repulsive in nature - hold the world of atoms and molecules together in perfect balance. Without this electric force‚ material things would not exist. Atoms as the building blocks of matter depend upon these forces. And material objects‚ including us Earthlings‚ are made of atoms and the acts of standing and walking‚ touching and feeling‚ smelling and tasting‚ and even thinking is the result of electrical phenomenon. Electrostatic forces are foundational to our existence. One of the primary questions
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Mars Rover Mars is an interesting and mysterious planet. It is often referred to as the Red Planet. The Romans named Mars after the god of war. The rocks‚ soil‚ and sky all have a red hue on account of rust. Mars is the fourth planet from the sun at about 141 million miles (228 million kilometers) and the last terrestrial planet from the Sun. Mars follows closely behind Earth but is comparatively smaller‚ with about half the diameter of Earth (6‚794-km) and about one-tenth of Earth s mass (6.419
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been equal for people of color. Additionally‚ after Trout was robbed and assaulted on his way to the Arts Festival‚ the police questioned about the identity of his attackers. Trout replies innocently‚ "For all I know‚ they may not even have been Earthlings. For all I know‚ that car may have been occupied by an intelligent gas from Pluto." (Vonnegut 76). This is the first time in the novel that the race of a person was not made explicitly clear. By intentionally not mentioning the color of the bandits
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Title: An overview of “Sonnet 130” Author(s): Joanne Woolway Source: Poetry for Students. Detroit: Gale. From Literature Resource Center. Document Type: Critical essay [Joanne Woolway is a freelance writer who recently earned her Ph.D. from Oriel College‚ Oxford‚ England. In the following essay‚ Woolway analyzes how‚ in “Sonnet 130‚” Shakespeare “succeeds...in turning traditional poetic conventions around.” She also takes a close look at the ways Shakespeare’s versification—his skill patterning
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Title I know‚ breaking the law in 9023 isn’t exactly the best way to get attention. I learned that after the “Unspeakable” thing I did. “Mr. Smoke please rise‚” the judge spoke‚ “You are found guilty of murder in the first degree‚ of your wife‚ Mrs. Alexis Smoke. As for your sentence‚ given the circumstances‚ is to be sent to the planet of Dark‚ east of the Milky Way Galaxy.” The day was here‚ I get to leave my home planet‚ never to see my family again‚ to the worst. planet in the universe. If
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In the anti-war novels‚ Slaughterhouse - five by Kurt Vonnegut and Catch 22 by Joseph Heller there are many motifs and symbols that at first do not appear to be related but if we scratch under the surface‚ we are able to find striking similarities. Both novels are dealing with the man’s experience through World War II with one being a soldier and the other one being a fighter pilot. They are both known as the anti-war heroes as they disagree with the idea of war and do not possess both the will and
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Ender’s Game: A Dead Zone “Don’t judge a book by its cover!” your mom tells you for the third time this week. It’s not your fault that the new kid at school is shy and distant. They’re weird ‚ not you--right? Well that’s not always the case‚ and your misperceptions could cause you to become enemies. The same concept applies in Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card‚ but the outcome is devastating. Ender Wiggin‚ a six year old genius‚ battled everyday with the conflict brought on by his hateful brother
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Lee Alexander McQueen born on March 17‚ 1969 and passed away on February 11‚ 2010 in London‚ United Kingdom. He was known as simply Alexander McQueen to the fashion world. McQueen’s dad was a cab driver and his mother was a schoolteacher who taught Social Science. He was youngest of six children. He knew at a young age of three of his homosexuality and children used to make fun of him for it. He states that‚ “Actually‚ yeah. I would wear my sister’s clothes and people wouldn’t recognise it because
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The Horror of War Exposed in Slaughterhouse Five When one begins to analyze a military novel it is important to first look at the historical context in which the book was written. On the nights of February 13-14 in 1944 the city of Dresden‚ Germany was subjected to one of the worst air attacks in the history of man. By the end of the bombing 135‚000 to 250‚000 people had been killed by the combined forces of the United States and the United Kingdom. Dresden was
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ESSAY – CAN MARKETING CHANGE BEHAVIOUR? INTRODUCTION Peter Drucker‚ management consultant‚ said that “the aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself”. Marketing is more often used to sell a product or a service but it can also be used to influence consumers’ behaviour. It is called social marketing. For Kotler and Andreasen (1991)‚ it “seeks to influence social behaviours not to benefit the marketer‚ but to benefit the
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