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- 121: Nicolaus Copernicus
- ... know as geocentric. They believed this, but they had no scientific proof to support it. It was not until the 2nd century that the famous astronomer, Ptolemy, gave an explanation for the movement of the stars across the sky, that the geocentric theory began to become creditable. That was the theory that existed at the time of Copernicus. Copernicus was not the first one to come up with the idea of a sun-centered (heliocentric) universe. Not too long after Ptolemy theorized about the movement of the stars there was a man by the name of Aristarchus of Samos. He was the first one to propose the idea of a sun-centered universe. The stipulations of Copernicuss theory are: · The earth rotates on its axis daily and rotates around the sun yearly · The other planets circle the earth · As the earth rotates it wobbles like a top · The stars are stationary · The greater the radius of a planets orbit, the more time it takes to make one complete circuit around the sun All these concepts seem totally logical to us, however most ...
- 122: E. E. Cummings
- ... autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did. Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain children guessed(but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew autumn winter spring summer) that noone loved him more by more when by now and tree by leaf she laughed ... and stir by still anyone's any was all to her someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (sleep wake hope and then)they said their nevers they slept their dream stars rain sun moon (and only the snow can begin to explain how children are apt to forget to remember with up so floating many bells down) one day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped ... their sleep noone and anyone earth by april wish by spirit and if by yes. Women and men(both dong and ding) summer autumn winter spring reaped their sowing and went their came sun moon stars rain up into the silence the green up into the silence the green silence with a white earth in it you will (kiss me) go out into the morning the young morning with a ...
- 123: Berkley
- ... infinite mind, the ideas in each mind have some certain distinctions. The finite mind can only contemplate a limited range of thoughts. To illustrate this, let the reader attempt to imagine an infinite number of stars. After some intellection, the reader will realize that it is an impossible task. This is because the human mind can only think in terms of bounded entities; thus, in the above mentioned case, the reader may have thought of a great many stars. However, the stars were finite in number and could therefore not represent the notion of infinity. In short, the finite mind can only conceive finite thoughts. Not only this, but, as previously disgussed, humans can perceive only ...
- 124: Fusion Energy
- Fusion Energy A fusion reaction is one in which two atomic nuclei merge to form a heavier nucleus. this is the process that happens in in the stars. In average stars, like the sun, the process of fusion is converting hydrogen nuclei (or protons) into helium nuclei. There is an enormous amount of kinetic energy and gamma rays released in this process that heat the star's interior, and this realease is what maintains it at the extreamly high temperatures (greater than 10 million K) required to continue the fusion. This process has been making the stars go for billions of years has clear potential as a power source on earth. Once we have started the reaction, Fusion requires no energy and realeases energy in a great surplus. It also has ...
- 125: The American Basketball Association
- ... Basketball Association had a short and wild life, yet it made great contributions to professional basketball. It increased the level of talent, changed the way the game was played, and produced some of the greatest stars to ever play the game. It also caused an increase in player salaries and turned pro basketball into a financial institution. The ABA was a place for untapped talent to emerge. Many players proved themselves ... a rule which said that the draftee did not have to be a college graduate. The NBA had a rule which said that the draftee must have graduated from college. As a result, many college stars began to go straight into the ABA before graduating. One which did this was Moses Malone, he was the first player to come straight out of high school into professional sports. This was a revolutionary ... new league was created which would become the greatest sports institution in the world. During the first combined season of the NBA, four of the top ten scorers and ten of the twenty-four all-stars were from the ABA. The first combined finals had five starters from the ABA. The contribution which the ABA made to professional basketball was amazing. It gave it creativity along with history. The NBA ...
