Eris

Unknown Goddess of Rain Thousands of year ago before Zeus and Hera were married, Zeus was with a very strict woman who is unknown to Greek Mythology. At the time Hera had no idea that Zeus was with this mysterious goddess that was always hanging around. So at the time he was with this woman she controlled snow and ice. Which in a variety of states it doesn't because Zeus one day asked Hera a very serious question as brother and sister, if she could freeze the snow goddess everytime she tried to…

What motivates us mortals in our day-to-day lives? Some say money, love, or the pursuit of happiness, but for the Greek gods, it is because they are aware that they are indestructible. By taking note of Hera and Athena’s actions throughout the events of the Iliad it is clear this conclusion reigns true. The Trojan war was fought by men, but the real focal point of the conflict were the actions of the gods and goddesses. It seemed as if no side could gain a decisive edge without some form of…

In Georgia, sixth graders enter middle school with little information about astronomy they learned from fourth grade. Students come to school with misconceptions they have made from previous knowledge or exposure to other resources. A teacher is supposed to address these misconceptions the students have and to change their perception. For the subject of astronomy, there are many misconceptions the students have when studying modeling. Within the Moving Students Toward a More Accurate View of the…

The source I chose to evaluate is an article called “Is Pluto a planet?” written by Graham Rax. This source was published by Kalmbach Publishing Company in 1999, and mainly talked about is the Pluto should be consider as a planet or not. For this paragraph, it mainly talks about what is planet, what the figure does the Pluto has, and it give a conclusion that we can’t define the Pluto as a planet or treat is as a member of Kuiper Belt. We can tell that the article was published by a formal…

Have you ever opened a bag of chips and found a burnt chip. You don’t eat it,you put it aside.Pluto feels left out like the chip.Now he is not considered a planet,but i think he is. He is just a little different like the burnt chip. Pluto is the same like the other chip just a little unrelated to the other planets.Pluto is a planet because it complies with two requirements to be a planet.Pluto orbits around the sun,and Pluto also spherical.Pluto is dwarf planet like the others in the our solar…

Andrei Zhdanov was born on the 26th of February, 1896 in Mariupol, in what is now southeastern Ukraine. His family was forced to travel throughout Russia in order to find work after his father died when Zhdanov was four years old. The family settled in the city of Tver, and Zhdanov began studying at a vocational school at the age of nine. Like many Russians he became interested in Bolshevik ideas while working in factories and began taking a role in political rallies in 1912 and by 1915 Zhdanov…

Andrea Palpant Diley in the start of her book focuses a lot on the concept of what I call a dependent child 's faith. She shares many stories from her childhood that shaped her life and the one about the hitchhiker really drew my attention. She about talked how embarrassed she was as her father preached to the young hitchhiker in the car. This reminded of a lot of times in my childhood when I would travel around with my grandmother. She always would find a person to preach to, wither we were in…

around Eri’s bedroom and the love hotel, Alphaville. Takahashi discloses to Mari later in the book that his original business of being at the love hotel was not to work there, but rather, he was customer with a girl he knew. Mari’s suspicion that Eri had been the girl at the hotel with him is strengthened as Takahashi admits that even if the girl was her sister, he’d, “Probably…

My favorite poem was probably the shape poem “what if”. I had envisioned the second poem to act as “negative” poem, in order to serve as a stark warning to future leaders, as compared to the generally positive tone of the “ode to washington” before it and the slightly whimsical tone of the “trumpty dumpty” that followed it. Thus, I used the image of a Nazi swastika, a striking image that forms the centerpiece of this precautionary poem. The addition of the quote from Adolph Hitler in the center…

In 1906 Percival Lowell, who was a wealthy Bostonian who founded Lowell Observatory, started a search for a ninth planet in our solar system which he called planet X. But as Percival was looking for it he died in 1916 with no prevail, he had gotten pictures but planet X was very faint in the pictures, and so after 10 years the search for the planet began again but this time a 23 year old astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh who proved the existence of the mysterious planet in 1930; the planet was…