Like Stars on Earth Summary: A nine-year old boy named Ishaan Awatshi‚ is always failing miserably in his second attempt to complete his third grade in school. But he is a child who is imaginative and also creative‚ but once he sees words or mathematical problem‚ they are backwards and as if the words and numbers are dancing. After that he begins skipping school to avoid trouble or bad test results‚ his headstrong father and worried mother decide that the only way to get him to take academics seriously
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Millions of species inhabit Earth. How do scientists make sense of them all? First‚ scientists study the similarities and differences between organisms. The scientists study characteristics including obvious physical traits‚ such as hair or leaves‚ and molecular traits‚ such as DNA sequences. Then‚ scientists use the information to classify species into meaningful groups. The groups may also reveal which species are related and how they fit along the evolutionary tree. Scientists who specialize in
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The MODIS is the primary instrument in the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra and Aqua satellites‚ which were launched in December 1999 and May 2002 respectively‚ for the purpose of monitoring the seasonality of global terrestrial vegetation. MODIS is a multi-spectral sensor with 36 discrete spectral bands ranging from visible‚ near infrared‚ to thermal infrared‚ which has been extensively used for land‚ ocean and atmosphere research. The equatorial crossing time for Terra and Aqua satellites
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rises up from the mantle and forces its way to the surface of the Earth. Continental drift: Movement of the Earth’s continents comparative to each other by appearing to drift across the ocean bed. Tectonic Plate: Large pieces of the Earth’s crust that float on the mantle. These plates are constantly moving and may crash into each other or slide or move apart from each other. Continental Plate: Large sections of the surface of the Earth that move separately. Shield Volcano: Volcanoes formed by viscous
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Mahatma Gandhi once said‚“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs‚ but not every man’s greed.” In Pearl S. Buck’s novel‚ The Good Earth‚ a poverty-stricken Chinese farmer‚ Wang Lung‚ climbs his way to new wealth‚ and in turn‚ loses his good morals. The book begins with an innocent Wang Lung working on his farm and preparing to meet his new wife‚ O-lan. O-lan is an unattractive‚ hardworking woman that Wang Lung appreciates at the start of the book‚ but he loses all respect for her once
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("The Earth on Turtle’s Back")‚ people began to realize that individualism could not be contained to one individual. Although the idea of individualism is set on the morals of one person‚ in order for their ideal world to come true‚ it needs to be shared with others. In The Earth on Turtle’s Back‚ if not for an individual who had a vision‚ the world would have not existed‚ if Skyland’s wife had not shared those ideas‚ it would not have come to past and there would have not been the new Earth. Many
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Hercules was the strongest mortal on Earth. He was a demigod who was highly worshipped‚ as the protector of mankind‚ by the Greeks. Unfortunately‚ he had strength but lacked wisdom and intelligence. He spent most of his life protecting the Greeks and proving himself to the people that worshipped him. Hercules’ father was the almighty Zeus and his mother was a mortal named Alcmene. Many people liked Hercules‚ but Hera was not one of those people. She hated him because Zeus‚ Hercules’ father‚ was unfaithful
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food chain. Besides the loss of biodiversity in our environment and the negative effects on our animal and plant life‚ overpopulating the Earth is severely cutting into our food supply. More and more people are going hungry every day due to our rising birth rates and the advancement in medical care for the elderly. We must figure out a way to provide our planet earth with the food it needs more efficiently without destroying what little bit of environmental biodiversity we have left. What do you call
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mainstream environmentalism groups started to compromise too much with regulatory agencies and bureaus‚ starting with the Glen Canyon Dam project. This began an estrangement with the mainstreams that culminated in the rise of more militant groups like Earth First! Glen Canyon represented what was fundamentally wrong with the country’s conservation policies: arrogant government officials motivated by a quasireligious zeal to industrialize the natural world‚ and a diffident bureaucratic leadership in the
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Jhimpa Lahiri plays upon and wrote about the most vital human emotions: life‚ death‚ self discovery and love and in doing so‚ Lahiri wrote a truly unforgettable novel that examines the life of a family over several generations. Unaccustomed Earth is divided up into eight stories and as each story unfolds they reveal layers of life and culture in their context. Somewhere buried beneath the Bengali family’s wild displays of emotions and cries for attention there’s a story about finding acceptance and
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