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    Feng Shui, which is believed to share valuable wisdom, common sense and sensitivity to nature. Feng Shui depend on astronomy to find correlations between humans and the universe. According to (Hurley, n.d). There are a lot of Chinese Dynasties that influenced Feng Shui, the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty. There are two types of Feng Shui, the Form School and the Compass School. Form School, the oldest school of Feng Shui, the Han Dynasty describes in it the “Book of the…

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    facilitation activity that was presented was called, Two Planets. Each team lives on their own planet and with this, they have a lot of their own resources, however, they need another resource, but this resource is only on the other team’s planet. Objective of this team building activity is to transfer all the people on one planet to the other planet and vice versa without falling into “outer space” or touching the area around the planets. Working as a team can truly make a difference in any…

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    Madyson McGowan In the story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, the author tells a story about a nine-year-old girl named Margot, living in an underground city on Venus. Margot had once lived on Earth until she was four, but her family left Earth for a new life on Venus. Her whole life had been changed by this single action. On Venus, it rains all day long and there is never any sun to be seen, whereas, on Earth, the sun was almost always visible. This change causes Margot to only want to…

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    A common English idiom says “a picture is worth a thousand words” but sometimes there aren’t even words to describe a picture. That is the case for “The Pillars of Creation”. This picture was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The photo depicts a nebula with three towers of gaseous regions, hence the name; in a way, it is metaphorical. Fortunately, for the normal people in the world, there are no controversies that provoke unreasonable people. The article “Ways of Seeing”, by John Berger,…

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    containing the antimatter to use as fuel was found, travel time could be greatly reduced. “If we use antimatter as fuel, we could get to the nearest star in only two years” (RealLifeLore). This could have a huge impact on how scientists discover planets. Although they cannot do this now, they are learning about antimatter a lot and now know how to store…

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    The storyline substitutes between the present year of 1980 and the future year of 2013. In the first place of the film, three unusual items are launched out from a substantial spaceship and collided with ground. Warpath understands the sentinel have discovered them so he chose to educate Blink to caution the other mutant, including Bishop, Sunspot, Iceman, Colossus and Kitty Pryde. They fought hard against the invading sentinel. They fail to defend and sentinel able to break into their mutant…

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    In Packing for Mars, Mary Roach communicates that the most interesting part of space travel is humanity and the complicated obstacles that come with it. Roach’s purpose is to argue that although they present difficult challenges, much can be learned about humanity through space travel. To support this argument, the author compares humanity to machinery and the opinions of scientists to her own, provides anecdotes concerning the humanity of astronauts, and describes the struggles and morality of…

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    In chapters 18-22 of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the author informs us of what Henrietta’s HeLa cells have done and some history of her family. In chapter 18, HeLa cells have gone to space in the Discoverer XVIII satellite to help determine what happens to human cells in space. Scientist were also creating hybrids with the HeLa cells to help further their understanding of gene regulation. The media didn’t understand what was being accomplished by doing this and…

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    Pluto is a Dwarf Planet This astronomical study will define the development of Pluto from being a planet to a “dwarf planet” in the solar system. Pluto is a planet with about 30 to 49 astronomical units away from the sun, and it takes about 5 hours for the light of sun to reach its surface. Pluto also has an orbit of 248 years, which makes the longest orbital time period for a planetary object in the solar system. The mass of Pluto is 1.303±0.003)×1022 kg and the radius of the planet is 0.1863…

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    The purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate a case that has been recall to identify a major problem facing humanity in the coming decades, which it involves in two arguments that can help or damage the social society. Sometimes, choosing one side can change your lifestyle and others, as it depends the actions or information being applied in the situation. As a matter of fact, the text or teaching that applies to the case, which the case demonstrates that one side refers that “we” should carry…

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