Jessica Anthonypillai Ms. Bastone CGW 4U1 9 September 2013 A Global Village of 100 Today our world consists of nearly 7 billion individuals; however‚ we never stop to think and understand how our world truly functions. If we decide to reduce the size of the entire worlds population to about a hundred people and did not change the demographic breakdown‚ we would be left with an impacting result allowing us to understand what we are blinded to each day. To begin with‚ the current death rates around
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Sun= cantaloupe Earth = ball pen Jupiter= finger tip Pluto= dust * Today we know Solar system has: 1 star‚ 8 planets‚ 5 dwarf planets‚ 139+ moons‚ countless small solar system bodies * A major lesson from all this is that the solar system is almost entirely made of nearly empty space * All planets orbit the sun in the same direction (counter-clockwise) * Most rotate in the same direction * Venus rotates backward * Uranus rotates on its side (equator perpendicular to equator)
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Intro to Art/Art 100 Pre-Raphaelites I visited National Gallery of Art‚ Washington DC on Friday‚ March 29‚ 2013 to see the exhibition “Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design‚ 1848-1900”. It is the first major survey of the art of the Pre-Raphaelites to be shown in the United States features some 130 paintings‚ sculptures‚ works on paper‚ and decorative art objects. The young members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood‚ formed in 1848‚ shook the art world of mid-19th-century Britain by rejecting
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Robyn Westcott Sept/16/2013 Literature – Craig: 1-3 Beowulf Analysis lines 100 - 125 Lines 100 – 125 in Beowulf are full of paganism and descriptions of the horror brought by Grendel‚ all with the intention of glorifying God and reminding the audience of His importance. These lines are rich with cacophonous alliterations in order to set a tone of eerie foreboding as they
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today’s society becoming a dystopian society? “The Machine Stops” is a story written by E.M. Forester in 1909. For Forester’s story to be 106 years old the book is incredible accurate of today’s society. However‚ “The Machine Stops” dystopian society differs from today’s society in the way they live‚ the way they travel‚ and the way society interacts. One difference in the dystopian society described in “The Machine Stops” and today’s society is the way people live. For example‚ in “The Machine Stops”
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George Bush even used the term “Crusade” in reference to the September eleventh terrorist attacks‚ making this parallelism all the more relevant to contemporary discourse. Despite the proclivity to draw similarities between the twelfth century and today‚ the Crusades can only be adequately explained by examining the events in their own time. In doing such‚ it will become clear that the forces that engendered the Crusades was not the desire for material wealth‚ but rather a religious devotion long
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fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.” -Ruben Santiago-Hudson‚ actor. This quote explains what is happening today even after the Civil Rights Movement‚ and explains why I believe To Kill A Mockingbird would still be influential today.I believe the novel To Kill A Mockingbird would be influential to our society if published today for the first time‚ because the overall theme of the book applies to many of the problems we as a people face today. The overall theme of the
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Interviews Skills Jabari O. Edwards XCOM/100 September 19‚ 2010 Karen Blatter The interview process is something that everyone will experience at some point in their life. It does not matter if a person is seeking employment‚ trying to get them or their child into a social organization‚ or an entrepreneur trying sell sell their company‚ good interview skills are important to everyone. Good interview skills are what separate individuals that may possess equal talents. I have been fortunate
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"Men‚ Men—these are wanted : everything else will be ready; But strong‚ vigorous‚ believing young men‚ sincere to backbone. A hundred such and the world become revolutionised." Ages ago‚ even before the advent of democracy‚ great masters all over the world had acknowledged the potentially of the youth in shaping the destiny of a nation. These masters‚ within their respective social and cultured back ground‚ very carefully sow the seeds of wisdoms in the mind of children to nourish them with
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Music 100-05 Orchestra Concert Report 1 The piece preformed was Clarinet Quintet in b minor‚ OP. 115 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). The piece had four movements: Allegro‚ Adagio‚ Andantino‚ Con moto and because it was a quintet‚ there were five musicians. There were two violins‚ played by Gregory Maytan and Oleg Bezuglov. There was one viola and one cello‚ played respectively by Paul Swantek and Pablo Mahave-Veglia. The clarinet was played by Arthur Campbell. Allegro‚ as the first movement
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