Apollo 13: Is It Really Successful Failure?

Reagan’s melancholic yet optimistic tone uplifts the nation. Reagan’s uses diction in his speech to create his optimistic tone. “We’re still pioneers. They the member of the Challenger crew, were pioneers” (4). Reagan explains that everyone will do something that is new, which makes everyone a Pioneer. Even though the seven astronauts did not make it to the moon, Reagan gives them credit as if they took footsteps outside earth. Reagan’s diction created a melancholic tone showing his empathy for their bravery and optimistic tone that turns the tragedy into something more than a disaster. “They wished to serve, and they did. They served all of us” (3). Reagan composes the seven astronauts are known for trying the journey and not for the tragedy.

The 1986 Challenger space shuttle crash was a horrific event. Seven crew members: Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe all lost their lives 73 seconds after liftoff. The Challenger space shuttle crashed due to the failure of the primary O-ring. Basically, the O-ring failed and didn’t seal in time due to low temperatures. The president at the time was Ronald Reagan. Reagan gave a brief speech the same day as the crash. His primary goal of the speech was to mourn the loss of the crew members, show his sorrow and to reassure the citizens of America that everything was under control.

Reagan applies oratorical devices and figurative language to explain to the nation the passion and bravery the seven astronauts have. He uses parallel structure and listing to imply the passion and bravery the Challenger crew have. “But, we never lost an astronaut in flight, we’ve never had a tragedy like this” (2). The parallel structure creates a cause and effect to the tragedy. Its shocking devastation, however, it shows the nation how the future is creating new things. “We mourn seven heroes: Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and Christa McAuliffe. We mourn their loss as a nation together” (2). Listing creates a moment for the nation to mourn together. Also shows how much care and empathy Reagan has for the families who had loss their member from the

Former President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, in his address to the nation about the Challenger explosion, distinguishes the terrifying news of the explosion of the space shuttle. Reagan's purpose is to remember the lives lost in this painful accident and to ensure that space program will keep our faith with its future in space. He adopts a sorrowful tone in order to acknowledge all the courage and breakers that those seven astronauts expressed to his nation.

Commencing his speech, President Reagan delivered his reflections of the Challenger disaster to a stunned and saddened nation. Although the speech was primarily informative, he used a persuasive format in his reference to NASA. Imparting to the American people there were no plans to discontinue further space exploration, yet, delivering a discreet warning to NASA about the investigation that must occur following this horrid tragedy, “We don’t keep secrets and cover up,” impressing on NASA to “do it all up front and in public.” Incorporating a warning in a speech of this nature could have come across as heartless, however; Reagan’s delivery was flawless; direct, brief, and clear, this subtle portent reassured the families left behind there

On January 28th, 1986, Ronald Reagan, the president of the United States at the time, in his speech, entitled “Challenger Disaster,” addressed the Challenger Disaster. He supported this claim by first mourning over the tragedy, then he promoted NASA, also he tried to make sense of this calamity, and finally he informed the audience that the seven astronauts will never be forgotten and as a country we will be forever thankful for their service. Through Reagan’s use of tone, rhetorical analysis, and rhetorical tools he effectively persuaded America to mourn and appreciate the lives of the seven astronauts loss and to convince American people to continue their support for NASA and move forward as a country.

The rhetorical situation of advertisement establishes ethos with the logo and text of the US Department of Transportation. By doing this, people simply passing by can establish a connection to the advertisement, leading them to be interested in what it has to say. The advertisement does a tremendous job appealing to pathos in the picture, and even the description of the picture. With the text, “I was looking out for other cars. I didn’t see the mother and child in the crosswalk.” The reader can only imagine what might had happened in that situation, causing them to take a silent oath to always pay attention when driving a vehicle. Finally, the advertisement appeals to logos with the text, “Stop for Pedestrians.” The person who views the advertisement takes an

Previous United States President Richard M. Nixon had a remarkably favorable position regardless of his failure's picture because of his annihilation in 1960 presidential race and the 1962 California gubernatorial race, due to a few components. The central point was that Nixon was worthy to both the Goldwater preservationists and gathering moderates (894). His technique of selecting Maryland Governor Spiro T. Agnew promoted his support of white Southern voters because of Agnew's strong stands against dissenters and dark aggressors. His running enemy; Hubert H. Humphrey additionally helped Nixon out as a result of the LBJ Brand that shadowed his notoriety and the association in the Vietnam War. Not exclusively did this acquire supporters for

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However, there was just one female to had ever fly in the aircraft. Her name was Stuka, a Scottish terrier purchased in a London pet store. Making up the crew was two pilots, a navigator, radio operator, bombardier, nose gunner, ball turret gunner, two waist gunners, and a tail gunner. All between the ages of 18 and 26, most of them were working normal blue-collar jobs all across the United States before entering into the service.

Sen. Bernie Sanders was involved in plane crash early this evening; his condition has yet to be determined. There were two other unidentified victims who died in the crash, which happened as the private plane was taking off from the Burlington Airport. The plane was a Cessna 172 Skyhawk and while the crash is still under investigation, the intense weather seems to have played a factor.

On 16th of January 2003, the Columbia STS-107 mission lifted off. This science mission planned for 16 days in order to feature numerous microgravity experiments . On 1st of February 2003, after reentering the earth atmosphere the space shuttle suffered a calamitous

Gary Tillery uses copious amounts of researched information to back up his claims throughout the bibliography. He does this by being able to tie in very specific stories and quotes from drawn fine events. “Elvis’ earliest memory was of sitting in his mother’s lap during the church service… mimicked the chorus and followed the melody (Tillery pg. 8).” I agree that he has the information to support his affirmations also because of the detail he uses in his speech. “At 11:41 a.m., a justice of the Nevada Supreme Court led them through… which was piloted by actor and comedian Danny Thomas (Tillery

I decided to do research about the Apollo missions and came across an article that talked about the discovery of water on the moon. In 2009, India's Chandrayaan-1 probe and two NASA spacecraft found water clinging to much of the lunar surface, which surprised many scientists. Many questions were asked after this discovery was made. Where else is there water on the moon? Did any of the other 380 kilograms of samples from the Apollo missions have clues of water that were overlooked? Where did the water come from? The significance of this discovery was that new theories about how there came to be water on the moon were conceived (comets, Mars-sized planet that collided with the Earth to make the moon). The discoverers relied on the work of others

The movie Apollo 13 displays a myriad of situations in which teamwork is of the utmost importance. Both within one group and interdepartmentally, the efficient communication of ideas was essential to getting the spacecraft safely back to Earth. This is demonstrated with the information going between the Apollo 13 crew and their team on Earth. Sharing flight diagnostics and different perspectives allowed everyone to get a more complete picture of the situation at hand along with a better plan of attack to circumvent the problems. A specific example of this is the development of a carbon dioxide scrubber with specific assembly instructions on Earth that the astronauts could make on their spacecraft. This saved the astronauts’ lives. Within their