Mercury Mountaineer

Could you imagine living without the sun? The short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury portrays a girl named Margot, who gets treated in a way that she shouldn’t have been treated. Because of this, she ends up missing a chance to experience a rare event that she was looking forward to. Margot and her classmates live underground on the planet Venus, where the sun shines only once every seven years. Besides that, the planet experiences endless rain. Margot, the main character, knows that she

These planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, which are made of solid, dense rock. Even though these planets are composed of similar materials, they all have unique characteristics that set them apart from other planets. Mercury is the first planet in the solar system. It was named after the Roman messenger god because it has the fastest orbit around the sun. Mercury is also the smallest planet in our solar system with a diameter of only 3,031 miles. Because Mercury is so small, its gravitational

To have someone that you love with all of your being but does not return those affections at the same level can be tortuous. When left with these feelings Gaspara Stampa chose to write, hiding her subtle critiques of her lover to only the trained eye. In the poem “4” Stampa imagines her beloved’s birth and how he gifted with all of the greatest qualities in the world, yet he is still not a perfect lover. This is done through word choice, cataloging, anthropizing, and word placement. Through these

“All Summer In A Day” by Ray Bradbury is a short story about a girl named Margot and her experiences on the planet Venus. Margot moved to Venus from Earth when she was 4 years old, old enough to remember the sun. On Venus, the sun only comes out every 7 years for a couple hours, other than this, it’s always raining. The other children on this planet bullied Margot, they were mean to her because she could remember the sun, and they didn’t. One lesson the story suggests is that when you don’t think

Cheyanne’s Literary Essay Ray Bradbury’s story “All Summer in a Day” starts out on a rainy day on the planet Venus. Although it wasn’t just that day that was rainy, it’s been rainy every day for seven years. As there was a time long ago when the sun casted on this rainy planet, the children on Venus could not remember. Except for one, Margot a young girl that had just arrived from Earth four years ago. She remembers the warmth and brightness of the sun while she lived in Ohio with her family. At

Jack Morris Mr. Cummins Mercury 03/06/17 Mercury Introduction Hello! Today you will learn about the planet Mercury! YEAH!!! I hope you find Mercury quite interesting (just like I did when I was researching) and enjoy this presentation and have your minds blown… BOOM! Now, let 's gain some knowledge… Oh! One more thing, you might want to take some notes as I 'm reading this because they might come in handy later so get out those notebooks or post-it-notes or what ever. Ok, Now let 's gain some knowledge

amalgam safety. The report concludes that though minute amounts of mercury are released from amalgam, no health consequences from this amount of mercury have been adequately demonstrated. It appears to be a case where the benefit of amalgam fillings would outweigh the possible and miniscule risk of mercury being used in the fillings. Since "60 Minutes" did a story in 1990 on the possible dangers of amalgam fillings containing mercury, thousands of patients have sought out holistic dentists for the

the car available at your local Lincoln Mercury dealer. With a sticker price of around $10,000 in 1971, it 's curious that the automobile wasn 't a complete success. Here we 'll talk about one of the most misunderstood sports cars from the early 1970s. Learn about the trials and tribulations of owning one. Uncover what these cars are worth

Statue of Venus (the Mazarin Venus) Artist: Unknown Origin: Rome, A.D. 100 200 Height: 72-7/16 inches Material: Marble On display: The Getty Villa Malibu Retrieved: 22 April 2013 from http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=7562 The statue is a Roman reproduction of a Greek work. It shows Venus, the goddess of love, standing bare-breasted and clutching a piece of cloth draped around her hips. At her feet, there is a dolphin that, practically, adds support to the piece and

Venus is the second closest planet to the sun and is the most miserable. It is the hottest of all 8 planets, even though it isn’t the closest to the sun. Venus is one of a the planets, that rotates clockwise and orbits the sun counterclockwise. It takes 243 Earth days for Venus to make a full orbit around the sun. Venus has the longest day of any planet in the solar system. When you look at Venus from two different angles you can see that it has two different colored surfaces. From Earth, we see