Essays Tagged: "Sun"

The Great Bear Hunt

The day was most beautiful beside the Lander's peak, in the Rocky Mountains.The sun and the sky was as beautiful and blue as water in the lake beside the peak. Therewere two little ...

(3 pages) 89 0 5.0 Apr/1994

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Comets

re composed of frozen gas and non-volatile grains. They usually follow very strict paths around the sun. Comets become most visible when they cross the sun. This also applies to people who view comets ... ss the sun. This also applies to people who view comets with telescopes. When a comet gets near the sun it becomes very visible because the sun's radiation starts to sublime its volatile gases, which, ...

(8 pages) 129 0 3.6 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

My theory of the universe

e black. There is a big yellow spotlight in one corner of the room that slowly moves up and down. (Sun) There is another spotlight in the opposite corner, but this one is white and has a rotating fi ...

(2 pages) 84 0 4.7 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

Beta Pictoris

one has to first look at where the planets in our solar system came from. Does or did our star, the sun, have a circumstellar disk around it? the answer is believed to be yes.Scientists believe that a ... there was the term cocoon nebula, planetary scientists knew that a cocoon nebula had surrounded the sun, long ago, in order for our solar system to form and take on their currents motions (1).In 1755, ...

(6 pages) 92 0 4.6 Apr/1994

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

The Potential Effects of a Depleted Ozone Layer

ic force in this universe allowing man to progress andflourish. In the form of heat, light from the sun warms the Earth. Light, also, is the singlemost important factor influencing the growth and deve ... owth and development of plants. Photosynthesis, aprocess by which plants incorporate light from the sun, allow plants to botanically growand survive. Certain forms of light are harmful and thus can be ...

(9 pages) 177 1 4.6 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Potential Effects of a Depleted Ozone Layer

ic force in this universe allowing man to progress andflourish. In the form of heat, light from the sun warms the Earth. Light, also, is the singlemost important factor influencing the growth and deve ... owth and development of plants. Photosynthesis, aprocess by which plants incorporate light from the sun, allow plants to botanically growand survive. Certain forms of light are harmful and thus can be ...

(9 pages) 160 0 4.9 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Justice in the World

will not demand as a natural right or an entitlement of personal equality with everybody under the sun; nor maintain that their opinions are as good as anybody else's. They will not covet a neighbors ...

(4 pages) 111 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Divorce and children

le purpose of life is to love, nurture and protect them. The world revolves around my children. The sun would not shine if they were gone. Every move that I make is to improve and touch their lives. I ...

(3 pages) 165 0 4.8 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Describe a pilgrimage you go on during the Renaissance. Name and describe at least two cathedrals you visit.

time when all you have to do is walk. Dates become meaningless; a day is merely the passing of the sun from one hand to the other, from behind you to in front of you. A pilgrim has given up reading t ...

(3 pages) 43 0 4.8 Mar/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

what are comets? this will tell you what and why we don't know so much about them.

re composed of frozen gas and non-volatile grains. They usually follow very strict paths around the sun. Comets become most vilsple are saying that the comet is going to Be huge, and others say it wil ...

(1 pages) 64 2 3.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Compare the techniques used to create tension and fear in the two stories "The Signalman" by Charles Dickens and "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl

ry, there are hints that lead to fear and tension. In 'The Signalman', there is a "glow of an angry sunset", which gives us an image of something that is hot, fierce, sinister, so we can build that up ... the word "deadly".Each story is set in an unnatural time of day. Charles Dickens sets his story at sunset, when the sun is disappearing, leaving the eerie glow of the moon for light. Roald Dahl sets ...

(5 pages) 68 0 3.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Dialog to the book "No longer at ease"

problem.Clara is an Osu,but in my eyes she is the most beautiful woman inthe world,she is like the sun in a sunset and a moon in the night,there is always light shining from her.It`s not a fare world ...

(3 pages) 48 0 4.9 Dec/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

How changes in the atmosphere, eukarotes, and multicellularity have occured and influenced life on earth

oxygen and other atmospheric gasses increased, they started blocking out deadly u.v. rays from the sun. The sun's rays made life outside of water nearly impossible. These changes made life on land po ...

(2 pages) 79 1 3.2 Mar/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Atmospheric Sciences

Greenhouse, personal experience

day consisted of taking care of Forty thousand mums. They sat on top of many benchtops col-lecting sun and, heat rays waiting for us to water them. After watering them, John, (My boss), would go behi ...

(2 pages) 51 0 3.4 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Big Scoop, A Story about a reporter looking for insights of the hacker community

and me.It was the first Friday of July and it was like any typical midsummer evening at 6:00pm. The sun was still out shining down, just turning red for sunset. It was not especially hot, but it was s ...

(6 pages) 65 0 3.5 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Questions #27, 29: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (Ask me to e-mail original if you like the essay, as most mistakes in it are caused by the website).

ce to darkness or night was made when Montague said to Benvolio:But all so soon as the all-cheering sunShould in the farthest east begin to drawThe shady curtains from Aurora?s bed,Away from light ste ...

(2 pages) 56 0 3.1 Jun/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

Prejudice in America. How being different is better than being the same and how sick america has come.

fe. I approached her, sittingunder the tree, and carried a day long conversation with her until the sun began to set. As itstarted getting dark, we parted, agreeing to meet at the same place the next ... talking, playing, swimming, and just laying together under our tree, shading usfrom the hot, bright sun.This routine lasted for the next few weeks, spending every minute possible together. Oneday she ...

(4 pages) 166 1 3.6 Jun/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Indepth anaylsis of the origin (including cultural, political) of Korea and its first settlers.

"Land of the Morning Calm" or "The Hermit Kingdom." The former is a semi-literal translation of Cho-Sun ("fresh morning"), the last Korean dynasty (1392-1910). When Koreans say the name 'Cho-Sun,' how ... ns say the name 'Cho-Sun,' however, they do not conjure up an image of 'morning calm.' Although Cho-Sun may mean that in Chinese, the name simply reminds Koreans of the things past, which are not alwa ...

(16 pages) 183 0 4.1 Jul/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Stop the Sequals!!! This essay issues the concerns that many box offic hit movies are ruined because of the effects of their counterparts. Sequals tend never to be better than the originals.

ange, the rate of it. (whether it is very fast/slow)Energy Balance1)The source of all energy is the sun. We need to receive solar radiation for life on earth. Any change in the radiation means we will ... n earth. There has been a 1/3 increase in global warming as a result of a change in energy from the sun2)Reciever: get energy from sun. We absorb, reflect and remit energy from the sun, however this e ...

(3 pages) 46 0 2.3 Oct/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

"We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own; disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning."

us first suggested that one of the most fundamental axioms of the last 3500 years was mistaken: the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the Universe. Later, Brahe brought forth the theory that the p ...

(2 pages) 50 0 2.8 Oct/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community