the Future by Ana Chapela

Evolution is permanent therefore society is always going to revolutionize. On the order hand, resources are limited which means that they are going to most likely run out. On that account, society has to get organized and protect the lands and resources.

In today’s life human beings are more attached to technology and machines that is almost like they do everything that a human does, just to make our lives easier. This idea is making most of the humans loose almost all of their abilities. We are moving towards technology. During the renaissance there were so many ideas going out and many people opened their eyes toward new ideas, enlightenment ideas, to improve their daily lives. Soon many people were starting to remove themselves from paying attention to religion; instead their minds were focused on all these new ideas and things that emerge at that time.

Communicating with the Internet, through the cell-phone and the electricity has become a tremendous part of human’s life. It seems like we depend on all of these instruments that we use in our daily lives. Children barely go outside and play with their neighbors, instead, they stay in their house while playing around with their computer. I’m predicting that in the future this world would have more inexperienced people than we have today, since technology is going to do everything for us, we wont have the courage to experience it ourselves

In the case of money, it seems like it is always going to be the same, although it has become an important medium of exchange, it has been involved into our lives and now humans feel like they are related to it. Therefore, the future is going to be filled with spoiled humans.

The Future - Elizabeth Anne Edwards

Normally when we’re asked what the future will be like, we automatically think of things like The Jetsons, I, Robot, and Star Trek. As strange as it may seem, many aspects of these futuristic depictions are pretty accurate, especially if we continue our current actions.

With the way we keep progressing, technology can only become more and more advanced and more and more awesome! Who knows what the future will hold? Hover boards, robot friends, solar powered automobiles, surrogates, paper-thin computers, and fully automated/computerized homes will most likely come about seeing as they already have the technology for some of these things now. And as for the environment…well…I’m hoping that we’ll become more eco-friendly. We have a long way to go, but people are realizing the damage we’ve done and are taking little steps to better our planet. So, I think we will definitely “save the Earth” in a sense. Natural resources are definitely going to be the main source of power, whether it’s solar, wind, water, or heat. We’re going to have to realize sooner or later that they’ve been right in front of us for centuries and now we have the ability to use them wisely and efficiently. Since we’ve used money for so long, it probably won’t go away anytime soon or later, but credit/debit cards are for sure going to be used more often. Space exploration will definitely shoot up. It’ll get better and better. They’ll have a newer and faster way of getting to certain places in outer space, but the main possibility is exploring all the other planets. As human beings, we’re just so curious, and we’ll never know what we’ll find, so we won’t be able to help ourselves. Power may just be something we can take into our own hands. Maybe as time goes on we won’t need so many leaders. Then again we’ve been led for countless years, so we could just go “mad” when we’re given all this freedom and power. Relationships are a tricky thing to figure out, especially in the future. A lot of the times, we humans are very predictable, almost a little too predictable. Though, for the most part, we are very unpredictable. A relationship (all kinds of relationships) is something that really depends on the people you’re dealing with. It’s in their own hands. What else will the future have in store for us? Or better yet, what’s really going to happen? We can’t know for sure. Oh well…I guess we’ll have to just wait and see.

