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- 15931: Saturn
- ... 1.427 billion km with a period of 29.4577 tropical years. The orbit is inclined 2.49 degrees to the ecliptic, or Earth orbital, plane and has an eccentricity of 0.0556. At Saturn's distance from the Sun, it receives only 0.01 of the unit solar radiation flux that the Earth does. Among planets in the solar system, Saturn is second in size only to Jupiter; Saturn has an equatorial diameter of 120,660 km. Its volume would enclose about 769 Earth-sized bodies. Saturn's internal rotation period, defined by periodic radio emissions, is 10.657 hours. This fast rotation is responsible for Saturn's equatorial bulge and oblate shape. The equatorial-polar-diameter ratio is 1.12 to 1. Saturn's mass is 5.686 X 10 to the power of 26 kg , or 95.147 times the ...
- 15932: American Indian Wars
- American Indian Wars There is perhaps a tendency to view the record of the military in terms of conflict, that may be why the U.S. Army’s operational experience in the quarter century following the Civil War became known as the Indian wars. Previous struggles with the Indian, dating back to colonial times, had been limited. There was a period where the ... fewer than a thousand remained. The army and the Bureau of Indian Affairs went along with and even encouraged the slaughter of the animals. By destroying the buffalo herds, the whites were destroying the Indian’s main source of food and supplies. The only thing the Indians could do was fight to preserve their way of life. There was constant fighting among the Indian and whites as the Indians fought ...
- 15933: Neptune
- ... planet of the gas giants. It has an equatorial diameter of 49,500 kilometers (30,760 miles) and is the eighth planet from the sun. If Neptune were hollow, it could contain nearly 60 Earth's. Neptune orbits the Sun every 165 years. It has eight moons, six of which were found by Voyager 2. A day on Neptune is 16 hours and 6.7 minutes. Neptune was discovered on September ... 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle, of the Berlin Observatory. Neptune got its named from the Roman God of the Sea. Much of what is know today about Neptune was discovered in 1989 by the U.S Voyager 2 spacecraft during its 1989 flyby f Neptune. Neptune as compared to Earth is 3.9 times the diameter, 30 times the distance from the sun, 17 times as massive, and 0.3 times ... rock, water, liquid ammonia and methane. The outer third is a mixture of heated gases comprised of hydrogen, helium, water and methane. The atmospheric composition is 85% Hydrogen, 13% Helium, and 2% methane. The planet's atmosphere, particularly the outer layers, contains substantial amounts of methane gas. Absorption of red light by the atmospheric methane is responsible for Neptune's deep blue color. Neptune is a dynamic planet with several ...
- 15934: Thomas Edison and His Inventions
- ... Graham Bell was the first to patent, in 1876. By the end of 1877 Edison had developed the carbon-button transmitter that is still used today in telephone speakers and microphones. Many of Thomas Edison’s inventions including the carbon transmitter were in response to demands for new products and improvements. In 1877, he achieved his most unique discovery, the phonograph. During the summer of 1877 Edison was attempting to devise ... replaced the strip of paper wrapped in tinfoil. Many people would not believe what they were hearing including a leading French scientist who declared it to be a trick device of a ventriloquist. The public’s amazement was quickly followed by universal approval. Edison became famous all around the world and was dubbed the Wizard of Menlo Park, although ten years passed before the phonograph was transformed form a laboratory curiosity ... and most commonly used invention is the incandescent light bulb. American scientists including Samuel Langley needed a highly sensitive instrument that could be used to measure minute temperature changes in heat emitted from the Sun’s corona during a solar eclipse along the rocky mountains on July 29,1878. To please those needs Edison invented a “microtasimeter” employing a carbon button. This was a time when great advances were being ...
- 15935: The Colors of Daisy Buchanan
- The Colors of Daisy Buchanan Color and quality of light play an essential part in F. Scoot Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”. They not only describe the physical aspects of each character and their surroundings, but they also help to convey certain aspects of each character’s personality. You can tell a lot by a person just by knowing what colors they wear and surround themselves in. Daisy Buchanan is described over and over again in the book and bright and white ... out the motivation for her actions. The color most often associated with Daisy is white. Usually white can help convey innocence and purity. In this case white also seems to represent cleanliness, which in Daisy’s case is also conveyed as a sign of elegance and wealth. “Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool ...
