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Life Beyond Earth

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“If we find lots of planets like ours…we’ll know it’s likely that we aren’t alone, and that someday we might be able to join other intelligent life in the universe.”

– William Borucki, principal investigator for NASA’s Kepler mission

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According to NASA, there is no solid evidence of life outside the Earth, but a great number of their scientists think that there’s life beyond earth, so they’re looking for it with great passions. Earth hasn’t been visited by aliens. The combination of high probability of life and this lack of evidence, is called the Fermi Paradox – which is just basically asking if we’re not alone and the aliens are intelligent, where is everybody? (Sources 1 & 3)

When are the scientists going to find life beyond earth? It depends on two factors; the prevalence of life and being lucky. How are they going to find it? (source 1)

  • They are looking for Oxygen, water vapor, or some other powerful indication of possible life on other earth-sized, giant-sized, or super giant-sized planets. That means that they might find an outsized version of our planet which is a very suitable place for alive beings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnKFaAS30X8#action=share (source 1)

 

  • They are going to look for the pollution caused by the “reasonably advanced technology of the aliens”. “As Isaac Newton recognized, white light shot through a prism is exposed for what it really is: a band of color spanning violet to red, characterized by “wavelength.” Chemicals and gases in the atmospheres of planets can absorb certain slices of this band, called a spectrum, and leave behind a narrow black gap”. So they’re going to analyze the light that is being shot by a star through the atmosphere of the distant planets, and the missing gaps might indicate methane, another, oxygen. Seeing those together could be a strong argument for existence of life out of earth. (source 1)

 

  • They are looking for different kind of life! They think that there could be life out of earth, but it might be so different that they could miss it and not see it. So they came up with computer-generated mixtures of six elements that associate with life on earth and they look for those combinations on other planets. (source 1)

 

  • There is a camera in making progress – called the Thermo Scientific SPECTRA CAM XDR – which is “capable of observing a faint object in the presence of an object that is one billion times brighter; like spotting a candle next to a lighthouse.” This camera is not ready yet so the scientists use other techniques, like looking at a planet’s gravitational movement. (source 2)

The search for life beyond earth is still in progress…

Manchester United’s Comeback

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Learning involves recognizing the consequences of one’s action.

I’m Proud of: 1- I that i didn’t have to exaggerate  2- I wrote about my emotions and reactions perfectly.

I need to improve: 1- My grammar, 2- Paragraphing

Why has the game stopped? What was being said in the referee’s ear? Why is he running towards the VAR? To understand what’s happening we have to go a few weeks back…

It’s Feb 12, and a thankful human is lying on his bed waiting for the game to start. Who is the thankful human? Me. Why is he thankful? Because it’s a snow day in District 43 and that never happens, and now this human can sit and watch the game! What game? Manchester United vs. Paris Saint German’s (PSG) game. So as I was saying, that day I was laying in my bed, waiting for the game to start. This game was super important to me, simply because I support Man Utd and this was a UCL game in Man Utd’s home which meant that they had a good chance to win. Manchester United lost the match in their own home by two goal! And that’s not the worst thing! The worst thing was that one of the goal scorers, Angel Di Maria, was a former Man Utd player and after he scored the goal, he cheered and disrespected the fans! At that time, I felt like I was burning in a fire; like I was a true Red Devil. But it wasn’t over yet. There was a rematch. They could still find their way to the quarter finals.

So here we are, March 6. It’s a school day. I have to be at the school, like any other day. My stupid and swollen face was the first thing I saw that morning. That damned mirror. It wasn’t only my face that was making me angry that morning; it was the annoying sound of my alarm which pushes me closer to madness every single day. I felt sad, pissed, and disappointed at my life. I wished I was a dog. For breakfast I had a smoothie which didn’t taste so good, because my mouth was bitter like how my whole life was. I didn’t sit because I knew if I sat I would never get up. I rushed to my bike, thinking I’m already 5 minutes late for school, and it’s the rematch of the Man Utd vs PSG which I couldn’t watch. Sucks right? Story of my life. So I got to the school, went through the whole routine, only thinking about the great game I’m going to miss because of the stupid school. The game was at noon so I could watch like 20 minutes of it during lunch time, but after that I couldn’t watch it. OMG! Why did I come to Canada! I could be in my bed, enjoying the game right now! But NO, I have to be at my C Block!

I’m in the café Tierra, and I’m going to watch the game through my laptop with the school’s Wi-Fi. AGHHH! The game starts. The game is in Paris, PSG’s home. Man U players are wearing their beautiful light pink jerseys. They are pressuring the PSG defense line. And… BOOM! MANCHESTER UNITED SCORED THE FIRST GOAL IN THE SECOND MINUTE OF THE GAME! I was literally shaking. I knew these boys could give PSG a fight but I did not expect that.