The Future - Elie Weinstein

What does the future of Earth hold for civilization? Will we fly or teleport to school, have brain chips, prosthetic limbs, duplicates, and communicate with extra terrestrial beings? With all the discoveries, inventions, and achievements that have been made over the past 50 to 100 years, there is no telling exactly how life will be in the future. Due to our achievements and technologies, the evolution of civilization is accelerating more because our findings and technologies have made it easier to further create and discover. If this trend continues, then I cannot wait to see what the future has in store for humanity.
The world’s greatest unsolved problems include but are not limited to the environment, terrorism, nuclear threats, HIV/AIDS, and poverty. The only way to solve these problems in order to have a promising future is if all states cooperate towards common goals, which should include future plans to reorganize the UN as well change many of its policies. To start off, countries need to shift rapidly from using resources such as oil and coal that power technology to safer, cleaner, and more reliable sources such as nuclear power. This would indirectly prevent the already poverty-stricken nations from falling into a black hole of disease and starvation as a result of global warming having negative effects on crops, bodies of water, and animals–and it would solve several other important issues.
The world may be a bit stuck and in danger at the moment; regardless, I envision a bright future for most of us. The global climate change hype will cool down within 20 or so years because most countries would have already made the big switch to sustainable and renewable energy sources. Terrorist attacks could grow and may pose a bigger threat to the world in coming years due to Iran’s (a major supporter of terrorism) nuclear program, yet at the same time the power of terrorist organizations could shrink simply because in 50 years or more, leaders like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Osama Bin Laden, Hugo Chavez, and Muammar al-Gadaffi will have fortunately passed away. At the same time, the world could collapse within a very small amount of time from now due to the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear plans and its support for terrorism, which could lead to a WWIII. As of now, it feels as if the world is in a second Cold War, and the close tie between Iran and Venezuela is similar to that of the USSR and Cuba. Ahmadinejad will probably use Venezuela as a base for the nuclear weapons he is currently trying to develop under the pretense that he is creating nuclear “energy.”
Technology will play an even bigger role in the future than it already does. We won’t see flying cars, but cars will be driven by a computer–this is not a radical idea; right now there are cars in production that can park themselves. In terms of computing and mobile technology, the future is looking brilliant. Mobile devices are going to be even more sophisticated; smart-phones will not only include media, music, etc. but as well as identification, your finances, keys, you will be able to have conference calls on your cell phone, and mobile devices will react to and gather data from the environment. Apart from communication and such, technology will also be involved in health and our bodies. In the future, we could have prosthetic limbs or suits that make us stronger; we have already developed electronic pills that can record and get footage of what happens in our bodies. Sadly however, we will probably learn to depend on such technologies and not be able to function without them, just as we have become so dependent on medicine, computers, and the Internet. There is no telling what the future is going to look like; it depends on the decisions made by the international community and world leaders.

So, the Future huh?

Wow, the future. Such a scary word, such a scary thought. What will I be doing tomorrow, two months from now? Where will I be in 2 weeks, 4 years? So many things change and oh-so quickly. Many people like to blame the past for what is happening today, and for what will happen in the future. Take a look at all of the wars that have been fought and major conflicts: World War I and II, America vs. Iraq, the Dutch Apartheid in South Africa, India vs. modern day Pakistan. Out of those devastating death full events, new ideas had been formed and shaped, but were soon forgotten. After the stop of an event, people went back to what they could do best, everything that they had been doing before.

I have high hopes for the future. I really do hope that only good things will come out of it, which I’m sure will happen. However, I only have high hopes for the future, if we change our way of thinking. Soon, we will be living with robots, parentless children, and a world full of losers who believe the media. Don’t get me wrong, it’s working out fine at the moment; but it won’t be for long. People don’t realize how we are damaging the planet that we live on; they don’t see how our ignorant actions hurt others. “Every time you’re tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future” (from Twitter). We have to realize that all the events that have occurred in the past aren’t the best ways to solve problems; there are many different ways that we should try for a change.

If we don’t change the way we are thinking right now: “We have technology to reach the future, but the educational system remains in the last century” (from Twitter). Relationships, exploitation and all of that powerful stuff will regain its meaning, its “what it means to be human” meaning; I hope to see the future in which people will walk on the street and ‘pay-it-forward'. "Kindness is one of the hardest things to give away, it always come back", when the world realizes this, we'll be a whole step ahead, and the future will just keep on getting better and better.

-- Sara de Jong
10A

Global Leadership (stephanie LDE)

Through history we’ve meat many big Leaders throughout the world. Leaders such as: Chairman Mao Zedong, President Richard Nixon, General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, Nelson Mandela, and Fidel Castro had leadership styles and strategies just like any other leaders, each one with a different perspective.
“Fighting with heaven, fighting with earth, and fighting with human being, what a great pleasure!" is one of Chairman Mao Zedong’s famous quotes. He is one of my favorite leaders since he fought for equality of woman in China. Based on his studies, he developed his theories. He had no respect to any laws and he didn’t allow anyone to challenge him.
To be able to be a great leader, you would need to be: responsible, considerable, caring, a good listener, observer, great personality, self-belief, motivation, efficient, trustful, and most important you should think before you act. Power and Leadership would be one of the most important points to society. People need someone to tell them what to do, but it needs to be someone they can trust. People don’t like fall-downs so they would be happy to rely on someone.
People have been struggling for peace for the whole existing of human nature. Peace can never be made because we don’t like peace. We like struggling for what we want, most importantly, we like war. If any organization would gather Global leaders to accomplish goals, there will probably be a World War III. The organizations will not be successful at all especially with people with different thoughts and points. Chaves would probably be the first one to get into trouble!

