It is hard to keep a commitment without making sacrifices. This can be seen by looking at a few elements of the movie Radio Flyer’s plot. Radio Flyer, directed by Richard Donner, is a film about two boys named Mike and Bobby, their mother and their abusive stepfather, who likes to be called The King. Mike, as the older child, promises to protect Bobby and help him achieve his goal of escaping from The King. First, Mike and Bobby sacrifice their safety by not telling their mother of The King’s…
related family files (family files will be routed together) and prepare the files for interviews. Once the files are interview ready, NBC and the Service Centers will ship the files to the appropriate field offices. During the file tracking and handling process, NBC, the Service Centers, and the local field offices will notify OP&S if any cases have been rejected, closed, withdrawn, have national security concerns, or will be delayed at the FBI fingerprinting process. OP&S staff will update the…
The theory of backwards causation, or retro-causation, has been given much attention in the past twenty years. It has made waves in metaphysics, quantum physics, and even religion. In the case of religion, it pulls into question God’s divine foreknowledge, in other words omniscience. This is an attempt to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with the possibility of backwards causation. Thus if is it impossible to do so then the options present themselves as: God has no divine foreknowledge,…
fruit flies to beluga whales can navigate their way across earth in the proper direction with each change of season. Decades have passed with no concrete evidence of any biological compass evidence found within any of these incredible travelers; theories have only been postulated. Recently, however, some researchers claim they’ve uncovered a light sensitive protein that may contain certain electrons that interact in such a way that allows animals to find their way to their destination. Photons…
interpretations. All of which delve deeper into speculation, rather than actual quantifiable data. There is a large schism in the science community over whether or not multiverse is a legitimate science. Those that are oppositional to multiverse theories, are right in their skepticism. Seeing as a multiverse is not something that can be observed, it can therefore not be measured or tested, and that means it should be placed under scrutiny. For example: in Vilenkin’s paper, these island universes…
The Quantum-Mechanical Model of the Atom Introduction: The theory of quantum mechanics explains the behavior of the particles, such as photons (particles of light) and electrons, in the atomic and subatomic realms. Since the electrons of an atom determine many of its chemical and physical properties, quantum mechanics is foundational to understanding chemistry. Quantum-Mechanical Model- a model that explains the strange behavior of electrons Electromagnetic Radiation- a type of energy…
The subject of quantum physics appeared far-fetched to physicists of the late 18th and early 19th century. Now, scientists hold a better understanding of atoms and their properties because of this branch of physics. Many scientists helped create the utterly confusing and frightening field, but three in particular made improvements to it that directed modern scientists to where they stand today. People do not grant enough credit to Max Planck, Albert Einstein, and Louis-Victor Broglie, the…
Erwin Schrödinger, an Austrian born chemist, gained his famed for his contributions to quantum mechanics. Some of his contributions to chemistry and quantum mechanics were his books describing his techniques and basic info behind his work, his paradox, Schrodinger’s cat, which created a lot of new discoveries in chemistry, and his equation that changed how many people viewed the atom and its electrons. At at young age, Schrodinger was strongly influenced by the philosophy of Austrian philosopher…
Hi, I’m Elena Hoxha. I was born during the Middle Ages by my parents Eda and Ermo Hoxha. They were born Serfs, then, I thought it was pretty cool to be a Serf. It sounded cool. But, apparently, being a Serf sucks! When I was seven, Eda brought us some bread, it was coarse and black. This was apparently a special day for the Serfs. Then next time we got that kind of bread was a month after. As I grew up, my mom taught me how to do what every women Serf does. She also had me wake up at 3am every…
really hard to learn how to play soccer at the age of twelve, specially when there wasn’t a lot of field it practice at, and that it was that it was expensive to rent a field back then, but that’s again if you find a field available to rent! Fields back then were made of grass but all you can see was dust and if you fall then that’s it, you’re hurt. Ehab wished that he could practice often in fields like the ones we have now. So basically it was difficult to learn and practice soccer back…