A Study Of John F. Kennedy's Exploration Of A New Place Home

Exploration of new land has been part of all human civilization since the birth of humans. Over time, there has been many curious explores that have wonder to say, “What else is out there?” These explores have traveled to many lands in the quest of finding a place to call home. When explores settled and founded the United States, they brought new hopes and dreams of making this new place home. With the help of these explores, it was possible for many immigrants to come over from all parts of the world making this country a melting pot of cultures and ideas. Exploration throughout the land brought forth a frontier that challenged any new comers to endure its climate and to face many challenges. With the coming of new people, it was possible

Kennedy mentions that we learn from our history and we can’t be deterred in the progress of knowledge he show the restless energy as one of the characteristics that reassembles Turners speech. Without that motivation and energy that Kennedy talked about in his speech, we would not have been the first country to go to the moon and set forward the new frontier “in the race for space” (Kennedy).Kennedy’s restless energy was cleared when he said, “ We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills” Kennedys speech resemble one of the traits in the pioneers (Kennedy). Without that push and energy we wouldn’t have the motivation towards new technology. Technology which today help ships navigate at sea and “Tiros satellites that have given us unprecedented warnings of hurricanes and storms” making it possible for many of us to live better, safer, and function more adequately (Kennedy). Another trait portrayed in Kennedy was his coarseness and strength to overcome any obstacle or challenge. When Kennedy gave his speech at Rice University he talked about the importance of the budget and how there was no room in the budget to waste any money, but the importance for the research for space was necessary he said, “it will be done in the decades of the sixties…. but it will be done before the end of this decade” (Kennedy) those were powerful words that should the strength of a man who believes in his country. Kennedy had the courage and strength to stand in front of a crowd and address the nation that the United States would be the first to place a man on the moon and how he had realized his vision and the strength of the nation as