Bibliography:
http://library.thinkquest.org/18355/fidel_castro.html
http://www.anc.org.za/people/mandela.html
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/leonid-ilich-brezhnev/
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/impeachments/nixon.htm
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa022899.htm

Global Leadership By Ahmed a.k.a Hatem

Mao believed in Marxism, these was a when china was communist and was run very harshly. Marxism is a kind of ruler was he had used many military strategies. Charmin Mao was a very harsh ruler to his people millions of the Chinese population. As much as people think he was a very bad ruler, he’s still a controversial figure till this day in china and held very high as a great revolutionary figure.
President Nixon was a president that had never come to power and resign, he was an American President and he was the first one to ever resign. President Nixon saved millions of American soldiers lives, 300 soldiers were dying daily. He got the soldiers out of there. Nixon was in a major scandal and after he had resign he said that it was OK if the president did bad things.
Leonid Brezhnev was a soviet leader, he had served for 18 years as a general. He began as a iron engineer. Brezhnev changed many things in the Soviet Union, one of the most important was there power. He had increased there power and made them very powerful, just like every country would like to be. He had made many changes to the country but he was also one of the reason why the soviet Union had collapsed.
Fidel Castro came into the country and wanted change, with his power and followers he over trough the last party and become prime minister and after that from 1965 he’s been the president of Cuba. Fidel’s ruling is as a dictatorship. He has made many changes to his country. He has one of the best doctors in the world, but it’s very hard for a person to leave the country.
Nelson Mandela was the first South African president being elected fully by the people, before he became president he was an anti-apartheid activist. Mandela made many changes during his rule, he’s gotten more than 250 awards over four decades and 1 Nobel Peace Prize.
After all, all kinds of ruling are very important. Some people think its good to have so many and some people don’t. I personally think that its better to have many kinds of ruling because then you can see which is better and which one can actually help it get out of miseries.

Socialism vs. Capitalism by Phaedra

Socialism is when the community as a whole has control of the production and distribution of the materials in a land. Capitalism is when private companies have control of each separate material. I think capitalism is definitely more ‘in tune’ with human nature, as people just do not want to share their resources. I think socialism eliminates any means of competition, which is actually a good thing, but many people don’t see it that way. In my opinion, a socialist country requires a lot of trust, you trust other people with your materials. So in a way, a capitalist country is easier because you look out for your own things. I don’t think it would be fit to call one more “fair” than the other, as each are equally fair. I think in this case it’s a matter of which one is more useful for each country and its economy. It’s fair that everyone shares and has equal rights on different things. But it’s also fair that a person is allowed to own his/her own business and do with it was he/she wants. The role of money in our society is to control it. Our society revolves around the idea of money and time. It is said that “money can’t buy time”, giving time more meaning than money. But then again, it is also said that “time is money”. The more time we spend working the more money we get. The less time, the less money we get. But all in all, most people’s main goals in life is money, we study hard to get good degrees, to get good jobs, to in the end, give us fatter paychecks. Money, in the end, is our life.

