INTO A BLACK HOLE INTRODUCTION: According to a mind-bending new theory‚ a black hole is actually a tunnel between universes—a type of wormhole. The matter the black hole attracts doesn’t collapse into a single point‚ as has been predicted‚ but rather gushes out a "white hole" at the other end of the black one‚ the theory goes. In a recent paper published in the journal Physics Letters B‚ Indiana University physicist Nikodem Poplawski presents new mathematical models of the spiralling motion of
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The Black Madonna by Muriel Spark Brief summary Lou and Raymond Parker are a Catholic working-class couple with middle-class aspirations (D.: Bestrebungen) . They flaunt /display (D.: zur Schau stellen) their progressiveness and tolerance by befriending two newly arrived Jamaicans‚ Henry Pierce and Oxford St.John and they also introduce them to their friends. As Lou is jealous of her neighbours` and her sister`s children‚ Lou prays to the newly installed and consecrated Black Madonna – a
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What was the Bubonic Plague and what made the disease spread so far‚ so rapidly and kill millions of people. How did the Bubonic Plague affect Europe? The Plague vastly affected millions of lives in Europe‚ but it also affected millions of lives around the globe. The Plague is still‚ up to current date one of the largest disease outbreaks in recorded history. The Bubonic Plague was a disease that originated in Turkey in 1347. It was caused by the fleas that lived on rats. The fleas have a bad
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The Black Death‚ or the Bubonic Plague‚ killed almost a third of Europe’s population within three years in the mid fourteenth century. People were confused and terrified by the disease; they could not understand it and had no way to cure it. The plague would appear in cities and kill numerous people. Many tried to understand the mysterious plague‚ and people eventually created ways to stop future disease outbreaks‚ and improve their everyday lives. The Black Death had the biggest impact on society
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above the country people- “Unsophisticated than we cosmopolitans”. o Refuses to be phased by their “superstitions”. o Eventually pays the price of his ignorance and loses his wife and child in a tragic accident. The Woman in Black- Jennet Humfrye o The sister of Alice Drablow who pregnant out of wedlock. This was a huge shame to the family so they decided that Jennet would be sent to Scotland and Mr. and Mrs. Drablow would bring up her child. o Jennet was not the sort
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Black September Black September is both the name of Jordan’s war on the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in the early seventies and the name of Palestinian terrorist movement created in revenge of the aftermath of Palestinian losses of the war in Jordan. Black September was a movement created by a break away Palestinian faction of Fatah. Fatah Is a Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the PLO. In Palestinian politics it is a more liberal group on the left wing of the
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The Plague Today’s society is filled to the brim with terror and uncertainty of what tomorrow may bring knocking on their front door. Sickness or even death‚ perhaps? England is hidden in the cloak of sickness known as the Black Death and no matter how hard people try to escape from its folds‚ no one is safe from this plague. In a panic‚ healthy people have done all they can to avoid this sickness. The doctors refuse to see patients; the priests refuse to administer last rites. Shopkeepers have
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Who’s In Charge Here? In The Scarlet Letter‚ the majority of the action happens not between characters‚ but within them. Guilt‚ passion‚ love‚ and hate all play key roles in the development of the novel. “The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne’s Psychological Themes‚” a critique penned by Frederick C. Crews‚ explores the inner workings of Hawthorne’s characters. He argues that characters in The Scarlet Letter act not of their own accord‚ but instead are ruled absolutely by “feelings that [they] neither
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Causes and Effects of the Extent of the Black Death The Bubonic Plague started in Europe in the fourteenth century. The plague had wiped out nearly one third of the population and did not single anyone out‚ regardless of age‚ gender‚ or religion. All of this occurred as a result of a single fleabite. Bubonic Plague also known as Black Death started in Asia and traveled to Europe by ships. The Bubonic Plague was an infectious disease spread by fleas living on rats which would attached themselves
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absolutely nothing that is made between my God and me.” This yearning for God feeds her theologies. In a society experiencing The Plague‚ the afterlife was a matter of great concern‚ and although she yearned for unity with God‚ she “thought this vision was shown for those that should live.” Julian did not embrace the supernatural belief systems that accompanied her world of plague and indulgences with the vigor one might expect from one with such profound yearnings for God. To the contrary‚ while describing
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