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    The widely believed claim that the moon has physiological effects on humans or other living organisms on Earth is known as the ‘Lunar Effect’. One popular belief stemmed from this topic is that the 29.5-day lunar cycle somehow has a relationship with fertility and the roughly 28-day human menstrual cycle. In the article titled ‘Does The Solar Eclipse Affect Your Period? Some Women Say It Really Does’, it is suggested that some women experienced ‘strange’ symptoms of their periods during the Solar

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    New Moon Magick: Initiation The New Moon has a more inward feel than the Full Moon. The New Moon has a void or empty quality, and therefore can be frightening to those not comfortable with uncertainty. Can you learn to trust the dark? It's the moment when the old passes away and the new is not yet here. That's why it's a powerful time for sending out your prayer, wishes, desires to the Universe. New Moon workings can be done from the day of the New Moon to three-and-a-half days after. The New Moon

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    Chervantis Lee Content Area: 4th Grade Reading Title: Informational Readings on Space Dates: December 5,2016- December 9, 2016 Common Core Standards Addressed CCSS.4. RI.4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. CCSS. 4. .RI.4.2 Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text. CCSS.4 .RI.4.34 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical

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    Moon Project Jessica Davidson Astronomy 7 Observation Time: 8:50 p.m. Obervation 1 A) Date & Location: September 24, 2012. Mt.SAC Campus B) North determined by IPhone App C) Altitude: 37 degrees D) Azimuth: 143 degrees E) F) Waxing Gibbous

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    Name: Lunar Phase Simulator – Student Guide Part I: Background Material Answer the following questions after reviewing the background pages for the simulator. Page 1 – Introduction to Moon Phases Is there a dark side of the moon? (Note: this question can be effectively answered either yes or no, so it is important to explain your reasoning.) Some people refer to the side of the moon that we never see from Earth as the dark side. However, this is inaccurate since the far side is not always

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    “It was a cold January night, a full moon hung in the night sky, uncovering what couldn’t be hidden in that illuminating light, shining so revealingly bright once a month. From the shadows came out 22 women, but when the moon captured them with its beams of light, their innocent faces now bore a smile of vengeance. One by one, the moon revealed the fire in their eyes. All of them wore a white woolen veil, and they walked as one. They circled two young men walking down the street, and forced them

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    Would you rather be a domesticated cat that’s taken care of, or a wild cat that’s free and independent? This paper will be comparing the poems, “The Golden Cat” by Oliver Herford and “The Cat and the Moon.” By William Butler Yeats. First I will be comparing the nature that the cats are referred to. In the first poem, “The Golden Cat” Oliver Herford describes the cat as a “sun.” Here are some reasons why I think he’s referring the cat to the sun. My first piece of evidence that the cat is referred

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    The lunar effect has been a controversy for millions of years. In fact, " no celestial object has inspired more myth and legend than the full moon"(Newton). This shows how the lunar effect has been very controversial. Some reasons that cause the controversy of the lunar effect are the over-reliance of anecdotes instead of scientific evidence, as well as the exaggeration of the media, and the general publics ' inability to define the lunar effect. All of these reasons cause the controversy of the

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    Moon, it should lie directly behind the Earth. The sunlight would be completely blocked off from the Moon because of Earth’s shadow. 2. If Moon phases are caused by the shadow of the Earth on the Moon, the Moon should be a full Moon for most of the lunar month because Earth will not cast a shadow on the Moon unless the Moon is behind the Earth. Model 2: “Moon phases are caused by different angles between the Moon, Earth and Sun” 1. If Moon phases are caused by different angles between the Moon and

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    Moon Research Paper

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    Paragraph 1: The moon has different phases during its orbit around earth. Each phases have a name. At the very beginning of the orbiting stage it is called a new moon. When it’s a new moon the moon is not visible has the sun’s light is on the other side which we can not see. The next phase is a waxing crescent the moon as a little part that is visible in this stage. The waxing crescent looks like a skinny banana. After the waxing crescent is the first quarter. At this point half of the moon is visible

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