Leadership - Elie Weinstein

Alexander the Great, one of the greatest leaders in history once said, “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” Therefore, the success and advancement of all aspects of a nation or civilization are dependent on the strength of its leader.
The idea of leadership in the past century has evolved dramatically. Our world has shifted from a system of royalty, monarchies, and absolute rule to democracy, communism, and constitutional monarchies (which are basically democracies). This shift has positively affected our political systems and society because when strict monarchies still ruled the world, most rulers of dynasties or kingdoms would either resign or be assassinated due to the poverty and unhappiness created by being strictly ruled, followed by chaos.
The main attributes a great leader should have are as follows; intelligence, cooperation, kindness, persuasiveness, good speaking abilities, courageous, trustworthy, somewhat “transparent,” previous leadership experience, impartiality, and good social skills.
Some of the greatest leaders in history had these characteristics, yet lacked other essential aspects of leadership. Fidel Castro for example rose to power simply through violence and speeches, yet most of the world hates him due to his unwillingness to listen to his people, and because the communist system he forced on Cuba has failed to help its citizens.
Leadership plays an immense role in solving world issues; solving problems that impact us all can only be resolved through the combined efforts of nations and their leaders. Right now for example, the U.S. is working closely with the four other Security Council members and Germany to stop Iran from destroying itself and the world with its nuclear enrichment program, through sanctions. The U.N. Nations has played an important role in this issue, mainly because of the cooperation of its delegates. It is obvious that often times the U.N. does not carry out its duties properly or that nations do not realize the passed resolutions, but the U.N. and its member States will succeed in working together toward common goals in times of danger or when the issue at hand poses an extreme threat. The current issue of Iran is a perfect example because the current nuclear “energy” program run by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who denies possession of nuclear arms, does not allow the IAEA to inspect its nuclear “energy” facilities, supports terrorist organizations, and calls for the destruction of Israel and America is suspected to possess and develop nuclear arms, which would pose a threat to all of us. In times like these, we should all thank G-d that the U.N. Or at least some sort of multilateral peace-keeping force exists.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/mao_zedong.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/nixon_richard.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/mandela_nelson.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/castro_fidel.shtml

jacinta Socialism vs. Capitalism

Since the Industrial Revolution, two main economic systems have developed; these are capitalism and socialism. In Socialism all members of the economy share benefits; any government that is capable of giving you everything can also get everything away from you. Socialism is basically a planned economy in which the government owns all resources and the wealth is divided up equally. In Capitalism people exploit other people for money. Under capitalism, people put their money into a business and hope they make a profit. An example of what Socialism does to Capitalism is when you come with an idea to get money and the government takes it away and throws it away. Capitalism has three main points: wealth, competition, freedom of enterprise, and profit motive. United States is an example of Capitalism, and Cuba is an example of Socialism. Most of the time Socialism have the poor people and Capitalism has the rich people. Socialism and Capitalism has everything to do with MONEY.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4sQFZGs99E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKKAOSFXiPk

Socialism vs. Capitalism - Elie Weinstein

Socialism is to capitalism as North Korea or Cuba are to (basically) the rest of the world. They just cannot match the economic success of other nations around the globe, and the simple reason (apart from that they are both communist) is that they have socialist economies.
If the world could vote tomorrow on what economic system to follow, the results would favor socialism by miles. The only explanation for this is because this economic system somewhat offers the impoverished a way out of poverty through food and other necessities being distributed for free by the government. It would seem only fair for the poor to have equal access to basic materials and food needed to live, but how is it fair that citizens who work hard or have greater skill at what they do receive equal repayment as a person who’s job is to solely pick up trash for example?
This is why capitalism works better; it allows you freedom over prices and even over what school you attend. Sweden has been very successful because it has adopted both the free market as well as socialism, thus incorporating the benefits of both worlds. It has a free market just like America, however, due to the high taxes paid on everything, the government can offer many services for free. Sweden’s system is one of the best economic systems because while it allows individuals to grow financially, it still provides everyone access to free education, healthcare, etc.
Socialism and capitalism have many pros and cons, but the greatest problem of the entire world is money. Money may seem just a way to buy products and services, but it’s more than that. Because money is required to have anything in this world today, people crave money, commit suicide because of it, and they’ll even resort to exploiting themselves and criminal activity just so that they can get their hands on paper with numbers on it. Many feel that they need it in order to live, or to gain status from it; we have come to depend on numbers as a means to everything we own or do in life, as well as to how we act and think towards ourselves and others.

Socialism vs. Capitalism

http://cigars-cigars-cigars-cigars.com/cigars/socialism-vs-capitalism-please-read-my-comparisons-of-the-two-and-where-it-has-gotten-us/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+Cigars-cigars-cigars-cigars+(Cigars-Cigars-Cigars-Cigars)

I got this link on twitter, so bear with me. :P
It's a long article (well it looks really long), but I think it's pretty nice on how it tries to compare socialism and capitalism to each other. And, by reading the comments at the end, this article isn't like, THE ANSWER, but it's still nice on how it shows an everyday example. :)

- Sara

“Can You Multiply Wealth by Dividing it?”

