50 Interesting Facts About . . . Mars 1. The Egyptians gave Mars its first recorded name: Har dècher (“The red one”). The Babylonians called it Nergal (“Star of death”). The Greeks and Romans named the planet after their respective gods of war‚ Ares and Mars. The Hebrews called it Ma’adim‚ or “One who blushes.” Many ancient people believed the reddish color came from actual blood on the planet.f 2. The month of March is named after Mars.a 3. The symbol for Mars looks like a shield and a spear
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Between the World and Me ‚ by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a letter that’s written to his fifteen year old son‚ Samori who witnessed the sudden deaths of Tamir Rice‚ Eric Garner‚ and John Crawford. This letter explains‚ through experience and historical findings how it is living in White America in a black body. Throughout Between the World and Me‚ Ta-Nehisi expresses his personal struggles on how it is being black in America. To him It was a constant struggle and at a young age he began to realize‚ via news
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Kellen Bernickus JJC Psychology Movie Paper “50 First Dates” Mr. Lanning Patient Evaluation: Patients stated reason for coming: Lucy Whitmore is coming to therapy sessions with me because she is suffering from a severe condition called anterograde amnesia or also known in the movie as Goldfield Syndrome. She was involved in a traumatic car accident and‚ since then‚ cannot retain any new information. She can only remember her life up until the accident
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Mobile phone-based money transfer Name Institution In recent years‚ there have been numerous milestones in technological advancements such as electronic word processing‚ social networking‚ instant messaging‚ Blue-ray‚ smartphones‚ search engines‚ Satellite TV‚ Wi-Fi‚ lithium rechargeable batteries‚ online stock trading‚ Bluetooth‚ DNA profiling‚ genetic sequencing and many others. These innovations help in our day to day lives especially in the fields of communication
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Why would TAs‚ RAs‚ and proctors want union representation? Teacher 2. What rights would TAs‚ RAs‚ and proctors have if the NLRB rules they are ‘‘employees’’ under the NLRA? 5.3 3. To what extent do employees have the right to express their support for the union on the job? In this case of Gomez wearing the button in a nonpublic area during his meal break in my opinion should be allowed. He was supporting the union during his time that he is not an
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In “50 First Dates”‚ Drew Barrymore portrays an amnesiac who suffers from Goldfield’s syndrome‚ which is similar to short term memory loss. Everyday that Barrymore’s character wakes up‚ she has no recollection of anything that happened from after her accident. Regardless‚ Sandler’s character falls in love with Barrymore‚ and tries to persuade her to fall in love with him despite her memory problems. In the film‚ Barrymore is told by her neurologist‚ that she has what is coined “Goldfield’s syndrome”
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Patriarchs→(period in the Old Testament – after Beginnings – Genesis 12-50) It begins with Abraham (& Sarah) and his call and continues through Isaac‚ Jacob and his 12 sons. The sons and Jacob are taken to Egypt by Joseph who becomes a leader during the famine. Genesis closes with the death of Joseph. Talks of the ancestors of the Jewish people. (Patriarch→Any of the early Biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race.) Exile (captivity)→Fall of Jerusalem (Babylonian captivity of the
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Quick profits drew planters to the Gulf states b. More land led to more need for slaves which led to an increase in cotton production which repeated the cycle 3. Northern shippers sold cotton to Great Britain a. 1840- cotton was 50% of all exports b. Much of the British textile industry was dependant on the cotton produced by slave labor in the U.S.
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For the last 50 years‚ world population multiplied more rapidly than ever before‚ and more rapidly than it is projected to grow in the future. In 1950‚ the world had 2.5 billion people; and in 2005‚ the world had 6.5 billion people. By 2050‚ this number could rise to more than 9 billion (see chart "World Population Growth‚ 1950-2050"). Anthropologists believe the human species dates back at least 3 million years. For most of our history‚ these distant ancestors lived a precarious existence as
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50 Memorable Seth Godin Quotes: 1 A tribe is a group of people connected to one another‚ connected to a leader‚ and connected to an idea. For millions of years‚ human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate. ... Tribes need leadership. Sometimes one person leads‚ sometimes more. People want connection and growth and something new. They want change. ... You can’t have a tribe without a leader - and
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