When their first attempts failed, Congress passed the National Defense and Education Act, to "assist in greater efforts in specific areas of national concern." The Act increased federal funding for "education in science and engineering" (Document G). Congress also developed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to manage the U.S. construction of spaceships. The fears of the Soviets dominating modern technology and warfare terrified Americans, intensifying the fears of the spread of communism into the United States. Amidst the communist hysteria, the United States either needed to make peace with the Soviets or contain the communists.
Ender’s Game On the surface Ender’s Game is a straightforward science fiction book set in the future about humanity overcoming an alien race. The book is set after humanity’s first war with the aliens in which the people of Earth narrowly defeat the invading force. After this near cataclysmic encounter with the alien race humanity comes together to create the International Fleet, a force of highly advanced spaceships with the mission of destroying the alien race’s home planet in order to ensure the safety of the human race. In order to accomplish this the I.F. creates a screening system for potential future commanders that monitors children on Earth and identifies children with the desired traits so that they may be pulled for a series of specialized trainings in order to groom them for the impending battles to come.
It seem the same way as it is today with many people agreeing to give up certain freedoms for what some people say is a nicely printed façade of what they what us to think is security. Another pertinent issue that is present in both Revenge of the Sith and the modern world is whether or not technology is good or bad. The bad side is displayed by the clones, storm troopers, and battle equipment. Because the Sith uses the droids for the evil work of the Sith lord some people preserve the droids as being evil also, thus making technology evil as well. Also the battle
Armed with a phaser, Kirk and his colleagues had the ability to kill or more desirably, stun their adversaries and render them incapacitated” (Briggs, 2009). Just like the article depicts, who would have every thought that a gun filled with electricity could ever be invented. “In the 1960s, a New-Wave movement in science fiction promoted avant-garde literary experimentation, criticism of technology, and an interest in the social rather than in the physical sciences” (Bainbridge, 1982). This article displays how humans feel toward the advancement of technology and their attitudes towards the concept of machines replacing humans in the working
Lauren Schmitt Dr. Bradley English 1301 1 May 2015 Orca Whales in Captivity Aliens. Does anything positive come from hearing that word? Humans have made movies and written novels about the horrific possibility of Alien abductions. This fictitious fear of having children and entire families removed from Earth, is disconcerting. It is difficult to imagine someone being involuntarily taken to an entirely different world where otherworldly beings force them to do things.
America needed an excuse to invade their country to obtain these resources. There excuses ranged from overthrowing the communist regime to them holding nuclear secrets and arms. To the general public these seemed like good enough reasons to intervene; but all the excuses they used were not legitimate. For example, it was the United States fault there was a dictator is Iraq to begin with in the 70’s, “US intelligence helped Saddam's Ba`ath Party seize power for the first time in 1963. Evidence suggests that Saddam was on the CIA payroll as early as 1959, when he participated in a failed assassination attempt against Iraqi strongman Abd al-Karim Qassem.
“The building of missile sites triggered the Cuban Missile Crises in October of 1962.” (Harper pg. 25) John knew he couldn’t allow nuclear weapons in Cuba, but getting rid of them presented a huge problem. If the U.S. entered Cuba or bombed missile sites, the Soviet Union would declare war. An ordinary battle could turn into nuclear warfare. Such a war could destroy the U.S. and Soviet Union along with other parts of the world.
Szilard’s biggest concern was that the Soviet Union should be warned about the bomb ahead of time. He was afraid that the shock of America using the bomb on Japan wouldn’t make the Soviets more manageable, but would instead spur them to develop their own atomic bomb as quickly as possible, possibly sparking a race that could eventually lead to a nuclear war. But Szilard was talking to exactly the wrong person. Byrnes told Szilard,
He hid himself until the time came for him to restore Petropia, which was shortly after Vilgax's destruction of the planet. It is believed that Sugilite is the guardian of the Petrosapiens, and that he was created as a backup system for the planet in case the planet was destroyed. Although Chromastone becomes accessible again after the events of "The Secret of Chromastone", Ben didn't use him until the pilot episode of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, to fight Bivalvan, being very surprised that he still had access to the
But it’s also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. It’s a story with no end in sight… And like it or not you’re in it” (p236) Skeinkin was writing this book to inform us of about the atomic bomb. This is more to make you aware that it still exist and can be deadly if put in the wrong hands. I guess a consent threat to mankind. Dear Steven