YULA Girls | Panther Post | Issue I | November 2020

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PAGE 8 | NOVEMBER, 2020THE PANTHER POST | YULA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOLA New Space Race: The United States vs. ChinaBY TAMAR SCHEINFELD ‘24For years, China has laggedbehind the United States in spaceexploration. In January of 2019,however, the Chinese made agiant leap forward by landinga probe on the ‘dark side’ ofthe moon. The complexity ofthis unprecedented, successfullanding drew China even withthe U.S. and unleashed a newspace race. The two countriesare now set to send unmannedspacecraft to Mars this month.Because Mars and Earth are ina relatively favorable positionfor space crafts to be launchedinto space, China and the U.S.are engaged in a heated competition.The competition will not belimited to Mars. Both countriesintend to establish moon basesfrom which to launch furthermissions to Mars. In each ofthese endeavors, the U.S. intendsto maintain its lead over China inspace exploration.Every 26 months, Earth andMars are relatively in alignmenton the same side of thesun. The window opened onOctober 6, 2020, and as the WallStreet Journal noted, “the rivalrybetween the U.S. and China[will] assume[s] cosmic proportions...asboth countries prepareto send spacecraft to Marswithin days of each other”. TheChinese aim to challenge U.S.space supremacy. To match theAmerican achievements so far,the first Chinese mission willlaunch an orbiter to the redplanet and land a rover fromthis orbiter at a later time onthe planet’s surface. The U.S. inturn will land their fourth roveron Mars and deploy a Marshelicopter, a first in Mars exploration.By including a vehiclecapable of flying in the Martianatmosphere, the U.S. will keepitself ahead of Chinese efforts todraw even.Both China and the U.S. areIs The Stock Market DuringCoronavirus Defying Logic?BY LEORA TEICHMAN ‘22The performance of stockmarkets during the coronaviruspandemic, especially in theUnited States, seems to defylogic. With a sudden declinein investment and employment,what is the rationale behindshare prices remaining afloat?As the World HealthOrganization announced thenew coronavirus “a public healthemergency of international concern”on January 30th, the S&P500 rose by 3%, hitting an alltimerecord high. Investors gaveshares their highest valuationever right after the announcementof a “possible global tragedy,”as opposed to predicting theimpending economic decline.Due to the absence of past outbreakssince the influenza pandemicof 1918-20, there was noanalysis of the impact of suchbiological shocks, blurring thejudgement of investors.Later on, the S&P 500 plummeted34% from February 19thalso striving to establish moonbases to launch probes directlyto Mars thereby saving on fuel.China intends to have a mannedlunar base and the capability toto March 23rd—a drop verysimilar to the 1929 stock marketcrash. At this time, newsregarding the spread of the diseasebecame more international;the WHO classified this diseaseas a pandemic on March 11th.Internet searches regarding the“pandemic” and “coronavirus”skyrocketed as people werescrambling to gain more informationon this unknown. Peoplewere attempting to understandthe situation, including individualswho could influence marketprices, inducing a major drop inthe market due to the uncertaintywhich was prompted by theCoronavirus.Lastly, the S&P 500 rose 40%due to news regarding both fiscaland monetary policy. Both theFederal Reserve and PresidentTrump announced new acts andprograms that would be set inplace in order to help establishinnovative credit facilities aswell as fiscal stimulus. Both ofthese measures resembled theactions taken during the 2007-09 Great Recession which ledsend men to Mars by 2045. TheUS aims to put astronauts backon the moon by 2024 and tolaunch a manned Mars missionin the 2030s from the moon. Thiswould ensure a continued U.S.lead in the space race over Chinaby moving forward the date ofa successful manned landing onMars.If the 1960s represented aspace race between the U.S. andthe Soviet Union to land humanson the moon, the U.S. overcamea Soviet lead and beat the Sovietsto the moon by the end of thedecade (1969). The new challengerto the U.S. is China. Itsambitious plans for the moon andMars are a direct challenge to theU.S.. Through its space program,the United States hopes to replicateits success against the SovietUnion by sending a mannedspace mission to Mars a decadebefore the Chinese intend to.Whether this comes true remainsto be seen because of the manytechnological hurdles that needto be overcome to safely landastronauts on Mars.to a gradual increase in stockprices.Throughout it all, the underlyingtheme is apparent—certainty,or lack thereof, makes all thedifference. Rather than the stockmarket defying logic, it entirelyembodies the logic of humanityin this day and age. When tragedyand unpredictability arise,the masses respond by retreating,taking shelter, and ensuringtheir own protection. At thebeginning of COVID-19 whenpeople were hoarding a supplyof food and toilet paper, uncertaintyand fear of the unknownwere the causal factors in drivingpeople to irrationality. Sotoo with the stock market, ratherthan focusing on the long termbenefits of investing in specificstocks, many individuals investedor declined their stocks basedsolely on the current pandemicsituation. While fear and uncertaintyare legitimate concerns,forethought and intellect arethe basis for a solid foundationwithin the stock market as wellas general success.
THE PANTHER POST | YULA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOLPAGE 9 | NOVEMBER, 2020Did the U.S. 2020 Presidential Debate Sway Voters?BY MAYA WERTHEIM ‘23Notwithstanding the political polarization that hasmanifested itself in the animosity of the first presidentialdebate, both, or perhaps I should say, all three of thedebaters, had interjected objections to such an extentthat every voice seemed to coalesce into one. Despitethe chaos of the discussions, both President Trump andVice President Joe Biden took riveted positions andexpressed their stances quite forcibly and combatively.Bilaterally, this debate did not seem to have swayedany viewers—perhaps the chaos simply obscuredeveryone’s judgment.Generally, however, a few strong points were madeby each side: Trump explained both the ramificationsof a prolonged national lockdown as well as how hispresidency justifies his nomination of a new SupremeCourt Justice. Seeing as the Senate, with vanishinglyfew democrats, confirm the selection, and PresidentTrump’s incumbency extends across the span of exactlyfour years, we must not nullify the established governmentalsystem and Mr. Trump’s entitlement to “fill theseat.” Regarding Joe Biden’s moments of intelligence,his sympathy and affinity for his son (with regards tohis resolved troubles with substance abuse and the like)mitigated his perceived senility, though he did manageto contradict himself: he claimed not to endorse theGreen New Deal, a proposed legislation with the objectof mitigating climate change and its effects, during thedebate, yet on his website, he attests otherwise. Onthe other hand, the condemnation of white supremacy,to which President Trump delivered a poor response,seemed to dictate the trajectory of the debate and thepublic’s consequential reactions. This, perhaps, mostgreatly rendered Trump’s performance inferior.In conclusion, Chris Wallace, the moderator, JoeBiden, and President Trump each, strategically speaking,comported themselves negatively; and expectedly,the media, whose reporters feign neutrality, have distortedthe discussions, falsifying many statements, allof which will remain in circulation.YULA High Schools hosted a presidential debate to educate the student body. Sam Yebri (representing the Democratic Party) and Barak Lurie(representing the Republican Party) debate about the elections, moderated by Leora Teichman ‘22 and Ethan Frankel ‘22.PHOTOS BY NOAM NIZZANI
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