Landing

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…

In 1997, the Longaberger Basket Company built its headquarters in Newark, Ohio. However, anyone who glances at the building is guaranteed to do a double-take. At first glance, the building looks like a giant basket, complete with handles. The company’s founder, Dave Longaberger, oversaw the design, stating, “if they can put a man on the moon, they can certainly build a building that’s shaped like a basket.” He was able to create this eye-catching metaphor by integrating the parts of a building…

Chenfeld, D. (2011). Above All Else a World Champion Skydiver's Story of Survival and What It Taught Him About Fear, Adversity, and Success. New York: Skyhorse Publishing. World champion skydiver Dan Chenfeld tells his story of overcoming tragedy by using the methods he created to become successful in skydiving and life. The book is informative and the author has proved the methods himself. I believe the information is accurate, but may be bias in favor of selling more copies of his book.…

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! For some reason, this phrase come to mind when I consider the last PR Publications assignment we completed. After taking a week off for spring break, we dove right in to an in-class assignment that we turn in by the end. Our instructor informed us that we would need to create social media posts and a webpage for the teacher walkout movement. We could choose to support it or discourage it, but we had to have a call to action in our posts. For the…

World War II World War II was one of the bloodiest wars ever. Over 400,000 American lives were lost, and I’m not mentioning the millions of soldiers killed from other countries. More than 60 million people died in World War II. That’s 3% of the 1940 population! And if that’s not enough, before WWII even officially started, the Holocaust had already begun, and thousands, even millions of Jews were being murdered. During…

In Coalwood, every boy grew up thinking they were destined to be coal miners and Homer Hickam had no reason to think he'll be any different. Homer had no route out of his predetermined life - until the Soviet Satellite Sputnik flew over the October sky. Inspired by the dawn of space age and Wernher Von, he embarked on a quixotic mission that altered his life forever. October Sky is based on the triumphant story of Homer Hickam. He is a high school student in rural West Virginia where the coal…

Human beings have always dreamed about going to space. Actions were taken early as the 16 century to achieve this dream, when a Chinese official had tried to shoot himself to the moon by attaching forty-seven rockets to a chair and lighting them all at once. Even though some do not believe the story to be true, the dream about travelling to the moon was achieved when Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. Ever since, traveling to Mars has become the next goal. In order to send humans to…

In John F. Kennedy’s “We Choose to go to the Moon”, there are multiple examples of rhetorical devices throughout the speech. These devices include anaphora, metonymy, and parallelism. When Kennedy says, “no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space”, he is used parallelism to emphasize that space is just as dangerous as anything else, but it is our choice to go. Almost everyone supported this risk taking idea, but the way in how he delivered his words was what gained his support…

Hello, I am Jeremy Romondo and here is the story of my death. The date is January 7th, 1945. I am fighting the genocidal maniacs also known as the Nazis. We were fighting outside of the small town of Rudesheim when we saw a monstrous Sherman Tank on our right flank just over a small hedge of bushes. My battalion leaped under the cover of the foliage to stay out of the vision of the destructive vehicle. We stayed until we knew for sure the tank was clear of our location. My soldiers and I camped…

The Truth is Out There Decades ago the first extraterrestrial life form came to Earth. The first humans these beings made contact with decided that the best course of action would be to conceal their existence until a more appropriate time. Throughout the years these men have used various strategies to seize and discredit evidence that could verify the presence of aliens on Earth. These men are known as the men in black. Thanks to the similarly titled comedy blockbuster, Men in Black that was…