Voyager

The Voyager Golden Record was more of a time capsule, “intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrial” (“The Golden Record”). According to NASA the “12-inch gold played copper disked [contained] sounds and images selected to portray the diversity…

to listen to her grandmother and break her father’s rule of going past the island reef. While the song is playing there are flashbacks of Moana’s ancestors exploring beyond the reef. She is able to come to the realization that her ancestors were voyagers, but had to stop because Maui took the heart. Moana can now see that her people have forgotten who they truly are and that it is her responsibility to bring the heart back and return the island and…

The history of the United States began with the endeavors of men. They discovered, explored, and conquered the land. It was men who established settlement, encouraged colonization and founded government. Whether still abroad on another continent or joining them in the outpost, women were a supportive feature to the enterprise. Wives bid their loved one farewell, perhaps never to return from across the ocean. Frontier women worked alongside their men to build shelter, grow food, and tend animals.…

Dylan O’Connell English III AP Mrs. Vicknair 7 March, 2017 Junior Project Other than providing for the public; NASA’s research in space has further advanced robotic technologies, the relationship between diet and bone loss and the study of space itself and earth observations, to keep our world safe. Although space exploration is great for new studies and new inventions, it takes a lot of money to keep running and the ongoing issue it that the government doesn’t have enough money to keep the…

Into the Wild The story into the wild is written by Jon Karkur soon after the death of Christopher Johnson McCandless. At first he was given the responsibility by the editors of outside magazine to cover the story of Alex real name McCandless who died at the age of 24 while he was hitchhiked to Alaska and walked into wilderness. His article covered the how Alex suffered starvation and vague and how he gave up his name, his bank balance and burned his wallet and gave all his possession to live…

he aim of this paper is to analyse Chris McCandless`s development of his idealistic lifestyle. Chris McCandless is the protagonist of the film “Into the Wild”. He tries to find his real personality and his ultimate freedom. Therefore, he leaves his family, all his material goods and, his social personality behind, to live a life alone. In his journey, he experiences a variety of difficult situations, which most of them he overcomes successfully. The last very demanding obstacle he is not able to…

Mark Twain is an American author who is widely known for his practical aspect of America in the 19th century concluded within his novels and narratives. He entertained the entire universe with his skillful and exquisite writing. He never allowed his short span of schooling hinder his improvement. Mark Twain was an incredible motivation to America in the nineteenth century as yet a motivation to contemporary authors today. Mark Twain was conceived as Samuel Langhorne Clemens in the residential…

BRADEY HEATHFIELD CLASS 11 PROJECT. JANUARY 2015 THE HISTORY OF HOT AIR BALLOONS Hot air balloons date back to Zhuge Liang of the Shu Han kingdom (220-280AD) in China. These were used for signaling in the military and are known as Kongming lanterns. Albert’s Magnus who was a German philosopher also contributed with his theory of relative weights. In the 1500s Giovanni de Fontana made a object from cloth and rings of wood. His theory was if a burning brand that made lots of smoke was placed…

lead to death and misery, rather than glorifying the exploratory nature of colonists as they expand. With this new viewpoint, the explorers are “no longer seen as advanced and enlightened;” instead they are “plainly savage and selfish” (Brizee 2). Voyagers such as Christopher Columbus are not messengers of the new world, but genocidal religious…

In the passage “India”, Richard Rodriguez argues that rather than being an act of conquest, the Indian/European interaction as not always uniformly violent or exploitative; instead [he argues], it was a complex series of profit and transformative exchanges. Both the Indian and European cultures made visible advancements by coming to the new world. The Europeans had begun global trading network, and therefore, trading with other cultures became easier. Rodriquez argues that the Indian people…