Lightning

natural phenomena related to the sky occurs? Have you ever wondered about how it would be like when everyone believed the Gods were in charge of everything that happened, such as; if there was a storm, it was their fault, or if there was thunder and lightning, it was their fault? Back in the era of mythology, these were a couple of their beliefs. One God that was really important was Zeus, the God of the sky. Whenever there was a thunderstorm, they thought he must be upset. The Greeks would…

Mary Anning was considered to be the first female paleontologist and the greatest fossil finder. She overcame a lack of formal education to emerge as one of the foremost authorities on fossils. When she was twelve year old, she found the skeleton of one of the first Ichthyosaurus, a giant marine reptile that lived in the early time of Jurassic period in Asia and Europe. She discovered more Ichthyosaurus fossils and also many other important discoveries as an amateur fossil collector in the…

Although the Warhawk/Tomahawk had a higher service ceiling, it performed poorly at high altitude. The later models of the Tomahawk had a quite effective performance at low altitude (Guttman). Eventually, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning and the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt started becoming increasingly common. The P-38 was an expensive and large fighter, with an unconventional twin boom design (each boom carried one engine, and the cockpit was suspended in a pod between the booms)…

peat are the most used generator. Electricity travels at the speed of light and a spark of static electricity can hold up to three thousand volts. A bolt of lightning can hold up to three million volts. Electricity always looks for the easiest path to the ground so it looks for tall buildings trees and that is where Dr. Franklin's lightning rod helped instead of electrocuting the house the rod would absorb it and take it into the…

a green landscape, to a stark, cold, gray landscape. Forest fires in the west over florida are started by most thunderstorms and are accompanied by rain. A repeated cycle of warming, lifting, and cooling builds big bulging clouds. Lightning fires happen when a lightning bolt strikes outside the area of rainfall or it ignites dry fuels that smolder through the rain shower and begin to burn as the area dries out following the shower. The reason for all the forest fires in the west of florida is…

In Charlotte Brönte’s Jane Eyre, morality is tied to Jane’s understanding of religion and spirituality. Morality is presented to Jane through Christianity and Jane’s spirituality. Throughout the novel, characters such as Brocklehurst and St John present Jane with their interpretations of Christian moral guidelines: Brocklehurst presents the rejection of physical nourishment, while St John presents ideals such as the rejection of emotional fulfillment in order to carry out God’s will on Earth.…

Will they be dangerous? Will they be kids? What artillery do I need to bring? Where is Manny? Charles thinks to himself as he struggles to put his desert camouflage pants on. He is still half asleep having just rolled out of bed to answer his ringing cellular phone. It is a call from the East Rio Grande watchtower; a spotlight controlled by an immigration agent in the tower reveals a group of immigrants attempting to cross the river. The watchtower calls Charles to take care of it. He rubs his…

Death, inevitable death, is a nature process that everyone has to go through, but what way we should go through, and how we should go through it, it’s a different perspective. For poet Dylan Thomas, he begged his father to come up with the vigor and enthusiasm of the young men, to fight with the death, rather than meet the arrival of death quietly, even death is an irreversible and inevitable thing. In the poem, the author used alliteration, assonance, metaphor, simile, and oxymoron to strongly…

birthday parties on her own. My mom even had the money to finally get me the Lightning McQueen pajama set for Christmas. And she did it, all on her own. The love my mother shared with me became a gift that was given to me every day; a gift that my mother decided to give me, the gift of a beautiful, selfless, hardworking mother opened up my eyes and made me realize that no gift could compare to this—no toy cars, no Lightning McQueen pajama set, no iPhone seven—nothing at all. And finally without…

It started off as just another typical trip to the beach, but little did I know that after this my opinion of the beach and everything associated with it would be completely altered. It was a thunderstorm to remember, I still remember it to this day and it was over ten years ago. I had never felt so small and powerless until the trip to the Outer Banks, where I had truly discovered the real power of nature. Our family for the past couple years, had taken trips to multiple different…