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    “One Night The Moon” a film directed by Rachel Perkins explores some of the universal themes such as Power, distinctive voices, and racism to demonstrate how they define society. Kevin Rudd’s sorry speech addressing similar themes demonstrates how much the Australian attitude changed since the setting of One Night The Moon and how abused the power of the government truly was. Perkins use of camera shots along with Rudd’s factual and emotional words brings both texts to life. Settings can change…

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    THE MOON William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream establishes a symbolic metaphor that distinguishes all the characters as a whole. Throughout the novel the moon is used as metaphor to create love and chaos. Characters continue to describe the moon through their relationships and their needs. With characters such as Theseus venting about how he has to wait to be with Hippolyta expresses that the day is the happiness with Hippolyta, but the moon is the darkness, expressing his sexual…

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    on Mars to make such things. While Mars may have been able to support life in the past there is no new evidence that it holds life now or that it will in the future. Mars’ atmosphere is 1% as dense as Earth’s, which makes it difficult to hold liquid water on Mar’s surface. Furthermore, Jupiter has 66 moons, which are pretty small. Of the 66 moons there are four large moons, known as the Galilean moons. Which scientists are intrigued by because they may have environments that can support life.…

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    Nasa has sent many missions out into space. Missions to mars, venus, and also to the moon. The three most famous missions were Apollo 11, Apollo 8, and Apollo 13. There was a reason that Apollo 13 was memorable. They did not land on the moon or discover new beings, but it is remembered because a huge accident that caused all in America to lean forward in their seats and pray for a miracle that the mission would be saved and three special men would come home safely. In April 1970 the Apollo…

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    way? By using the Sun, Moon, and stars, early civilizations have paved the way to these modern devices used daily in today’s society. The effective use of astronomy enables the calculation of which day it is, the time of day, and how one can navigate from place to place. The observations of ancient astronomers over 5000 years ago led to the tracking of celestial bodies that have aided in the creation of both the lunar and solar calendars. Many early cultures used the moon to trace the passage…

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    by the moon is outrageous. A bit fewer than one billion people ranging from Siberia to West africa, to north and South America will be able to witness this possibly life changing…

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    “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…

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    Moon exploration could be all but marveled until October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union did the impossible and launched Sputnik 1 to orbit Earth, this was a huge success. Sputnik 1 was a small, nearly useless satellite, but it had started the Space Race, and one of the biggest leaps for humanity. We have been nearly oblivious to what has happened in the space race, including why the race to the moon became big and fast at that, what other smaller successes were, and what the Apollo program was…

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    so many things that we have never imagined that we can learn by studying space further and exploring all of the Lord’s beautiful creations. Through the urging of President John F. Kennedy, the Apollo Missions were developed by NASA to explore the moon and study it. President Kennedy persuaded the people that the Russian government was leading the exploration of space and that we needed to put more resources in our…

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    For millennia, humans have been looking up to the skies, wondering what is out there in the universe, and thinking about the glory of the moon and stars. During the Cold War between America and the Soviet Union, huge advancements in outer space technology were made, including the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. In 1958, the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, put America ahead in the space race against the Soviet Union, and set a worldwide standard for space…

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