When writing “In Event of Moon Disaster” William Safire acted as a comforting yet encouraging mother for a grieving nation. While acknowledging the need for the public to mourn and remember the deceased astronauts the writer also tries to boost the morale of the American people exclaiming that the astronaut's sacrifice will not be forgotten. In order to comfort the American people, William Safire repeats emotional ideas and phrases throughout the speech. He starts off with the first line saying “The men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.” (Safire) The writer repeats the comforting word peace twice in order to make sure the American people feel as though the astronauts did not suffer when they died.
The phrases rest in peace and explore in peace represents the astronaut’s transition from great explorers to bodies resting on the moon. It gives the audience the American people a chance to come to terms with the reality that their explorers have now passed away. This acknowledgment also allows for the writer to move on to greater ideas in future paragraphs now that he has informed the audience of the astronaut's sad death. The author also uses emotion in the first sentence of the speech to comfort the American people. Rather than just saying “Our great astronauts have died” the writer uses a much more subtle and comforting phrase “rest in peace”. “Rest in peace” allows for the audience to take a moment to wish and pray that the astronauts achieve eternal peace on the moon. The writer uses this emotion and sadness to unite the audience. The writer is trying to push unity since the country is in a time of crisis. In the third paragraph, the writer uses a combination of comparison, logic and building of character to exclaim how great the astronauts were and how great America is. The author compares the astronauts to great mythic men exclaiming that “Our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.” (Safire) These words are again used to unite the Americans listening to this speech. The comparison of our prized American astronauts to the great mythical of hundreds of years ago is meant allow the American people to dream big. If mere mortal Americans can reach the moon then surely many more average Americans can reach the moon too. Also the fact that Americans were the first people on the moon implies that there must be something great about America as a whole that gives it the advantage over the many other countries in the world that dreamed of going to the moon. Since the astronauts on the moon are such great men then each and every American must have some sort of greatness in them too. With this logic, the writer builds up both the character of the astronauts and the character of the American people. The author also exclaims that “Man’s search will not be denied.” The writer moves on in the speech from mourning, and building of morale to a call to action. The goal of that is to inspire other Americans to try this daring feat or even more daring feats in space. The writer wants to make sure that the nation is not sacred by the astronaut's death but inspired to do even greater things in the pursuit of understanding our universe.
In order to better understand the historical context of nuclear development it seems to me as though Iversen dove into a fair amount of investigative journalism. The book focuses primarily on the events of Rocky Flats and her life through a narrative nonfiction interpretation. By providing a journalist approach, Iversen makes it easy for the reader to build a relationship with the characters presented throughout the book. At times I found myself visualizing the intensity of the fires, the whirlwind of emotions from locals, and the lasting environmental impacts that would not only plague Colorado, but taint the reputation of what it means to be human.
On a cold winter’s morning on the 28th day of January in the year 1986, America was profoundly shaken and sent to its knees as the space shuttle Challenger gruesomely exploded just seconds after launching. The seven members of its crew, including one civilian teacher, were all lost. This was a game changer, we had never lost a single astronaut in flight. The United States by this time had unfortunately grown accustomed to successful space missions, and this reality check was all too sudden, too brutal for a complacent and oblivious nation (“Space”). The outbreak of sympathy that poured from its citizens had not been seen since President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. The disturbing scenes were shown repeatedly on news networks which undeniably made it troublesome to keep it from haunting the nation’s cognizance (“Space”). The current president had more than situation to address, he had the problematic undertaking of gracefully picking America back up by its boot straps.
To reflect and to say farewell, Ronald Reagan uses repetition by repeating “common sense” three times in paragraph 18 and 19. The first use of “common sense” is at the end of paragraph 18.
On April 13, 1970, NASA's Mission Control heard the five words that no control center ever wants to hear: "We've got a problem here." Jack Swigert, an astronaut aboard the Apollo 13 aircraft, reported the problem of broken down oxygen tanks to the Houston Control Center, less than two days after its takeoff on April 11th. Those at the Control Center in Houston were unsure what had happened to the spacecraft, but knew that some sort of explosion had occurred. This so-called explosion sent Apollo 13 spinning away from the Earth at 2,000 miles per hour, 75 percent of the way to the moon. In order to get the astronauts back to the Earth's atmosphere would be to utilize the moon's gravitational pull and send them back towards home, like a slingshot. However, this procedure would require three days, and this demanded more oxygen and electricity than the crew had available to them. Eugene "Gene" Kranz, head of this flight mission, although looking on in horror, began thinking of solutions to the problem immediately after the Controls were aware of the problem on board. Knowing that the options of refueling the spacecraft with oxygen or retrieve the astronauts himself, he needed to think of a strategy for a safe return. In this sense, if his solution fails, it could result in the biggest catastrophe in NASA history.
