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One Last Time George Mallory Step
695 wordsThe cold gray steel of the axe arced one last time through the air, the pick burrowed itself one last time into the frozen blanket of snow, and the hand that held it took a final pull, to ensure a secure placement. After a brief pause, George Mallory took a deep breath, and pulled himself over the crux, and onto the top. Slowly, shakily, he stood up, and took a look around, the first time American eyes had seen the world from this vantage point. This was it. He had done it. He was the first Amer...
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Billion Years Ago Solar System
2,233 words... alvarez's case, and see if it was flawed. This job was turning out to be more fun than I had expected. On my second reading of Alvarez's letter, I found it particularly dubious that the Cretaceous and Eocene extinctions should be excluded. How do we know that asteroids do not hit the Earth periodically? I asked. Maybe our failure to arrive at a theory just meant that we hadn't been clever enough. Not finding something is not the same as proving it is not there. I decided to reserve judgment....
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Hubble Space Telescope Amount Of Energy
1,880 wordsAn image of the core of the Whirlpool galaxy M 51 taken by the Wide Field Planetary Camera onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows an immense ring of dust and gas which is thought to surround and hide a giant black hole, 1 million times the mass of the Sun, in the center of the galaxy. The ring forms an accretion disc of gas, about 100 light years across, falling toward the black hole. The two brighter areas perpendicular to the widest dark lane are two jets of particles accelerated by the ...
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Fortune Telling Middle Finger
1,194 wordsAlthough fortune tellers aren't as popular today as they used to be, many people still have a fascination with their methods. Who wouldn't be when you can tell your future by looking into a crystal ball, cutting a deck of cards, or even looking at the lines on your hands? Crystal Balls: Crystal gazers attempt t o see the future by focusing on a smooth, clear object. A crystal ball isn't always needed for this method of fortune telling. Other things that have been used are clear lakes, goblets of...
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V Ii Fair Lady
909 wordsIn Loves Labors Lost by William Shakespeare, King Ferdinand and his Berowne, Longaville, and Dumaine, take a vow to swear off women and studies. This vow only lasted long enough for each man to lay his eyes on Rosaline, Maria, and Katherine. The women receive love letters and gifts trying to woo them. Although the ladies are flattered, they are disappointed abilities to easily breaks their vows. Throughout the play, the men try to ever really interacting with them because they are ashamed of the...
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Plato Apology Death Penalty
1,440 words... phones; he is mentioned explicitly shortly after this. While it may seem Aristophanes was maliciously attacking Socrates, credible evidence points to the contrary. The Clouds was an attack on the Sophists, and its plot required somebody to represent the typical Sophist. While Socrates differed in many regards to the Sophists, the public did not make the distinction, and it was they who Aristophanes was writing for. To anybody who knew Socrates personally the portrayal was, as was it was inte...
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Dark Storm System Observed A Dark Storm System Neptune
354 wordsol> The physical makeup of Neptune is very gaseous, it consists mainly of hydrogen and helium but about 2. 5 - 3 % of the planet is methane. The Voyager 2 spacecraft reached Neptune in 1989 and observed a dark storm system with a bright core of feathery clouds. Wind speeds on Neptune reach 325 meters per a sec (700 mph), moving in a retrograde direction that is opposite to the direction of its rotation. These are the strongest retrograde winds seen on any planet in the solar system. Neptune's di...
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Aluminium Grill Separating Sat Quietly Wondering Potatoes
961 wordsLemonman wondered about the injustices of the world. He liked to think of these things. It made him happy. He sat on a bed of nailed broken polystyrene. He knew the fumes would only make him sick, but still he sat and pondered. Mincing, almost. His brain was too full of potent imagery to be mincing, Mincing being, as I understand it - to be doing nothing. These injustices made him depressed but by wondering on them, he found it gave him a reason. He felt bored and lay down. The polystyrene crunc...
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Ode To The West Wind
413 wordsOde to the West Wind" was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley shortly before his death in 1822. Shelley spent the majority of his life in England where he was born to an upper class family. He attended Eton for his primary education and Oxford University until he was expelled for the publication of The Necessity of Atheism. Shortly after being expelled, Shelley married a commoner named Harriet Westbrook, which upset his family because of his wifes low social standing. The marriage was short lived an...
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1,072 words... over sea, land, and the animal kingdom" (q. in Parry 156). In his second canvas, "The Pastoral State, " the area is relatively the same, but the perspective of the painting has slightly changed. Unlike the first stage with its broken trees, this stage is tamed and shows order. There are beautiful green grass fields in the scene, which may show that man has tamed the area in an attempt to ready it for colonization. This painting depicts several people hurried and busy, going about their daily...
