It is in human nature to explore every frontier attainable: from leaving the cradle of civilization in Africa, to the nomadic people crossing the Bering Land Strait to the America’s, and, more recently, the Americans who explored the western part of North America. These acts of exploration have brought new lands to settle, while also producing economic and social benefits to the people or nations that have explored these frontiers. Yet, for millennia, humanity has looked up to the stars in wonder
Christopher Columbus sailed the open blue and found the New World, a whole new frontier. Columbus’s expedition proved the world was round, not flat, which was what many people believed in. The next frontier was West of the Appalachian Mountains in the United States, which became known as the Last Frontier. Then, the U.S. purchased Alaska, the Alaskan Frontier, which turned out to be a gold mine. However, the true last frontier is Space. President Ronald Reagan started National Aeronautics and Space Administration
species has not yet been discovered. The passage used is "Do we really know more about space than the deep ocean?" by Kate Kershner, which describes the differences in knowledge of the ocean and cosmos, and "Ocean vs. Space: Which Is the True Final Frontier?" by Taylor Casti, that explains how the ocean needs more attention than space. The United States should focus on exploring the ocean, rather than exploring space. The understanding of the ocean compared to space is known to be less, as not much
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“Space: the final frontier”; these iconic words from the popular TV show Star Trek were more insightful than the writers of the show knew at the time. This show, which first aired in 1966 along with many other space related books and movies, was part of a wave of interest in space travel. Since then interest in space exploration has grown even larger. The words “the final frontier” hail back to a time when settlers were rushing to explore the frontier of western North America. The rush to “settle”
Human fascination with the stars is as ancient as Babylonians and has been suggested to be older than Stonehenge. From “be fruitful and multiply” to “live long and prosper,” the instinct to protect and propagate the species has manifested in religion, art, and the imaginations of countless individuals. As human understanding of space treks out of the fantastical and into the scientific, the realities of traveling through and living in space are becoming clearer. Exploring, investigating, and living
like to clean and that is alright. When it comes to cleaning, it’s really about whatever makes the person feel good; but every adult needs to be able to clean up after himself or herself and those he or she provides for. In Cleaning: The Final Feminist Frontier, Jessica Grose starts her article with an anecdote describing, how her father-in-law was coming to visit after being shut-in their apartment during Hurricane Sandy, and Grose had to tell her husband to help clean up for their visitor.
Even though the cell phone ownership among teens have been stable since 2011, the ownership of smart phone has grown significantly from 23% in 2011 to 37% in 2012. Figure 4 from a study on teens and technology, which was done in 2013 by the Berkman center for internet and society at Harvard University, shows the percentages of teens’ cell phones and smartphones ownership. Children learn their consuming behavior as they observe their parents’ actions. “Researchers find evidence of intergenerational
Firefly, LG Migo, Disney and others started making cell phones for children. They designed them with the traditional keyboard that are suitable for smaller hands. Figure 2 provides two examples of those phones. They also offered calling plans that are appropriate for the use of children. But children were not interested in the kiddie-looking cell phones. Instead, they preferred adult cell phones. They “don’t want what we call “fisher price” phones. They want the real deal, with the camera and the
It is difficult to exist in today’s society without being influenced by the dramatic increase of the technology use and especially the use of cell phones. The cell phone market is becoming more saturated and competitive. Thus, marketers tend to look for new segment groups, study them, and eventually influence their decisions. Due to the rise reliance on technology, much of the communication between teens occurs through the digital use, particularly through their cell phones. More than 65% of American
Jessica Grose’s article “Cleaning: The Final Frontier” was published by the New Republic in 2013. Grose acknowledges that when it comes to cleaning in a household, the distribution of cleaning is unfair between both gender roles. In the beginning she explains how household chores should be equal between the wife and the husband. She goes into talking about how women work more than their male partners. Grose argues that men do not do enough cleaning and that they are the problem, but she contradicts
One thing my grandma would always say every time she was doing work around the house is that, “A woman’s work is never done.” Posted on an online magazine website author, Jessica Grose, wrote an article titled “Cleaning: The Final Feminist Frontier,” published March 13th, 2013. As she got into the article she argues that men in our lives more recently started taking on more of the childcare and cooking, while the cleaning still falls unfairly on women. Jessica Grose starts to build her credibility
There are currently several competing visions of space culture. These are the romantic ideal, of space being the final frontier, the minutia of people who act, emotionless like machines and the post-apocalyptic view of a desolated wasteland. This idea of space-power has always been present in the United States since the 1960s. In American culture space exploration and discovery has always been fascinating to the American society. . In movies like Space Cowboys and Armageddon, show the shooting up
United States of America, which was spawned by the head-long collision of a variety of far-reaching forces and factors in the still quite primitive environs of western Pennsylvania that summer and fall. Slaughter contends that one must place the frontier at the center of the great political debates of the era and fully explore the ideological, social, political, and personal contexts surrounding the episode in order to fully understand the importance of its place in American history. In doing so
When Frontier got its “restart” back in 1994, the idea was that the airline would be a small, regional airline. After going through many ups and downs associated with the cyclical nature of the airline industry and facing Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Frontier needed to change some things. Finally, in 2013, Indigo Partners acquired Frontier Airlines and immediately began the process of making the airline an ultra-low-cost-carrier or ULCC. Frontier is still facing the growing pains of being a ULCC and is
Kennedy’s New Frontier Program As the President elect of the United States in 1960, John F. Kennedy aspired, to accomplish much during his presidency. Kennedy confidently called his initiatives “The New Frontier” taking on numerous major challenges. Some of the challenges were boosting the United States economy by ending a recession and promoting growth in the economy, aiding third world countries by establishing the Peace Corps sending men and women overseas to assist developing countries in meeting
Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven falls into the western genre because of its untamed frontier setting, hero and villain characters, and iconic climatic ending. Unforgiven tells the story of William Munny, a retired Old West outlaw who, with the help of an old friend and a young gunslinger, returns to his old ways with one last job. The movie starts with a group of prostitutes in Big Whiskey, Wyoming offering a reward for someone to kill two cowboys who assaulted one of their own when local authorities
The title of Seamus Heaney’s poem “From the Frontier of Writing” provides the first connotation as to what his following stanzas would be illustrating. As aggressive as it sounds the frontier paints a picture of war and struggle as to which can be seen through his lifetime. Heaney uses this image of war to create the concept of comparing the process a writer goes through to be published to the frontier of a war battle. We see this as a battle between two forces much like the battle being fought
In the past age, there were many explorations into the deep sea. Scientists originally descended in order to find the kraken and the giant squid. In the modern era, scientists travel to the deep to discover slightly smaller creatures. Microbial organisms are the most abundant life form on Earth. Scientists drill for microbes on the ocean floor where ancient remains still exist. Other scientists no longer look for life, their interest is in minerals that can produce pharmaceutical drugs. In fact,
Frederick Jackson Turner was largely influential in determining Americans’ perceptions of the West. While tracing the history of the American frontier from white settlement to a gradual disappearance in his essay “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1893), Turner extolled the American West as a hearth for democracy and other “forces dominating American character” (3). He supports this view by hyperbolically describing the