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    Kyse Dahdal “Men on the Moon: How it All Started” "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Those were the famous words from Neil Armstrong when he became the first man to ever step foot on the moon. The moon landing had many important factors, which made it such an extraordinary moment in time. For this whole event to occur, a well-equipped space shuttle was needed. That shuttle was Apollo 11. The service module contained oxygen, water, and electric power for the…

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    In Edgar Rice Burroughs’s story, “Under the Moons of Mars,” there are many instances of both fantasy and science fiction. When the narrator is describing things, he talks in a very scientific way. When describing a creature from Mars, he tells the reader, “the feet themselves were heavily padded… (which) is a characteristic feature of the fauna of Mars” (151). This is the way a scientist would talk about an animal, not the way a layperson tells someone about what they saw. The narrator also…

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    development of rockets capable of striking every territory across the world ("The Real Story of Apollo 17... And Why We Never Went Back To The Moon."). The Soviet Union succeeded in putting Yuri Gagarin into space in 1961, just a couple years after launching the first satellite into orbit ("The Real Story of Apollo 17... And Why We Never Went Back To The Moon."). By 1966, the space race peaked: NASA received its highest budget ever, at just under 4.5% of the total US federal budget at $5.933…

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    26 October 1015 The effect of moon phases on human behavior. The term “Lunar effect” refers to the connection between the moon phases and human behavior. The recorded statistics were recorded in correlation with the phases of the moon. Mainly focusing on abnormal behavior during the full moon. Violence during the full or close to the full moon. 11,613 cases of aggravated assault in a five year period happened more often around the time of the full moon. 34,318 crimes in a 1 year period…

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    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…

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    model. In our lesson plan our objectives focuses on the locations, movements, pattern, and shape of the moon. We will use questions to during each stage of our 5E model to Engage: During the engage phase we would begin the lesson with a small group…

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    The moon had a history of being the most explored place in the world for a long time. Countries like the U.S and Russia had a long, huge interest of exploring this fascinating place. I believe that the moon has some mysteries yet to be solved. “Houston, the Eagle has landed” is a quote from Neil Armstrong. Were the American moon landings successful or were they just a hoax in American history? For a long time, people have been wondering if American astronauts have ever gone to the moon. Many…

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    among with one of his most famous questions, “If the apple falls, does the moon also falls?” Born on December 25, 1642, Sir Isaac Newton was a renowned english physicists and mathematicians, who was best known for his law of gravitational forces. In 1665, as young Isaac sits under an apple tree, he realized the fall of an apple. He proclaimed that the force pulling the apple onto the ground and the force keeping the moon in orbit around earth are the same. In addition, he came up with the…

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    Rockets just don't get to the moon by themselves. No, it takes men! Men to build them, men to fly them, men to plot their complicated trajectories! White men! Or so the thinking went back in 1961, back when America's Mercury space program was just getting off the ground. Yes, there were people other than men at NASA working too mission is to explore space and aeronautics, or flight research. There are quite a few women working in the space program. Some of those women work at Langley's West…

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    Man Takes First Steps on the Moon Purpose: The purpose of this text is to inform people that the Apollo eleven moon landing was a success, to explain its significance in the course of human kind, and to relay how the first steps were taken. Also to give insight into the perspective of how people from around the world viewed the landing. Rhetorical Triangle: The subject of this text is the Apollo eleven mission and events of the moon landing. A writer from Times of London is the speaker. On the…

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