May I Explore the world

Dear your Highness
I wish to embark on a most terrifc jounrey my lord. With your permission and supplies, I would like to leave port in the year of 1534 if possible. My name is Mr. Cartier, and I have been a explorer my whole life. I love to find new places and people, and I would also love finding you business, supplies, and new converts to Christianity. I would like for my voyage to take place mainly on the eastcoast of North America. With my findings I will give you all the glory, gold, and all the love God put in my heart to thank you for letting me lead the journey across the ocean. I will be bringing two advanced pieces of technology with me to ensure my journey is successful. First is the compass; it will tell us if we are going in the right direction or not. Secondly I will need you to give me a caravel sail boat to get me from one place to the other. I can not assure anything your highness, but I will do my best, and please trust me if you will. Thank you for your time, and please send back whenever you decide.

From Mr. Cartier
1535

I'm a spaceman

You have to look at the details of this question before you try to answer it. If I was already a astronaut, I think I could build up the courage do it, but if I was some random Joe with a regular job, I wouldn't. I would take it as a very big risk in my life as everyone else would, but I would still see it as a big adventure. In space you would learn about and see different things that no one has ever encountered before. It's a whole new world out there and you are finding it out first hand what it's like. If I didn't accept the job, then all I would be doing is sitting at home watching the news and feeling dumb because I didn't go. Although there is one thing that would probably make me go if I was really scared, the chance of being in the history books. You could discover good and bad things there but the good always levels out with the bad.

good old johann gutenberg vs. the mighty computer

Although Johann Gutenberg's invention was so spectacular and changed the world, his invention has no chance against the computer, nor should it have a chance. I think what he did started everything good intelligence wise anyway. Thank god that the Renaissance did happen, or we would all be dumb as rocks at this point as we were when we started. That's all beside the point of course because we are talking about computers and how they had a bigger impact on society than the printing press. Not only do you have a machine that you can type on and delete a whole paragraph at a time if you needed to you, but you also have a whole world inside this little machine that sits in front of you. I mean there are endless possibilities. For example with the Internet you can play games and communicate with anyone you want to around the world. The computer really had more impact on the spread of knowledge than Gutenberg's invention, but after all with no printing press, there would be no computer.

By: Nick Wehunt

do you Carpe diem

I don't really understand why i wouldn't agree. i mean everyone would want to seize the day or pluck the day right. I mean people don't just wake up in the morning and say today i am not going to succeed in anything at all. I usually wake up and want to have a good and successful day and actually accomplish something. that is of course if i wake up in a bad mood and really don't want to do anything at all.