- 126: Paradise Lost 2
- ... Milton has been criticized for glossing over certain contemporary developments in scientific and intellectual thought (the astronomical ambiguities in book VII, for example), eg '.... What if the sun Be centre to the world , and other stars By his attractive virtue and their own Incited, dance about him various rounds?5 Their wander course now high, now low, then still Progressive, retrograde, or standing still, In sixth thou seest, and what if ... manifesto of colonialism through religious dynamics and instability. The schematics of geography and the final mappings that became increasingly important, in so far as territories, progression of colonization and like, even God himself charters the stars in a calculated Genesis He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscibe This universe, an all created things: One foot he centred, and the other turned Round through the vast ... Milton has been criticized for glossing over certain contemporary developments in scientific and intellectual thought (the astronomical ambiguities in book VII, for example), eg '.... What if the sun Be centre to the world , and other stars By his attractive virtue and their own Incited, dance about him various rounds?5 Their wander course now high, now low, then still Progressive, retrograde, or standing still, In sixth thou seest, and what ...
- 127: Does Heaven Exist?
- ... there for religion? And how might science and religion work together? If heaven exists what does it look like? Could it be a gleaming tropical beach with snow, white sand, and turquoise surf with golden stars? Contact is a two-hour synopsis on religion, technology and the search for extraterrestrial life. The movie adapted from a novel written by Carl Sagan, presents one long chain of teasingly open-ended questions about ... mathematical order of the universe must suggest there is some kind of intelligent force responsible (Flank). According to the Bible, God created the universe and all the heavenly bodies, the sun, the moon, and the stars, in six days. But according to contemporary cosmologist the universe began with a great explosion known as the Big Bang theory, after which the stars and galaxies slowly formed over billions of years. Just as Darwin proposed that the evolution of life was a long, slow, and gradual process, so cosmologists now believe that our universe evolves by long ...
- 128: Berkeley's Theory of Immaterialism
- ... infinite mind, the ideas in each mind have some certain distinctions. The finite mind can only contemplate a limited range of thoughts. To illustrate this, let the reader attempt to imagine an infinite number of stars. After some intellection, the reader will realize that it is an impossible task. This is because the human mind can only think in terms of bounded entities; thus, in the above mentioned case, the reader may have thought of a great many stars. However, the stars were finite in number and could therefore not represent the notion of infinity. In short, the finite mind can only conceive finite thoughts. Not only this, but, as previously disgussed, humans can perceive only ...
- 129: Robert Frost - Imagery In His Poetry
- ... be able to touch it (Hadas 58-9). "The cottage is presented with theatrical artfulness...the arrangement of words enhances the affect to inaccessibility" (Hadas 58-9). Cole 4 Poems by Frost that include the stars represent universal truths; they are free of distraction and they clearly identify their limitations (Hadas 164). People do not seem to have reached a point of recognizing the universe's smallness or vastness, so Frost ... fruitless ratiocination. Frosts main abstract poem is "The Bear" for it is "a paradigm of the dialectic that governs nearly all the star poems" (Hadas 160). He observes and records his view of the stars on an astoundingly varied scale that ranges from an entomological delicacy to great perspectives of time and space (Hadas 68). "Theoretical scheme is filled in, in a sympathetically fleshly...way by this poem which depicts ...
- 130: Racism
- ... At the Barcelona Olimpic Games in 1992, 35 countries had no women athletes in their teams, and one of those teams even refused to walk behind a spanish woman athlete at the opening ceremony"http://stars.coe.fr/ta/ta96/ERES1092.HTM Women have had generally fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men. Historically women have been viewed as not only physically but intellectually inferior than men. In the 20th ... the Declaration of Independence. Bibliography 1. http://www.aclu.org/issues/gay/aboutgl.html 2. http://www.oxy.edu/~suarez/legitimacy.htm 3. http://www.tufts.edu/departements/fletcher/multi/texts/BH769.txt 4. http://stars.coe.fr/ta/ta96/ERES1092.HTM 5. http://www.aclu.org/issues/racial/hmre.html 6. http://religioustolerance.org/hom_chur.htm 7. http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_rico.htm 8. http://www.ohiolife.org ...
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