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    Many Mizzou students are surprised to hear that the campus is home to an observatory. In fact, the observatory has been serving Mizzou students for over 100 years. The observatory is named after university president Samuel Laws, who personally donated $2,000 to help finance the new observatory for the university. The observatory has had multiple locations on campus before reaching its current spot on top of the Physics Building shortly after its 1964 construction. Galileo Galilei is widely…

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    told on them about the paint on the wall. Since this happened Erik told Paul “you will pay for what you have done.” He grabbed Paul and held his eyes open and Vincent sprayed paint in his eyes. That is the reason for Paul’s vision not the “Solar Eclipse”. As the book tangerine you can see Paul's confidence level go from 0-100 throughout the book. At the beginning of the book he is terrified of Erik and Arthur , and wants nothing to do with them. In the middle he is curious and follows him to…

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    shooting lane, I hit the safety ‘Click’ the safety clicked to fire. I pulled the trigger. On a typical saturday in October just like all the other weekends that we went hunting but it wasn’t just a normal saturday it was the saturday of a lunar eclipse. I was feeling pretty special because that only happens like every thirty years. Me and my dad sat in the same ladder stand that we usually sit in the deer were just trampuling us that night. All of…

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    Questions are a valuable tool for teachers to motivate and encourage inquiry, discussion, and reflecting thinking. They use questions to focus on investigations, probe for prior knowledge, and provide for scaffolding. It is also important to increase open ended questions during the lesson, which encourages all students to make useful contributions to a discussion and build towards understanding (p. 186). With questions, teachers can shift student’s observations into explanation and lead their…

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    red and the clouds begin to blacken and the ground erupted shadows swallowing everything that made the innocent become wicked” - the prophecy that foretold judgement day gave the red rider his chance rise and punish the wicked. - Ace z. Knight - ECLIPSE. When someone asks “what it’s like to be a Fiction author” the logical response is to be creative and have an idea of what your vision is , but it’s more than just being creative and having a vision for an idea it’s about inspiring the future…

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    founded Greenwich Observatory and discovered over three thousand stars. In the beginning, Flamsteed was struck with a disease, crippling rheumatoid, that forced him to leave school and study astronomy on his own. Flamsteed was fascinated by the solar eclipse, which brought the creativity of making his own instruments that he could use to measure. Finally reaching Cambridge College in 1670, Flamsteed wrote a detailed paper on the sun’s approximated distance from Earth. The paper was only the…

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    “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”-Thomas Jefferson. Paul Fisher and his family the Fishers move to Tangerine County, Florida from Houston, Texas. Paul doesn’t believe he has bad vision because of the solar eclipse and is the only one, who knows about Erik’s real characteristics. I can connect with Paul Fisher because I used to get scared of my cousin, but like Paul Fisher, I got the courage to stand up. The character Antoine motivates Paul to make the decision of telling the…

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    An example from the text how different hunters used different techniques. Most would rely on the moon to tell the time of the year. Since the moon is always out, this was especially very helpful. “It's alignment shows its purposes, such as lunar eclipses, solstices and so on.” (Source 1) The early Egyptians realized that the “Dog Star” rose next to the sun every 365 days. Based on this they devised a 365-day calendar. Our society has adopted this calendar with a leap year every four years.…

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    Immersed in total disappear nearly all mortals shatter, crushed by an insurmountable weight. Luckily, society has bred a number of citizens able to rise to the challenge, to meet the monster head on with unexplainable fortitude and defeat the demons haunting those around them. Everyday people use strength quietly, fighting battles not against goblins or ghost but themselves. The undercover heroes of the world live exceedingly mundane lives until suddenly thrust into unimaginable situations; the…

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    A choice is a decision that is made by a person in a situation. Ever since my brother was born, I have had to make better choices so he doesn't make the same mistakes I have made. Erik has been the complete opposite of what i'm trying to be because Erik is a horrendous role model and has made bad choices that Paul had to deal with . Erik’s choices have impacted Paul's life ,self concept and relationships. Erik’s impact on Paul's life has made his life melancholy in so many ways. This…

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