Through his uses of descriptive language Hersey exposes to the reader the physical, emotional, Psychological and structural damage caused by a nuclear attack. He shows the reader how peoples are physically changed but also how emotional psychologically scared by this act of horror. Through Hersey’s graphic detail of the horror after the bomb and the effects years after he shock the reader while also give the message that we shouldn’t let this happen again. In the book Hiroshima the author John Hersey exposes that a nuclear attack is not simply a disaster that fades away when the rubble is removed and buildings are rebuilt but an act of horror that changes the course of people’s live.
By using descriptive language and connecting, it explains the triumphs of man and the recovery the country will have to take. Words such as sacrifice, understanding, and exploration help enforce that this event would not stop the process of evolution in science. The speech uses spiritual phenomenons to help the mournful accept what has happened. For example, it compares Armstrong and Aldrin to heros in the constellations, and that their sacrifice would bind the brotherhood of man. The Speech also appeals to Ethos because it is trying to reinforce the belief in America and the belief in Mankind as a whole. It states, “they know that there is hope in mankind in their sacrifice” (Source B), further describing that Mankind’s search for the unknown will not falter because of this setback.
Sambaluk, PhD, Micholas Michael. "John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon." Air & Space Power Journal 27.5 (2013): 156-58. Print.
America went to the moon in the 1960’s, during a time of war, a time that was so far behind in technology compared to now, but yet human beings went to the moon . Human beings are capable of many wonderful things and their potential has no limits, except for the limits that are placed by government and society. Neil deGrasse Tyson attempted to liberate NASA from the limits of low funding by giving a speech to the U.S Senate. Tyson used emotion and logical thinking to make the complexity of NASA as relatable to the audience as possible, and by doing so he wanted to convey to them how important NASA is in our society today and the future of the human kind.
"Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy...
On September 12, 1962 John Franklin Kennedy charged the nation to achieve what no other civilization had done before; he charged the United States to place a man on the moon. Kennedy delivered his man on the moon speech in a time of great peril for the United States. It appeared that the Soviet Union was rising faster than the United States was posed to take our place as the world’s super power. His moving speech in Rice Stadium inspired the nation and other nations, to take the challenge and travel to the moon. Kennnedy use of allusions, repetition, and rhetorical questions motivate and embolden his audience, and make a difference that would last forever.
The Apollo 11 moon-landing was an event that transcended all social, racial, and geopolitical issues. Apollo 11’s television broadcast allowed viewers worldwide to travel with the astronauts in real time, giving the world a sense of community as 600 million earthlings witnessed together the accomplishment of one of the greatest goals ever achieved by mankind. That feeling of global unity is well summarized by poet Archibald MacLeish in his reflection “Riders on Earth Together, Brothers in Eternal Cold” that was published on the front page of The New York Times Christmas day
Fifteen years before Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon, one of Belgium’s most successful bande dessine´e which is a specific type of artist named, Herge, sent his “hero” named Tintin to the moon in his book called Destination Moon (Beauvais,PClementine 252). In the human mind the moon can be interpreted as many different things. For example, some may think the moon is a god, Heaven, Hell, or sometimes even as a whole other Earth (Springer 252). When Herge was born at the beginning of the twenty century a piece of literature called From the Earth to the Moon written by Jules Verne’s was possible where the ideas of the moon stem from (Goddin 100). NASA is planning on sending humans back to the moon in a mission called “solid beginnings” in the future. For the past three decades the moon hasn’t been the main focus with all of the other planets such as: Venus and Mars (Lawer 612).Some people believe that the core of the moons material raised up and went to the sur...
In many ways John F. Kennedy’s decision to have this speech as well as the contents itself, reflected how he was instrumental to success in keeping the public calm. The president could hav...
Throughout the Moon Speech, Kennedy uses ethical appeal, logical appeal, and the sympathies of the audiences, to get his point across. He not only gets his point made across but he also gives the lesson that to be number one they must go through challenges full of obstacles that only people who are willing to make through and have the courage will do so. Just like Kennedy made the reference to British Explorer George Mallory “...was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, ‘Because it is there’.”
Growing up it seems every child has a dream at some point to be an astronaut. These children look up every night and see the moon looking back. They want to fly up and explore they lunar surface. This dream would eventually come true for a select group of American astronauts. The dream was not as easy as a grade school child thinks it should be. The United States’ adventure to the moon would come during a chaotic time in human history, the Cold War. The Cold War was a terrifying time for American citizens. Threats of war and nuclear action ran rampant throughout the country and world. A major component to this time frame was space—specifically the race to the moon between The United States and the Soviet Union. President of the United States,