The Discovery of Heaven

advancement, Galileo also designed a homemade geometric compass. With these inventions, he would discover the orbit of many planets and also sunspots. Galileo would also identify the phases of Venus and the rings of Saturn. In addition to these amazing discoveries, Galileo also made great contributions in the study of physics. This contribution to physics provided guidance to Isaac Newton in the 17th century. Galileo had proved the famous experiment that all objects fall at the same rate, no…

their life has a direct correlation to what happens after they die. The Christian Bible states that depending on how you life your life God will decide on whether you entire heaven or are forced to go to hell. Judaism focuses more on life and doesn't specify much on the after death, it is my understanding though that their heaven has an open door policy. Buddhists believe in a cycle of death and rebirth called samsara - through karma and eventual enlightenment, they hope to escape samsara and…

Colton Cahill ENG105 02/19/2016 Mayan Astronomy When you think of “Mayan Astronomy” you probably think “End of the world in 2012,” but there is more to it than that. You might even say they were crazy, and didn’t know what they were doing. Their incredibly accurate astronomical calculations and sophisticated mathematics would probably prove you wrong though. Those calculations were all steeped in religion and omen, their priests discerning the very will of the gods behind the occurrences of the…

Book Report – The Book Thief The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak, is a historically fictive novel set in Nazi Germany, at the very beginning of WWII. The Book Thief is about a young orphaned girl by the name of Leisel Meminger living during the coming of age of WWII. As Death narrates, we watch Leisel as a young girl, travelling with her mother and brother to meet her foster parents. Sadly, her younger brother Werner dies during the trip. During her brother’s funeral, she finds a book…

in altitude above Newark brought it one step closer to heaven.” (Roth 5) Upon looking at the tailored lawns and the enlarged sun, Neil immediately reflect back to his own living arrangements where his Aunt and Uncle “[share] a Mounds bar in the cindery darkness of their alley, on beach chairs, each cool breeze sweet to them as the promise of afterlife.” (Roth 9) While the suburbs feel like he is brought closer to heaven, the attainment of heaven in his city life is a mere breeze in the wind.…

allowed the discovery of continents possible and it is the main reason why we have diversity in the world. The food we eat, the language we learn to speak, the clothes we buy, and the education we obtain, come from all parts of the world. How and who allowed trade and communication among other continents happen? History back in 1492, Christopher Columbus and the Portuguese set sail across the Atlantic ocean. The expedition resulted in the discovery of the New World and Africa. The discovery of…

1) Who was Abbott Suger and why was he important? What surprising “building material” did he use? Abbot Suger is the man behind the visionary masterpiece, Saint Denis, which is a stained-glass piece of work that created historical importance in Cathedral glass structure. He is very important for his early work of gothic architecture and his style inspired many builders for years. The building material he incorporated in his work was the concept of light to reflect a symbol of god inside the…

credit they deserve, their achievements can be found in numerous different places, such as ordinary households to the largest hospitals around the world. To summarize, Al Haytham’s discoveries in the field of optics has allowed so many successors to create technologies using lights, eventually leading to the discovery of electricity. Al Zahrawi was a pioneer in the world of surgery, developing new ways to comfort patients and better operate on them. The contributions will continue to impact the…

Galileo made a countless number of amazing discoveries when he pointed his telescope up to the sky. The most important and revolutionary discovery was that all planets rotated around the Sun, not our Earth, which had been the widely held theory until then and he challenged the Catholic Church's for this. This discovery created and spread a huge fuss between the people who followed the ancient belief of Greek and Egyptian proto-scientists…

Throughout time cultures and societies have come up with stories, created systems of government and have made their own beliefs. The story of how the earth was created has been controversial but many of the stories have similarities and differences that make you wonder how they came to know them. Some documents such as civic documents and creation documents have been found to be similar and different in many ways even though they`re known to be created in different time periods. Some of these…