...Francis Scott Key was the author of The Star-Spangled Banner. In 1814, Key wrote a poem about what he observed during the Fort McHenry battle. The first time the poem was published was in Baltimore newspapers and spread along the East coast in seventeen other newspapers. Also, in 1916 Woodrow Wilson declared it to be the national anthem of the armed forces. Although it wasn’t until March of 1931 for the poem, originally called “The Defence of Fort McHenry”, to be announced as America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The song is a symbol of national pride and we continue to sing this to show our nation’s endurance through the war. The song was first performed in 1889 by the United States Navy during a ceremony that lowered and raised the flag. The first public performance was on October 19, 1814. A Baltimore theater, known as the “Old Drury,” performed the song after a play. The United States Marine Band played the anthem publicly in 1890. The U.S. Army and U.S. Military Academy at West Point both...
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...Francis Scott Key's "The Star Spangled Banner" The Star Spangled Banner was declared to be our national anthem on March 3, 1931 by a congressional resolution which was signed by Herbert Hoover. This song has been the spirit of our country and has lead many Americans to strive for a better nation and to stand against those opposing us. Written by Francis Scott Key during the war of 1812, this song has been an emblem of our nation's greatness for many hearts across the country. Francis Scott Key was born to wealthy plantation owner, John Ross Key and his wife, Ann Phoebe Penn Dagworthy in Frederick County, Maryland on August 1, 1779. Francis started learning at home until he turned 10. He then attended an Annapolis grammar school. He then went to attend St. John College. After attending college he went back to his hometown to become a lawyer. He then went on to wed Mary Taylor Lloyd and with her gave birth to 11 children. By 1805 he ran his own municipality...
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...One night in the early fall of 1814, the governmental buildings of America were intensely engulfed in flames. The destruction of the nation’s capital beckoned the British troops to advance into Baltimore, and lead 25 hours of bombardments. With each explosion, the sky lit in red glares. An American lawyer, Francis Scott Key, was held captive within one of Britain’s naval vessels, inquisite to the outcome of the war in his mother country’s favor. The following day, through the bomb’s wavering fog, the American flag flew over the fortress. Inspired by his country’s victory, Key wrote the lines to “The Star-Spangled Banner”, the national anthem of the United States of America. Francis Scott Key was born on August 1st, 1779, in Frederick County, Maryland, United States of America. Key was of a wealthy and reverent upbringing. He grew up with his family on their estate, the Terra Rubra. Key nearly joined the Episcopal priesthood, the church of England succeeded in the American colonies. Alternatively, influenced by his judge of a father, he studied to become a lawyer. Key passed the bar examinations and proceeded as a lawyer in his private practice. He regularly appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court during his earlier times as a legal representative. In 1804, he and his wife, Mary Tayloe Lloyd, moved and settled into their...
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...The constellation Pictor, or The Easel, is a cluster of stars located in the SQ1 quadrant. There are 3 stars in this constellation visible to the unaided human eye, aPic, bPic, and cPic. The shape of the constellation is an easel and palette, although the name itself, Pictor, means painter in Latin. Pictor, or Equuleus Pictoris, is surrounded by the constellations Caelum(the sculptor's tool),Carina(the keel of the argo), Columba(the dove), Dorado(the Swordfish and the Goldfish, Puppis(poop deck of the argo) and Volans(the flying fish). The optimal time to see pictor is at 9:00 during the month of January. The constellation Pictor does not have a creation myth, as it was labeled by the French astronomer Abbè Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1756...
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...Richmonde Hotel Ortigas | | | 3/17/2016 | Case Context and Analysis on Web and BAR | | | Richmonde Hotel Ortigas CASE context on its WEB AND BAR marketing channels COMPANY BACKGROUND Operating since 1999, Prestige Hotels and Resorts, Inc. or PHRI is the inaugural plunge of Filipino-owned Megaworld Corporation into the hospitality industry. Megaworld is regarded as one of the Philippines’ leading urban developers concentrating on large-scale projects set in prime developments geared primarily to the middle and high-income markets. Richmonde Hotel Ortigas or RHO is the first property built and managed by PHRI. It opened its doors in 2000 at the heart of Pasig’s central business district, the Ortigas Center. It is a four-star hotel brand fully committed to meet the preferences of the globetrotting business executive and world-class traveler. Indulging the market to a first-rate and individually tailored style of service, RHO became prominent for its tagline, “Distinctly Richmonde, Distinctly Personal.” INDUSTRY OVERVIEW The hospitality industry is a broad category of fields within the service industry. The majority of business niches are composed of only a handful of different businesses, but this field applies to nearly any company that is focused on customer satisfaction and meeting leisurely needs rather than basic ones. One of the most defining aspects of this industry is that it focuses on customer satisfaction. While this is true of nearly every business...
