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    ashamed for falling under her tricky spell of love. Later on Venus also had to tell her mortal lover Anchises about their son together Aeneas. Aeneas had been told by his mother Venus to never brag about the affair unless he wanted to be struck by Jupiter. Of course he didn’t listen and spoke of the affair and was struck and crippled by Jupiter’s bolt just like his mother said he would’ve been. "Venus (mythology)." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Web. 19 Sept.…

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    improved religion as their own. The Romans built massive temples dedicated to the Gods whenever the Gods did something in their favor. One famous temple is called the Pantheon and is found in Rome. The Pantheon worships all of the major Gods, including Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, Juno, Minerva, and Mars. The Romans also had over 200 minor Gods including Apollo, Diana, Saturn, Hercules, Janus, and Cupid. As the Roman empire expanded their empire, they encountered new religions and cultures from the…

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    later, coinage saw scenes illustrating pride and glory in their place. Around 110 BCE the ‘Roma’ head began to disappear, to be replaced with deities and legendary heroes. Catalogued between 110-44 BCE were varied types of minted coins, featuring Jupiter, Juno, and Mars frequently. The coins of this period show extreme syncretism, with symbols such as tridents and sceptres being added to portraits of deities not usually depicted with those items. Luce suggests that this is ‘intended not as means…

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    Galileo and Socrates both offer various methods of arriving at conclusions within their philosophies and studies, each articulating specific information to their followers as they advocate through either science or philosophy. Within the Republic, Socrates offers his stance on justice and its placement within a city run by philosophers through reasoning. However, within the Sidereal Messenger, Galileo offers his account of information through the scientific method, a method that uses facts to…

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    In 1972 Pioneer 10 is sent to the outer solar system. This is the closest approach to Jupiter that has even been made (http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3642). 1965 NASA decides it wants to get a closer look at Mars so it launches two Mars space probes. In 1977 Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are launched and sent to Jupiter and Saturn. In 1981 NASA made yet another breakthrough when it launched the space shuttle Columbia. This was the first shuttle to use…

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    Galileo Galilei was an Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer born on February 15, 1564. In 1581 Galileo attended the university of Pisa, where he was supposed to study medicine. However, he had a passion for mathematics and went thru that path. What brought him to the science of astronomy was that he heard about the invention of an artefact that made possible to see things far away as if there where nearby. Today he is going to give a lecture in astronomy. Therefore, I am going to…

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    organisms would have to be resistant to solar radiation though because the atmosphere is chaotic. Lastly the gravitational compression has heated areas close to the core over 18,000 degree Fahrenheit. With the information today that we have on Jupiter it cannot support life. Europa one of Jupiter’s moons is one of the best bets for supporting life. Europa might have an icy crust but below it there’s a liquid ocean that has more water than Earth. There is a possibility that beneath Europa’s…

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    Dear Your Holiness, Galileo studied Copernicus’s theory about how the sun and other planets circulate around us. So then Galileo wanted to see for himself, he made his improved telescope and took a look at jupiter, then made a discovery of four planets that are circling around it. Galileo wrote many books as well and published them, most of them were about his theories and inventions. Galileo had made many discoveries and many inventions. He made mostly inventions because, after being banned…

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    WATCHMEN Adaptation Analysis The adaptation of the WATCHMEN graphic novel to a live action movie is overall an acceptable feat, because the director kept most of the main plot points. Although it was not able to go into as great of detail as the comic was able to portray. If you had not read the novel prior to watching the movie chances are you were lost most of the time. Within the novel you are exposed to more characters and are given more background information about all of them, in the…

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    A villain is the bad guy in a story. They may be called an Antagonist. In Percy Jackson the villains or bad guys are disguised in the mist as normal people or things. Unless you are able to see through the mist you would not know they were there. It is important for a story to have a villain because without a villain there can’t be a hero. In stories such as Batman, Superman, and Percy Jackson without villains to defeat their lives would be boring. They wouldn’t go on big expeditions to…

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