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    Moon Landing Essay

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    Was it real or fake? You could research this topic on many different webpages, books, and personal opinions but will it ever bring us closer to the truth? Also can you trust what you read or heard from someone or a website. The moon landing was a hoax based on many different facts and accusations. First, according to ozy.com, a personal explanation from a camera man explains how he shot the “fake” moon landing six months before it debuted.

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    the media. In the film, “Exit Through The Gift Shop,” street art is the life-style. This film shows certain artists, but does not give full identity of these artists, aside from one, Banksy, the filmmaker. Which gives us the question, is this film a hoax or not? Exit Through The Gift Shop follows the filmmaker, Theirry Guetta, who lives his life through a camera. After filming his life, he has discovered artists who have caught his interest in street art. Theirry Guetta follows these men around,

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    new break through in the field of space exploration. Soon after, however, many controversies were raised on the authenticity of this event. Many critics of the lunar landing believe that this event was a hoax perpetuated to deceive the society. The debate, whether the moon landing of 1969 was a hoax or a true event, continues today. The space race, during the Cold War, all started with the launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. Although this shiny piece of metal ball sent meaningless

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    Ray Santilli Hoaxes

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    Hoaxes have been around since the middle ages, around early 1600’s. A hoax is a humorous or malicious deception. People believe in hoaxes because the more they read or hear (whether it’s a reliable source or not) the more legitimate it becomes. A perfect example of a hoax from history is the “Alien Autopsy Film” by Ray Santilli. This famous hoax was created in 1995. We doubted our gut when people around us had a different claim. Hypothesis-testing bias is when people look for ways to prove a theory

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    The McPherson tape. Was it a hoax or actually proof of aliens? Judging by the footage, it's not quite clear. Some seem to believe it's certain evidence we are not alone while others think it's a well directed amateur film. Whatever the truth is, NASA has remained silent. ALIENS CRASH A PARTY For those unaware of what the McPherson tape is, it's a video that began circulating sometime in the 1990's. It documented numerous grey aliens landing on rural property. Upon discovering the McPherson family

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    Moon Landing Conspiracy

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    Union were competing against each other. Then one day space was the new place to get to, as both the U.S. and the Soviet Union tried to prove that their technology was better than each others. The conspiracy theories about how the moon landings are a hoax are false they should be able to tell that it did happen because research has proven

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    doesn’t confirm the existence of wind; instead it confirms the existence of force. The biggest evidence the moon landing wasn’t a hoax would be that the Soviets never called out the USA for faking their moon landing. The USSR and the USA were in the middle of a potential nuclear war, and if it were a giant hoax the USSR would have called out the USA. If the moon landing was a hoax, it would be one of the best kept secrets. Not only would have Soviets bought it, the people involved in the conspiracy have

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    This person calls themselves “Evolution is a Hoax”. Their argument was that the First Nations weren't the first, instead they were the last because they were at the region of hell and many people operate outside the cycle of Canadian economy. Evolution is a Hoax stated that the money system has its own life and obviously there would be high poverty and unemployment because of imports, good and

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    the call, “Houston”, which confirmed the landing of these three astronauts on the moon. Recently though, many discussions of the Apollo 11 mission have astonished thoughts of many Americans. Conspiracy theorists are looking at the Moon Landing as a hoax and one big set up that Americans were fooled into believing actually happened. In 1974, Bill Kasying wrote a book entitled We Never Went to the Moon:

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    Loch Ness Legend

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    we all love a good hoax believing for a minute the absurd is possible or exposing the truth behind it. However, hoaxes can have a lasting impact on an area whether it is for tourism or the locals simply want to believe what they think they saw was real. When we examine loch Ness we can see how the legend of Nessie has shaped the area's industry, the reaction to the hoax, as well as what context brought this hoax to life. Loch ness is a quiet town is Scotland town, but everywhere you look you can

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