After reading and looking through the five pieces of literature about the Apollo 11 mission it is easy to tell that they are very similar, but there is also many differences within them. One thing that is very similar is the purpose of them. They were all wrote to describe and tell us about the Apollo 11 mission and some of the challenges the astronauts met on the mission. The main purpose of the pieces of literature was to convey the important and how major of an accomplishment it was for the world to put someone on the moon. The first article, “Man Takes First Steps on the Moon” was an article that was published in the London Times. This article takes you through some of the challenges that the astronauts faced when they were on the …show more content…
These piece are trying to tell the entire world of the great accomplishment of putting a man on the moon. The people of the world knew how big of a deal it would be to put a man on the world and these pieces of literature are just informing the people that it happened and how it happened.
The speech, “In Event of Moon Disaster”, was the speech that President Nixon would have given if the Apollo 11 mission would have failed. This speech use ethos by strongly implying that the men that went to the moon were true heros. The speech sets these men up to be true heros for the world to look up too. It uses pathos by talking about the strong feelings the world had for the two astronauts and how the world will mourn their deaths. After reading through this speech, I do not really think that it tells us the importance of the mission, but rather it tells us how we should honor the astronauts as
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This essay uses ethos by describing in very great detail the launch of the rocket the morning of the moon landing. It does a really good job of giving you a visual of what the take-off looked like. This essay uses pathos by describing the feeling that were going through people’s bodies as the rocket was heading into space. This essay does a good job of describing the importance of the Apollo 11 mission by taking us through the take-off and the describing how mankind was able to conquer such a mammoth challenge.
And finally, I looked at the cartoon, “Transported” by Herblock. This cartoon uses pathos and show us the importance of landing on the moon by having a guy sitting by a television on the moon. The visual shows us and informs us that nearly everyone in the world was glued to their television that day watching the Apollo 11 mission unfolded. This cartoon also uses logos by conveying the message that war, poverty, and prejudice can all be left in the dust because if man can conquer the moon, than man can conquer
Overall, In Event of Moon Disaster was effective in the sense it would have helped many Americans and people around the world recover the failure of Apollo 11. The speech uses pathos and ethos to help reassure the people of the world that this small setback would not stop the evolving scientific advances of Mankind. Because it was written for an event that had not happened yet, it wasn’t as emotionally driven. If there had been a connection there, the speech would have been more
...ause it was the mission that NASA was able to put the first man up onto the moon. Neil Armstrong was the pilot of the Apollo 11 flight. There was a special shuttle that was attached to the spaceship; it was called the Eagle. The Eagle was designed to transport some crew members down to the moon. Armstrong was responsible for driving and landing the shuttle safely down to the moon. While on his way down to the moon, Armstrong realized that he was starting to run out of fuel. Thankfully, Armstrong did have enough to land on the moon and make it back up to the spaceship. When the Eagle was leaving the spaceship for the first time up in space, it wasn't completely depressurized so there was something like a gas bubble come from the shuttle as it was on its way to the moon. The gas bubble moved the shuttle off course and the Eagle actually landed four miles off course.
As a result of the successful mission that landed the first men on the moon, called the Apollo 11 mission, many people were inspired to provide commentary on this landing. Although these texts describe unique individual purposes about this landing, they all effectively support their purposes through the use of several rhetorical devices.
The following four texts apart of the Culminating Activity were all related to the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, which had first put a man on the moon. The first article was from the Times of London, and served to describe the events of the moon landing from the astronaut's point of view. The article used anecdotal evidence to describe Aldrin and Armstrong's experience in order to inform the audience of what had occurred, as well as the reactions in several different countries.. The speaker is a from a reputable news source, The Times, and is informing the European audience - as this event was apart of America’s space program, NASA - of the landing as a great success. Although
Apollo 11 was such a huge historical turning point because, it not only affected the United States, but it affected the entire world. It was one of the first mass worldwide event, and an estimated 600 million people watched. Apollo 11 caused the world to think more about space and all
On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong planted the first human footprints in the lunar soil. The United States had accomplished their goal in sending men to the moon. They managed to not only send them 238,857 mi. (384,403 km) into space to our neighbor celestial body, but also send them back with a successful flight to our mother earth. This seems like a difficult task for a country that was behind Russia in space exploration at the time.
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.
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
The success of Apollo 11 which included the historic presence of the first humans on the moon signified the greatest extent of human intellectual advancement. Apollo 11 was part of a larger project known as the Apollo Program, comprised of a large number of unmanned test missions and 11 manned missions. The Apollo Program was intended to land humans on the moon and safely return them back to Earth. Of the 15 missions executed, six resulted in success to date. The concept of space expedition was initially sparked by the Russian launch of satellite Sputnik during the Cold War. The launch induced the creation of NASA’s first human spaceflight program called Project Mercury. A portion of the United States saw the launch as beneficial, as it established the need for the country’s advance, whereas others were concerned about what the Soviet Union will make out of this achievement. The first successful manned space expedition executed was Apollo 7, which had a tremendous influence in the outcome of the subsequent missions. Various other missions were performed before the launch of Apollo 11, some of which were unsuccessful such as Apollo 1, whereas others, like Apollo 7, had prospered in assisting in the success of Apollo 11. During the momentous mission, the participants, Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. Aldrin, fulfilled their roles effectively. With the actions of those that participated in the mission, the United States was able to leave a physical mark on the uncharted territory thought to have been far beyond human reach.
... own question of “why...the moon?” by saying, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills”. By answering his own rhetorical question, it emphasizes to the reader that it is reasonable to travel to the moon, it will just take alot of dedication and hard work to succeed such a task.
Green, Nick. "Apollo 11 Mission - First Humans on the Moon." About.com Space / Astronomy. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014.
~"The 1969 Moon Landing: First Humans to Walk on Another World." Science and Its Times. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale, 2001. U.S. History in Context. Web. 13 Feb. 2014.
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” It was July 20 1969, the day that reshaped our nation and gave us unparalleled dreams for the future. The impact of the day goes far beyond our pride and nationalism; that day would change space exploration and technology forever. Just like a shooting star, that day would give us a glimpse of hope. A chance to see an event so breathtaking and defying, it would be man’s greatest accomplishment in the 20th century. As millions of people watched from their TV sets, a rush of euphoria came over the nation as Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the surface of the moon. It was the first time in the history of mankind that we would step on the surface of another celestial body. John F. Kennedy dared us to dream, he inspired the nation to reach for the moon, to set ourselves apart from the rest of the world. The Space Race was symbolic of many things. Our future as the technically dominate nation was secured in place; just as secure as Old Glory would be, when she was driven down into the soil of the moon. We not only reached the moon, we conquered it as a nation; united.