Directions: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected you to communicate via letter to the 10,000 extraterrestrial inhabitants of the newly discovered planet Kepler. Kepler was recently discovered during U.S. space exploration and because of its similarity to earth’s atmosphere is deemed as potentially habitable for people from earth.
Specifically, in preparation for its next visit to Kepler, you have been asked to develop a one page letter (single space 12 font) to the extraterrestrials to help them understand some of the complexities of the issues affecting human society. As such, NASA has given you a list of topics (see below) from which you will select the problem or issue to be covered in your letter. NASA has asked that your letter (1) provide an honest and frank assessment of the issues or problems related to the topic you selected (40 points); (2) clearly outline and carefully describe two options you believe are potential solutions to the problem or issues of the topic you selected (30 points); and 3) offer a well thought out educated opinion about which one of the options you think would best address the problem or issues related to your topic being sure to explain why you think this option is best (20 points); and (4) be written grammatically correct with attention to word choice, spelling. You will be asked to provide a verbal review of your letter to the NASA officials for their consideration of including your letter as one of them provided to the extraterrestrial inhabitants of Kepler (10 points). As such you should try to minimize reading the letter but rather focus on extemporaneously sharing its contents with the listening audience at NASA.
Once you have completed your verbal presentation, you are expected to hand in a typewritten copy of the letter to the lead at NASA (aka, your instructor) for final review and assessment.
Remember that your letter will make an important impression upon the extraterrestrials and will be taken on the next Space Shuttle flight scheduled for 30 days from now so do your research and get to writing your letter.
The topics are: Ageism
Alternative family forms Authoritarianism Capitalism
Divorce
Genocide
New Reproductive Technologies Premarital Sex and Extramarital Sex Poverty and income inequality Racial Inequality
Socialism
Sexual Harassment
Totalitarianism
Voter Apathy
Violence against women