What if the tourist from Orbitville had parked his spaceship in the air above a football stadium where a game was being played? How would he have described the "creatures of this star" then, and what provocative question may he have ended his report with? Write your answer as either an essay or a poem.

Make your case in answering the "guts or brains" question in Swenson's poem. Defend your answer with examples of actual human behavior and tell how and why you arrived at your decision.

Do some research on the "Roswell incident" and write an essay describing the events that took place in New Mexico in 1947 and the subsequent actions by the U.S. government and military. Why do people still flock to Roswell? Why would there have been a cover-up? What do you believe really happened?

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