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The speech “Address to the Nation on the Space Shuttle Challenger Tragedy” has a very clear context. The author of this speech is American president Ronald Reagan in 1980s. The purpose of the speech is to announce a tragedy of the Space Challenger to the whole country, especially for their families and schoolchildren and people who worked in NASA. Meanwhile, president also wanted to memorize these seven persons and cheer up the space program. Finally, the audience of the speech is the whole Americans. The speech is given in Washington, and given by President Reagan; we can see this must a big accident in America. This speech tried to pacify all Americans

On January 28, 1986, a day that was supposed to be filled with excitement and exploration, suddenly turned into a day filled with tragedy and sadness. The space shuttle Challenger was supposed to carry a seven member crew into orbit with one unique member along for this particular mission. Christa McAuliffe was supposed to be the first teacher to go into space as a member of the Teacher in Space Project. Due to this occasion, the media coverage and the number of viewers of this mission was extensive, particularly in schools across the nation. The Challenger lifted off shortly after 11:30 A.M., but tragically only seventy three seconds after takeoff it exploded sending debris and the seven crew members back to earth and into the Atlantic

On the morning of Janurary 28th 1986, the world witnessed in shock and horror what was known as the Challenger disaster as the space shuttle exploded only 73 seconds after its launch, killing all seven crew members onboard including one teacher Christa McAuliffe. Approximately 17 percent of Americans watched the live broadcast of this launch, many of them schoolchildren including those from McAuliffe’s school. From this grave moment emerged an exigency that demands immediate action by the president. Later on that same day, President Ronald Reagan delivered his Challenger address to the nation.

The 1920s were times of loss for the United States. After seeing countless deaths of soldiers in a war many didn’t believe in, the years after World War I were times when people lost hope in classic principles such as bravery and courage. The “Lost Generation” were people who saw the horrors of the war throughout their life. Ernest Hemingway shows major themes of the “Lost Generation” through his stories after the war; he shows the pursuit of decadence in “Hills of White Elephants,” impotence through “Soldier’s Home,” and idealism through both stories (O’Connor).

We often hear “this generation has it easy with all this technology!”, but is that really the case. Not too many years ago devastation struck our country more than once. We have grown up in the era that is a frightful and painful time. Like the article, “The Why-Worry Generation” By Judith Warner, which stated “This annoying yet admirable ability to stay positive in a depressing and frightening time has nothing to do with the parents. Perhaps it's a result, as some long-term observations of this generation have suggested, of growing up in an era of almost unremitting ambient anxiety:school years spent in the shadow of Columbine, 9/11 and, lately, widespread parental job losses”(Warner). I think this is true that this is still impacting our lives today. Since the technology has evolved, we can know any piece of news at any time. That creates a worried life for some people, knowing that around the world and even here there are terrible things that

On the cold morning of January 28, 1986, when the temperature hung ten degrees below freezing with the excessive wind chill, The Challenger was set to launch from Cape Canaveral Florida. On board, seven crew members, including the first civilian set to go to space, teacher Christa McAuliffe, awaited the final order to launch. As thousands of children watched on television, the shuttle left the platform, and seconds later, erupted into a plume of smoke, killing all on board. Even though the explosion of The Challenger was a tragedy for America’s space program, the disaster taught NASA many new lessons, a promised a bright future for space exploration,and reinforced the importance of science and math in school.

Nineteen years ago, seventy-three seconds after liftoff, the space shuttle Challenger exploded and three astronauts lost their lives in a terrible accident on the ground. “ The Space Shuttle ‘Challenger’ Tragedy Address”, delivered by President Ronald Reagan, on 28 January 1986, at the White House, in Washington, D. C. He spoke about the terrible tragedy of the shuttle Challenger, where the nation lost three astronauts. Reagan talk about the mourning and remembering of three legends. He discussed the seven challengers and essentially discourses to the American public and families of seven challengers about the misfortune while comforting, commemorating, and inspiring audiences, especially school children by the use of rhetoric.

In 1986 when the space shuttle Challenger launched from Kennedy Space Center people watched in awe for a little more than a minute before the shuttle exploded in flight. This was the first of only two major accidents that occurred during over two decades of NASA’s shuttle program. Many would consider the Challenger disaster to be a fluke that could not have been prevented or predicted but, In truth, it was an accident waiting to happen and was a symptom of systemic problems that were occurring at NASA during that era. The 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster was cause by a number of factors including structural failure of the shuttle, a change in NASA’s work environment from the days of the successful Apollo missions, and additional

While driving frantically through the lush farmland of the Livermore Valley to rescue a 9-year who, along with her classmates had just witnessed the destruction of the Challenger on live television, the question of why was all consuming. Growing up in the sixties and witnessing the moon landing led many to believe NASA was infallible. However, nearly twenty years before Challenger, this proved untrue, as the dangers of space travel were tragically demonstrated when the crew of the Apollo 1 died in an onboard fire during a test run (Howell, 2012). Following the Challenger tragedy, President Reagan (1986, para. 8) stated, ‘We will never forget them, nor the last

Wendell Cox writers of “Generation X's Moment of Power Is Almost Here,” explains, “Gen X

Who would have thought when seven souls set out on a journey to space such a tragedy would have happened 73 seconds after the takeoff? On January 28th, 1986, the American shuttle Orbiter Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff, killing astronauts: Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and school teacher Sharon McAuliffe, who was supposed to teach lessons to schoolchildren all across the country. The launch was viewed by thousands of people across the nation and the world, including numerous schoolchildren. The tragedy of the event called for former President Ronald Reagan to address the nation. The president called the famous speech, “Shuttle Challenger Disaster

In The Sun Also Rises, the events of World War I shape most of the character’s behaviors. The war slowly erased the traditions of justice, morality, and faith. The characters have at least one loss of these traditions or all. These loss of traditions is what makes them The Lost Generation and creates the traits they portray in the novel. Most war veterans when returning home feel morally and mentally lost, and this leads to many escapisms, some used throughout The Sun Also Rises.

Through many different era (the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, and Gen Z) comes with different perspectives, and each generation's identity will impact my work as an educator. the Silent Generation, refers to people who were born between 1925 and 1945. This group of individual are not technology savvy, and they look for information through print. This group also brings wisdom and perseverance, and the children who grew up around this time lived by the ''shut up and get the job done method.'' Moreover, the Baby Boomers is a term referring to a person who was born between 1946 and 1964. Since the invention of the first computer ever made was announced in 1964, Baby Boomers were not too accustomed to technology. Although, Baby

Throughout time, generations have been responsible for ensuring the stability and security of the future. Whether or not the world improves or worsens is completely up to the adults who inherit it. Sociologists and Researchers have examined the characteristics that define each passing generation and so far no generation has been better equipped with taking on the ever changing world than Generation Z. Generation Z is a richly diverse and technologically proficient group with strong aspirations towards a prosperous future.

As the world was evolving and becoming something new there was competition in being the best.The race to space, it had been going on for a while, tied to the cold war meant this was on the minds of many around the country. The challenger was a space shuttle meant to change the face of America, but only to be remembered as the space shuttle that exploded. “After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.” As told by Sally ride the first women to have gone to space. The Challenger held a crew of seven, all who were gone in 73 seconds after lift off along with the shuttle. America was mortified for what they had seen before their eyes. It was as much as a sad loss as a defeat. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JOjcDFtBE)