Power, The Moon/NASA & The River

Power, The Moon/NASA & The River

Consider these scenarios and write a sentence or two for each outlining the method that power is used to persuade someone of something.

Each sentence should include a description of how one of the following is connected to the scenario.

1. in a forceful way
2. a persuasive way
3. based on rewards

1. A mother insists that her children go to be by 8:00 pm or they will lose their television privileges.

2. A student persuades the class to stop buying hamburgers at McDonald's because the extra packaging used by McD's world-wide harms the environment.

3. You know that if you speak out against the government leader in a certain country, you are likely to "disappear".

4. You buy Nike running shoes because Raphael Nadal wears them for tennis (he just won the US Open).

5. After watching pre-election TV ads for several weeks, you vote for a particular political party.

6. Your parents give you extra money for the As on your report card.

7. After an earthquake, looters are imprisoned without proper trials.


Next we'll pretend that you're an astronaut and have crashed on the moon 300km from the mother ship.

Could you Lead a Group of Survivors on the Moon?


Here's the list ranking that NASA came up with:

1. Oxygen – need it to live, even more than water
2. Water – need it to live
3. Map – no hope without a map
4. Food Concentrate – another basic need, it’s a long journey
5. Radio – helpful to communicate with home base or send SOS signal
6. Rope – to tie things, drag them
7. First Aid – may be helpful
8. Silk – keep the sun off you, without an atmosphere the sun is very dangerous
9. Life Raft – use CO2 to propel you
10. Flares – last ditch rescue is near home base
11. Pistol – make little rockets from propellant?
12. Milk – might be useful
13. Heater – you’re on the lit side of the moon so it’s warm all the time
14. Compass – no magnetic poles on the moon, useless
15. Matches – cannot work without Oxygen in atmosphere

Assignment:
Next let's have a look at the Origins of Government going back to a river 10,000 years ago.