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    would eventually begin a war which would end in Carthrage’s fall. Just like Achilles, Aeneas also has a goddess for a mother, and she is Venus. During a meeting with Venus, she is concerned for the fate of her son, and she ask Jupiter will the Trojan’s make it to Italy. Jupiter replies to Venus and says, “No councils have revers 'd my firm decree And, lest new fears disturb thy happy state, Know, I have search 'd the mystic rolls of Fate: In Italy shall wage successful war,… This is his time…

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    Stellar Dawning Coalescence The early Universe was filled with roaming clouds of gas, namely hydrogen, and dust. In many cases, the ingredients for stars laid dormant for millions, perhaps billions of years until an event disturbed them ("Star birth", 2013). As Isaac Newton states in his first law of motion, “An object will stay at rest or travel at a constant velocity until acted on by a force,” and the same remains true even at the massive scales of the Universe. These clouds of gas and dust…

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    Importance Of Telescope

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    through his telescope that the moon’s surface is like the surface of the earth, not smooth and perfectly spherical, uneven, rough and crowded with bulges and it’s full of mountains chains and depths of valleys. Rotating it towards Jupiter, the remarks of the planet Jupiter exposed four star-like objects in a line with it. The objects moved and sometimes disappeared behind or in front of the planet. Galileo then concluded that these objects were Jupiter’s moons and it orbited it just like Earth.…

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    but stepped down among the great crowd." Galileos discovery of the telescope helped to confirm his belief in the Copernican system and theory (The Trial of Galileo: An Account). With his telescope, Galileo was able to study Jupiter. He discovered moons revolving around Jupiter and the different phases of Venus as it revolved around the sun. He published his findings in Sidereus Nuncius (Starry…

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    The Roman’s adopted many parts of the Greek culture as their own. Starting with their religion, they took the Greek’s gods and renamed them. First, The Capitoline triad was introduced during the 6th century B.C. The first being Jupiter who was the roman equivalent of what the Greeks knew as Zeus. Then Juno, Who’s Greek equivalent was Hera. and Minerva resembled the Greek goddess, Athena. Later, towards the end of the 5th century B.C., many more gods from the Greek religion were introduced.…

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    Virgil's Aeneid Symbols

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    Virgil’s Aeneid provides intense passages that, when broken down, help explore the story in a new way. D. E. Eichholz addresses numerous people who interpret the Aeneid in different ways’ all of whom see the epic as a collection of symbols. Virgil’s language can help discover simpler explanations for bigger meanings. Michael C.J. Putnam along with Robert A. Brooks, provide warnings about clarifying the poet’s symbolism. The shield, made by Vulcan, provides an impressive example of a symbol.…

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    about them to how often they occur and how close they have to be to be too close for comfort. At the beginning of the story, it tells about what asteroids are and their history. They even said that a comet called the Shoemaker-Levy 9 sped towards Jupiter at sixty kilometers a second. That is really fast! It also told about how sixty-five million years ago, it is thought that one measly asteroid could have killed dinosaurs that inhabited the earth. During the middle of the story, it talks about…

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    Jupiter, “the King of Gods”, unexpectedly reminds Aeneas through Mercury that he has a duty to fulfill (4.333). Virgil constantly implements the use of divine machinery such as Mercury and Jupiter to justify the actions and consequences of humans during the Roman times. Aeneas doesdid not just get a typical message from any god; he explicitly receives a warning from Jupiter, the supreme god of the Roman pantheon, to get back on his destined…

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    The s-wave is wave A. The p-wave is always going to be faster than the s-wave. Wave B starts at the velocity of about 8 km/s and wave A starts at about 4 km/s. Since wave A is moving slower, it is the s-wave. Wave A also reflected off the outer core and wave B refracted. The p-wave is wave B. The p-wave is always going to move faster than the s-wave. Wave B starts at the velocity of about 8 km/s and wave A starts at about 4 km/s. Since wave B is moving faster, it is the p-wave. The…

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    Born in Senegal about 1753 At the Age of 8 she was kidnapped and brought to Boston on a slave ship John Wheatley purchased young Phillis to be a servant for his wife, Susanna Susanna did not train her to be a servant, instead she received an education in theology, English, Latin, and Greek. Wheatley wrote her first published poem at age 12 Wheatley became the first African American and first U.S. slave to publish a book of poems Phillis died in Boston, Massachusetts on December 5, 1784 Phillis…

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