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    development by investigating children’s understanding about the structure of the earth. This main focus is to establish an understanding about mental models created by children and discover how these concepts change in association with age and gender. According to Vosniadou and Brewer (1992), mental models are dynamic in nature, generated by children in response to questions asked and used to detect their perceptions of the earth. Mental models are categorized to be naïve, synthetic or scientific. Naïve

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    Yesterday I got a new neighbor. He says he is a member of the flat earth society. But he is very wrong. The earth is not flat at all, it is round. I’m going to figure out a way to make him believe that the earth is not flat. Then he will not be a member of the flat earth society anymore and he can go prove to his friends that it is not flat. Well to start off, Earth is round and everyone knows that. The earth was formed from clouds and dust which created stars and other things. The earth’s core

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    internet have allowed for many false scientific theories to become increasingly popular in today’s society. These theories have become widespread and intertwined with common beliefs to the point where many of them are now synonymous with actual theories. The flat earth theory is a claim that suggests the earth isn’t a three-dimensional sphere, but instead a flat, two-dimensional circle (Flat Earth). The theory of plate tectonics outlines how continental drift occurs as a result of the lithosphere

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    The earth is round due to the fact that when we look up into space, we can see that the other planets are round, so we can infer that earth must be round as well. Another reasoning can be how we have time zones, which means the sun hit different places at different times on earth. The sun also travels lower when you get away from the equator. At night, the stars change when you go from north to south. Lastly, during a solar eclipse, the shadow of the earth on the moon is curved. The idea of a flat

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    Mario Vargas Llosa tried to find a rational reason for the overwhelming victory of Spanish explorers over the sophisticated Aztec and Inca empires. He attributed the defeat to the social practices of the empires. Both instituted a pyramid like society with the emperor at the top and his subjects below him. This opposed the emphasis on individualism that western civilization had cultured. No traces of individual thoughts or acknowledgment came from these empires. This ant-like system may have

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    history civilization. In particular, the perception of ANE society in terms of how they described the picture of the universe as a whole. Today, one can create a better map with the main features of the universe due to science and technology has evolved. At the same time, to have a better understanding of how the earth, the sun, and starts functioned within their area of operation. Modern society understands that the earth is round not flat, that it travels around the sun not the opposite, and that

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    the different ways that people of this era (1992/2021) evoke emotions. To understand how people of this time feel you must first understand the people that are still existent. There are “Regulars”, people who escaped Earth in time and there are “Specials” who stuck around the Earth and are limited to feelings due to radiation poisoning. Descending from their home planet of Mars, come the androids also known as Nexus-6 bots. These bots are programmed to try and mimic human emotions in an attempt to

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    Liberty 5-3000 leave their society to be free from the conformity, they find a home from the “Unmentionable times” and naturally start to explore. Eventually Equality 7-2521 finds a book and reads it, deciding that “[He is] done with the monster of ‘We’, the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame”(59). The use of words like “serfdom” and “shame” make the reader get a sense of what the society was like for them. By having the reader realize how society was bounding and sufferable

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    countless times, the modern Flat Earth Society founded 1956 by Samuel Shenton gains traction nowadays due to the public’s increased distrust in reliable scientific sources. Whereas phrenology’s prevalence could be explained by the lack of necessary instruments to provide accurate results at a time, the belief in flat, disk-shaped earth contradicts both scientific evidence and common sense (e.g. in disk earth topography, the south pole is a giant ice wall surrounding earth, despite the south pole having

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    evidence, the strongest among us still prevail with the truth. Those who prevail write conspiracy theories for those who are too weak to do it themselves. In turn, the weak must read these conspiracy theories and become enlightened. In this way, we as a society will finally learn the truth about the biggest, most influential lies that plague our world. The top 4 conspiracy theories that meet this criteria are both eye-opening and life changing. They must not go unacknowledged. Sitting comfortably at spot

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