Should Capitalism be kept? Should Socialism be kept? They both have their benefits and of course their bad sides. Capitalism allows everyone to work for their money, and earn the money that they work for (in a normal world of course), and Socialism allows all of the people who don’t do anything to earn just as much money as all of the people who work hard. And mind you, there is still corruption in both case scenarios, so I suppose they both suck just as much. They both aren’t fair, because the people that work hard deserve the credit, and the people that can decide the costs, will ask too much simply because we all want to be powerful.

In elementary and somewhat in middle school we always wanted to be the best, and wanted to earn the most credit, the most recognition for our work. And boom, when you enter high school, suddenly it’s stupid to be the one with the highest grades. I suppose you could compare the school way of life in elementary and middle to a kind of capitalistic view, and high school is more of a socialist view. If everybody gets the same grade anyways, why study? If we all want to try and fit in, in High School, and being stupid is cool, why bother studying to get a high grade if it's un-cool anyways? If I’m nice to the kid sitting next to me, I’ll get a star, so why not be nice?

There is no real socialist country; they are more considered a mixed country. The United States of America has a socialist country, in the sense that all of the basic necessities are cheap, and all of those workers earn the same amount with a fixed ‘price’; this system is based on the believe that people should cooperate and coexist with one another. Whereas the countries in which there is real capitalism, the government believes that there is competition that will bring out the best in everyone, and create more revenue.

Cooperation and coexisting with one another are very important things that we as humans should do, since it is only natural… it’s part of what makes us human. But then again, people want to have recognition for the work that they deliver. How can two systems like that be turned into a system that could work out for all of us? One without money? No competition needed, right?

-- Sara de Jong
10A
Weekly Writing Assignment #2.

Space Race by Phaedra Hanst

The two countries battling each other in the Space Race were United States and Soviet Union. They wanted to beat each other in many things that had to do with space, specifically sending man to the moon, landing him on the moon, and getting satellites set up in space. For both countries this race would boost up their economies, both wanted to have the name of “sending the first rocket into space” and so on. In my opinion this race wasn’t simply to discover all of these world-changing technologies, it was to see who could discover them first. This only happened though, after the Soviet Union found out that their rockets had the possibility of traveling so far. First, their rockets were simply weapons used in the Cold War. The Space Race had many positive consequences; I think it opened up the world’s horizon on where they could go. If indeed we could find ways to travel to other planets, we could surely find the benefits of each and every one. On the other hand, they were possibly dangerous trips. After the Sputnik was set up, we tried to also send men to outer space, which at that time was not such a good idea, seeing as the technology was not as advanced as it is today. I think that the Space Race continued because people still want to know more about other planets. There are though, two opposing views on this topic, some people want to keep exploring simply because it’s something they love, and others I think want to explore to see what they can use. We are using up all our earth, is the Space Race a search for more resources? I do think that humans should keep venturing into space, who knows what they might find? If indeed these planets are uninhabited, we might be able to use them.

Socialism vs. Capitalism ((videos))

Of course I love the cartoon video the best :P but that's just me. The other two bring up good points. Enjoyy peoplezz! :)

-Liz

MLK vs. Malcolm X- Phaedra Hanst

I think that Marin Luther King’s views where most effective. He used Ghandi and Henry David’s theories on non-violence. This proved to be effective when protesting against Rosa Parks’ arrest. Martin and the other people supporting the protest decided that they would no longer take the bus, and this put the bus services into bad business, which made them mad and caused them to use violence against the protestors, but they were not allowed to fight back. This worked, because simply by not taking the bus, some bus companies had to shut down, and the law on colored segregation in public transportation was taken away. I personally would have followed Martin Luther King’s views, because they, to me, proved to be the most successful. I think that if you scare someone with violence, you’re going to accomplish less than normal. Some people will obviously think different, as they would say that if Martin would have killed some of the bus’ driver’s then they would have accomplish what they wanted to much faster; and they probably would have, but I think it’s different because they actually worked towards what they wanted and got it honestly and without hurting anyone. I also think that by using violence, it would have created a larger problem. If they killed bus drivers, then their families would come back to kill those people, who would eventually kill more of the families, which would still result in many people dead, and no problem solved.

