The new moon occurs when the moon is positioned between the earth and sun. The three objects are in approximate alignment (why "approximate" is explained below). The entire illuminated portion of the moon is on the back side of the moon‚ the half that we cannot see. At a full moon‚ the earth‚ moon‚ and sun are in approximate alignment‚ just as the new moon‚ but the moon is on the opposite side of the earth‚ so the entire sunlit part of the moon is facing us. The shadowed portion is entirely hidden
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During a congressional debate in March of 1995‚ Republican Congressional Representative John Mica addressed the House of Representatives. In his speech‚ Mica expressed his distaste for the then-current welfare system by holding up a sign that read‚ “Don’t feed the alligators” (Gustafson‚ 2009‚ p. 660). As can be inferred from this visual statement‚ Mica likened welfare recipients to alligators— the same carnivorous reptiles ever-present in the senator’s home state of Florida. If welfare recipients
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J.F.K The series of deaths that happened to the Kennedy family is sometimes referred to as the Kennedy curse. The assassination of the youngest elected United States President John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy is the most renowned death of the family. The John Kennedy story has gone down in history as one of the world’s greatest unsolved mysteries. During Kennedy’s life in the White House many first time events took place. These events made a drastic change in America; along with the thoughts
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Phases of the Moon: What Are They? Phases of the moon discovery: In 1609‚ the “Phases of the Moon‚” was discovered when a man named Galileo‚ was looking at the sun from his telescope when he noticed that the moon orbited around the Sun. Galileo created a telescope that could zoom in 20 times the actual distance of something. With this‚ he made an observation that the moon travels around the Earth at different times causing the moon to look different. Scientists now say that the moon is approximately
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Moon Project Jessica Davidson Astronomy 7 Observation Time: 8:50 p.m. Obervation 1 A) Date & Location: September 24‚ 2012. Mt.SAC Campus B) North determined by IPhone App C) Altitude: 37 degrees D) Azimuth: 143 degrees E) F) Waxing Gibbous
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A Confederacy of Dunces Characters 1. Every character is connected leaving no loose end. I. Ignatius i. A modern Don Quixote. ii. Hates modern society. iii. Prefer the middle Ages‚ obsess with Boethius. II. Myrna Minkoff "The minx" i. Have different perspective from Ignatius. ii. Is fascinated with Ignatius. iii. Ignatius and her do things to impress each other even thought they are separated. III. Irene Reilly i. Long time widow. ii. Thinks Ignatius is a child. iii. Drink a
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As the moon orbits around the Earth‚ from its perspective‚ it comes out of nowhere‚ grows in size‚ then shrinks back down to nothing as the month goes on. Whether it’s day or night‚ the phases of the moon can be observed from all around the world. Many people have tried to understand why the moon goes through its phases. Across the world‚ there are many different explanations of why the moon changes‚ but nothing gives us a better explanation than what science has to say about it. The light from
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One of the most interesting theories that cannot be observed is the Moon’s magnetic field‚ and why there is not one anymore. Moon rocks Colwell 7 brought back from the Apollo age astronauts shows that at some point the moon did have a magnetic field as strong as the Earth’s at some point. From analyzing the way the rock formed‚ the scientists can determine how long the Moon had a magnetic field. From their research they have discovered that a magnetic field persisted for much longer than it should
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Lincoln and Kennedy Abraham Lincoln and JFK were two very different men. Lincoln was known as "honest Abe"‚ where Kennedy had his scandals. Both presidents had different views and presidential styles. Even their looks were completely opposite. Aside from their differences‚ however‚ Lincoln and Kennedy have some eerie similarities and many involving the men’s assassinations. To start of with‚ there are many numerical coincidences dealing with dates and names. Lincoln was first elected to congress
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Moon Micro is a small manufacturer of servers in Santa Clara‚ California. Lately‚ the demand for servers has increased‚ and the company needs to find a way to capitalize on the situation. The current plant has reached capacity of 10‚000 units. The two options to capitalize on the situation are to either expand the plant to a capacity of 20‚000 units or outsource the process to Molectron‚ an independent assembler. Expanding the Santa Clara plant would have an annualized fixed cost of $10‚000‚000
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