In Copper Sun, Amari is a happy teenage and she is a slave. She was engaged to the most handsome man in her African village. One morning Amari goes outside and her little brother kwasi was hanging from a tree being silly and Amari goes to get her mom some vegetables for breakfast and out of nowhere white men enters Amari’s village setting things on fire and killing people. After a while then men took chained and shackled her and put her into a slave ship. A few weeks later Amari was sold to a man named Mr. Derby, He bought Amari as a birthday present for his son, after Amari he bought a white girl named Polly.…
A. Mount Toba erupted. This was not just an eruption: the entire mountain exploded, sending millions of tons of debris into orbit, obscuring the sun, creating long-term darkness, and altering global climate.…
A. Suppose a household product label says it contains sodium hydrogen carbonate (sodium bicarbonate). Using your results from Data Table 1 as a guide, how would you test this material for the presence of sodium bicarbonate?…
-The sun is located in one of the Milky Way's outer arms, about 25,000 light years from the galactic center.…
Nine were found when Uranus passed in front of a bright star, the rings causing the star to temporarily disappear when they passed in front of it. This was the first time astronomers had detected rings around any planet other than Saturn. It was the first time, also, that astronomers had detected thin rings around any planet. The other two rings were found when Voyager 2 passed by.…
Within Richard Preston’s, The Hot Zone, the very real threats posed by the deadly viruses of Marburg and Ebola Reston is brought to attention through the “terrifying true story”. In the first chapter, Charles Monet is introduced as a man with a little too much free time and works at the pump house at the sugar factory within near the base of Mt. Elgon. One day in 1980, he takes a female friend to Kitum Cave, and it is believed that this is the day he caught the Marburg virus. The first symptoms include a severe headache; but, three days later, he starts vomiting. It is mentioned his eyes become red, and his face starts to droop. His skin changes color to yellow, and there are red specks all over his body. Once he is taken to the hospital, he eventually passes out by throwing up black vomit, that is described to have his bowels and parts of his intestines. The black vomit was the proof of extreme amplification within Monet, and once Dr. Musoke had a hold of him, he saw that blood came out of every opening of his body. Dr. Musoke tries to transfuse Monet’s blood, but every place in his arm where the needle was stuck, the vein broke apart like cooked macaroni and spilled blood. Monet officially dies, and when he is opened for an autopsy, they find that his kidneys and livers are destroyed - yellowed and parts of it liquified. Later however, when the USAMRIID inspects Kitum Cave, they find no evidence of the Marburg virus. Today, there is still relatively little we know about Marburg.…
The planet I live is called Planet Buzz. The place is devoid of people, except for me. The place looks like a gigantic ball of yellow, flowery dust. The dust swirls around the planet and shrouds it from outsiders. The dust smells of methane and honey. Planet Buzz has many bees which is why the atmosphere smells of honey. The methane smell is from the core of the planet. Everyday, the core leaks over two hundred million pounds of methane.…
A mysterious planet found in our solar system is potentially up to some evil ways. Astrophysicists are tracking its orbit and claiming that its odd behaviour may eventually have a negative impact on Earth.…
Isabel Wilkerson is an African American Howard University journalism graduate writer and the first black woman in the history of American Journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize. Among her notable works is the novel “The Warmth of Other Suns”. The novel The Warmth of Other Suns was about the Great Migration which occurred between the years 1915-1970 and this was the movement of approximately seven million Black people out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and Western states from 1916 to 1970. Blacks migrated to escape widespread racism in the South, to seek employment opportunities in industrial cities of the North, to get better education for their children, and to pursue what was widely perceived to be a more prosperous life. Wilkerson wrote this book because she wanted to report about the most under-reported story in American history. Despite the fact that the Great Migration was one of the largest internal migrations in the US, it was either not reported in-depth or not reported at all and her book addressed the omissions. Also her parents were among the 7 million people who partook in the Great Migration and that was one personal reason why she wrote The Warmth of Other Suns.…
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. It is twice as large as all the other planets combined. It has 28 known satellites. The earliest discovered moons date back to 1610 and were discovered by Galileo. This is of interest because a future mission to Jupiter is named after this astronomer. Most of the remaining moons were discovered in the 20th century with advancement of technology. Some are discovered using better telescopes and others with missions directed towards Jupiter. Some of the more recently discovered moons are yet to be named. All that we know of Jupiter couldn 't possibly have come form just observation. Some have come by spacecraft passing by Jupiter on their way to other missions and some of the most comprehensive…
In “Confetti Girl”, and “Tortilla Sun”, there are different points of views in the two story that causes tension.…
Through “A Thousand Splendid Suns” Khaled Hosseini emphasizes the struggle in Afghanistan’s society between traditional beliefs and progressive changes, specifically as they relate to women’s rights. One aspect of the novel that highlights this struggle is its setting, as it takes place during four time periods each at a different stage in Afghan history. Throughout these unstable decades, the country’s government went through continuous upheavals with each new government advocating different ideals. From the concept of progression against tradition two governments stand out, communism and the Taliban. While the communist regime emphasizes the ideals of progression and modernization in the country, the Taliban obeys the traditional beliefs of Islamic culture. By examining the laws and practices of these two governments, it is apparent that progressive nature presented in the time of…
How can a war between one state be called a “civil” war? How can it be “civil” if people are beheading, blowing up and starving each other? How can a country let another larger country divide its people like that? In Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie writes about the Biafran War, or Nigerian Civil War. Adichie recounts this through the lenses of the Igbo people trying to secede to create their own state of Biafra. Adichie wrote this with a political purpose, one of the four motives of writing listed by George Orwell. Adichie writes against the Nigerians and in support of the Biafrans in this novel. She does this by voicing her political thoughts through Odenigbo and through the term “half of a yellow sun”.…
A geomagnetic disturbance is a disturbance to the Earth’s upper atmosphere caused by large eruptions from the sun, also know as coronal mass ejections, traveling towards Earth. (Britannica, 2013) It is important for individuals to understand what causes solar storms in order to learn how to predict a future occurrence. The sun’s surface is made of white-hot matter. The matter flows turbulently over the sun like water through a river and cause the shifting of strong magnetic fields, creating dark spots. When these dark spots converge it releases solar flares. Solar flares are a mass of charged particles, a CME, hurled in to space. We have equipment that monitor the sun for solar flares, but it becomes a concern when the CME takes aim and propels itself toward our planet. A solar flare is made up of electrons and protons, called plasma, that are powerfully charged and once it reaches the Earth’s surface creates a disturbance to the magnetosphere. Solar Storms happen in cycles averaging 11 years from beginning to end. Understanding how a solar flare affects the Earth’s atmosphere will…
A solar flare is a wave of very high energy radioactive waves that the sun emits occasionally, these waves can have a tremendous effect on life on earth for us. The one thing that saves us from solar flares is actually the magnetic field around the earth if we did not have this field we would be very vulnerable to all of these flares luckily we have a magnetic field so we do not have to worry about it now. Just like anything on earth the field will not last for ever. One way these flares can alter life on Earth is if large enough they can destroy electrical technology, and if one was big enough to wipe out all of the technology on Earth for a day it would have a catastrophic effects. Needless to say we are lucky God has made this field…