Mercury Prize Essays

Ashes Common Assessment Imagine being faced with the toughest choice of your life, choosing between your parents. Ashleigh, or Ashes, has been torn between her mother and father her entire life. Her mother, a logical women who bases her decisions on the facts, and her father, who is more of a people person and bases his decisions others. So when her father asked her to “borrow” $200 from her mother to pay off a loan, Ashes was faced with the toughest decision she could ever imagine. Ashes did not

Rasul Aliyev Writing 101 Critical Analysis 16.11.2014 Review: Coyle, Daniel. "The Sweet Spot" The Talent Code. Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. New York: Bantam, 2009. 11-29. The question how people become that successful has always been concerning most people in the world. Within all this time, many scientists and researchers have tried to answer to this question, or to suggest some way to become successful. But still answer to this question remains different for all people.

to the Sun , Mercury can be expressed as one of the most unique planets in our solar system. The Universe is estimated to be about 12 light years in distance and continues expanding, with this we have only had men on the moon and robots go to a couple of planets known to humankind. Were pretty puny in comparison to our universe as a whole. But today, I’ll be telling you about one of our familiarly known planets in our solar system, Mercury. Starting off, why was Mercury named Mercury? The Romans

Can any other planet besides Earth be habitable? The Earth has to have many essential elements for it to be able to attain human life. Some of these key elements include our placement in the solar system, our tilt, oxygen, food, the magnetic field, etc. Because of these perfect conditions, Earth is livable. Our planet, Feuer Leava, is habitable because of its place in the solar system, its atmosphere, and its formation. First, Feuer Leava is the second closest planet to the star, Vega. Vega is

In the year 1609, Johannes Kepler, an avid mathematician and astronomer, reached a milestone in his career. By publishing his book, Astronomia Nova, or in English, New Astronomy, he opened the door to his first two laws of planetary motion. Ten years later, Kepler published his third law in Harmonices Mundi (Harmonies of the World). Using observations recorded by Tycho Brahe, Johannes was able to correctly theorize how the planets orbit the sun in our solar system. Though not widely accepted at

In Ray Bradbury’s short story All Summer in a Day, readers are taught about the presence of jealousy and how it can reveal the change in a person’s judgment. Though it all takes place in Venus where people live in an underground city and have not seen the sun in years ,but just rain. Then there is Margot who is a little more different then the others as she has a more vivid memory of the sun as she has been there the shortest amount of time. Which causes some jealousy with her peers as they wish

In the short story “All Summer in a Day,” author Ray Bradbury uses the feelings of jealousy and regret to portray the theme, once harmful actions take place, they cannot be taken back. At this point in the story, most of the children don’t want to stay in Venus and want to go back to earth so they could see the sun. One of their classmates, a girl named Margot, was born on earth and lived in Ohio until she was two years old. On Venus, it rains everyday for seven years until the sun comes out only

In the science fiction short story “All summer in a day” by Ray Bradbury a girl Margot is bullied by a group of students who live on Venus. In this story the author establishes the setting using imagery and point of view. The author uses imagery to establish setting. To describe the rain, Bradbury narrates “with the drum and gush of water” and “the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the island.” When the author describes this rain as a concussion that shows that the

Cadence Dunkel ELA 8/9 March 15, 2023 “All Summer in a Day” By Ray Bradbury Can you imagine how it would be to have your entire summer in a day? In Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day," Margot and everyone else experienced the same thing. Every 7 years, Venus rains for one hour, which these kids don't get to see very often, if at all. Margot is the protagonist in this story. She is a pale, blue-eyed, blonde-haired girl who moved here from Ohio a few years ago. According to her, she knows/remembers

Have you ever felt like there’s not enough sun in your world? In March of 1954, Ray Bradbury wrote a short story called All Summer in a Day. On the planet Venus, they never get any sun. They only get sun for an hour every seven years. Venus is a very sad and droopy planet because of the rain. Margot moved to Venus from earth and she saw the sun every day. It rained constantly, when the sun came out everyone was happy, and kids got bullied. Margot is unhappy on Venus because she has seen the sun and

