- Contents About the Author Bertolt Brecht is a German poet‚ play writer‚ theatre director and Marxist. Born in Augsburg‚ Germany in 1898 and was a medical orderly during WWI. This has reinforced hatred about war and eventually became more interested in literature than medicine. He is highly influenced by English writers and Chinese philosophers of the time. His famous works are ‘Drums in the Night’ about a soldier returning from war‚ ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ about his growing belief in Marxism
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Test. Digital image. Worldnasa.net. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. . Gaddis‚ John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin‚ 2005. Print. Green Flight Challenge. Dir. SpaceReports. YouTube. YouTube‚ 06 Oct. 2011. Web. 15 Mar. 2012. . "Hubble Space Telescope." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation‚ 05 Nov. 2012. Web. 30 Mar. 2012. . "International Space Station." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation‚ 05 Dec. 2012. Web. 27 Mar. 2012. . ISS. Digital image. Bernews.com. Web. 12 Jan. 2012. . Kerrod‚ Robin. NASA‚ Visions
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known boundaries of the Solar System for the first time in modern history. Uranus was also the first planet discovered with a telescope. Uranus had been observed many times before it was discovered as a planet‚ but it was generally mistaken for a star. On March 13‚ 1781‚ Sir William Herschel observed the planet from his home in Somerset‚ England using a reflecting telescope that he designed and built himself (Uranus (2)‚ 2009). He initially reported it as a comet‚ but also compared it to a planet
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The narrator recounts the events in a story. Section B: Write about the significance of narrators in the work of three writers you have studied. A01/A02/A03 Robert Browning Narrators are particularly significant in Robert Browning’s poems‚ such as in ‘My Last Duchess’ where the Duke’s voice reveals his cold and egotistical nature - creating sympathy for his late wife. An illustration of this is when he chillingly concludes “I gave commands / Then all smiles stopped together”. Superior
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while peering at the stars‚ Nusrat feels a connection to her Faiz through the stars. (STEWE-2) When Nusrat was once Elaine‚ she spent many nights with a telescope watching the stars at night‚ as she “continued to long” (54) for her sister. “But Elaine continued to long for her sister‚ and so she spent many nights alone with her grandfather’s telescope watching the stars”(54). Margaret had passed away and the author associated Nusrat’s sister with the stars to represent this symbolic family meaning.
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Astronomy contributed a lot to every civilization; it assisted people throughout history‚ it made up religion to most‚ while it also helped people determine when the correct time to begin planting. The beginning of Astronomy didn’t exactly begin with a telescope. It was millions of years before Sir Isaac Newton or Galileo Galilei‚ It was the cavemen‚ they didn’t actually measure the distance between stars or discover Jupiter’s sixteen moons. They just observed the night sky‚ and went on their way. Astronomy
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full moon in a calendar month. This explanation of blue moons is a relatively modern invention having nothing to do with the original usage of the phrase‚ mistakenly given in a Sky and Telescope article in 1946. James Hugh Pruett wrote the article‚ referring to statements given by Laurence LaFleur in a Sky and Telescope column in 1943. LaFleur had been referencing a 1937 copy of the Maine Farmer’s Almanac‚ but did not make it clear that the Almanac used a tropical year for its definition rather than
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The Life and Times of Issac Newton In 1642 on Christmas Day an English mathematician‚ astronomer‚ and natural philosopher was born in Woolsthorpe‚ Lincolnshire‚ England. Baby Isaac was born so premature that is was said he could fit into a quart pot. Newton’s father who was a yeoman farmer died a few moths before Isaac was born. It was said that Isaac was to carry on the paternal farm when old enough. When Isaac was three his mother‚ Hannah Ayscough‚ married a clergyman from North Witham‚ the
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Sir Isaac Newton (25/Dec/1642 – 20/Mar/1727) Early Life of Newton Sir Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day‚ in 1643‚ to a poor farming family. His father died 3 months before he was born. His mother later remarried‚ but her second husband did not get on with Isaac; leading to friction between Isaac and his parents. The young Isaac attended school at King’s School‚ Grantham in Lincolnshire (where his signature is still inscribed in the walls). Isaac was one of the top students‚ but before
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Scientific Revolution Nicolas Copernicus 1473 - 1543 Tycho Brahe 1546-1601 Johannes Kepler 1571 -1630 Galileo Galilei 1564- 1642 Isaac Newton 1642- 1726 Nicolas Copernicus 1473 - 1543 Nicolas Copernicus Nicolas Copernicus wrote a brief statement which essentially said we live in a heliocentric solar system and that the sun is the center of everything. Against the church however the church didn’t seem to care that Copernicus was announcing his belief. Because his statement was poorly written
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