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...an elaborate explanation of the birth of a star stretched out into an array of words. The "Red Giant"a dying star in it's last stages of evolution, Is the star that will soon be replaced towards the end of the poem concluding a new star. The title Super Nova meaning a star is born contributes to the readers understanding because it is the "symbol" Object or action that means more than it's literally meaning, of the poem and the whole meaning of it really. The author Udiah I don't think is speaking directly, I think the poem is in third person and he makes it seem as if the planets are telling the story themselves or some foreign force. The situation in the poem is the amount of force in outer space that it takes for an old star to die and new one to come about. Although the poem is very vast and interesting there are some references that need explaining such as how the birth of a star happens exactly, I don't think an average reader would understand necessarily the science behind it. Some of the words I looked up helped me find better meaning in the poem, Nuclear Fission a nuclear reaction of a radioactive decay process in which the nucleus of a particle splits into smaller parts. This particular word is used at the beginning of the poem, means to me that the red giant has exhausted it's supply of hydrogen and can no longer hold it all in anymore, there forth letting go. The poem develops on an Idea, an idea of a new born star. I think that Udiah must have some interest...
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...“Star Light, Star Bright, Where are you now?” As I was reading the article, I was surprised to know that there was such thing as “light pollution”. It was rare for me to hear this kind of pollution. The cause of this kind of pollution is too much light directed toward the sky. I even wonder at times when I look up unto the skies and see no stars at all. I didn’t realize that this was because of light pollution. It was because of this article that I’ve learned a lot about light pollution. The presence of light pollution makes it impossible for us to see the stars, because there are way too many artificial lights that brighten up the night. Few of the causes of light pollution are: bright lights from homes and buildings, light from vehicles, street light that have a shape of a cylinder, and billboards lit form the bottom. Starless nights may not be a big problem for us, ordinary people, but for astronomers who study the heavenly bodies, this is already a huge problem. Even with the use of telescopes, the glare of the light may still affect their observations which results into inaccurate results. Astronomers are not the only ones affected by this pollution. Even the nocturnal animals are affected too. Light pollution could ruin their natural habitat and overall behavior. There are ways to reduce the effect of light pollution, and this is through the use of: Light with timers, Motion-sensor lighting, and Full...
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...Universe Works In this video, we were treated to a visionary description of how the solar system and planets were formed. The producer and director of this feature did an excellent job in explaining and depicting the theory of how our solar system was formed billions of years ago. As an amateur astronomer, I truly appreciated the detailed facts because they were easy to follow; there was not a lot of scientific mumbo-jumbo that only astronomy professionals could understand. My favorite element about this documentary was that there was such detail and color in the graphics that I felt like I was actually in space, close enough to the stars and planets. The images of the Eagle nebula and the Horse head nebula were remarkable; the image from the Hubble telescope of the Orion nebula with the spinning disk of dust and debris spinning around a young star was so extraordinary. It blew my mind how that tiny image was indicating that a solar system was being born. The only thing that left me a little perturbed was the narrative about how eventually Earth will collide with another planet and it will be the end of humankind as we know it. I understand that it is a cycle and obviously our solar system was created by the resulting violent chaos from billions of year ago, so it is likely that in the future, Earth will be destroyed in the same way. It was just a little scary and depressing to hear that in the film and then see a powerful simulation of a planet crashing into Earth. However...
