text book regarding black holes, elliptical galaxies, and dark matter. Black holes are very dense objects that nothing, not even light, can escape from its surface. Elliptical galaxies tend to have brighter stars than spiral galaxies. The Milky Way galaxy is a spiral galaxy with a bright core and spiral arms. Dark matter doesn’t react with electromagnetic radiation and makes its presence known only through its exertion of gravitational force. The text book states, “We now estimate that 90% of
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Mental Models and Mindsets Eric Jewell OI/361 May 4, 2015 Val Porter Mental Models / Mindsets AAA Transporting is taking steps to offering new services. There are two employees that are slowing down the process. One, a supervisor, thinks it is not a good idea to expand past our core business. The other, an office worker, thinks the service does not fit our current model and could disrupt relations with other companies. Having these two employees on board through this change is imperative
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Dylan Gordon ENG 4U July 2015 Take a Walk in my Shoes: An Analysis of William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” “Edna St. Vincent Millay once wrote, "And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me."”(A)The quote couples well with the simple pleasures found in William Wordsworth’s poem titled “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”. On “April 15, 1802, Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, were walking near a lake at Grasmere, Cumbria County, England”(B). While
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One thing, I don’t know why It doesn’t even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme To remind myself how I tried so hard In spite of the way you were mocking me Acting like I was part of your property Remembering all the times you fought with me I’m surprised it got so (far) Things aren’t the way they were before You wouldn’t even recognize me anymore Not that you knew me back then But it all comes back to me In the end You kept everything inside and even
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and Crimes of Harry Lavender, by the giving the protagonist Claudia Valentine - a hard boiled detective, the antagonist Harry Lavender – A major crime boss and Sydney each a distinctive voice. John Badham also incorporates this into the film The Hard way with the use of the protagonist John Moss – a hardboiled NYC Cop, the antagonist The Party Crasher – a serial killer and NYC. Emphasis on their voices increases readers’ identification with the text. The protagonists’ distinctive voice expresses their
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The Veil Nebula formed about 8,000 years ago after the death of a star 20 times the size of the Sun in a supernova explosion. Now, a new set of Hubble Telescope videos reveal clear images of its violent beauty. The explosion, lightning fast, plowed into a wall of cool, dense interstellar gas, emitting light. The Nebula is along the edge of a large bubble of low-density gas that was blown into space by the dying star before it exploded. The remnants of the destroyed star are multicolored and stunning
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One might find oneself looking up at the night sky, admiring the many twinkling stars that decorate the dark backdrop. On earth, they just look like shining lights far, far away in outer space. From this far of a distance, they all look almost the same, but there are actually many different types of the bright, beautiful lights called stars. Stars are also very complicated and interesting, being one of the most studied natural phenomenon in America. Stars are massive, exploding balls of intense gas
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Zeta 2 Reticuli, a dim binary system of Sun-like stars only 39.5 light years away in the little constellation of Reticulum is strangely well-known. This system was once identified as the home of the little grey-faced and black-eyed humanoids who allegedly abducted Barney and Betty Hill and ever since has appeared in popular culture as the quintessential location of extraterrestrial mystery. It is 39 light-years away and is thought to be 8 billion years old, older than the Sun. On September 20,
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star is dying, it’s invisible to the human eye, they use special telescopes to look at a Black Hole. They’re not very big, some Black Holes only grow to be the size of one atom. There’s no way Earth can be sucked in a Black Hole because there is no Black Hole close enough to Earth to suck Earth into it. The only way scientists know a black hole is there is because they can see how the Black Hole effects gravity and sucks up the light around it. Red Giant Red Giant stars can reach sizes up to 62 million
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self-confidence? In all likelihood, they didn’t. Consider the many women who have left large corporations to start their own businesses, obviously exhibiting enough confidence to succeed on their own. Judgments about confidence can be inferred only from the way people present themselves, and much of that presentation is in the form of talk. The CEO of a major corporation told me that he often has to make decisions in five minutes about matters on which others may have worked five months. He said he uses this
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