Museum of Science and Industry

Why is space exploration important One year ago NASA made there own twin experiment. Scott Kelly was sent to the ISS while his identical twin brother stayed on Earth. About 340 days later Scott comes back to Earth, riding inside the snug soyuz coming back with him is Mikhail Korniyenko. While kelly-the-Earthbound wasn 't really doing anything besides collecting blood, urine, and saliva for research, NASA is also been taking samples from his brother. And by comparing the samples they 'll…

The Greek World The ancient Greeks laid the foundation for many aspects of today’s Western civilization. In philosophy, they embraced critical thinking and self-examination to answer age-old questions about human existence. The first school for higher education was founded by Plato in Athens. Politically, democracy became a new form of government that placed governmental power in the hands of common citizens. In literature, they wrote poems, plays, historical, and educational documents.…

From the rise of grandeur megachurches to certain celebrity preachers on TV, prosperity gospels have infiltrated into the American culture and indoctrinated believers with the fallacy that faith in God leads to a “good life.” Many Christians habitually assume a false façade of perfection to demonstrate piety while using the Bible as a manual toward the unattainable perfect lives. After all, if believers suffer, it must be due to insufficient prayers and the lack of faith in God. God, then,…

On July 20, 1969, NASA successfully sent three men, Neil Armstrong, “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins, to the Moon for its Apollo 11 mission, one of the many missions in the Apollo program. About seven years after the landings, in 1976, a man named Bill Kaysing released a book title We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle, in which he claimed that the entire landing was simply a hoax. Since then, many people have read this book (or similar books) or heard about the…

Part 1 Eco Tourism Ecotourism can be defined as a type of tourism that involves responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and also improves the well-being of the local people in that specific area. Ecotourism covers the aspect of an individually focused value. The term ecotourism is also sometimes referred to as “tourism with a conscious” (Goeldner and Ritchie 385). Ecotourism can greatly benefit a destination, however it can also bring dangers and limitations. When…

Lacks (Skloot 23). 1938 Elsie Lacks is born to Henrietta Lacks and David Lacks (Skloot 23). 1941 April 10 Henrietta and David are married (Skloot 24). 1942 Henrietta and David move to Sparrows Point so David can work at a steel plant as the industry flourishes during World War I (Skloot 25). 1950 Lawrence is drafted for the Korean war to a medic unit at Fort Belvoir at…

scientific and technological education opportunities, and catalyzing shifts in public perceptions of equality and meritocracy. During the Cold War era, racial discrimination was pervasive in various sectors of American society, including the aerospace industry and NASA. Segregation and limited opportunities for Black Americans were common, reflecting broader patterns of racial inequality. Facilities such as NASA’s Langley Research Centre operated under segregated conditions, with Black employees…

Sean Farrell UPP 520 Professor Betancur Essay #2: The Downfall and Revitalization of Detroit and its relation to Neo-Liberalism Introduction: The city of Detroit has undergone a series of dramatic economic transformations throughout its history. It is these economic cycles throughout Detroit’s chronological timeline that help to both explain and describe the condition that Detroit is in, as well as give perspective for policymakers to come up with ways to deal with and improve the…

America was once described as baseball and apple pie. The Cold War forced Americans to choose the status quo of traditional American life or to face a new modernized age. The United States being a superpower in the Cold War locked horns with the very powerful Soviet Union over which form of economic and political system was best. The struggle for power in both countries was fought with espionage, nuclear deterrent, propaganda and a space race. The Cold War had formed a new frontier of changes,…

photographers, painters, musicians, and many more medias. Art has become an unstable profession because the job decline in art since the New Deal, art is seen as a luxury, schools have made budget cuts in art programs, and it is becoming a more difficult industry to enter. The New Deal was implemented during the Great Depression to bring relief to the people of the United States. The Great Depression began on April 14, 1929, with a stock market crash and ended approximately in 1939, before the…