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...brightest appearing stars in the sky would give you a biased luminosity scale and an unrepresentative sample of stars. -The stellar parallax measures the relative distances from stars to different positions of the Earth in order to measure luminosity. It is done by using distant stars as a fixed reference system so that if a star is observed in respect to the distant stars today, and then measured again in six months, a small shift in movement will be recorded. It is absolutely necessary for there to be “distant stars” or less bright stars as a frame of reference otherwise the angle measurements would have nothing to compare against. Thus, it creates a biased scale of recorded luminosity. 2. Explain the overall concept of pressure support (against gravity) in stars and why stars are unstable if they are not generating energy in their cores. -The concept of pressure support can be explained through the internal gas pressure. The internal gas pressure is attempting to expand and dissipate our ball of gas, while the self-gravity of the gas (due to its mass) is trying to collapse the ball. As the gas gets hotter, the internal gas pressure increases. Then, it reaches a point of stabilization between gravity and pressure support. -Stars are unstable if they are not generating energy in their cores because the energy generation prevents the collapse of the star. Energy generation is occurring in its core, and this provides gas pressure which prevents collapse of the star. Thus, if the...
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...a fairly ordinary but large star. b. The Sun is the focal point of our solar system, because all of the planets orbit the Sun. 2) What is our Milky Way galaxy and the sun’s position in it? a. The Milky Way galaxy is where our solar system is located in the universe. b. The Milky Way galaxy is home to over 100 billion stars and the Sun is one of those stars. 3) What is the Big Bang and what does it say about the age of the universe? a. The Big Bang is when the universe began. b. The Big Bang is thought to have happened about 14 billion years ago. 4) What is meant by the phase “looking out in the universe is looking back in time?” a. When viewing the universe we see a vast amount of stars. b. The light from stars must travel great distances to reach us, and these distances take years. c. So when we see a star we are seeing the star as it was when the light first started traveling. b. Where are we in the universe? 1) What is Earth’s place in the solar system? a. The Earth is our home. b. The Earth is the only planet known to sustain human life. 2) How close are the nearest stars to the Sun as compared to the distance between the Sun and the Earth? 3) How large is our Milky Way galaxy? a. The Milky Way galaxy is home to our solar system. b. The Milky Way galaxy has a 100,000 light-year diameter. 4) How many stars are estimated to exist in our galaxy? a. There are roughly 100 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. b. So many stars that it would take someone’s...
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...Life Cycle of Stars The Birth of a Star In space, there exists huge clouds of gas and dust. These clouds consist of hydrogen and helium, and are the birthplaces of new stars. Gravity causes these clouds to shrink and become warmer. The body starts to collapse under its own gravity, and the temperature inside rises. After the temperature reaches several thousand degrees, the hydrogen molecules are ionized (electrons are stripped from them), and they become single protons. The contraction of the gas and the rise in temperature continue until the temperature of the star reaches about 10,000,000 degrees Celsius (18,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit). At this point, nuclear fusion occurs in a process called proton-proton reaction. Briefly, proton-proton reaction is when four protons join together and two are converted into neutrons; an 4He nucleus is formed. During this process, some matter is lost and converted to energy as dictated by Einstein's equation. At this point, the star stops collapsing because the outward force of heat balances the gravity. The Hydrogen Burning Stage The proton-proton reaction occurs during a period called the hydrogen-burning state, and its length depends on the star's weight. In heavy stars, the great amount of weight puts a large amount of pressure on the core, raising the temperature and speeding up the fusion process. These heavy stars are very bright, but only live for a short amount of time. After the energy from this deuteron-hydrogen fusion process...
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...A Star is Born Stars are quite possibly the oldest, molecule possessing organism in the vast universe that harbors all infinite existence. The oldest star discovered is an estimated 13.2 billion years old (Stetson). How stars have come to exist was once as unknown as what they are comprised of. To find out how this cosmic, infinite universe came into existence, astronomers must first bring everything down to a more basic, molecular, atomic level. A star’s life is started as a collapsing cloud of hydrogen; helium and some other elements are pulled inwards by its own gravity, forming a core. Through nuclear fusion, most of the hydrogen is converted into helium and this is what keeps the star constantly burning for billions and billions of years. A star’s internal pressure is what keeps it from collapsing under its own massive gravity. However, if a star becomes too massive, and the internal pressure can no longer support itself, the star will collapse, receding into a black hole. Until recently, astronomers had observed that there were young stars in the universe, but had never quite exactly understood how they entered into our realm of existence, until now. The Herschel space telescope was launched on May 14, 2009 and is the largest, post powerful infrared telescope in space, to our knowledge. In 2010, Herschel made two unrelated discoveries that were equally as astounding to astronomers. The first challenged our previous beliefs about star birth and the second provided a backbone...