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Gods Creation Human Nature
1,548 wordsBEAUTIFIES OF POEMS A ZYST OF ALL POEMS The collection of all these poems exhibit mystic and celestial aspects of life. All these poems have a clear reflection of our own life which we live in many manners. Poets destine their imaginations beyond measure and they hold a magic mirror before us that unfolds the wonders and beauties of nature. But these are only shadows and reflections. In a way, this appreciation of the images is due to the insulated life we lead. Buried deeply down to the neck in...
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Past Present And Future Physically And Mentally
1,961 wordsA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, is a story that is rich in metaphors that ultimately questions the morals and ethics of the author? s society during the time of his life, the industrial revolutionized society. In the story, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, is a greedy, rich accountant who is visited by his old business partner ghost, Jacob Marley. Marley's ghost tells Scrooge that he may face a penalty of becoming a lost soul if he continues to value money more than anything else in h...
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Nuclear Holocaust Internal Organs
935 wordsCreative Story: Death Close 2100 hours, Captain James S. Steward of the United States Air Force straps on his G-suit and goes over his mission briefings one last time. He walks out into the hanger and awaits his chariot. The SR- 71 Blackbird, the fastest plane in the world with its twin turbine engines and slick black radar absorbent skin make him a flying shadow in the air. His mission, to fly a covert reconnaissance mission over Moscow, the heart of the USSR Intelligence believe that the Russi...
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Global Climate Urban Areas
919 wordsDescribe And Explain In Detail The Characteristics Describe And Explain In Detail The Characteristics Of The Urban Heat Island. Humans have adjusted agricultural and other activities to the current climatic configuration of the Earth. Climatic conditions, however, change with time, as, for example, from the apparent warm, humid global conditions of the Carboniferous Period to the widespread continental glaciations of the Pleistocene Epoch. Using fossils and other geologic evidence (e. g. , Erosi...
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University Of Maryland Greenhouse Gases
1,135 wordsVegetation Canopy LIDAR Mission: Possible Since the beginning of time, human activities that have been altering the Earth and its atmosphere have caused the earth to warm by about one degree Fahrenheit since the late 19 th century. Whether these activities were essential or superfluous, the effects on and surrounding Earth are multitudinous. For example, a warmer Earth could lead to the spread of diseases, melting polar ice caps, receding glaciers, and a change in precipitation patterns (Gay 21)...
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Pilot Came On The Intercom Seventeen Suitcases Plane
849 wordsPeople. Halfway There Halfway There People. Droves of them, hustling off to their appointed gates with seventeen suitcases strapped to themselves like pack mules. All scowling, furrowing their brows. Hoping to get to where they want to go, and with all seventeen suitcases they came with. Me? I only had two bags, but one of them was large enough to be a body bag. Beside me was my cousin, a tall 16 -year old, the jock type, with broad shoulders and pimple covered cheeks. He, of course, got stuck c...
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Shook His Head Acid Rain
2,933 wordsThe Hopeful Encounter Hopeful Encounter The sun was setting. Far to the east, threatening black clouds arose from the fumes of pollution from the several smokestacks towering over the city. The streets were pocks marked and dented with the recent shower of acid rain. Hot boiling steam from the sewers made the temperature of day much hotter than it really was. Just outside the borders of the city is a lake covered with muck and crude oil spills. Death and despair floated aimlessly on the surface ...
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1,327 wordsOn a clear night, only a few hundred stars can be seen without the use of any astronomical instruments. The Milky Way Galaxy consists of at least 200 billion stars. Stars are huge balls of hot gases. The sun is a star, but it is not the largest star; it is only the nearest star. A star has three recognizable stages: its birth; the years in which it exists; and its death. Its formation and its life expectancy have captured the curiosity of astronomers for centuries. Astronomers from the past have...
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Lessons That They Teach Teach To Those Who Watch Care
779 wordsIt is bed time for all the children of Philadelphia, and within 15 minutes all of the kids will be asleep holding their favorite Care Bear snugly in their arms. The fictional characters, owned by the American Greetings CROP. , are non-violent super heroes who fight their enemies off with love instead of violence. They first hit the airwaves of the television sets of millions in the early 1980 s, and soon after they became the hottest item next to today s Pokemon cards. Books, home videos, audio ...
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Ode To The West Wind Section Of The Poem
416 wordsOde to the West Wind was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley shortly before his death in 1822. Shelley spent the majority of his life in England where he was born to an upper class family. He attended Eton for his primary education and Oxford University until he was expelled for the publication of The Necessity of Atheism. Shortly after being expelled, Shelley married a commoner named Harriet Westbrook, which upset his family because of his wife? s low social standing. The marriage was short lived a...
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