Area 51 What is Area 51? Area 51 is “...testing site for the government's U-2 and OXCART aerial surveillance programs. The U-2 program conducted surveillance around the world, including over the Soviet Union during the Cold War.” (Koran.) It’s also known as “Groom Lake.” It’s close to Las Vegas, and in the middle is a huge air base the government doesn’t speak of. This place is also well known to have had many alien and UFO sightings. Area 51 has been known to be a “U.S. government UFO set-up.”
of string 2. Weight of bob 3. Angle of release The variables which I will be excluding from this experiment are: Gravity. This is a force pulling a mass down at a constant rate (at 10 Newton's, or to be precise 9.8 Newton's). Also no matter the size of an object the gravity will still pull the bob down at a constant rate. This will have little effect so I will chosen to exclude this. Air resistance. This will oppose the speed of the bob because as the bob is moving through the air
stick , half meter stick - 1 steel ball - Boss and clamp[IMAGE] - Electronic Timing Device - Release mechanism - Plumb bob -trip plate Procedure: - A steel ball was inserted between the jaws of the release mechanism - The height was adjusted to 1 meter and half a meter, measured from the bottom of the ball to the trip plate - The plumb bob was used to locate the centre of the trip plate , to ensure that the ball falls on it and to make sure the release mechanism is perpendicular
April 6, 1976, the movie based on the Watergate scandal, All The President’s Men, was released and made a huge impact on the scandal by shining light on what really happened. The movie starred Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein and Robert Redford as Bob Woodward who played their parts mostly in the office setting of the Washington post as well as in the area of D.C. The movie added every detail of the scandal from the experiences that Bernstein and Woodward had in real life and based most of the screenplay
While it may be odd for a musician to publicly release his home address through his album, Canadian singer/songwriter Mac DeMarco did exactly that in “Another One,” his new mini-LP. At the end of “My House by the Water,” he gave a warm welcome to his home by reciting his address, and as if he was not hospitable enough, he also offered visitors a cup of coffee. DeMarco’s nonconformist and eccentric personality does not stop there, however, as “Another One” explores the realm of romance through warped
In Song Yet Sung by James McBride there are many similarities to what has happened in real life and what happens in the book. First of all this book shows how different people treat their slaves and how it related to real life slave owners. Song Yet Sung also talks about Patty Cannon a real person who lived at the time of slavery that stole and sold slaves. Finally it talks about slave trade especially with Patty Cannon who often talks of the worth of the slaves by gender and body size. This book
Walk the Line is a biographical movie that depicts the life of Johnny Cash. This film takes an in-depth look at how Mr. Cash came to know fame, loss, heartbreak, drug addiction, crime, and himself. Beginning with Johnny Cash’s childhood, the movie tells of how Johnny lost his brother at an early age and how his father struggled with alcoholism and blaming Johnny for the accident that killed his brother. Walk the Line illustrates the struggles of the marriage between Mr. Cash and his first wife, Vivian
Marley & Me has become a household-known story. Everybody knows the loving story of a man by the name of John Grogan and his loveable labrador retriever, Marley. The whole reason and thesis Grogan had for writing this story was to remember all the mischief of getting a playful dog and starting a family. The whole book is an ode to what Grogan calls “life and love with the world’s worst dog”. Throughout the story of Marley’s life experience with the Grogan family, he had a lot of interesting things
Marley was dead to begin with- Marley Sandelski In the realistic novel, Warp Speed, written by Lisa Yee, Marley has to face many bullies and social challenges. Marley runs away from his problems, but strangely has a positive attitude towards the bullies. Marley gets bullied throughout the novel, then once he wins the Turkey Trot, his popularity increased. Warp Speed illustrates that a positive attitude/act can help you reach great heights. In the beginning of the novel, Warp Speed, Marley thinks
For the past century, music has been instrumental in raising awareness for social injustices and garnering support for political protests. The platform music provides for communicating with the youth of the nation is unrivaled, and artists wishing to promote change take advantage of this opportunity. Many different styles of music have been utilized for these purposes; however, rap and rock are generally regarded as the leading genres in this fight for social change. The time period in which the
As the Beatles gained more exposure not only in their hometown, but around the country, the mass media was able to advance their notoriety providing them with further opportunities to bring their unique style to everyone. Thus being said, the Beatles could not have come in a more opportune time. Television was able to spread their talents all over the world faster than any other type of media. This technology was able to introduce not only the Beatles as a whole, but the individual members as well
It’s the year 1969, and more than 500,000 people are huddled together on a cow farm swaying to Jimi Hendrix’s version of Star Spangle Banner. Three days of peace, love and music has come to an end and reality sets in with a slap in the face that nothing will ever be the same in America. Woodstock was no mere music festival, like today’s Coachellas and raves where nothing major happens. Woodstock is the counterculture movement that changed America’s music and social normality. Initially after World
A phenomenon happened in the sixties that are still leaving people to this day scratching their heads. It was an invasion that took the world by storm. I’m not talking about the war in Vietnam, but rather an invasion onto the music scene; four regular guys with not so regular dreams, made girls frenzied and boys jealous. The music was innovative and changed a nation’s thoughts on innocence, drugs, war and peace. They were the Beatles. It all started in 1956 with a small “skiffle band” called the
Woodstock music festival was birthed in August of 1969 on a farm in Bethel, New York. The festival promoted three days of nonstop music and peaceful atmospheres. What was once an impactful historical event later became a part of American pop culture that still influences modern cultures today. Over the years, Woodstock has become a permanent symbol for cultural social changes. Two New York venture capitalists, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman, placed an ad in the New York Times seeking investment
In 1969 one of the biggest concerts ever was held in a field on a farm in Bethel, New York. The concert was three days long starting on a Friday August 15th around 5pm. Many well known artist performed on the stage that was almost not even built in time. Hundred thousands of people showed up, around 50,000 people were there days before the three day concert was supposed to start. It all started when a man by the name of Artie Kornfeld and his friends were wanting to start a music studio in Woodstock
Since early 2009, “Twenty One Pilots” has become incresingly popular in the Punk Rock and Alternative Rock music scenes. They have risen to the ranks of some of the genre’s well known bands such as Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco. The band is labeled as part of the Punk Rock/ Alternative Rock genre . It would be more appropriate to give it the band it's own genre since it takes aspects from other genres as well. It's not quite rap, not quite rock, and not quite alternative either. More than
"He sang some of the greatest protest songs of all time," remembered his friend Pete Seeger. "He had the heart of a champion." (Obrecht) Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter came from humble beginnings (Jan. 21, 1885 - Dec. 6, 1949), he was a singer, a composer and to my mind probably one of our first character performers on stage (much like Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison would become), one of those rare breeds of musician who was as passionate about the party as well as the music he made there. A man large
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Benny Imura is the lead character of the Benny Imura otherwise known as the Rot and Ruin series of novels by Jonathan Maberry. The first novel of the series was the 2010 published title Rot & Ruin a post zombie apocalypse novel that gained critical acclaim and much commercial success. The Benny Imura series are set several years after a zombie outbreak at a time when most of the human population was decimated. The remaining populations are living in small encampments and barely making a living from
In 1964, singer Bob Dylan released a song, The Times They Are A-Changin.' The song is one of Dylan's greatest hits, and for good reason; Dylan succeeded in writing a song that embodied the desire for social and political change that ran so rampant through the 1950s and 60s. The song is three minutes, fifteen seconds and five verses long. The short verses build up and are broken up by a chorus. During the time, Dylan talks about the changing times through metaphors and directly, comparing the change