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Eric Graham The Scorch Trials Did you ever want to see The Scorch Trials ? I’ll answer for you. You don’t. While the first movie based off of the books, The Maze Runner , was pretty good and accurate, The Scorch Trials is a major disappointment. I’ve never seen a book or movie series take this bad of a turn. Basically the whole plot goes like this: Thomas and his friends get taken in by someone who wants to run tests on them. They must escape into the desert, where zombie-like creatures roam, and travel through a post-apocalypse city and continuously almost die. Really, the only good things about this movie are the cast and filming. “Ok, so why is it that bad? Sounds quite interesting to me,” you might think in your silly little mortal head. As a whole, it’s not really that interesting, though there are some interesting parts. But they’re not good interesting, they’re bad interesting. To list a few: someone signals a whole bunch of helicopters from miles away with...

Persuasive Essay - Space Exploration Technology Did you ever want to skype your friend from Mars? Well, too bad, you won’t be able to skype, but you could still send a postcard (it would probably be very expensive, if you want it to actually be sent from Mars)! Seriously though, we should spend more money on space travel and exploration because spaceships need to be safer, more advancements in technology are an important part of colonizing mars, and it would be more than worth it to spend more on space. Spaceships and shuttles need to be safer than they currently are. Many missions have ended in disaster, including; Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11, Challenger, Columbia, Apollo 1 (a ground test, even!), (6) and the first 3 unmanned SpaceX tests (5). The Challenger disaster still makes people sad today, and Christa McAuliffe’s (the first person of an occupation not relating to space, her being a teacher) husband, Steven, said of her, “Christa confidently and joyfully embraced life, ...