Introduction

An influence is the magnitude that has an outcome on someone. Humans are build up put of influences through out their whole lives until they become venerable and they stop listening to others for the reason that they already got enough influences created by many people. Humans are not just influenced by the TV and the Internet; they are also influenced by characters that they grew up with; Humans grow up and build up expectations and goals in life while keeping some of the influences that were created on them. There are many people who have many ways of thinking that have been always slid into their minds without knowing the reason why. Many white people were raised with the idea that they could not be with black people just because of their race, parents created hate in them to have for black people they influenced them to hate them even though they could not explain why black and white should not be together. Martin Luther king had a dream, his dream said it all, he wanted racism to stop; he wanted people to judge others by what they demonstrate not by their skin color. Martin Luther King Jr. should be considered one of the most influential men throughout history.

Space race

Ana Chapela

The Space Race was a competition of space exploration between the United States and the Soviet Union, who after World War II became the most powerful countries. They both developed military space programs that were secret. This race had its ups and downs, for example, there were many new technologies produced by trying to win this race, people learned more and more about science, rockets, and space. They also stopped using rockets as a weapon. The negative side would be the conflict between these two countries instead of getting together and making the best out of all those great ideas that were created out of all these discoveries and curiosities about space. The reason why they kept on doing it was because many people got interested into knowing more about space so they got involved into it, now it depends on science and discoveries instead of politics. Before, all they wanted to obtain out of all of this was just simply to be the most powerful country in the world. Especially the United States since they felt they were being defeated by the Soviet Union because of their success on space exploration.

In my perspective, I think that space analysis should proceed seeing that earth may reached a point were humans cannot be able to live in it anymore, searching for other planets that humans may be able to live in can be one possibility to survive. This can help humans to learn more about the solar system. It also develops new technology that is used today in daily life, like for example, digital image that is used by doctors to record images of the human body. With the absorption of space, people can come close to what means to be a human. Without space exploration we would not be able to have Internet and all the resources that we get from having space observations.

Space Race Hatem 10a

Outer space is a place we wanted to discover and we were willing to give up everything to go up there. This has now changed; people now don’t even care what’s happening up there. Space is a place were we think we know what it is, but actually it’s a place that we have only discovered a very low portion of it. After the soviets went a couple of times up there, the USA couldn’t resist anymore. A country across from us is betting us and that’s when the space race began. The soviets had gotten 18 unmanned landings up there. President John F Kennedy said were going to the moon, a couple of years latter his word was made real. The first manned space rocket on the moon, which showed the soviets that the USA could do it and be better than them.

Sputnik, the first artificial satellite in space was made by the soviets; it was the size of a beach ball 58 cm or 22.8 inches in diameter and 83 kilos, and the first one to orbit the Earth Korolyov's R-7 missile. Nearly after four months the USA successfully launched its first satellite. The period were all this idea of going to outer space was happening during the cold war were the USA and the Soviets had a war conflict after WWII. 1961 Yuri Gargarin becomes the first human to orbit the Earth. After the Soviet Yuri Gargarin the Americans were way behind, on that same year they sent their first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. 1963 first women is a Soviet called Valentina Tereshkova. After 5 year the USA was successful to send Apollo 8 to orbit the moon.1969 first person on moon was an American called Neil Armstrong followed by Buzz Aldrin. After all the Americans weren’t the first ones up there but they still showed the soviets that they could do it they could get up there by the date they had said. Still now a days we don’t care anymore who goes to outer space or what’s happening, we almost completely forgot about outer space.

Space Race Hatem 10a

Outer space is a place we wanted to discover and we were willing to give up everything to go up there. This has now changed; people now don’t even care what’s happening up there. Space is a place were we think we know what it is, but actually it’s a place that we have only discovered a very low portion of it. After the soviets went a couple of times up there, the USA couldn’t resist anymore. A country across from us is betting us and that’s when the space race began. The soviets had gotten 18 unmanned landings up there. President John F Kennedy said were going to the moon, a couple of years latter his word was made real. The first manned space rocket on the moon, which showed the soviets that the USA could do it and be better than them.

