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    My Report on President Ronal Reagan’s Challenger Address (Ronald Reagan. The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Tragedy Address. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganchallenger.htm) President Ronald Reagan talked about the January 28, 1986 Challenger shuttle incident instead of on the state of congress and the grief it threw on our country. President Ronald Reagan was the speaker. He was the 40th president and head of the NASA space program. He was born in 1911 and died in 2004. He…

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    In Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch is a 1990 World Fantasy Comedy novel, written as collaboration with English authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. The book is about the birth of the son of Satan, the Antichrist coming in the last days. An Angel and Demon, Aziraphale and Crowley attempts to sabotage the apocalypse. Both have grown to their human customs spending six thousand years on Earth…

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    Essay On The Pigman

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    The Pigman by Paul Zindel was a very good book. It all started with two high school kids writing down their experiences with an old man, Mr. Pignati, known as the Pigman. They was a Highschool boy named John, and a Highschool girl named Lorraine. John was a very handsome boy, outgoing, funny, and he had an avocation to drink beer. John’s family treats him very infantile, and is always comparing him to his brother. Lorraine was very shy and had paranoia, she was very self conscious. Somehow…

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    The Motel Short Story

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    It was a stormy day and the blank family decides to go on a vacation because they are sick of the nasty weather. The Blank parents decide on a destination to go on so they call down there kids liam and michael they are twins but do not get along at all. There parent finally announce they are going on vacation to pluto to see the moon rise. the next day they head to nasa to take off to pluto. The Blank family loads up the rocket with there stuff and they headed for pluto. Liam starts to pick on…

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    At the start of the 1960s, the end of world war 1 had passed. the calculator, artificial heart, and the first moon landing were all major attributions of the decade. The 1960s yielded many major technological advances from previous years. But with the changes, came dangers. Some of the major events of the 1960s were : JFK to win the presidency, The Peace corps is established, kennedy is assassinated, and man lands on the moon. Many more historical American events were to develop in the mid to…

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    Do you want to live in a time period where we got to see a man step foot on the moon or a time period where technology takes over people's lives. Some facts about both are Kennedy was shot in 1964 . job corps trained unskilled people Kennedy became president in 1961 . here are facts about present day an Afrikan man became president. Present day is worse because because country's fight over nothing The 60s is better than present day. One reason why i think the 1960s is better is the space race…

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    The Apollo Missions

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    moon landing was in 1969, led by president John F. Kennedy. He said, "Landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" was a national priority. His inspiring speech started the race to the moon. The crew was made up of three members, Neil Armstrong, "Buzz" Aldrin, and Micheal Collins. and who were highly skilled and trained well. These three men were the first Americans to land on the moon. The Apollo Program was the project…

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    Jfk Moon Speech

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    “We choose to go to the moon” Analysis Our speech that we chose to analyze will be the “We choose to go to the moon” speech. The speech is about us going to the moon and competing with the soviet union to get to the moon first. He also wants the U.S. to go to the moon to find out more things about space and the rest of the universe. He said going to the moon will lead to more advances than there were before going to the moon. He hopes for more knowledge, and peace by this decision. He knows…

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    Have you ever seen a movie something to do with asteroids? Well if you have, you may have noticed that the directors make the movies a little overdramatic. Half of the clips you see on a movie are all Hollywood, like for example they make the mission look so interesting like the astronauts are not bored any second of the day. Actually it is not true you get very bored when you are on a space mission. Although you may get bored, it is worth going to space and pick up asteroids. Scientist…

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    Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that foundations of the Apollo program and the connected Moon landings were complete frauds staged by NASA. The most famous claim is that landings (1969–72) were faked and that 12 Apollo astronauts did not actually walk on the Moon. Numerous groups and individuals have made these accusations since the mid-1970s, that NASA and others intentionally deceived the public into believing the landings happened, by manufacturing or destroying…

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