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Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate everything you are thankful for. One thing I am going do on Thanksgiving break is to go to Southern California and spend time with my mom's side of the family. Then right before Thanksgiving I will be coming back and spend time with my dad's side of the family. A family is one of the things I'm thankful for. Besides family, I am most thankful for my home and school. First, a family is one thing I am most thankful for because of the many things they do. One…

aspects correct through proven research. The Indians knew about the meteorites, sun, moon, and the five planets by tracing the movements of the celestial objects with the only resource they had, their naked eye. This is astounding because they had no telescopes or material to help them come up with such scholarly conclusions or observations.…

can fly. The Wright brothers were innovative. Wilbur Wright was born in Millville,Indiana in the year 1867. Orville Wright was born in Dayton,Ohio in the year of 1871. They helped their father edit the journal called the Religious Telescope .Later they ran a paper of their own called west side news. Then in 1892, the brothers opened the wright cycle shop in Dayton,Ohio. Kitty Hawk…

Nasa has just discovered a planet like Earth known as Kepler-186f, named after the telescope that found it, the Kepler. This discovery raises the possibility that a large number of planets like earth are waiting to be found, maybe much closer to Earth. One astronomer says that this is a tip of the iceberg discovery! Another says that it is a historic discovery of an Earth-like planet in a perfect spot around its star. Nasa says that future missions will study whether which planets are life…

In contrary to heterosexuality, in Hannon’s (2014) article, Alasdair Macintyre once stated that “facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth-century invention.” Something akin to this can be said about sexual orientation: Heterosexuals, like typewriters and urinals (which are deemed obviously for gentlemen), were inventions of the 1860s. Contrary to their cultural presumptions and the lies of what soon came to be referred to as “orientation essentialism,” “straight” and…

They’re Not Just Dead People The most influential individuals of the Enlightenment Beccaria, Copernicus, Galilei, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Newton, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, and Voltaire are all people you have probably heard of before; but did you know that they all have affected the way you live right now. Authors, philosophers, scientists, and martyrs from the Enlightenment still make an impact on your life hundreds of years after their dead. How you might ask. The…

it isn’t good to be fat, but there’s just so much good food and so many ways of entertaining ourselves from a swivel chair or a couch. As a result, a host of health issues linked to obesity threatens us unless we learn how to push back from the table earlier and head out the door for a walk or something faster more often. Many people think that there is a dramatic difference in how obesity affects men vs. women. The truth is, we have more in common than not, but some notable differences do exist…

Summary Assignment #1 Sunspot Cycle: A Brief History In 1610, shortly after viewing the sun for the first time through a telescope, Galileo became the first European to observe sunspots, which are visibly darker, cooler areas on the sun. A little over 200 years later (in 1843), amateur German astronomer Samuel Heinrich Schwabe discovered that there is a cyclical, eleven, and by extension to a full cycle, twenty-two year pattern to the variation of sunspot counts known as the sunspot cycle. In…

The sky for example was once thought to be as far as man could go, but the moon landing showed that for mankind, limits were meant to be shattered. The Hubble telescope can see into parts of our universe 15 billion light years away that are too far away to even comprehend, yet we can see them. If the universe is truly infinite, then so are the possibilities for mankind. Lastly, infinity is important because…

I would like to double major in Physics and Mathematics at Cornell. If I am to enter the field of Astronomy, a strong base of physics and mathematics is essential. Astronomy is a vast science, more precisely a subcategory of physics involving mathematical computations and interpretations. Being a double major is demanding for it comes with a lot of work, studying and research. Yet I chose both physics and mathematics for my Bachelor’s degree, as I wanted to lay a strong foundation to my goal of…