Sputnik, the first artificial satellite in space was made by the soviets; it was the size of a beach ball 58 cm or 22.8 inches in diameter and 83 kilos, and the first one to orbit the Earth Korolyov's R-7 missile. Nearly after four months the USA successfully launched its first satellite. The period were all this idea of going to outer space was happening during the cold war were the USA and the Soviets had a war conflict after WWII. 1961 Yuri Gargarin becomes the first human to orbit the Earth. After the Soviet Yuri Gargarin the Americans were way behind, on that same year they sent their first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. 1963 first women is a Soviet called Valentina Tereshkova. After 5 year the USA was successful to send Apollo 8 to orbit the moon.1969 first person on moon was an American called Neil Armstrong followed by Buzz Aldrin. After all the Americans weren’t the first ones up there but they still showed the soviets that they could do it they could get up there by the date they had said. Still now a days we don’t care anymore who goes to outer space or what’s happening, we almost completely forgot about outer space.

Space Race Hatem 10a

Outer space is a place we wanted to discover and we were willing to give up everything to go up there. This has now changed; people now don’t even care what’s happening up there. Space is a place were we think we know what it is, but actually it’s a place that we have only discovered a very low portion of it. After the soviets went a couple of times up there, the USA couldn’t resist anymore. A country across from us is betting us and that’s when the space race began. The soviets had gotten 18 unmanned landings up there. President John F Kennedy said were going to the moon, a couple of years latter his word was made real. The first manned space rocket on the moon, which showed the soviets that the USA could do it and be better than them.

Sputnik, the first artificial satellite in space was made by the soviets; it was the size of a beach ball 58 cm or 22.8 inches in diameter and 83 kilos, and the first one to orbit the Earth Korolyov's R-7 missile. Nearly after four months the USA successfully launched its first satellite. The period were all this idea of going to outer space was happening during the cold war were the USA and the Soviets had a war conflict after WWII. 1961 Yuri Gargarin becomes the first human to orbit the Earth. After the Soviet Yuri Gargarin the Americans were way behind, on that same year they sent their first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. 1963 first women is a Soviet called Valentina Tereshkova. After 5 year the USA was successful to send Apollo 8 to orbit the moon.1969 first person on moon was an American called Neil Armstrong followed by Buzz Aldrin. After all the Americans weren’t the first ones up there but they still showed the soviets that they could do it they could get up there by the date they had said. Still now a days we don’t care anymore who goes to outer space or what’s happening, we almost completely forgot about outer space.

The Space Race - Elie Weinstein

The tense Cold War, like a dormant volcano waiting to explode, has had an everlasting impact on the world due to the Space Race. Had it not been for Soviet and American efforts to expand their rule out of our atmosphere, the world would be radically different than it is today.

Most orbital expeditions and missions to space are for scientific use. Satellites have been used to map the Earth, and a multitude of satellites are used for communication, tv broadcasting, and the internet. The intentions of the Space Race, however, were purely for military purposes. Both the United States and U.S.S.R. were keen to develop satellites and missions that sent rockets into orbit, simply because the technology and engineering wonders could be implemented in the building and use of long range weapons––especially nuclear weapons.

The Soviets were the first to successfully achieve such a mission, with the launch of a small satellite known as Sputnik. According to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the success of this mission was due to both parties’ war tactics. Russia had the upper hand in its space program because it had already implemented rocket technology into its missiles during the Cold War, while America was still developing bombs to be dropped from aircraft.

Russia’s pioneering in space exploration has affected nearly everyone in the world forever. Satellites have many purposes, such as in the areas of navigation, television, internet, and the military. It has had a great impact in these fields, however the implementation of rocketry technology and engineering for military use has resulted in the construction of systems that are capable of killing millions of people as well as animals and plants within no time.

Although, rocketry and space exploration has resulted in weapons of mass destruction, I fully support space exploration and wish for it to continue. I do not regret the Space Race (were it in my hands) because I fell that the said weapons are in good hands (except for Pakistan and Iran). I don’t think that humans should live on other planets because we are Earthlings. I cannot imagine permanently living indoors or with an oxygen tank, or seeing no other life form. We are made to live on Earth; trying to populate another planet would just create financial, political, environmental, and societal problems. The only reason I see fit for us to move to another planet or the moon were if a giant meteor was to strike us.

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