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    Saving Private Ryan is an award winning 1998 film directed by Steven Spielberg that documented D-Day on June 6, 1944 and the atrocities the men in battle went through. The film received 5 Oscars, 74 other rewards, and was nominated for another 74 awards. The film has also been appraised by Royal Marines that played as extras in the film and after the release of the film in 1998 the number of people that visited the American cemetery at St. Laurent increased due to the graphic content that was…

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    Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot onto the moon. He set foot on the moon in 1969 on the Apollo 11 mission. The Apollo 11 was planned to set two men on the moon and they did. He has two college degrees. He has a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Purdue University. He also has a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Southern California. He was born August 5, 1930 Wapakoneta OH and died in August 25, 2012 Cincinnati OH. Neil had 3 children Karen…

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    John Noble Wilford is an American science author, journalist, reporter and correspondent. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Science in journalism. Few years later, he earned a master’s degree in political science from Syracuse University. He began his career as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal then he moved to The New York Times to become a science reporter, national news editor assistant, and director of science news. John has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize…

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    task. After immense preparation and planning, Apollo 11 launched on July 16th, 1969. As a captivated audience of over half a billion people watched on television around the world, Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20th. The importance of the moon landing is summarized well in the famous quote of Apollo mission commander and Ohio native Neil Armstrong “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”(“The Apollo Program”). Engineers are the driving force behind the advancement of science…

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    Fortunately, the Barkonians had not already discovered the Furballs plan to take over the trade routes so they sent him to Hypernova; a group of bounty hunters who occupied the entire solar system of Hyperforce x. Hyperforce x as created when the massive star Helios 5 went supernova and turned the planets in its solar system to pure metal rendering them lifeless. Then Hypernova harvested the metal to build the massive ships the Supernova and the Thunderstruck, which have a powerful gravity and…

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    realism was the emotions felt throughout the film. Before landing onto Normandy beach, it was very evident that the soldiers were nervous. Many were throwing up on the boat along with being able to feel the tension the soldiers were feeling before the ramp dropped (1). In the film and in real life, once the ramp fell, machine guns ripped through the waiting soldiers inside the boats (2). Further showing the horror these men felt when landing on the…

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    moon burst into flames, killing all the crew members aboard. It was Apollo 8 Were Saturn V a command space shuttle was sent to orbit the Moon. Apollo eleven is when Armstrong and his crew leave earth and joined the Saturn V to ready the landing on the Moon. The landing took one minute once the Space shuttle flew into the Moons…

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    the concretized abstraction of man’s greatness.” Rand says that the landing was the manifestation of mankind’s potential, and it conveys an emotional response like hope. This is a perfect example of pathos. Rand activates the reader's emotions and allows them to feel what she feels.Rand also states that “ … is not political; it is philosophical; specifically moral-epistemological.” This demonstrates that, to Rand, the landing was not a success in terms of politics but a success on a global…

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    The Moon Landing Conspiracy On July 20, 1969, the United States supposedly landed on the moon. Millions of people believe this, but millions don’t. Millions of people believe that the Apollo 11 mission successfully landed on the moon, and that Neil Armstrong was the first human to step on the moon, followed by Buzz Aldrin. Millions of people believe that this is a hoax, to win the “space race” of the 1960’s. Me personally, I believe it was a hoax, to prevent embarrassment. in 1961, JFK said…

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    What was the Apollo 13? Apollo 13 was a successful failure because it was a mission to the moon with many challenges along the way as well as surviving the free fall to safely back to Earth. To begin with, the launch to the moon was just like any other take off. It stretched back the skin on their faces until it seemed their bones might shatter. The mission was to get samples of sandy dirt and grab 4 billion year old rocks from Earth. Suddenly a loud bang got their attention. The spacecraft…

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