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    Chicxulub Crater Essay

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    A group of researchers from all over the world are planning to drill core samples from the famous dinosaur asteroid crater, the, to help them in the adventure to study the evolution of life on Earth, as well as how the crater was made. The team will drill 5,000 feet down into the crater, which is thought to be at least 65-million years old, dating back to the start of the extinction of the dinosaurs. Most now believe that the asteroid that caused the crater was the cause of the dinosaur extinction. This adventure to drill into Chicxulub Crater to get the core sample is expected to cost $10 million and is led by two scientists: Joanna Morgan from Imperial College in London, and Sean Gulick from the Austin Institute of Geophysics at The University of Texas. By going down to that deep of a distance, they will travel to an area of the Earth that includes the dinosaur asteroid crater core and see what existed all those millions of years in the past. The resulting samples from the Chicxulub Crater will then be used to help the scientists figure out how life evolved on the Earth after the asteroid, as well as how the giant impact crater was formed. Dinosaur Asteroid Crater Linked to Mass Extinction The Chicxulub Crater is the only known impact crater that is linked to the mass dinosaur extinction event and is famous for being thought as the asteroid that killed off the great era of the giant reptiles known as the dinosaurs. It covers a 125-mile impact area. Studying it should…

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    can’t see you realize that you can’t hear anything either. You can’t hear your alarm clock going off. You can’t hear the train horn that is sounding from only a few miles away. This would be a frightening experience for anyone, but for Helen Keller this was a reality. Helen Keller had many accomplishments throughout her life but to understand her accomplishments you need to know some information about Helen Keller. Only then will you be able to grasp how…

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    Another inspiring successful leader is Helen Keller, once she gained language, she gained personal empowerment. After reading Helen Keller’s ”The Day Language Came into My Life”, I realize how much language can offer to life. Helen was struck by an illness at the age of 18 months that left her physically impaired. She was deaf and blind but she overcame that disability and created a meaningful life for herself through language. Helen first learned what language was from her teacher Anne…

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    Helen Keller, a woman who at a very young age, had to adapt to a whole new way of life, and no one around her knew about it.” Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880,” Helen was a healthy newborn until the age of “nineteen months” when she developed an illness which led to the loss of her sight and hearing. Because of this, her parents didn’t know what the next step to take was so she could be led down the right path. Eventually they found a woman named Anne Sullivan who could potentially…

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    Helen Keller: A Hero

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    Helen Keller is a hero to many people around the world and especially the disabled community. She was a fighter and did not let her blindness or deafness get in the way of her life and success. She worked hard to overcome her obstacles and then also became an activist. As an activist she helped and influenced disabled people to be courageous like her. She made effort to change the system for disabled people, socially and politically. She proved to the world that being disabled does not mean…

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    Helen Keller A Strong Believer Strong, brave, and inspiring are three words that people think of when they hear the name Helen Keller. Helen Keller changed the world by being an inspiration to people all around the world. She showed the world that having a disability doesn’t stop you from doing great things. She proved this by becoming part of important organizations, going to college, and spreading her knowledge to the world in talks and lectures. She left a legacy as a strong believer. The…

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    The second assignment is very interesting it is about rhetorical analysis . In this assignment, there are two essay we have to read , both of these articles have a same points and share same stories to influence an audience but in different style of writing. Helen Keller, the important day and another one called my left foot by Christy Brown wrote the first article. Both of the authors Both of these authors use rhetorical appeals that include logos, ethos, and pathos, to help the readers…

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    Struggles Of Helen Keller

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    THE STRUGGLES HELEN KELLER OVERCAME Helen Keller is a remarkable woman. She was put through so much in her life and overcame obstacles that some might not understand. Reading her books and hearing the stories about how she slept and night and tossed and turned, it will give you a different perspective. Her life was filled with silence and darkness until Anne came along. Their friendship grew and grew; Anne helped Helen through her darkest hours and Helen did the same in return. Helen…

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    Helen Keller

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    The Story Of My Life, first book written by Helen Keller was published in the year 1903 in the form of an autobiography describing about her early life, education, life struggles and specially her experiences with her teacher Miss Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Helen Keller wrote this book to honor the inventor of the telephone and a teacher of the deaf, Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander helps the Keller family to find a suitable teacher for Helen and also becomes a good friend of her. As a child, she…

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    Lauren Hill Hero

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    lives from a cruel and evil enemy. Despite the fact of having those super powers, Helen Keller and Nelson Mandela are known for being heroes to the world. At the age of nineteen months, Helen Keller started to become very ill and lost her sight and hearing. As Helen became unruly and hopeless, she was introduced to a twenty year old woman named Anne Sullivan who then taught Helen Keller how to communicate with others without her sight and hearing. Not only did Anne Sullivan teach her how to…

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