So the game is going on and they have been playing for 10 minutes now. PSG is fighting back and then out of nowhere they score a goal. I felt like the whole world was collapsing on me, not only because Manchester United was getting eliminated, but also because I had to get to my next block and miss out on this exciting, breath-taking, and super important game.

Walking to the class and holding my laptop, I saw my friend Ali. He asked about the scores and I told him, “It’s 1-1.”

He looked at me and and said, “Bro it’s over.” The moment he said that, BOOM, Romelu Lukaku scored the second goal for Manchester United.

I replied to him, “Not yet, man! Not yet.” So I entered Mrs. Thomasen classroom, knowing that I wont be able to watch the game, because usually I talk a lot during that class and the whole class is important to me. I closed my laptop and started doing class related stuff. The only thing I could do to not lose track of the game, was to look at the score sheet time to time.

After the class was done and we had some time to ourselves, I opened my laptop again and saw that the game was still 2-1. Man Utd only needed one goal to get to the next round, but it was the 87’ minute of the game. The bell rang. Great! Now I couldn’t even watch the three remaining minutes of the game. I ran to my next class opened my laptop and saw that it’s a corner for Man Utd. All I could think about was that this is their last chance. But wait, something’s not right. Why has the game stopped? What was being said in the referee’s ear? Why is he running towards the VAR? What the hell did I lose when I was getting to my next class? The replay is being shown. Perreira shot the ball and it hit the PSG player’s hand! OMG! Is that a penalty for Man Utd? What will the referee decide? The camera shows the player who committed the foul. Look at him. He knows what’s coming. The referee is getting back on the pitch. What is he going to announce? He lifts his hand up and…

IT’S A PENALTY FOR MANCHESTER UNITED! This was their chance to get to the next round. It could not get any better for them. I knew that I’m not capable of watching the game in the class. I got out of there, went to the washroom and waited. Waited for Marcus Rashford to get behind the ball. The referee blew in his whistle. Nobody is breathing. Rashford’s going to shoot the ball. He shot the ball! Buffon jumped to the right direction, but the ball goes IN!

“Goallll” is what I screamed in the washroom. I was shaking. This was a miracle. United was going to the next round. The camera showed Angel Di Maria’s face. Haha, loser. It was done. These players had an amazing character and preformed one of the most exciting comebacks of all time. All I could think about was the famous quote from Johan Cruyff, The Legend, “Why couldn’t you beat a richer club? I’ve never seen a bag of money score a goal.”

I Know How Benjamin Indian Horse Escaped The Residential School…

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You know how some nights, you’re laying on your bed and thinking? Thinking about how awesome it would be if you could become a superhero? I mean, like not a superhero like Batman, because in order to become The Batman, you first have to find a poor bastard, miserable enough to have the will to kill your parents and make you an insanely rich orphan with a messed up life which is not what I think that anyone wants. But like someone like Shazam that is just a teenager with cool superpowers. Oh I’m sorry I got a little bit off topic. So our hero of the story, Benjamin Indian Horse, was laying on his broken bed in the residential school, thinking about his miserable life and imagining how awesome it would be if he could just get up and go kill the nuns and the priests in the school and free all of his fellow Indian friends. But he knew that it would never happen, after all he was just twelve years old. He was tired of this life that he was having in the school, he was fed up. That was it. A decision was made. He had made up his mind about all of this and decided to escape from that place. So he got up on his feet, without making any noise, he snuck out of the dorm that he had been sleeping in since he got there. He knew that the all of the doors are locked at night and all of the windows have bars in front of them, well at least all the windows that the kids hadn’t ruined it. There was a window, east side of the school witch didn’t have any bars. But in order to get there he had to go past father Morgan’s room which was famous for his sharp ears. Why he was famous for his sharp ears? Because he could hear Indian kids talking in Ojibway even if he was very far away from them. There was no other option so he decided to go through with it. He was 15 steps from the window and seven steps from father Morgan’s room. The hallway was very dark so was almost invisible. He took one more step, but something happened that made him so scared that he almost screamed. The room’s door opened father Morgan came out, but he wasn’t alone. A 10 years old Indian girl was with him. Crying in silence. This made Benjamin filled with anger and sadness but this was no time for sympathy. The father was too distracted to notice Benjamin. He took the girl’s hand and took her to the dorm. Now Benjamin was alone and could get himself out of the window, and he did. He felt free, happy, and full of life. Little he knew that he’s gonna die in few weeks. LOL.

