Galileo (Graded) Describe the contributions of Galileo to astronomy and the Copernican revolution. Include in your response a list of observations made by Galileo of the Moon‚ the Sun‚ Venus‚ and the Moons of Jupiter. Be specific‚ describe what he saw‚ the conclusions he drew from these observations‚ and how these conclusions either supported or refuted the prevailing model of the Cosmos. Be sure to provide substantive responses to at least two of your classmates. A substantive response will
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Although the amount of atrocious graffiti that has increased throughout the years‚ it could all be put to a halt. Graffiti is something that should never be done to anything such as schools‚ memorials‚ tombstones‚ the city property and many others. Graffiti may look really pretty on trains and on walls‚ but it is against the law. You could put a halt to graffiti by making numerous people watch the hallways and stand outside during school hours. If there were more people standing in the hallway or
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the ball‚ closed his eyes for a second and threw the ball up. When the ball came down again‚ he said‚ “Now this has touched the moon and come. You see here a little bit of the moon sticking.” Leela keenly examined the ball for traces of the moon and said‚ “I don’t see it.” “You must be very quick about it‚” said Sidda‚ “because it will all evaporate and go back to the moon. Now hurry up....” He covered the ball tightly with
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After observing a lower quality picture taken of the mysterious object‚ it was confirmed that a new planet had been discovered. For many years Pluto was known as the farthest planet from the sun. Charon‚ Pluto’s largest moon‚ is half the size of Pluto. There are two more moons named Nix and Hydra. They were discovered in 2005. Though it was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh‚ the right to name the new planet belonged to the Lowell Observatory. Clyde told the director of the observatory to quickly suggest
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Film review of American Graffiti American Graffiti shows the life in early 1960s and it’s made by George Lucas in 1973. The movie shows a summer night which happened in a small town called Modesto in California and it describes the adventure night about the teenagers who were graduated from high school. There are four main characters in the film called Curt‚ John‚ Terry and Steven. It’s describe a life at the end of the summer in a small town called Modesto in 1962. There was a evening about the
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’Silver’ (Slowly‚ silently‚ now the moon) Walter De la Mare’s ’Silver’ describes the beauty of a moonlit night and the effect of the moonlight on the earth. The poet has sketched a number of different pictures of the moonlight scene through extended metaphors. But as we know De la Mare’s writings have an eerie‚ fantastic quality‚ which serves as a means of entry into a world of deeper reality‚ his perceptions in ’Silver’ endow with charm and candor . The moon is here merely not a physical form
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Luna or Vaquero? The Vaqueros and Lunas are two very different cultures. Lunas are very quiet people who farm and live by the moon. Vaqueros are very wild people and don’t like to stay in one place. Tony’s parents are both. His moms’ family are Lunas and his dads’ family are Vaqueros. Tony has to decide what blood runs through him before he will know who he really is. The Vaqueros are people of the Llano. “They are exuberant‚ restless people‚ wandering
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First of all‚ tide is the rise and fall of water caused by gravitational forces of the moon and sun on the oceans of the earth. Generally speaking‚ tidal cycles contain two high tides and two low tides each day. During the time between high and low tides there will obviously be current flow. The time between high and low tides is a little over 6 hours and the entire tidal cycle repeats itself approximately fifty minutes later each day. So if you know that low tide is at 0800 today you can estimate
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Graffiti has been an issue that generates concern to the modern society throughout the world and originating a controversy of it being classified as a legitimate art form or vandalism. For the purpose of discussing this issue‚ it is essential to understand the terms of graffiti‚ art and vandalism. Graffiti can be described as the act of marking by the use of spray-paints‚ markers or other tools on a surface‚ usually a visible spot‚ with the intention to attract attention from the general community
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reading “Life as We Knew It” by Susan Beth Pfeffer. The book follows Miranda and her family through their day-to-day struggles to survive the aftermath of a life-changing event. Astronomers miscalculate the density an asteroid that hits the moon‚ and it pushes the moon closer to Earth. The gravitational pull results in natural disasters that happen all over the world‚ not to mention grocery stores running out of food and gas going well over $10 a gallon. Although there is not a lot of action in the book
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