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19 Th Century Sierra Nevada
1,000 wordsAlbert Bierstadt's Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California is a scenic canvas oil painting on display at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. Created in 1868, this enormous painting is approximately six by ten feet in size (Honour and Fleming, 2000). The subject matter of this piece is typical of Bierstadt, who is known for his detailed landscapes, especially those of the Rockies and Sierras of the American West. Collectively, Alberts works are manipulated and slightly ...
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Lead His Students Aristophanic Socrates To Be Guilty Pheidippides
427 wordsOne of the most famous philosophers of all times, Socrates, was put to trial in Athens around 347 BCE in behalf of three major counts. First of all he was indicted for corrupting the youth of Athens. Secondly, he was indicted for not believing in the gods in whom the city of Athens believed in; thirdly he was charged for believing in other new divinities which were not traditional to the city. In this paper, I will assess the guiltiness and innocence of Socrates as portrayed on two major works, ...
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Nuclear Fusion White Dwarf
1,160 wordsThe night sky, unimaginably deep, is a breathtaking sight. Some three thousand stars can be seen with the naked eye, twinkling points of light that have inspired the human spirit since the dawn of time. Study of the stars, based on data collected from visible-light telescopes, radio telescopes, and detectors wavelengths can now reveal extraordinary amounts of information: size, temperature, chemical composition, internal structure, distance and rotation rate, among other factors. One of the most...
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Planet From The Sun Carbon Dioxide
2,115 wordsWhat are planets? Planets are kinda like asteroid around the sun. There are nine planets in the solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth (Our planet), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The Terrestrial Planets The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. They are called terrestrial because they have a compact, rocky surface like the Earth's. The planets, Venus, Earth, and Mars have significant atmospheres while Mercury has...
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Storm Surge Tropical Storms
1,424 wordsWhat is a hurricane? Hurricanes are part of a family of weather systems known as "tropical cyclones. " The word hurricane is from the West Indian word hurricane, meaning "big wind. " A hurricane begins its life as a disorganized storm system, which forms over warm, tropical waters in the Atlantic. When the storm system become more organized, it is classified as a "tropical depression, " and given a number by the National Hurricane Center. If the winds in a tropical depression grow in intensity t...
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A Walk In The Clouds Wonderland Called Sentiment
881 wordsIn an era when harsh actuality of everyday life propels one to the realm of insanity, to a pharmaceutical induced sleep, or to a dreadful state of existence, it is a pleasure for a fairytale world to engulf an individual. Although for only a brief time of ninety minutes, that ninety minutes is as refreshing as a relaxing soak in a warm tub of water. A Walk in the Clouds provides the means of escape by way of a delightful romantic fantasy. At a time when movies seem compelled to be asocial, when ...
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Industrial Revolution Industrial Age
1,748 wordsArt Wassily Kandinsky's First non-objective water color Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866. His interest in art and intellectual matters was stimulated by his sympathetic father, a man of unusually broad views and great talent in drawing. In his early autobiography, Kandinsky warmly acknowledges his indebtedness to this parent who consistently encouraged him and also to an aunt who fostered his interest in music, books, folklore, and what he called the profound essence of the Russian p...
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Piece Of Art Early In The Morning
2,628 wordsIn 1841 an American artist John Rand invented collapsible metal tubes for oil paints. For impressionists, who often painted out-of-doors, this new convenience was indispensable. Before the invention of tubes, painters would have carried bladders (see image below left) to store the paint that they would have made in their studio. The bladders would have been made from pig membrane and tied at the top with strong twine to exclude air. About the same time, railway expansion was making the countrysi...
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Nuclear Fusion White Dwarf
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Sits On The Horizon White Owl Time
656 wordsFrom the mountains, you can see it coming. Time sits on the horizon like rain clouds, holding out. In the cities you carry it around in your pocket. Time is organized around where you have to be. You dash blindly around busy corners, always racing against it. But in the mountains, the world sits on the horizon, refusing to move. Before I ever went to the city, I used to know what that meant. Now I found myself trying to remember, waking up every morning to look at the mountains and see what they...
