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I would look up old Grimms Brothers fairytales or Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales that haven't been really touched up on, put it in a medieval setting, and put your own twist on it. Not necessarily the same story, but let the already created story give you an idea of what you want to write. (That way you're clear from plagiarizing.)
The correct answer is A) The space shuttle program has come to an end.
The author thinks that the time may now be right to focus on ocean research because the space shuttle program has come to an end.
The main argument for the author to support ocean exploration is that he considered that the space shuttle program of NASA had already ended in 2011. Too much money -billions of dollars- had been invested in the space program, and now it was time to enter the unknown territories of the oceans.
The author is probably right. We do not much about oceans and what could be under the sea. That is a real mystery. We have explored enough about the space, according to our possibilities and limitations, but practically the ocean is unknown. So ocean exploration would be a real challenge.
Some of the main ideas that were introduced during the Enlightment were having confidence in humanity's intellectual powers, a smaller amount of trust in the older forms of tradition authority, and scientific reasoning will later improve human existence.
