8/25/09 I forgot my vocabulary words.

I posted my first blog too quickly. I completely forgot my vocabulary words: parsec and proliferation.

As a fan of Star Trek: TNG, Voyager, and Enterprise, parsec was refered to and I didn't know what it meant. I could infer from the context that it is a unit of measure, but I am not sure what that measurement is. I looked it up and learned that a parsec is a distance of 3.262 light years.

As for my second word, I chose the word proliferation. This is an important terms in the context of political science. This is defined as the rapid increase or rapid spread of something. So then and anti-proliferation agreement is an agreement to stop the rapid spread of something, such as nuclear weapons.