Personal Log Entry: 2920 - Gemma Roberts, Chief Engineer for the City of Daedalus “It was an ass-kicking Venusian storm that snapped one of our city’s anchoring tethers; a tether that keeps our floating city from drifting away. I immediately sent my COGS down to the surface to make repairs. The planet’s surface temperature at the time was 462 degrees Celsius and pressure at that altitude, 90 atmospheres; that gave my COGS about seven hours before being crushed. And this gave me just enough time
I remember certain things from when I was younger. I remember that when I was five, I saw a man get arrested for smuggling in a coloring book. My parents told me that I was too young to understand what happened. When I was six, I saw two teenagers get arrested because they stayed out of their houses after nine. The police took them away and they were never seen again. I was told that I was too young to understand. When I was seven, I saw a woman get beaten up for food. My parents told me that I
Evolution and Creationism are both fact and theory but the question is which one should be taught in schools? Only a few school distracts have approved the teaching of evolution because it has more senitific evidence than creationism to prove that it is true. According to a new Gallup poll, just 39% of Americans believe in evolution. The Gallup polls also show that those Americans with higher education believe in the theory of evolution as opposed to those with only high school diplomas. The polls
who work in field like “CERN” or with machines like the “Large Hadron Collider”, are the unequal amounts of matter and antimatter created by the Big Bang. According to studies done in particle accelerators, an equal amount of matter and antimatter should have been created due the big bang and canceled each other out leaving just energy. However this isn 't the case, the uneven distribution led to the formation of Planets, Stars,
In society’s current era of technological advancement, video games have gone a long way since they were first created. Video games in the twenty-first century are no longer just toys or junk in the lifestyles of the youth. They have become innovative inventions that not only entertain its users, but also help aid the people in both the academic field and in jobs. The influences that video games bring about in the culture of the youth today are, in fact, not the negative influences that most people
Sacrifice and Saving Private Ryan Spencer Beck Communication 301 May 8th, 2015 Introduction Significance and Rhetorical Problem Saving Private Ryan has been a huge commercial success since its release in 1998. According to Boxofficemojo.com, Saving Private Ryan’s worldwide gross is $481,840,909 with over half that just from the domestic US market alone. Not only was this film a financial success, it is also critically acclaimed. The film has won 79 awards; five of those
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Владимир Ильич Ленин | | Lenin in 1920 | Chairman of the Council of People 's Commissars of the Soviet Union (Premier of the Soviet Union) | In office 30 December 1922 – 21 January 1924 | Preceded by | Position created | Succeeded by | Alexei Rykov | Chairman of the Council of People 's Commissars of the Russian SFSR | In office 8 November 1917 – 21 January 1924 | Preceded by | Position created | Succeeded by | Alexei Rykov | Member of the Politburo
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