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...Table of Contents 1.INTRODUCTION 4 2.PROBLEM STATEMENT 5 3.MOTIVATION 5 4.DELIMITATION 6 5.METHODOLOGY 6 6.EXECUTIVE SUMARY 9 6.1 What type of service does our project offer? 9 6.2 Vision,Mission and Goal of the project 9 7.MARKET ANALYSIS 10 7.1 Demand in Copenhagen Hotel Market 11 7.2 Supply in Copenhagen Hotel Market 13 7.3 Trends and Outlook 14 8. MARKETING STRATEGY 16 8.1 Growth strategy 16 8.2 SWOT for “The Edge” project 16 8.3 Competitive position 18 8.4 Competitive advantage 19 9. MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION 19 10.SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR HOTEL TIVOLI INN 21 11. CONCLUSION 25 12. LIST OF SOURCES/LITTERATURE 26 1.INTRODUCTION Tivoli is an amusement park and one of the most popular attractions in Denmark. It is the world`s second oldest amusement park and fifth most visited in Europe. Tivoli is situated in the centre of Copenhagen and exists since 1843. Starting from the rides and adventurous attractions and passing through the “scenographical towns”, music events, theaters, beautiful and sophisticated gardens, Tvoli brings joy and entertainment for both local and international visitors. Tivoli is developing and improving with every single year. Besides the regular attractions for an amusement park, Tivoli gives the environment for music, theatre and business events to happen. “The Concert Hall”, “Tivoli Congress Center”, “Tivoli Hotel” and “Tivoli Festival” are one of the most emblematic places in Tivoli. Besides entertainment , Tivoli...
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...The Stars, what you think of them, a starry night... By: Ralph Jann U. Gijapon Your better than the best, you’re the best, the very best... The stars in the very night are so bright. Glimmering in colour, they shine the best. Being teased by the brightness of their bright shine you will never think of something else. If you will just think deep and put the stars in your life it may be like that so much. I imagine myself with the stars putting myself into it you can imagine your might be in stars. I can associate the stars in my life as a very important thing in me. I can think of one star be like tchr. Niña glimmering of bright red angry to a big star as Neil. =] I think of another set of stars as my family always glowing there for me. They are one of the best stars I ever had. One star will all reign that’s my special someone that I love her so much. The best thing about it is that they never stop shining unto you unless you just hate them or hurt them. Always remember they are just there for you and will never left u forever that is one thing very best. This people are very special to me. They make me to do this so I do it for them. And now I thank someone who is very special to me. She’s the best. =] Thank u very much for all the things u gave to me it’s very nice of u. Thank u and I love u so much. Have a nice day...
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...of these 2. Which of the following can't be considered an acceptable hypothesis?" A. Dark matter, (invisible matter which still has gravitational attraction), determines the orbits of stars in the the galaxy B. Mass increases with velocity C. Matter came into existence together with time D. The megagalaxies of the universe will become invisible to each other in time. E. all are acceptable hypotheses 3. A theory is an integrated explanation of numerous “proven”_____. A. facts B. laws C. controls D. hypotheses E. guesses 4. What is the correct sequence of steps in the scientific method? I. State a problem II. Analyze and interpret data III. Develop a hypothesis IV. Share the results with other scientists V. Design and perform experiment to test the hypothesis A. I – II - III - IV – V B. III – I - V – II – IV C. V – IV – III – II – I D. I – III – V – II – IV E. V – II – I – III - IV 5. Ptolemy's model sought to explain retrograde motion by _____. A. adding circles to epicycle orbits B. adding circles to elliptical orbits C. adding epicycles to elliptical orbits D. adding epicycles to circular orbits 6. Due to retrograde motion some planets will rise in the west and set in the east. True or False 7. Which of the following is correctly ordered from largest to smallest in size? A. Moon, neutron star, white dwarf, galaxy B....
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