustain human life. Out of chance Cooper and his daughter Murphy (Jessica Chastain) find the remains of NASA and discover just how little time humanity has. To save his children Cooper agrees to join the crew of the Endurance, tasked to locate a…

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    It was a stormy day and the blank family decides to go on a vacation because they are sick of the nasty weather. The Blank parents decide on a destination to go on so they call down there kids liam and michael they are twins but do not get along at all. There parent finally announce they are going on vacation to pluto to see the moon rise. the next day they head to nasa to take off to pluto. The Blank family loads up the rocket with there stuff and they headed for pluto. Liam starts to pick on…

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    The movie 13 Days is about the Cuban Missile Crisis that occurred during October 1962. The movie shows how John F. Kennedy and his advisers tried to negotiate with the Soviet Union to take their missiles out of Cuba. The United States first saw what looked like missiles with a U-2 spy drone on October, 16. Kennedy’s advisers had many different ideas for him to take the treat out. The Joint Chief of Staff wanted Kennedy to invade Cuba and destroy it with air strikes. Kennedy did not want to…

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    Edith Hamilton has timeless tales of Gods and heroes that support Rick Riordan and how he captures Greek mythology like for instants. Greek mythology is a study of the environment and how the human race what they went through and felt (Edith Hamilton 13). Greek mythology has influenced us to use mythology in consideration to Improve architecture, celebration, and warfare (Pontikis one). The usage of Gods and…

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    Mark Watney is having the time of his life, and then it turns into a nightmare. Mark is on a trip to Mars with his crew. When they arrive on Mars, they decide to start building the hab. While they were finishing the hab they noticed the radar said there was a big sand storm. The sand storm was getting closer and dangerous so they were trying to get to the rocket ship. They were in such a rush they didn’t notice Mark was not there until they got to the ship. They had to leave Mark behind because…

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    For my example of a powerful evaluation argument, I chose the recently deceased, Eugene "Gene" Cernan (1934-2017). The website states that Gene was a former NASA astronaut who remains the last human being to date to set foot on the surface of the moon. The website goes on to talk about how Gene first went to space as a crew member aboard the Gemini 9A. On this mission particular mission, he became the second American, and third person ever, to exit his spacecraft while in orbit-what is most…

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    NASA Mar Disaster

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    1. Introduction: On December 3, 1999, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) lost communication with its Mars Polar Lander (MPL) and Deep Space 2 (DS2) after an attempt to land on Mars. The failure of the mission was a blow to NASA Mars program. The loss of MPL was fully investigated by a Special Review Board (the Board) to prevent the same mistakes in the future missions. Later, the report revealed that when the lander touchdowned, a software glitch might had made the engine…

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    Ancient Greece Reading Challenge: 5.2 Required Reading: Ancient Greece: 1. Explain the importance and development of the Greek city-state and the difference between a citizen and a non-citizen: A city-state have city or town that is surrounded by villages and farmland. The city-states in Greek were very independent and they often quarreled. The citizens were strongly patriotic. Many of them participated in public affairs. Only citizens could own land and participated in the government.…

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    Werewolves girls and I Survived Outer space One day my friends and I were watching a movie. While we were watching the movie a space program interrupted our movie “Werewolves in space.” The space program caught LaMya eye because she is really into space things. Space james started talking about how living in space is a lot of work. LaMya said to Tamarea, when you are in space you must exercise and start your outer space eating habits 2 weeks before going into outer space. James said, hey guy…

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