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Unlike those of her peers, Mary Somerville’s story is filled with coincidences and destiny’s chosen moments that can only be described as written by fate. From the beginning, Somerville was allowed to grow up independent and free of the standard strictness enforced by officious parents. Through her upbringing, Somerville rarely had controlled and encouraged contact with the maths and sciences. In fact, she only studied for one full year and didn’t begin arithmetic until age 13 after seeing some…

Pythagoras is a greek mathematician and astronomer. He is best known for the Pythagorean theorem but is also known for other math related theories. He founded a group called the Pythagoreans, who also are credited to math related theories. He also has many astronomical theories, some proven and some disproven. Pythagoras was born around 570 BC in Samos, Greece. His dad was a traveling merchant, so his mom had to raise his siblings and him by herself most of the time but Pythagoras did travel…

many ways, writing is the act of saying I, of inflicting oneself upon other people, of saying, “listen to me, see it my way, modify your outlook.” It’s an aggressive, even antagonistic act. You can mask its qualifiers and tentative subjunctives with ellipses and evasions—with the whole comportment of insinuating rather than demanding or suggesting rather than stating. But, there’s no getting around the fact that placing words on paper is the ploy of a surreptitious bully, an incursion, a burden…

caught my attention because it uses repetition to emphasize the narrator’s Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Through this poem, Neil uses spoken word to explain to others how his OCD and Tourettes affect his day to day life but focuses more on his relationship with the girl that changes everything for him. Neil Hilborn is a moving speaker, and I highly recommend watching his performance of “OCD” on button poetry. Hilborn uses his own case of OCD to his advantage in his writing, especially with this…

Indigenous Housing: A Study of Australian Aboriginal Homes Dome or egg shaped shelters are a traditional construction method seen in Australian Aboriginal settlements. The permanent buildings were better constructed with mud and grass used to waterproof the walls and roofs. Many of the houses had walls made of stone with clay infill incorporated to minimize flooding and leaking. The dome shaped form of the Aboriginal stone engineering was considered very warm during colder times of the year.…

Long ago, people believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, and that all the stars, planets, and other celestial bodies orbited around it. However, as pivotal discoveries were made and new theories emerged, society gained a much more insightful understanding of the cosmos above. In the second century, an astronomer by the name of Claudius Ptolemy proposed his geocentric model of the solar system, which depicted Earth in the center of the universe and the planets and the Sun…

CLIMATE CHANGE HUMAN CAUSED or NOT Introduction The continuous climate change controversy debated among scientists and professionals could indicate no one really knows beyond theory. There is the side indicating humans continue to cause climate change through actions of pollution and more. There is another side suggesting that the nature and cycle of earth is reason for climate change to happen. The thought of anyone really having the true answer renders all subject to a continued climate…

Most of these arguments do not even use words to convey a message to the viewers. His only sentence in the picture are “Here’s your gold medal. ...Hope you have a good race.” It is purposely done. By using ellipses, Toles creates an awkward pause in the sentence, almost as if the last half is an afterthought by the Nobel Committee -- as if they realized they needed to say more or back up why they are giving Obama the medal at the start of the race. Toles purposely…

Johannes Kepler was born December 25, 1571 in Weil der Stadt, Germany. His father was a mercenary who died in Holland when Kepler was only five and his mother was a herbalist who ran an inn owned by her father. Kepler often helped his mother by serving at the inn. Kepler went to a local school and then moved on to attened the Protestant Seminary of Maulbronn intending to become a Protistant minister. After completing his studies at Maulbronn, Kepler went on to attend the University of Tubinegn…

Mrs. Truss makes many compelling assertions about the necessity of punctuation. She uses a contested Bible verse to illustrate how the misplacing or omission of a comma can completely change the meaning of the work-and by extension, the chief end of man. She also presents the two sides of an argument about the semicolon. Now my initial reaction to bickering about this topic was “wow, these writers are way too passionate about the Franken-child of a comma and a colon.” However, Mrs. Truss then…