In the examined short story, All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury is a futuristic tale of a young girl, Margot, who can only remember very little about how clear the sky was without the endless rain. She was bullied for her foolish ideas by the other kids in her class constantly, making her a frail target. The problems in this story will be focused on how the individual characters of the story react to the conflicts that follow along the plot. The following main conflicts in this story are how wrongly

While there may be one billion trillion stars within the known universe, the number of habitable planets such as Earth, in the Milky Way Galaxy, pales in comparison at a mere forty billion. While not all are completely safe to colonize in the near future, it still bears a shocking revelation to the fortune humans have been blessed with.  With knowledge such as this available to the common civilian, it is astonishing how the human race has treated the poor, ever-decaying planet we inhabit. In due

Law of Orbits The first of Kepler’s Three Laws of Planetary Motion is the Law of Orbits, which describes the general motion of the planet in regard to its shape. As shown in Figure 6 below, it states that the planets’ orbits about the sun are elliptical, with one focal point located at the center of the sun. As a result, before commencing the proof, I hypothesized that: if planetary orbits are elliptical with one focal point located at the center of the sun, then to prove this I must reach the equation

Johannes Kepler was born in Germany in 1571, a mathematician, astronomer and astronomer. The three “laws “ that he created concerning the motion of planets and satellites were an initial improvement on the model of Copernicus. His first two laws about planetary motion were published in 1609, then his third law later in 1619. His laws came from the basis of his mentor Tycho Brahe’s carefully collected data and he was the first to surmise that the same laws governed the motion of all planets. Thus

The story of Johannes Kepler is the life of an earthbound explorer of the cosmos. As a sickly child Kepler grew into a prominent scholar who helped developed the way we view the starry abyss above. Johannes Kepler is a cosmos driven scholar who lived in a developing secular world and whose works have made his legacy immortal. Johannes Kepler lived through a period where state and government were one and the church had huge influence over all aspects of life. The Holy Roman empire was a conglomeration

n the story “ All Summer in A Day”, Ray Bradbury tells the story of young Margot who has recently moved to Venus from Ohio. On venus the sun only comes out every seven years, the children are nine and have only been alive to see the sun once. Margot craves to move back to earth and see the sun once again. Margot dearly misses the sun and is always talking about how beautiful and warm it was. The other children are quite jealous of her. They offer for Margot to play with them but she never participates

Task 1 Part A In 1599 Tycho Brahe, a Danish astronomer, had called for Johannes Kepler, a clever mathematician, to become his assistant. Kepler embraced the heliocentric model of the universe and created a desire to prove it mathematically. When Brahe died in 1601, Kepler inherited his work and data on the motion on planets. Kepler worked for many years, using Brahe’s data and Copernicus’s ideas, how planets move about the sun, and he eventually produced an improved heliocentric model of the universe

The main idea of both the passage and the lecture is about living permanent on Venus. The reading claims that owing to inappropriate conditions on Venus living on it is implausible. However, the lecture completely rejects whatever mentioned in the passage through expressing an idea of living on the balloon fifty kilometers above the surface.

Both books are trying to get out of their entrapment until they find a way out. The book is basically set as dystopian because of the diversity in the families, how Matt is isolated from the world. The novel, The House of the Scorpion, and the article, All Summer in a day, use a feeling of being alone, and depression to establish a theme of isolation. Both The house of the Scorpion and All Summer in a Day create the sensation of being alone and isolated from the world. For all summer in a day, the

An Analysis of All Summer in a Day In the short story All Summer in a Day, children living on stormy Venus may see the sun for the first time. Scientists’ theories about the cameo of the star are promoted by a quiet girl, Margot, who has felt the warmth and life the sun brings since she resided on Earth. At first, everyone believes her, but it looks less and less likely that the sun will appear. Bullies torment Margot, and later regret it, realizing she was right about the sun all along. The author