Adults

September 1, 2023

“Among the Hidden” by Margaret Peterson Haddix Summary

“Among the Hidden” by author Margaret Peterson Haddix, designed for young adults, is a meaningful eye-catching dystopian story about a curious 12 year old boy named Luke Gardner. In the city that Luke lives in, the Government has taken control of how many children women can deliver, due to food shortage in history. Women are unable to have more than two children, but some have managed to do so somehow. Also to the food shortage, the Government banned factories from making junk food and forced them to make healthy food instead. It also didn’t let people have more than 1500...

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August 12, 2023

Entropy

Have you ever wondered why sugar can dissolve in a pot of boiling water, why popcorn kernels pop, or why things get rusted after touching a fire? All of these examples include entropy, a scientific concept. Most people would describe entropy as a measurement of disorder. However, while that can be a meaning, it does not provide much knowledge of what it really should be and can be misleading. For example, which is more disordered: a glass of water, or a glass of ice cubes? The answer may seem like the glass of ice cubes, but it’s actually the water....

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August 3, 2023

Justin And Sophie Grégoire Trudeau Separate

After 18 years of marriage, Justin Trudeau, prime minister of Canada and his past-wife Sophie Grégorie Trudeau have announced recently that they will seperate. “Sophie and I would like to share the fact that after many meaningful and difficult conversations, we have made the decision to separate,” Trudeau wrote in a message posted to Instagram. “As always, we remain a close family with deep love and respect for each other and for everything we have built and will continue to build,” Trudeau and Grégoire Trudeau wrote in identical messages. “For the well-being of our children, we ask that you respect...

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March 1, 2023

Two-Train Major Collision In Greece

In Greece, the very early Wednesday, two trains – one a passenger train and the other a freight train, had a fatal collision. 30-ish people have been found dead, and roughty 85 injured. Many have been severely injured. This crash occurred near Tempe. Hospital units were called over, as well as ambulances. Some train “cars” even set on fire! One survivor said, “There was a very sudden stop, sparks were everywhere. I escaped by using a bag to break a window and climbed out. The front train ‘carriages’ smashed, but luckily the one I was sitting in didn’t.” Many people...

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February 7, 2023

Earthquake In Turkey

A vigorous natural disaster struck in Turkey, night, the strongest happening in Syria. An earthquake caused buildings to suddenly collapse and crumble. Few survived. One reason that not many have survived is probably because the disaster occured in nighttime, when people are sleeping. The earthquake, as high as 7.8, was very sudden. Rescue people had come to see how many people have died, and it’s about 2700. Many more have been injured. As well as an earthquake, there was also a snowfall, making people cold out in the open air. A survivor from the great earthquake says, “I was not...

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February 4, 2023

Python Order of Operations

In math, we use order of operations. Multiplication and division goes first, unless brackets, then addition and subtraction. Python also has them, just with more rules. The order of operations goes from highest to lowest rank, in order: parentheses ( 1+1 ) * 2 exponents 1 ** 2 unary plus and minus +a, -a multiplication, division, remainders ( 1 * 2 / 1 ) % 3 addition and subtraction 1 + 1 – 2 comparing operators 1 < 2, 2 > 1, 3 == 3, 1 != 2, 1 <= 2 , 2 >= 1 boolean NOT (not) x =...

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September 3, 2022

Cool Typing Stuff!

BASICS To make bold, do CTRL+B, to achieve bold. That way, you may highlight anything worth the “sight.” Bold can stick out easily, and it can be useful for popping in someone’s head over and over again. Now, italic: ITALIC, CTRL+I (i, not one)These ways can be very common in introductions or a letter in a book, and italic will make a difference for someone to notice, like the bold. Oh no! You fell asleep on the keyboard and pressed backspace and deleted your essay that is due 3 hours later, but you spent the whole night on it!?!? Um,...

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