Introduction “Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.” - Carl Sagan Acknowledgements Executive Summary The Iter ad Astra acknowledges that the finest details of a space settlement do not matter if it cannot be built in the first place. Instead, the Iter ad Astra is the path that allows space settlement to happen. While the Iter ad Astra
Heinrich Schenker is clearly the most influential composer of tonal music, specifically for his creation of Schenkerian analysis. Shenkerian analysis is a method used to analyze tonal music, where the main goal is to understand the purpose of the work. Tonal space is probably the most fundamental concept of Shenkerian analysis. The intervals between triads form tonal spaces which can contain neighboring and passing tones, which are open for further expansion until the entirety of the composition
Author: Edgar Allan Poe Story:Lenore, The Raven, To Helen Members:Alan Ibarra, Dustin McGuire, Aliyia Harris 1. Writer's Background: Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 Massachusetts to a family of actors. Sadly both his parents died when he was 3. As an orphan child he stayed with John and Frances Allan. Edgar Allan Poe published his first poem November 1824 at the age of 15. February 14, 1826 he enrolled to the University of Virginia. In march 1827 Poe had a $2,000 gambling debt
Globalization by www.businessdictionary.com is the worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications integration. Globalization implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers. However, it does not include unhindered movement of labor and, as suggested by some economists, may hurt smaller or fragile economies if applied
(Mudimbe-Boyi, 1993). As such, Christianity holds that exile is the primary way that leads to salvation. This defines the distance between God and Christians and ultimately from getting into the Kingdom of Heaven. Consequently, a large number of wanderers enforced themselves into voluntary exile, placing themselves in isolation from other people they could live with. For instance, Monks and Hermits rejected the world, voluntarily withdrawing from other people for the sake of being closer to God. By