How Does the Thermometer Work? A thermometer is a device that measures the temperature of things. The name is made up of two smaller words: "Thermo" means heat and "meter" means to measure. You can use a thermometer to tell the temperature outside or inside your house‚ inside your oven‚ even the temperature of your body if you’re sick. One of the earliest inventors of a thermometer was probably Galileo. We know him more for his studies about the solar system and his "revolutionary" theory
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Santiago‚ the protagonist and fisherman in the novella‚ The Old Man and the Sea‚ is an old and impoverished man who lives in a small fishing village near Havana‚ Cuba. Although an expert fisherman‚ he had not caught a single fish in eighty-four days. However‚ he refuses to be discouraged and is consistently hopeful that he will have better luck the next day. When Santiago takes his skiff out further into the sea in hopes of catching a bigger fish‚ he is fortunate and hooks an enormous marlin. His dedication
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After reading “How to get started sandboarding” by Harriet Potter‚ it is acknowledged that she is writing from a very enthusiastic and also beginner point of view. She wants to give tips to others who want to try sandboarding like her. Potter wanted to illustrate that taking a chance can be “fun.” She progresses throughout the passage with newfound information to share with others and general encouragement towards those who are trying the sport like her. As Potter gives information about sandboarding
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For example‚ most young married couples nowadays get married with their spouse just to show their true love but unfortunately they neglect the pure side of Islamic tradition‚ values and moral. Therefore‚ married couples who do not abide by the Islamic teaching and keep ignoring the Islamic instructions will lead to divorce problem. In addition‚ a poor parenting skill is another factor that leads to the divorce. Many cases have been revealed as busy young married couples have neglected their
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After the clothes get washed and dried‚ they are full of annoying and stubborn wrinkles which need to be ironed in order to get rid of them. If you don’t have a clothes iron at your disposal‚ or you are looking for other efficient methods of getting rid of the aesthetically unpleasant wrinkles‚ read the following lines to find out 3 useful tips for having wrinkle free clothes. One of the most efficient tools for getting rid of wrinkles is the clothes steamer. It’s really comfortable to use‚ and it
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David N. Rapp 1. INTRODUCTION Consider the following children’s riddle1 (and please do not read ahead until coming up with an answer): • How do you get an elephant into a refrigerator? The answer to the riddle‚ quite simply‚ is you open the fridge‚ put the elephant inside‚ and close the door. This solved‚ consider another riddle: • How do you get a giraffe into a refrigerator? Readers might be tempted to reuse the previous answer for this second riddle‚ but this turns out to be too simple
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After Monroe was turned down he was told to go to England to try and form an alliance against France‚ hoping to still take Louisiana from France.xix When England was approached with the idea‚ its diplomats stated that they were more than willing to enter into a war with France. After a long year for Napoleon and France; Napoleons brother-in-law dying; facing a slave revolt; and threat of war with England. In 1803 Napoleon decided to get rid of Louisiana by selling it to the United
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THE LOVE SONG OF J.ALFRED PRUFROC Often called the first Modernist poem‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was published in the prestigious American journal Poetry in June 1915. About the Poem: The poem centers on the feelings and thoughts of the eponymous speaker (the somewhat neurotic Prufrock) as he walks through the streets of London route to meet a woman for tea. He is considering a question (perhaps‚ broadly‚ the meaning of life‚ or‚ more narrowly‚ a proposal of marriage). Far more than
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It’s been two weeks since i went to the movies‚ and got to watch the very hyped movie “get out”. I must say that this movie was everything that they hyped it up to be. Get out was a very intelligent‚ cleverly written‚ and eye catching thriller. The movie get out had a very great cast and an interesting story line. Throughout the movie get out we kept waiting for the movie’s awkward social racism to turn into a violent and more overt racism. This movie definitely had its weird and awkward moments
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behavior. Therefore‚ Socrates’ belief that virtuous qualities are not emitted to others opposes an intrinsic fact that is exemplified by people such as Pericles in the dialogue. The mere fact that Pericles was trying to educate Cleinias demonstrates of how fathers or guardians aim to teach their children virtue and instill in them the qualities that make them outstanding
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