The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon occurring in summer months at places north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun remains visible at the local midnight. Around the solstice (June 21 in the north and December 21 in the south) and given fair weather the sun is visible for the full 24 hours. The number of days per year with potential midnight sun increases the farther towards either pole one goes. Although approximately defined by the polar circles‚ in practice
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Sun tanning describes a darkening of the skin (especially of fair-skinned individuals) in a natural physiological response stimulated by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunshine or from artificial sources such as a tanning bed. With excessive exposure to ultraviolet‚ a sunburn can develop. Cause and effect Two different mechanisms contribute to the UV-induced darkening of the skin. Firstly the UVA-radiation generates oxidative stress which in turn oxidises pre-existing melanin. This
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“A Raisin in the Sun” 1.) In her play “A Raisin in the Sun‚” Lorraine Hansberry illustrates the struggles and dreams of a black family living in Chicago. Taken from Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem‚” which talks about “dream deferred‚” the title of the play carries a connection between the poem and the play’s characters and their dreams. Each member of the Younger family had a dream of his/her own‚ yet‚ in order to realize their dreams‚ Mama‚ Walter Lee‚ Ruth‚ and Beneatha all depended on the money
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points)How would you describe the movement of the sun over 30 minutes? Answer: The movement of the sun will change the angle it has on the sky in 30 minutes‚ it is always moving from the east to the west‚ so in 30 minutes it would move more west‚ no matter at what time you make the experiment. 2. (5 points)You have two sun sticks. One is 2 m long; the other is 5 m long. You place a mark 1 m up from the ground on both sticks. Does the length of the sun stick affect the distance the mark moves? Explain
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In The Sun” A Raisin in the Sun is a play that focuses on the “American Dream” and one’s conception of a “better life”. Each character in the play has their own view on what that dream is and what they perceive a better life to be. Hansberry focuses on the importance of achieving one’s dreams regardless of the various harsh struggles in life. Mama has dreams of providing her family with a better life she and her husband ever had. Mama said‚ “Lord if this little plant don’t get more sun than it’s
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Quarterly Journal of Speech Vol. 90‚ No. 1‚ February 2004‚ pp. 81–102 “Fearful of the Written Word”: White Fear‚ Black Writing‚ and Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun Screenplay Lisbeth Lipari In 1959‚ Lorraine Hansberry was hired by Columbia Pictures to write a screenplay for her award-winning Broadway play‚ A Raisin in the Sun. By the time the film was released in 1961‚ over one-third of the original screenplay had been cut. In this paper I undertake a rhetorical analysis of a particular historically
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society changed forever in 1923 when famed fashion icon Coco Chanel boarded a cruise from Paris to Cannes‚ returning to land with a spell-binding glow that turned into an overnight sensation. Not only did tanned skin symbolize wealth and beauty‚ but was also deemed fashionable. Not before long traveling to luxury locales such as the French Riviera became popular for the rich and famous whose sole reason for traveling was to gain a darker shade of skin. Yet throughout the 70’s‚ 80’s and 90’s Americans
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“LIKE THE SUN” by R. K. Narayan ABOUT THE AUTHOR. R. K. Narayan (1906–2001) was born in Madras‚ India. After completing his education‚ he taught in a small village school. Narayan left teaching to devote himself full time to writing‚ and in 1935 he published his first novel‚ Swami and Friends. Two other early works‚ The Bachelor of Arts and Mr. Sampath‚ helped establish his reputation internationally. The Financial Expert (1952)‚ his first novel to be published in the United States‚ was followed
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The Sun is the center around which the Earth and the other planets of our solar system revolve. It’s a rather ordinary star of average size. Even so‚ it is more than 1‚392‚000 km (865‚000 mi) across — more than 100 times the diameter of Earth. Its mass equals that of 333‚420 Earths! It resembles a huge furnace‚ fired by nuclear energy at its core. The tremendous energy produced is transferred outward‚ away from the core‚ in a process known as convection. Patches of gas heat and rise toward the surface
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In the article written by James Harold called“ A Moral Never- Never Land: Identifying with Tony Soprano” author questions to the moral effects of TV on human life. Harold’s main claim in this article is that TV shows like The Sopranos combines both sympathetic and repulsive elements of life and ultimately its good for to invite the viewers to think deeply about the nature of good and evil. Also the author questions that there is nothing wrong with loving characters such as Tony Soprano because this
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