Space Race

this work and highlight its potential contribution to a better understanding of the intersection of race and colonialism in the eco-critical tradition. It suggests that Du Bois’s explorations of the double environments of (black) Jim Crow and (white) national parks or from shadows of hill to Veil, from pastoral to urban in the text foreground practices of segregation across both natural and urban spaces. Du Bois also uses veil as imagery. For Du Bois, the veil primarily refers to three things.…

What is a Camaro? That is the question automotive reporters asked Chevrolet in 1966 when they introduced a new automobile model to their line of cars. In this paper I will be discussing the design of the Chevrolet Camaro starting with the origin of the car. Introduced in 1966 as a 1967 model year car, the Camaro has been in production for over fifty years with exception of an eight year gap from 2002 to 2010. This means the Camaro has been made for longer than most other domestic car models for…

The essay “Just Walk On By: Black Men and Public Space”, by Brent Staples, shares many similarities with the poem “Rite of Passage”, by Sharon Olds, about the connotations of how violent men appear to be. By using gender theory analysis to compare and contrast both pieces a fuller image of how men are generally viewed can be seen. While in the poem, “Rite of Passage” violence is seen as an aspect of how man are, in “Just walk on by” it can clearly be seen that violence is a stigma that follows…

the best she can The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena (1). Though the framework for this paper is one focused on gender and race; specifically looking at the experience of black and brown people on campus. Not every race and gender experiences the same agency on campus.…

claim that “race is a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies”1, which ties to the idea that race is just an illusion.2 Race is an idea that was created to cause divides within the human species; the Zoot Suit Riots and the Civil Rights Movements are examples of how it succeeded in doing so. Race has been used as tool to demean and degrade people of color from in U.S. society; the only time when a person’s race is used…

Through the viewpoint of a young African-American male, Brent Staples of Black Men and Public Space uses an indignant, passive aggressive tone to give insight on how black men are treated and portrayed in society. While reading Black Men and Public Space, I noticed the author’s tone change multiple times. Staples’ passage starts off didactic in a sense, already showing the attitude of the city toward the black population, but he quickly starts displaying a more gloomy emotion. He tells…

should continue to fund NASA because according to the History of Space Exploration Project we did, it shows that we weren’t able to see what Earth really looked like until Explorer 6 was launched. This is important because for the longest time, people thought the earth was flat. Then, after that we said it was a sphere. But, we never really knew what Earth looked like until launching a satellite capable of sending pictures of Earth from space. These pictures showed if Earth was made of more…

spatial segregation to arise in the industrial city is in rapid increase of the population, the growing industrial capitalism and the formation of separate classes. The segregation of race and ethnic groups occurred in the apartheid city was due to social, political, spatial and economic ideological systems. Space within a society cannot merely be defined as a neutral medium in which economic, social, cultural and political procedures are conveyed but it likewise adds to the design of urban…

The Cancellation of Exploration: Bring Back the Funding for Domestic Space Exploration Space, the final frontier. For years, mankind gazed up at the stars, and dreamed of stepping onto the moon. On July 20, 1969, this dream became a reality (NASA, 2014). Neil Armstrong stepping foot on the moon was a bonding experience for most everyone in the country, or even the world. There are some events, like the crash of the challenger, or 9/11, where people know exactly where they were when that…

achieved it would be quite a feat, but taking this leap isn’t the only reason why we should get people to the red planet. Sending humans to Mars is critical because life could be discovered; the quality of life on Earth could improve, and the human race has a greater chance of survival. NASA has a plan to send humans to Mars by the mid 2030s. Rovers and satellites are already roaming the red planet in search of life, or evidence of life, but so far have come up with nothing. If people are ever…