Sputnik Launch Background: Sputnik was a Russian satellite‚ which also happened to be the first satellite to ever make it to space. Sputnik was 285cm long (112inches) it was 58cm (23 inches) in diameter and weighed 83.6kg (184lb). Sputnik circled the earth every 96.2 minutes until early 1958‚ when it had blown up in the atmosphere. Event: The Soviets launched Sputnik on October 5‚ 1957‚ showing the Americans that they were serious about launching a satellite to orbit around the Earth. In addition
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Nearly 1‚500 people were working on the Olympic and her sister ship the Titanic. However‚ they were the largest moving objects to be constructed. The Titanic was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyards which were the best builders in Ireland. They also were both worked on at the same time. They were both put in the water to set off at the same time. But it took approximately 3 years to build. Next‚ the Titanic might have had several causes to sink. It definitely hit the iceberg and sunk. It might
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Queen Elizabeth I of England‚ also known as the Virgin Queen and the Faerie Queen from one of Edmund Spenser many poems‚ was a very influential person. She kept England from war for the 30 years of her 44 year-long reign and solved many problems that England had at the time. She improved England and art gained importance during her rule. It was under her rule that England became a leading world power. There are many reasons why Elizabeth I is the most influential person from the Renaissance and
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All books have themes and lessons in them that teach us something important after reading them. Sometimes these lessons are learned from the characters of the books. In The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby teaches us lessons about success‚ hope‚ and ethics or morals. Many of the characters in The Great Gatsby are used to construct different themes and teach us moral lessons. Gatsby has been in love with daisy for many years. Gatsby uses illegal and unethical ways to acquire wealth that he thinks he needs
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named Auguste D. Auguste began behaving more and more bizarrely after developing an intense suspicion about her husband. She would hide objects‚ become lost in her own home‚ start screaming loud insisting that people were out to murder her. Dr. Alzheimer found Auguste confused lines when she read‚ repeated single style labels many times when she wrote and used odd phrases when she spoke. When Auguste died in 1906‚ Dr. Alzheimer performed an autopsy on her brain. The autopsy revealed damage and cell
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Explain what is meant by the term ‘a religious experience’. (45 marks) In 1969 Alister Hardy set up the Religious Experience Research Unit (RERU) with the aim of examining the extent and nature of the religious experiences of people in the UK. The experiences recorded were quite different from other types of experiences that people had. According to Alister Hardy the religious experience ‘… usually induces in the person concerned a conviction that the everyday world is not the whole of reality;
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Lesson plan in Computer I I. Objectives: At the end of the lesson‚ the students are expected to: a. define computer b. identify the parts of a computer c. name the parts of a computer II. Subject Matter: Introduction to a computer I‚ by Roxan S. Cosico and Marlen Ligsy page 51-54. Materials: Visual Aid‚ picture of different parts of a computer‚ III. Procedure: (Teacher Activity) (Student Activity) A
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Why did people go on crusades? In 1095‚ Pope Urban II called for an army to go to the Holy Land‚ Jerusalem. This was what was later known as the ‘First Crusade’. A crusade is a religious war or a war mainly motivated by religion. The first crusade consisted of 10’s of thousands of European Christians on a medieval military expedition to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims. This doesn’t mean that the first crusade was just motivated by religion. Throughout this essay‚ I will be suggesting the
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Too much time‚ too little responsibility According to Aletha Huston‚ Ph.D.‚ currently at the University of Kansas she believes that "children who watch the violent shows‚ even ’just funny’ cartoons‚ were more likely to hit out at their playmates‚ argue‚ disobey class rules‚ leave tasks unfinished‚ and were less willing to wait for things than those who watched the nonviolent programs" (162). While reading this article‚ it clearly states that children shouldn’t be watching violent shows at such
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Wooten is a renowned bass guitarist‚ composer‚ author and one of my favourite musicians. ‘The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth through Music’ is simply a music lesson‚ that also completely changed the way I look at music. In The Music Lesson‚ Wooten connects music to a lot of other things in life. After reading the book I saw that the essence of music‚ the attributes that make it what it is‚ in many ways are the same as the attributes to life itself. In the book‚ we follow Wooten as
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