Meteorite

The last school bell of the day rang, announcing that it was 3:30 pm and that we students earned our freedom back. That alone was cause enough to celebrate but I was even more exited since today was Friday. I had a full weekend of playing games to look forward to. Best part was that I had beat my last game the previous week so I had to go shop for a new one. I left my classroom and zigzagged my way trough the herd of loud, pimply teens towards the school’s exit as efficiently as I could like…

urge to want to hear more. It then progressed with an interview with Pierson, who spoke calmly and assured the interviewer that nothing abnormal was happening at that moment. Slowly but surely, Professor Pierson began to announce that an abnormal meteorite of some sort was headed towards Earth. These events progressed to the landing of it on a farm, to then a hissing sound coming from…

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After The Mechanic is choked he proceeds to get up and give a story about his past. He talks about his childhood and how he thought he found a meteorite but it turned out to be just a rock. He then says that perhaps he could get on the news if he threw the rock off a bridge and murdered somebody. After explaining the story of his past, he says “I was somebody’s golden child, somebody’s little hope…

It came in waves. It always comes in waves, at least that’s what people told me. When the first wave came people hardly even noticed, yes some were starting getting a little sick a little more than usual but epidemics weren’t unheard of. The second wave was when it started to spread. Supposably that’s when all the world leaders the world use to have came together. They tried to work as a team to help each other and to find a way to stop the resistance. To help the people. The third wave that…

The Accuracy of Parts from The Martian The Martian is a fictional movie about an astronaut, Mark Watney, who gets stranded during the third manned mission to Mars and his survival story. This story can be broken down into three main parts. How he was stranded, what he did to survive, and the rescue mission to return him back to Earth. Each of these categories have smaller sub-sections to them. While analyzing pieces of the main parts in the movie, scientific accuracies and inaccuracies can…

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Since the invention of computers or machines, their capability to perform various tasks went on growing exponentially. Humans have developed the power of computer systems in terms of their diverse working domains, their increasing speed, and reducing size with respect to time. A branch of Computer Science named Artificial Intelligence pursues creating the computers or machines as intelligent as human beings. What is Artificial Intelligence? According to the father of Artificial Intelligence,…

The Epic of Gilgamesh has a combination of historical and mythological characteristics laced through the writing. The importance of this epic poem is displayed through the way it is told and how the resolution in the conclusion makes sense. The epic consists of eleven tablets, portraying the quests of both Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Gilgamesh is one of the significant characters within the epic poem. He is the king of Uruk, a city in Mesopotamia. Uruk is a prosperous and developed city, ruled by one…