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    When we were young, like elementary or even middle school, we didn’t have a single worry on our minds the world was our playground and we could do whatever we wanted without worrying about what others thought. Then suddenly in high school this awkward phase between teenage and adulthood sneaks up on us and we are left with the question “Who am I?” For some people that question is answered simply and they go on and live their lives doing what they want and are happy. However for some people that…

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    Edwin Arlington Robinson

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    “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, illustrates great significance with depression that reflects in today’s upper class societal issues. His poem is about a rich man that commits suicide and the thoughts of the people who encounter him during his everyday life. Outward appearances are not always, what it seems. Those who suffer from depression can appear to be happy and loving people on the outside, but on the inside, can be suffering from unrelenting nightmares. While money does not…

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    In his poem, “Richard Cory” Edwin uses irony to show how we are to a man like him. Maintaining the idea that this man had everything going for him and was a well to do man. From the outside, the men working saw this man everyday, gazing at what a man should look like. Charles Burkhart gives criticism that show his contrast and his own ideas and claims about the man. In Richard Cory, author’s creates irony by using imagery, diction, and contrast to show the true description of the man and…

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    Richard Cory Diction

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    In the poem, “Richard Cory,” Edwin A. Robinson emphasizes the idea that people do not really know one another, and sometimes our perspective of an individual is skewed. Today there are standards regarding the expectations and desires of humanity. Individuals that have the “desirable” characteristics are considered superior and are envied by the rest of us. However, exceeding the societal norms does not guarantee happiness. In the poem, Richard Cory seems to have it all, but in fact was miserable…

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    Have you ever wanted to trade places with another person? In the poem, “Richard Corey” by Edwin A Robinson, the townspeople wanted to trade places with a gentleman named Richard Corey. People were jealous of him and wished they could be in his place, but one day, to everyone's surprise, Richard Corey committed suicide. The theme in Richard Corey, is that appearances can be deceiving. The beginning introduces Richard Corey from the first person point of view of the townspeople. Using this point…

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    The Hubble Telescope Explosions ,death, and faulty equipment are only some of the problems that workers at NASA had to handle. It was a big challenge to get the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit, but there are many extraordinary discovers and boundaries that were pushed going through this journey. In 1990 a telescope called the Hubble Space Telescope, created by an astronomer named Edwin Hubble. Which allowed astronomy to grow creating more hypothesis and theories, based on information…

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    Edwin Hubble's Five Senses

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    thought that that was how large the universe was. Edwin Hubble was responsible for the founding of the Cepheid, a type of star, in the Andromeda Nebulae in the year 1924, at the top of Mt. Wilson. Another great achievement that happened in Hubble’s life in the year 1924 was when he happily married Grace Burke in Pasadena, California, and even though the couple never had children they remained together until his death in…

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    The hubble space telescope Imagine yourself in a world where people don't know what's in the sky or the creation of the solar system? That would be a little scary because you don't ever know what's out there in the solar system if there's a black hole or a meteorite coming for earth. But thankfully we don't have to worry about that because have the best invention ever. The invention of the Hubble telescope has contributed to the growth of space science. Edwin Hubble was born on november 20 1889…

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    This is my report.The Hubble Telescope does not travel to stars, planets or galaxies. It takes pictures of them as it whirls around Earth at about 27 000 kilometers per hour. But there were five missions that went to the Hubble Space Craft. All of the missions were servicing missions where they upgraded the Hubble space craft so that it would operate for a longer time because it was making so many interesting discoveries.The Hubble Space Telescope is unmanned. A unmanned spacecraft is when no…

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    The life and works of Edwin Hubble Edwin Hubble was born november 20, 1889, in Marshfield Missouri. When he was a child he loved both books and sports.He had a chance to be a boxer but instead chose to be a scientist/ astronomer. He is famous for many discoveries and tools used today. He before becoming a scientist he was in a war of some sort I believe it to be world war 1. He also i’m sad to tell later in life had some medical problems which resulted in his death. When he was young he was a…

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