Neil Peart

Many authors use figurative language is different ways and with different word usage, but how and why do authors use figurative language? What is the proper way to use them, when should they be used, and what is the difference of books that use it, and the ones that do not? In “The Old Man And The Sea” written by Ernest Hemingway, many types of figurative language are used throughout the book such as alliteration, similes, and personification, and all of them are used to describe the things that…

The first human landing on the moon in 1969 was a great accomplishment for America and a huge disappointment for the USSR. But, what if it never happened what if the USA faked the whole thing? Just to win the Space Race? Would America really reside to being that naive just to win a race to the moon? Maybe, if they did they would have to do really good job of hiding the evidence showing that is was just filmed. Just a few things were slipped through the editor's’ eyes. For example, a big…

hoax. One of the biggest rumors is that it is totally fake because in one of the pictures, there is no stars in the sky. There are so many rumors that they can’t explain all of them. But then again, Apollo 11 was the first moon landing. So thanks to Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin Aldrin.…

As Neil Armstrong took those monumental first steps, 240,000 miles away, back on Earth, one 9 year old boy's curiosity ignited. A young Chris Hadfield knew, without a doubt, he wanted to be an astronaut. There was just one problem; he was Canadian. There had never been a Canadian astronaut and still wouldn't be for another 15 years. That didn't stop Chris though; from that day on every decision he made was with his dream in mind. We all have a far-out dream like Chris that we mostly keep to…

What did you just say he asked with a smirk slightly visible on his pale face. That was the greeting I received from my roommate on the first day of freshmen year at the ohio state university. I honestly didn’t understand what was so amusing so I repeated myself again to his amusement. What I would soon discover is that my roommate and many of the other students at OSU make snap decisions about my intelligence based on the way I speak being from southern Ohio meant I say things differently and…

It has been at least 46 years since mankind first stepped onto the moon. This event is considered one of the most important accomplishments that humanity has ever done. However, at this point some people still believe that such an event did not happen, and it was all just massive propaganda used by the United States in order to bankrupt the Soviet Union at the time. This idea about the Apollo mission being fake seems illogical. My perspective about this is that the U.S actually did land on the…

“I could have been the last person to walk on the moon” He’s a hero to many of us who have followed the world of Apollo. Michael Collins, attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and afterward began his career in the sky. His first spaceflight was the Gemini 10 mission, where he performed a spacewalk. His second was Apollo 11 the first lunar landing in history. Also the first person to orbit the moon in a Command Module all alone with no communication. His courage and…

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…

Christian Justices’ Christmas Baby Dewayne was sleeping in his crib on Christmas Eve. Dewayne’s mom, Alesha, and his dad, Darrell, had to attend a Christmas party. Because Dewayne would be all alone on Christmas Eve in an empty, lonely house, they asked their Germen shepherd named Justice to keep an eye on him. Justice was lying down on Dewayne’s blue and orange carpet. Dewayne was waking up and crawling out of his crib and then Justice grabs Dewayne with his teeth softly and easy. Then…

Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book writes about a young boy named Nobody Owens or Bod who has a unique relationship with the dead. Throughout the novel Bod learns many things that the dead know about and don’t. With his guardian Silas, a mysterious figure who is neither living nor dead, Bod learns multiple things about life, the dead, and how powerful knowledge is. Knowledge is Power and power is what Bod seeks in order to protect himself, avenge his family, and put a stop to the Man Jack…