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    Contemplative Practice II I chose to do this contemplative practice in the Shakespeare Garden between Dearborn and the Ford building/Tech. I decided on the garden because it is one of the more unique places of solitude in North campus, which is usually very busy and loud throughout the day, commonly demonstrated on Sheridan Road, Tech, SPAC, and Sargent. The first thing I noticed as soon as I walked through the entrance of the garden was the extreme yet natural symmetry of the entire area. From

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    “I knew that even if i were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.” Edwin Hubble (1889-1953)(Edwin) Edwin Hubble was born in Missouri in 1889. Due to the occupation held by his parent, an insurance executive, at just 9 years old he moved to Chicago. Unlike Einstein, and other great scientists or astronomers, Hubble was an astounding student. At his high school graduation the principal said, “Edwin Hubble, I have watched you for four years and I have never seen you study for ten minutes

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    Unaccustomed Earth

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    Unaccustomed Earth Essay In today's day and age, it's easier to talk to other people than ever. But, that doesn't mean that people will necessarily open up to each other. Rather, sometimes we have a tendency to hide from each other, overwhelmed by everything that is going on in the world. In the last three stories of Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri tells the story of Hema and Kaushik, two children of immigrant parents. In the first book, "Once in a Lifetime", Kaushik's mom dies of breast cancer

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    challenged for the same reason. On the other hand, the design argument focuses less on how the existence of God could be explained in the terms of a “catalyst”, and more how there is a statistically improbable amount of order in our universe (called Maximally Orderly Huge Universe”). Put simply, the design argument states that since there

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    extraterrestrial activity have evolved as technology has, but they realize now that finding these aliens will not be as straightforward as they think, considering they now know that there is a whole universe out there. They have gained accuracy, teaching themselves that they cannot just send something out into the universe, expecting to get an answer back. They must use a certain type of communication method, making sure to have everything right. For instance, when using a laser, they must make sure that

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    represents disorder and darkness, the kind of state in which the universe was before the existence of earth and life. Some other philosophers saw Chaos as the true foundation of reality V. 12. I. Cronos/Cronus II. Greek Mythology, Hesiod’s poem “Theogony” III. Cronos or Cronus appears in “Theogony” as the youngest of Uranus’s and Gaia’s (earth) children, whom he castrated into becoming the ruler of the universe. It must be mentioned that

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    from another planet or universe. People think they're real because there are other planets and universes, government areas for aliens, and mysterious videos and theories. Most of these reasons could be true, some of them may not. These are the reasons why I think aliens are real. NASA finds new planets every year. Some of them even has liquid water on it. Thinking that humans are the only living thing is a bit odd. With new planets being discovered, being in other universes, there could be another

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    The Number One Mystery in Our Universe Dark matter is a mystery in astrophysics that could not be explained until the 1970s. Even now, with the understanding of space we have, cosmologists do not know a plethora of knowledge about dark matter. Dark matter is non-baryonic matter that cannot be detected in normal ways and was not discovered until the 1930s, but is one of the main components of our universe. Dark matter makes up about 27 percent of our entire universe (Dark Energy, Dark Matter - NASA

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    Creation stories The Native Americans and the Holy Bible have differences and similarities that we can see from the animals to punishment and more. These stories have different versions of land and water and the gods are different in many ways the iroquois have the animals helping in ways the bible’s way is slight. The differences that are in the stories, Iroquois first. The iroquois have the animals that go down and help the sky goddess get soil to live on but only one lives through it to get

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    The Book Of Genesis

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    The Book of Genesis starts by telling us how God created the Heavens and the earth, day and night, skies and sea, animals, man, and woman. The book of Genesis tells us of God's plan for humanity, the nature of God as our creator, the value of the human life. Genesis answers some of life's questions. Why are we here? How did everything come to be? We are told about man's shortcomings and failures, but we are offered hope. In the story of Adam and Eve, we learn about the consequences of disobedience

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