Aurora

are also known as Aurora borealis or Aurora australis. The name Aurora borealis originated from the north; this means “dawn of the north” whereas the name Aurora australis originated from the south; this means “dawn of the south”. A man named Pierre Gassendi named the Aurora borealis. The auroras have been around since ancient times. The Northern lights have many spectacular colors as they spread across the sky, but few know what really makes up this beautiful sight. The Aurora is formed by…

History of the Aurora Fire Department History is an important subject when it comes to federal and state facilities such branches of the military, city police, sheriffs, and fire departments. Aurora fire department has a long history with humble beginnings as a small group of volunteers, when the city was then called Fletcher, to now having 15 stations and being able to cover 155 sq. mi. and serve over 300,000 citizens of the city of Aurora. Plenty has happened with the Aurora fire department,…

How is the Aurora Borealis formed?I have wondered this for a while because they're so pretty and unique.Well I've done a lot of research and have found out its because of the sun and the Earth’s magnetic field. The Northern Lights,Aurora Borealis, Aurora Australis,or Southern Lights are formed when storms on the sun form solar winds, also know as large streams of charged particles streaming toward the Earth.The excited atoms reach the Earth's atmosphere and produce heat which gives us light…

The Aurora Center: Mission and Initial Thoughts The Aurora Center works to provide education and intervention regarding sexual assault, relationship violence, and stalking for all students, faculty, and staff of the University of Minnesota and Augsburg College (The Aurora Center, 2014). Aurora serves both victim/survivors and concerned people making it more inclusive and accessible to students and staff than other centers of its kind. Their mission is broken into four parts: delivering free and…

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are two novels in which the themes of equality and inequality are explored extensively. The texts are both written by women in 1847 and 1818 respectively and both deal with gender inequality. Jane Eyre is also a social commentary on the injustices and inequalities of the classist Victorian hierarchy whereas Shelley’s novel focuses on the human rejection of unconventionality and the inequalities faced by societies ‘outcasts. The…

Aurora Club - Clinical Log #2 I. Description of the Day Groups and/or Experiences The day began with a tour of the Aurora club and general information about the services the Aurora club provides. I learned that the Aurora club is a social rehabilitation program designed to provide social support, teach life skills, and promote independence, for individuals with mental illness in the surrounding area. It has many services, including a full kitchen, a washer and dryer, exercise equipment, games,…

When Aurora and Phillip first had their daughter Audrey, they knew they never wanted her to experience any of the challenges they both had to face. Aurora and Phillip wanted her to know nothing of suffering or hardship, so they provided everything she would ever want or need. She was showered with love and affection. They spoiled their child like they assumed every parent did. On an island just off the coast, another parent took the opposite approach. James Hook, Captain of the Jolly Roger,…

The word diasposa is the perfect description of her heritage. It means the scattering of a people from their ancestral home . She is a descendent of Latin American, Jewish, Aftican and North American heritage and she describes herself as saying she is none of these things outwardly, they are within her (Clugston).. This collage of nationalities forms the theme of this poem. The tone of She clearly knows who she is and is proud of the fact that she is confident. The tone of this poem is…

A case study that I found in this article is on is on Aurora Espinal-Cruz. She is a six-month-old baby that was found by her sister with bruises on her arm. Then, they called the Oklahoma Department of Human Services because they suspected it to be child abuse. The children were then taken from their biological mom and placed with Deanza Jones, a foster parent. After seventeen days in Jones’ care, on January 27, 2002, Aurora was found dead in her crib and suffered a great deal. She was left to…

2. MEDIA ARTICLE: Polar auroras are most commonly known as the northern lights. The colours that appear in the northern sky have been studied for quite some time and scientists are discovering the reasons why they exist. Many believe that the reason these lights are not seen during the day is due to the strong radiation that’s given out through the day. These auroras are caused by charged particles that collide with the magnetic atmosphere. At first glance the aurora looks to be light in colour…