50 SCIENCE TRIVIA 50 Interesting Science Facts 1 – The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186‚000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299‚792‚458 m/s (equal to 186‚287.49 miles per second). 2 – It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth. 3 – 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment. 4 – The Earth spins at 1‚000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67‚000 mph. 5 – Every year‚ over one million
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50 cent- Curtis Jackson Born in the South Jamaica section of Queens‚ Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson has lived in New York City all his life. He was raised by his grandparents after his father ran out and his mother was shot when he was only eight years old. As 50 cent was growing up‚ he originally wanted to be a heavyweight boxer‚ but eventually he gained interest in rapping. DJs around the area released two Best of 50 Cent mix CDs‚ before he had gotten signed to a major label. 50 Cent hit the scene
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IMS Top 50 TOP 50 OF 2011 Infomercials and Spots of 2011 M Beauty Shines While Fitness Stays Strong in IMS Long-Form Top 50 By Peter Zalla‚ IMS Long-Form Manager Guthy-Renker’s Wen is one of the many beauty products that maintained a strong presence in long-form in 2011. Fitness products such as TurboFire‚ at right‚ were also a dominant category. ost of the top-performing infomercials of 2011 are established shows that are familiar to the Infomercial Monitoring Service (IMS) rankings
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Future Cities Yawns and claps filled the early morning air of our hollowed out empty school as Lauren‚ Lindsay‚ and I presented our model to various judges who saw us compete not to long ago. You could say we were in future cities boot camp because we won the first round and were preparing for the second in front of judges we presented in front of before. There I was wasting my sweet Saturday ironically at school. There were so many other
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body shapes that nearly ever person in the world idolizes. Because people place so much emphasis on the way others look‚ many people will do whatever is necessary to have the perfect body. Each individual is expected to behave and dress a certain way because of their race‚ social class‚ and even sex. At one period of times‚ only females were known for caring excessively about how they looked. This disease has also started to affect many males around the world as well‚ which proves to us that the situation
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Title: If Jesus Walked the World Today Performer: Alan Jackson Composer: Alan Jackson Source: Youtube Comments: This song definitely has a song country western feel to it‚ as well as Christian tone because of the lyrics. Alan Jackson uses humor in this song to catch people’s attention by saying that Jesus would be a hillbilly if he were to come back to Earth. I like the use of the guitar in this song because it is what makes the song have a more country rhythm. I think the lyrics are what is most
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With 25 million slaves in the world today being beaten‚ molested‚ and tortured for sexual abuse or forced labor‚ the number of people becoming affected is increasing. Human trafficking has been an issue across the world for thousands of years. It first appeared in the 1400s when 20 million Africans were forcefully brought to Portugal to work as slaves and 20 percent died on the way due to terrible and unhealthy conditions when on the ships that transported them. Human trafficking affects people of
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people’s side. The beginning of the 1950s started out with a rough patch since World War II had just ended and had a widespread of destruction. The conflict killed 50 million people and shattered the political
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the side that global warming is the greatest threat to our world today. Global warming has a chain reaction effect‚ causing one thing which leads to the next and so on. Contrary to what others may think‚ no other problem compares to the intensity of global warming. This is because global warming affects everyone worldwide‚ not just certain people. Also‚ many of these problems that we may believe are the greatest threat to our world today stem from global warming such as climate change‚ the melting
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hold the conflict view that childhood is quickly disappearing ‚ Iona Opie argues against this as through her lifelong research she has found strong evidence that there is a very separate culture between adults and children of which didn’t exist 50 years ago. The opposing view to that of the marching progress view is the conflict view. This is the view of which is ‚ held by feminists and Marxists‚ that
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