Sudden Impact

war would impact your life if you had to go to war right after graduating? War plays a key role in the story, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. Throughout A Separate Peace, the outcome of the war is showcased. The impacts of war can be overwhelming and disheartening but can also be beneficial for some individuals. War is capable of completely changing an individual's life. In A Separate Peace, this message is seen when war impacts Phineas, Leper, and Gene remarkably. To begin, the impact war has on

the French boys who swim through a challenging tunnel, and he overcomes this challenge eventually. Form the safe beach to the tunnel, Jerry’s maturity is tested. The setting in “Through the Tunnel” has an impact on the characters, the plot, and the symbols. One way the setting has an impact involves the characters. For example, it is so important for Jerry to swim through the tunnel. He wanted to be with the older boys and be grown up. Every day on his vacation he would tell himself something

High above a wasteland, in a remote part of the planet, Vigiti, the sky itself began to bend. With the sound of thunder, three beings slammed into the planet's surface, the air rippling around the impact crater that had been made. The shortest one, a white haired and silver eyed man, floated above the crater rim and scanned the horizon. His silver eyes widening and narrowing as they focused in the vast distance, his ears picking up every sound made across the planet. After two seconds had passed

and past world. These heroes are created in many ways, but it doesn’t take a risky moment, or it doesn’t take saving the world to be a hero. A hero isn’t always the strongest human being that risks their life, a hero is someone who makes a positive impact in someone else’s life and overcomes challenges. To begin, Bob Riley said, “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” This quote proves how a hero faces hard times, and a hero defeats these

fireballs to shoot across the sky. About 65 million years ago, an asteroid is said to have crashed off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula. This crash is what some scientists believe to be the reason the dinosaurs went extinct. The first to believe that impact was the cause of the extinction were the father-son duo of Luis and Walter Alvarez. They think that because of the crash the sun was blocked out by dense clouds of dust. The crash also most likely didn’t kill just the dinosaurs but, according to PBS

Calculations based on the observed number of asteroids suggest that we should expect about 3 large meteors to hit the Earth every million years. This is in good agreement with the geologic record. It is more difficult to compute the frequency of larger impacts but once per 100 million years seems like a reasonable guess. People recorded this meteor strike which made it so unusual. In Russia, an estimated one million motorists have dash cams in their cars. The dash cameras are popular for one big reason:

to do their part by not only supporting them but also willing to help them along the way. I can definitely agree with that because kids depend on adults to support them and be guidance along the way, whether they realize it or not adults have a big impact on students. I can’t exactly

Scientist Estimates the diameter of the impact crater110 miles wide, so the meteor that caused such a massive impact had to be going attest 40,000-45,000 miles per hour heading straight for earth, An asteroid of that size striking the Earth would have had devastating consequences, including hundreds of earthquakes, worldwide wildfires

The title of the article I chose is Paleontologists probe the majestic reptiles' origin and rise writen by Alenxandra Witze. This article talks about paleontologists excavating ancient fossils, giving them more information about the common ancestor of dinosaurs, and how they came to rule the earth for millions of years. The author gives us an example of what the ancestor of dinosaurs may have looked like, by telling us that it “probably looked something like a chicken”. Just as there was a mass

Cretaceous Period Everyone knows about the dinosaurs and how they went extinct. This was one of the major events that took place in the Cretaceous Time Period. The Cretaceous Period was the longest and last of three time periods in the Mesozoic Era. This time period lasted from about 144 million years ago until about million years ago (about 79 million years), and over that 79 million years the earth changed dramatically. Way back in the Cretaceous all of earth’s land was together in