Rube Goldberg Machine Science 10

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Rube Gold Berg’s Machine – THE UNPLUGGER

Step 1 – A person fires the rubber band to a ball that is placed on top of the play button of the laptop.

Step 2 –  The laptop is already connected to the speaker, the speaker plays a loud music and vibrates to make the dominos fall.

Step 3 – Dominos start to fall and they hit the ball which is placed at the very end.

Step 4 – The ball drops down and hits the shoe box.

Step 5 – The ball on the upper side of the slide rolls down due to the vibration created by the ball that drop.

Step 6 – As the ball rolls the slide, it hits the wooden stick wheel.

Step 7 – The wooden stick wheel spins and hits the book with the edge of the stick.

Step 8 – Books fall on each other and the last book hits the charger and unplugs it successfully.

Energy Transformation Used

  1. Elastic —> Mechanical
  2. Sound —> Mechanical
  3. Gravitational —> Mechanical

Types of Energy Used

  1. Gravitational
  2. Electrical
  3. Mechanical
  4. Elastic
  5. Sound

The Unplugger-2jzxere

Imagery in Indian Horse

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The fourth time we stood quietly, each of us lost in our thoughts, as the fish struggled for air, for life, for freedom. When we bent finally and took the fish in our hands to set them back into the water, most of us were crying,” (Wagamese ,53).

 

In this quote, Wagamese is showing that the kids in residential school are missing how they used to eat and catch fish and enjoy their life. But this quote is not all about the joy of fishing, because the fishing represents and symbolizes their old life that they had, and they’re not crying because they miss only fishing, but because they miss what they had, their family and way of life, that now is taken from them.I think that Wagamese used fish in this imagery because it was their main diet and it shows their connection whith the environment. In my opinion this is the best way that Wagamese could picture the sadness that all these boys suffered. Because this happens to me all the time, I know that I’m not here by force and people are not torturing me like how this kids are being tortured, but when you find something that reminds you of the good days that you had with your friends and family in the past and knowing that there is a very good chance that you will never experience that happiness again, that’s the worst feeling that someone could ever have and it usually goes like how Wagamese describes it.

Burgers I Would Kill For

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       Tapas! Where the god of burgers would go to eat a decent burger. Tapas is located in a very crowded, specially in the weekends, area of Tehran, called Andarzgo Boulevard. When you go there, you will see a very narrow street, will hear cars honking at each other, and the people in them are saying a lot of “not very nice words” to each other. But that’s pretty much what happens in most of the places in Iran. In that narrow street, there will be two things that will draw your attention: a line of people that you would see and the smell of the barbequed fresh beef. If you continue walking in the street and follow the line of people, you will see a very small place selling hamburgers. There are no chairs to sit on, there is no roof to stand under, and there is no special decor. See, the special thing about this place is not the perfectly cooked burgers or the perfectly toasted breads or even the crunchy, tasty fries, with the special sauce, that can be bought in a very good price; I mean you can get that from any not very bad fast food place, but the special feature that they will provide is the one and only “Tapas Cheese”. The “Tapas Cheese” doesn’t have a special recipe. It’s just grated cheese, in a pan, melting on fire. So you go there and order the kind of burger you want to eat, and then the tapas cheese option is on the table. (One will be enough for two burgers.) After waiting for about 20 minutes in a busy day, you will receive what you ordered. To eat the food, there are two options and one of them is a secret. Option number one is to stand while you are eating on a tall table, and option number two, which is the secret one, is to take your tray, take some ketchups and napkins, and get ready for eating a delicious meal in the back alley of the restaurant. This was the option that me and my friends would usually choose. We would just go to the back alley, which the only source of light was a tiny lamp in front of a house, and then we would just sit on the ground and feast like animals, wild and nasty. The atmosphere, the food, the not very good service and the back alley, makes this place very special for me.  Believe me when I say this, my friends and I had the best times of our lives there.

Human Condition;The Unforgiven

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Amir Beheshti

English 10

Feb. 1st , 2019

“The Unforgiven “

 

“The Unforgiven “ is a song by Metallica explaining what happens since you are born until you die. The song is about a baby that as soon as he steps in this world he’s being “subdued “ and disgraced by the society to learn its rules. The people of society dedicate their lives to manage the boy’s life and all this ‘’Bitter Man” does is to please them.  Throughout his life he’s fighting with society’s rules and he cannot win any of those battles and it makes him a tired man that doesn’t care about anything. Be the end, the little boy has became an old man and he’s getting ready to die with regrets. This song only narrates the bad and controlling side of the humans. The song is pointing out a fact about society and the fact is society pushes you in the direction that it wants and it will not let you to become the person you want to be.