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Quot Or Quot Ice Crystals
533 wordsIf you know where and when to look, you can treat yourself to a colourful display of atmospheric halves, spots and pillars. These images can tell you something about the clouds overhead and possible changes in the weather. All of these images are created by light shining through cirrostratus clouds. These clouds occur at an altitude of 6, 000 - 12, 000 metres. They appear as a thin sheet or layer (strata) that is pure white. The layer of cloud is so thin (only 100 - 450 metres) that is doesnt ob...
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3,206 wordsTo think of something romantically is to think of it naively, in a positive light, away from the view of the majority. Percy Bysshe Shelley has many romantic themes in his plays. Educated at Eton College, he went on to the University of Oxford only to be expelled after one year after publishing an inappropriate collection of poems. He then worked on writing full-time, and moved to Italy shortly before his death in a boating accident off the shore of Leghorn. He wrote many pieces, and his writing...
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Carbon Dioxide Nitrous Oxide
1,288 wordsThe Clouded Atmosphere Clouded Atmosphere The concentration of the atmospheres main greenhouse gases specifically, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and water vapor, have increased significantly during the industrial age. These high concentrations are predicted to continue in the atmosphere for thousands of years to come. This increase in specially carbon dioxide, increases the infrared energy taken in by the atmosphere, and warming the earths surface. The Global mean temperature over the ...
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Earth Surface Seismic Waves
2,491 wordsNotes on the lithosphere- (rock sphere) Upper most part is crust of earth. Compiled of rocks of outer crust. Outermost shell. Upper part- rocks we see at and near the earths surface. Crust is 5 to 10 km thick under most oceans and 24 to 60 km thick under the continents. The lithosphere under the crust is solid, dense material. (more dense than surface materials). Lithosphere 100 - 200 km. Notes on the asthenosphere- zone beneath the lithosphere. Thick like tar. Weak because of high temperatures ...
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Carbon Dioxide Organic Molecules
2,019 wordsemail: title: Mars Mars (planet), planet in the solar system, named for the Roman god of war. It is the fourth planet from the sun and the third in order of increasing mass. Mars has two small, heavily cratered moons, Phobos and Deimos, which some astronomers consider asteroid like objects captured by the planet very early in its history. Phobos is about 21 km (about 13 mi) across; Deimos, only about 12 km (about 7. 5 mi). Appearance from Earth When viewed without a telescope, Mars is a reddish ...
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Time It Takes Surface Of Mars
2,185 wordsMars is the fourth planet from the sun and orbits the sun at a distance of about 141 million mi. Mars is named for the Roman god of war because it appears fiery red in the earth? s night sky. Mars is a small planet that has about half the diameter of Earth and about one-tenth Earth? s mass. The force of gravity on the surface of Mars is about one-third of that on Earth. Mars has twice the diameter and twice the surface gravity of Earth? s moon. The surface area of Mars is almost exactly the same...
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Mysterious Gods Goddesses Anaximenes Rejected Anaximander Boundless
4,836 wordsThe first signs of philosophy began in the 7 th and 6 th century BC in Greece. Before this time, myths created by Hesiod and Homer were accepted by mostly all in Greece. Stories which appeals ultimately to the mysterious gods / goddesses /God answered any and all questions people may have asked. These gods had enormous powers of a personal nature and engaged in tremendous feats of creation, often in struggle with one another and superseding with human life for good or bad. Although for many year...
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Charleston S C Volcanic Eruptions
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Southern United States El Nino
2,315 wordsEl Nino has been a reoccurring phenomenon for centuries. Man has only started to realize how much of the worlds weather is effected by it. The term El Nino refers to an irregular warming of the seas surface. During the last 40 years there have been 10 significant El Nino occurrences. Most affecting the coast of South America. Water temperatures increase along the coast as far as the Galapagos islands. Weak events will raise the water temperature 2 to 4 degrees Celsius and will have minor impact ...
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