Eclipse

Essay #3 Mixed martial arts is one of the fastest-growing sports on the market. The sport’s fan base is excited, dedicated, and extremely supportive. While sports such as football or baseball are far more well-known, mixed martial arts or MMA, as it often referred, is featured regularly on sports news stations, and magazines, such as ESPN. The biggest stars of the sport, such as Conor McGregor, are famous celebrities in their own right. However, there is no college feeder program for the sport,…

Abstract Right from the start of its usage in Performance Management by General Electric, the Bell Curve is thought to be an easy tool to identify performers from non-performers. The aim of using this tool was to encourage the average performers to improve their performance and to reward the best performers and to lay off the consistent bad performers. But questions have been asked on its efficacy in improving the performance with claims that it demotivates the employees and lead to…

A shark tooth is one of numerous teeth in the shark’s mouth. Different sharks can be classified on the basis of the teeth they have and the functions that such teeth perform in consuming their prey. There are four basic types of shark teeth: dense flattened, needle-like, pointed lower with triangle upper, and non-functional. Sharks have a complete set of teeth when they are born. These teeth are modified placoid scales with an outer layer of enamel, dentine and a central pulp cavity; similar to…

Who knew, that our stars string together to form the most unique, odd, and compelling shapes and figures. You, probably have heard of the Big dipper, Little Dipper, Ursa Minor, Ursa Major, and Orion. These are the most well known and popular constellations and asterisms. An asterism is a group of stars that is not a constellation, but is well known by many astronomers. The history of how constellations came to be is amazing. Things including people, the discovery, why they were used, and how…

The Wild Ride to Minnesota Have you ever taken a trip that you had completely planned out and it ended up not going that way? Well I had an experience like that just last week. Me, my dad, and my friend Jade drove up by Minneapolis, specifically Maple Plain MN, and it didn’t go as planned. We were supposed to go up there, drop off my dad for a work meeting, and go to the Mall of America. I’m about to tell you what actually happened. So we started off the 4 hour drive by stopping by the gas…

One of the most well-known passages in “Romeo and Juliet” in Act 2, Scene 2, is Romeo’s soliloquy from lines 2-25, which discloses certain aspects about the plot, characterization, and the themes of love; community conflict; and duality via light imagery. In the play, Romeo’s soliloquy reveals his affections for Juliet, making it an integral piece in the plot of “Romeo and Juliet” By confessing his admiration for Juliet, Romeo creates an internal and external conflict, central to the play.…

Mythology was a polytheistic religion that began in the bronze age and declined around the advent of Christianity. Greek Mythology was originally created to explain phenomenons in the natural world such as the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, stars, comets, seasons, and more. Another reason it was created was to answer questions like where someone goes after dieing (Atsma). This polytheistic religion believed that there were many gods and goddesses who were in control of…

Throughout “The Sun Rising,” Donne considers the depth of his feelings for his lover; “I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink, / But that I would not lose her sight so long,” “She’s all states, and all prices,” and “Thou sun art half as happy as we” (13-14, 21, 25). If it were just one line of the poem, then one could argue that the time period…

Confucianism was one of the many ideas to come out of the “Hundred Schools of Thought.” Each intellectual way of thinking had one goal and that was to bring peace to the Warring States and unify all of China. Confucianism tried to take a very peaceful way of ending the war by making the people believe that one should follow a strict moral code. This moral code is called the ‘Junzi” or the “The Gentlemen.” The junzi was meant to have men act good towards one another by insuring that it was the…

Anaxagoras is a Greek philosopher who made important contributions to the fields of astronomy and physics, some of these contributions include, the reason for an eclipse, an accurate description of the moons lunar surface, and he was also the first one to try and square a circle. Anaxagoras’s parents were wealthy but he chose to forsake a life of luxury and leisure so that he could study philosophy. Around 463 BC…