The needs of the audience are always important to a technical writer. An oral presentation brings you into direct, face-to-face contact with that audience. A speaker has a captive audience. Yes, people can sneak out the back of the room if they are terribly bored, but the audience wants you to succeed.) Oral Presentations: A Road Map. If you have access to an electronic presentation software package such as PowerPoint, you can often load templates that will guide you through the process of writing a presentation.
At last, on January 31, 1958, the United States succeeded in launching its first satellite, the Explorer. The Explorer was still slighter than Sputnik, but its launch sent it deeper into space. The Soviets responded with yet another launch, and the space race continued.he fact that the Soviets were successful fed fears that the U.S. military had generally fallen behind in developing new technology. As a result, the launch of Sputnik served to intensify the arms race and raise Cold War tensions.
Digital History ID 3403 An article in the July 1947 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, signed X, proposed that the West adopt a policy of containment toward the Soviet Union. The article's author, George Kennan, who set up the U.S. embassy in Moscow in 1943, called on the United States to take steps to prevent Soviet expansion. He was convinced that if the Soviet Union failed to expand, its social system would eventually break down. The Containment Policy would adopt two approaches. One approach was military; the other was economic. In 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposed a program to funnel American economic aid to Europe.