- 15936: The Last Of The Mohicans
- ... use of emotions over reason. Through his romantic writings, Cooper is able to captivate the reader and led them on journey through his imaginary world. The setting in The Last of the Mohicans exhibits Cooper s historical romantic writing. The novel takes place in the American frontier. It is a place of wild and virgin nature. (Roundtree 52) The immense beauty and threat of danger from its terrain creates an exotic ... impression on the reader. The mystique of the frontier entices the reader and allows their imagination to soar. Fred Lewis Pattee expresses his feelings on the use of the setting in The Historical Romance: Cooper s The Last of the Mohicans, when he says: At every step throughout the romance the reader finds himself in dim, mysterious forests that stretch on every side into the unknown. All of the nameless thrills ... of wild life in the woods; and we tremble to feel that perhaps all about us are malignant beings from whom it is impossible to hide His descriptions are in reality lyric poems. (213) Cooper s descriptions of the natural scenery is picturesque and striking. (Parkmam 194) Cooper describes the frontier so vividly that the reader feels transported into the novel. Through his descriptive writings of nature, Cooper shows his ...
- 15937: The Bluest Eyes
- A Search For A Self Finding a self-identity is often a sign of maturing and growing up. This becomes the main issue in Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eyes. Pecola Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, and Pauline Breedlove are such characters that search for their identity through others that has influenced them and by the lifestyles that they have. First, Pecola Breedlove ... accepted into society due to the beauty factor that the norm has. Cholly Breedlove, her father, is a drunk who has problems that he takes out of Pecola sexually and Pauline physically. Pauline is Cholly’s wife that is never there for her daughters. Pacola is a little black girl has a hard time finding herself. Brought up as a poor unwanted girl, she desires the acceptance and love of society ... focal point of their mockery. As if it were not bad enough being ridiculed by children her own age, adults also had to mock her. Mr. Yacowbski as a symbol for the rest of society's norm, treats her as if she were invisible. Geraldine, a colored woman, who refused to tolerate "niggers", happened to walk in while Pecola was in her house. By having an adult point out to ...
- 15938: A Review of the Movie: The Usual Suspects
- ... only to end at a point far different from where it seemed you were heading at any time that makes this movie. Writer Christopher McQuarrie and director Bryan Singer present the viewer with the story's main mystery in the very opening scene. For without an introduction, besides the disorienting subtitle that this happened last night, the movie opens on a burning boat in a harbor. The first character we see ... ruling out any possibilities. Accepting that, the Keaton theory is quite a solid one. The case begins in the holding cell, when we first see our band together. It seems they only know each other's reputations, and act upon that. The mild shock and disbelief expressed be these hardened criminals at the fact that "Dean Keaton has hung up his spurs" establishes for the audience that this Keaton is known ... Keaton expresses remorse at having to jump town without being able to say goodbye to Edie. But it is not very long before Agent Kujan clears things up a bit. By quickly running through Keaton's history, the indictments, the cover-ups, the prison time, the faked death, the lost witnesses, his image is brought back into that shady realm. Shortly thereafter, a quick almost inaudible exchange between Keaton and ...
- 15939: Hansel And Gretel Man Vs Women
- ... way for parents to bond with their children. But something the parents may not know is the meaning behind fairy tales. Different versions of the same tale may tell a much different story. Both Sexton's "Hansel and Gretel" and Grimm's "Hansel and Gretel" have the same basic plot. Grimm's version is for children, while Sexton's version is suited towards an older age group. Both fairytales explain how parents should treat their children and also what the different roles of a woman and ...
- 15940: The Bluest Eyes - A Search For Identity
- A Search For A Self Finding a self-identity is often a sign of maturing and growing up. This becomes the main issue in Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eyes. Pecola Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, and Pauline Breedlove are such characters that search for their identity through others that has influenced them and by the lifestyles that they have. First, Pecola Breedlove ... accepted into society due to the beauty factor that the norm has. Cholly Breedlove, her father, is a drunk who has problems that he takes out of Pecola sexually and Pauline physically. Pauline is Cholly’s wife that is never there for her daughters. Pacola is a little black girl has a hard time finding herself. Brought up as a poor unwanted girl, she desires the acceptance and love of society ... focal point of their mockery. As if it were not bad enough being ridiculed by children her own age, adults also had to mock her. Mr. Yacowbski as a symbol for the rest of society's norm, treats her as if she were invisible. Geraldine, a colored woman, who refused to tolerate "niggers", happened to walk in while Pecola was in her house. By having an adult point out to ...
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