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    Have you ever wondered what it’s like to live on a planet that always rains? On the planet Venus, In the Far Future, It would rain all the time. But once every 7 years. Something miraculous would happen. The sun would shine it face to the people living on Venus. But this wouldn’t last for long. The sun would only shine for 2 hours. So the kids were always be happy and excited to see it. But one child, one from earth, was mistreated just because everyone, didn't believe her when she described the

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    All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury shows how regret can be derived from the evil of human nature. In the beginning of the story, it explains how the children are on Venus and it only rains, except from when the sun comes out for a few hours every seven years. Margot is different from the children and is constantly bullied for it, wishing to go back to Earth, despite resulting in the loss of thousands of dollars from their families. When the teacher leaves the room, the other children lock Margot

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    Monologue For Braves

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    Trials PROLOGUE Decades ago, scientist in the U.S had figured out how to genetically grow, literally grow dragons in a lab. At first they could only breathe fire and scorch metal into a liquid. Then several rare ones were bred with ice in their chests, letting them be able to freeze a human into a block of ice. Even without their fire and ice, the dragons were huge and powerful, ranging from forty to sixty feet long and fifteen to twenty feet tall while on all four legs. Their claws were around

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    Summer in a Day” By Ray Bradbury is about a group of children who lives on a planet called Venus. Bradbury uses a variety of metaphors so the reader can  imagine a life on venus. On this planet the sun only appears for only a few hours once every seven years. The children have very vague memory about the sun because they were far too young to remember what the sun was like except, Margot who remembers the sun very clear, because she lived in Ohio until she was five. Margot tells the other children

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    In all summer in a day by Ray Bradbury, He shows how he uses descriptive language and metaphors to tell the story more in depth and in more detail. The story is about how a girl (Margot) is on a new planet and the sun only comes every 7 years for just one hour. And her classmates are being mean because she remembers the sun and they don't believe her because last time the sun came they were only 2 or 3 years old. “They only know the sun by blushing” the Author says. This shows a way of metaphor

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    Calorimetry Lab

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    concentration of mercury in surface water samples of Onondaga Lake in 1992 (NYSDEC/TAMS, 2002) Maximum Mean Minimum Unit Methylmercury dissolved 9.2 1.2 3.9E-02 ng/L- dis Methylmercury total 12 2 0.1 ng/L Mercury dissolved 11 3.4 0.6 ng/L- dis Mercury total 59 9.0 1.3 ng/L Different forms of mercury has been detected in Onondaga Lake including elemental mercury, monomethyl and dimethyl mercury. Mean concentration of the compounds as well as reactive mercury and total mercury has been measured

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    Venus Retrogrades

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    From March 6 to April 15, 2017, Venus will go retrograde and this could mean a new type of love based relationship in your life. However, from a cosmic perspective, this could potentially turn into other problems that you have not expected. In other words, this not a time for you to change the status of relationships or transition into new ones. This is basically the time to revaluate any commitment or relationship you are currently in. Avoid making any decisions or sudden actions until April

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    Imagine lying in the grass, looking up into the stars, and wondering, what is happening up there? Tycho Brahe’s curiosity of the stars sparked his career of becoming an astronomer. He had been fascinated by the universe and had studied it as a hobby, but it was not until later in life did it become his career. Tycho Brahe was a passionate astronomer who contributed to the Renaissance through his discoveries of the universe. Tycho’s studies as a scientist led to his accomplishments and his lasting

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    Personal Narrative Essay

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    would be like to live on a totally different planet from earth? This is the story of a girl named Margot, who had lived on Earth and has moved to the planet Venus a couple years ago. Venus is a planet where it rains everyday, and once around every seven years the sun comes out for an hour or two. These kids are at school waiting for the sun that the scientists had predicted to come out today. I was walking to school in the pouring down rain. It was dark everyday since I had moved here from the planet

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    Mercury - Surface Geology Mercury's surface is heavily cratered. There are two distinct types of craters that can be observed on Mercury's surface; the more common impact crater - formed during asteroid impact, and pit craters - formed from the collapse of subterranean magma chambers. The former, impact craters, are typically more circular in shape and are accompanied by high ridges around the perimeter of the impact where debris from the impact was ejected. The latter, pit craters, are more irregular

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