Comet

of education or wealth. There is a story behind every novelist that helps them express themselves. Visualize the joy and pain of Mark Twain as I speak on his life and achievements. In Florida, Missouri, there was a starry night and the Haley’s Comet was visible, on November 30, 1835. This was the night Samuel Langhorne Clemens, originally known as Mark Twain, was born. He was the sixth child born to his father John Marshall Clemens and mother Jane Lampton Clemens.…

MLB player Lou Gehrig. Lou was born on June 19, 1903; he sadly lost his life on June 2, 1941. Lou had a very successful life; he is considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Lou also fought in World War II. He had this disease called ALS, which is also often called Lou Gherigs disease. This disease makes you very weak in the muscles where they can’t function anymore. He had this ongoing disease for around two years. In baseball, he had the nickname the Iron Horse because he…

Is it one event in a person’s life that can change the course of it forever? Decisions can be both toxic or rewarding. Mark Twain was considered quite an unlucky man because he faced excruciatingly painful losses throughout his life. The first devastation of his life was the loss of his father as a young boy (Poole, Primmer, Johnson). Although his life was never luxurious, it even managed to get harder as it went along (“Mark Twain Biography- Encyclopedia”). He faced loss all the way up to his…

That’s right, they voluntarily got their testicles cut off. But out of everything this group has done and believed in, they are most famous for their mass suicide. In 1997, 39 committed suicide to get themselves onto an alleged alien ship following the comet Hale-Bopp. Everyone wore a purple blanket, and Nike shoes before killing themselves. Ironically, this group was supposedly against suicide as their main ideas were direct from…

forming. With our planet being cover 70% percent by water, you would think we would have a pretty good sense of where it came from, however scientist still aren't a hundred percent sure of how water came to be. There are many theories such as, wet comets, asteroids and meteors hitting earths surface leaving water molecules behind. This sounded like it may be true, but many people have argued that any water molecules that we're present as the planets forming would have evaporated or been blown…

planet and not an actual planet. I will be discussing the seventh planet of our solar system, the lovely ice giant Uranus. The first ever sighting of Uranus was in 1680 by John Flamsteed, he categorized it as 34 Tauri, he thought it to be a star or comet. It wasn't until William Herschel and John Elert Bode discovered it to be a planet on March 13, 1781. Herschel tried to name it Georgium sidus after king george the third, it was Bode who suggested the name Uranus, named after the primal Greek…

Ever since the technology necessary to send signals into space was invented, scientists, philosophers, and the general public have been awaiting the coveted moment when we finally make contact with a civilization from another planet. Hundreds of attempts have been made to send signals out into space with the hope that they will eventually hit their desired target and result in a response, but calculating the probability of success is a highly technical field that has a great deal of research…

Summary of Lesson Plan Gagne’s Instructional design is based on his conditions of learning. His holistic view on teaching gives structure and organization to instructor’s lesson plans. The model is designed to help student’s process mental events that occur with various types of stimuli that focus on learning outcomes. There are nine events that focus on specific aspects of learning. Event one is directed toward gaining the students attention, event two focuses on providing a learning objective,…

War and disease have almost always been seen as parallel to one another. For instance, in the Judeo-Christian Bible disease and war are two of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Furthermore, French philosopher, Voltaire claimed that they were the “ingredients to a wretched world.” Now in the 21st century, Emmanuel Urey, a student, in response to the Ebola outbreak has added to this metaphor by stating that “[Liberia] just finished fighting a war, and now we have another one.” In other words,…

Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities paints a vivid picture of New York City in the late eighties, depicting the stark differences between the lives of the elitist upper class and the bitter lower classes. Peter Fallow, an immoral, alcoholic Englishman, works for the tabloid, The City Light, and is the first to publicize the case of Henry Lamb, the eighteen year old black student who is left in an irreversible coma after being hit by the sports car of wealthy bonds trader, Sherman McCoy. Though…